Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-12-13
A Word in Season.

On Sunday last, the Rev. VIM. II. Furness
impressive Discourse from the words of David ::
"My heart and my flesh crieth out for the liv-
wing God" We are permitted to publish the
following extract, in which pertinent alusion Is
made to topics Of exciting interest:
$50 deep and so strong is this instructive
thirst, this passionate cry after God, that agnin
and again mankind have been deceived into
worshping what was by no means worthy Of
their worship. At the first blush, ut the faint
est appearance Of anything like greatness
in a fcllowman, with oil their cunning,
with all their conceit of penetration and
knowledge, with all their caution, they
have fallen down and done homage. Thus il Is
that men have been betrayed thousands of times
over, into the most abjcct bondage, into tho
most atrocious crimes. Thus it is that they
have been induced. times without number, to
throw themselves down and lc; demons in hu-
man shape grind them into powder. AS wo
read the historyof the past, we mourn over tie
rnvogas caused by ambition and unprinoipled
love of power. But the most ambitious soldier,
the most cruel dcspot that ever lived, would
have been utterly impotent, were it not for tho
blind cagerness with which men havo sought
after greatness and the haste with which they
have accepted the pretcnec for the reality
Thus mon have been deceived, and oppressed,
and tortured, through weakness that comes
from their strength, from the noblost part Of
their nature. They have been made slaves, the
tools and victims Of despotic power, through
that very affection which qualities them for tho
divinest freedom, for the liberty Of tho sons Of
God. So captivating is every quality or talent
that bears the remotcst resemblance to the Di-
yinity, that men have been carried away with
it at once. Thus the heather world was ruled
by gods who were but deifed men. Thus on
qucgors stepped in blood still hold the world in
ave. 1t is most pitiable that it should 10
so. And yet ono is almost reconciled to the de-
lusion, disastrous as it has been, for tho sake Of
tho noble source whence it springs. While W
pity mankind, how can VIC help honoring them
II they have been misled and dragged down
into dark depths and seas Of blood, it was be-
cause they were crying out alter God, and they
mstook evil for good, and darkness for light
Surely we need to learn caution, and yet who
can find it in his heart to utter single word Of
doubt to repTess the generous enthusiasm OF
the soul Not now, not now, when man
whose fame fills the world is on his way to our
shores he comes not as a bloodstained con-
qucror cast out by q deceived and oppressed
people, but as patient and faithful laborcr for
lis country, little while ago hunted fugitive
and for while q prisoner and sufferer in tho
holy cause Of liberty, man of no ordinary
gifts and attainments, Of surprising eloquencc,
of indomitablc patriotism. trust in God that
his coming will prove blessing to ouT country,
that in honoring this llustrious fugitive, We
shall learn TO give rightlul honor and welcome
to all fugitives from oppression wherever pTao-
tiscd, and whatever may he the complexion God
has given them. We arc going tocommis our
selves again by acclamation, to the sacred cause
Of human freedom. We are going to do all We
can to awaken, and justify, and eonsecrate tho
desire Of liberty in every slave, whose ears the
cheering welcome to the great Hungarian shall
reach. In honoring this noble traitor, VIC shall
learn, trust, from very shame, to acquit and
TO honor our own traitors. "-Freena'a.
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