The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-04-10
For the National Era.
SECESSION No. 9.
remain your sincere friend

For the National Era
SECESSION-NO. 2.
Unto the wicked God saith What hast thou TO DO TO
declare my statutes that thou sbouldst take my
nant in thy mouth When thou thief, then thou
with him. and hast been partaker with adulter
ersU
In the Era Of October 18th, your correspond
ent on secession III. S. Fullerton, observes that
"The Lords Supper is not the badge of party,
but token Of fellowship with the whole body.
Ii follows Of course that to set up new and sep
srate communion in a church is both foolish and
wicked foolish, because we still commune on
every occasion virtually with the whole body,
and consequently with those from whom we have
professedly withdrawn wieksd, because we pros
titute the Lords Supper to an unlawful purpose"
Folly and wckedness have often been laid to the
charge of the humble followers of the Son of God,
by the wise men Of this world. The Saviour
himself was accused of foolish and wicked things.
" IL is enough for the disciple that he be as his
master and the servant as his Lord'-Mdt K,
25 Why a few believers may not meet on the
first day of the week in remembrance of the res
direction of the Lord Jesus Christ taste little
bread and wine in remembrance of his death, and
in obedience to his commandment read and make
some remarks from the Word Of God choose one
or more of the most experienced of their number
as their elder or elders in searching the Scrip
lures stir up one another to love and good works;
pray for and seek the peace Of the nation and its
rulers where in Providence their lot is cast cul-
tiyate love TO all men discountenancing all I'M
righteousness by separation from those who prac-
tice il in church fellowship, as offensive to God
and ruinous to the souls of men, without being
Justly charged with folly and wickedness, plain
understandings may not fully comprehend But
the truth is light is opposed to darkness, the
believer in divine revelation is at no loss to as
certain the cause. The prince Of the power of
the air. who now worketh in the children of dis
obedience, (Eph ii, 81 has by his numerous vol
unteers in all ages shown the same malignant
uneasiness on every new manifestation of the
kingdom of light on earth. When Hezakiah Of
old endeavored to reclaim Israel, e Chron. Xxx,
l0) they laughed his messengers to scorn and
Knocked them. When poor little infant, born
in a stable, of an obscure parent, came into the
world, +" a mighty monarch was troubled and all
Jerusalem with him.'-lNatt. ii, 3. The finger
of God was there.
1t is not argued that all who dislike slavery
are Christians, but all who fear God must grieve
at the power Of the oppressor to Cypress the poor
and ignorant, wish and pray for its abolition on
account of its awful wckedness Many troubles
now seem to aflct the advocates of slavery when
we find such epithets as the following, in late
paper, which approves of it, applied to those who
do not we see the usual risings Of malignity and
an uneasy conscience, though not from religious
quarter of the enemy's camp-such as shocking
bssphemy,D gar insensblity," harmless as
the rawlings Of maniac "inebriates and fanat-
ics," "under the guise of transcendental philan-
thropy,"" demagogusm," "incendiarism," NOR
al Quixote,n &c. We have seen and heard sig
nal guns of distress fred off at sea the above ex-
posions show the distress of slavery vindicating
editors
On the paper covering of the National Era,
lately received from the post office, the following
WAS written e You damned old Abolitionist, go to
hell" | took this polite address as another gun
of distress from some friend of the slave power,
with a troubled conscience.
There is no peace, saith my God, to the
wicked n-I0Qh lvii, 81. decree more irrever-
sible than those of the Modes or Persians has
been denounced against oppressors, saying-"Wo
unto them that decree unrighteous DEGREES, and
that write grievousncss which they have pre-
scribed to turn aside the needy from judgment,
and to take away the right from the poor Of my
people, that widows may be their prey, and that |
they may rob the fatherless w-Isamh x, /, . |
This wo overhangs oppressors and vengeance will
come in the time appointed by the Ruler of heaven
and earth Meantime the believer in Christ
may say, as in the days of Sennacherib, "The
virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee,
and laughed thee to scorn the daughter OF Je
rusaem hath shaken her head at thee."-2 Kings
xix, 81 ACQUIRED in armour Of light, with
cheerful patience she makes progress to eternal
life. Leaning upon her beloved" she goes up
through the Wilderness strong in the grace
which is in Christ Jesus. When assailed by en-
emies, she receives upon the shield Of faith the
fiery darts of the wicked they fall harmless at
Cka Lan, tha OF, IF
and love-" Fear thou not for am
with thee be not dismayed for am thy God;
will strengthen thee yea, will help thee yea
| will uphold thee with the right hand of my
xii 10. Orif in her per-
lis by waters she may be afflicted, tossed with
tempest, and not comforted," she knows who stands
at the helm
What your correspondent tells about Mr. Cor
dan, MIR. Noel, Isabella Graham, the Wither-
spoons, Keiths, McCheques, the Cbslmerses, and
others, the questionable "come-outersn make
him welcome to them all. Only leave us the
Bible and we cheerfuly resign to him all the
united wisdom and authority Of all the agreements
and disagreements of reformers, the decisions of
Methodist conferences and of Baptist associations,
creeds and confessions Of Presbyterians canons
of Episcopaans, the laws digested by the gene
raj councils of past ages, all the mandates of con-
caves of Cardinals, and the bulls of all the gen.
tlemen who have worn the triple crown.
Ii there was no law or commandment for a Jew
to separate from the old dispensation, however
much corrupted, their continuing there forms no
argument for countenancing corrupt churches
under the new nor disannuls the precept to be-
levers" Having form Of godliness, but deny
ing the power thereof; from such turn away"-
2 TIM iii, 8
Finally, God will soon render to every man
according to his work. IF any man defle the
temple of God, him will God Destroy Cor. iii,
II. The triumph of the wicked is short, and
the JOY of the hypocrite but for moment; he
shall soon pass away as dream, as a vision of
the night. ELEUTHERIA
Indiana, Dec ls, 1850