Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-04
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Notes from the Lccturing Field,

Having sicnt over four weeks in Medina Co.,
dd!lng The throng of harvest, desire TO bring
my notes dorn to ihe time l left, especially as
there are one or two incidents not mentioned
IN my former articles, worthy of note Two
weeks since ] spent tho Sunday at Ltchfcld,
speaking twice. IN the morning. attended
divine service under the mini-'rauon oil the
Rev Mr. Hubert (congrcgutionalstl who by
tho way is a man of considerable ability, and
withsll a man ofcourage. His text, aye are the
salt of the earth-Yc arc the light of the world"
seemed to indicate that the discourse would be
an attempt to show that the church did, or was
intended to exert scme kind of beneficial iuhu-
cnce on the world Whatever tho text was,
the subject took quite different direction, and
finally proved to be what am crcdaby inform
ed the majority of diScourscs ut the present day
are. AN attack on the advance guard OF humari-
ty, viz: the Re rmers. An hour was spent to
show that this class of men were Iafdels, Pam
heiSts. Sceptics and Heathens.
The great Dcsidera'um seemed to be the nom
recognition of the Bible as the niable word of
God. The Bro. seems to be still smarting under
the infections of our friend Barker. l hope
however, that when all the people, including
the Retormers themselves, shall be convinced
that all the charges of the clergy are true, they
may find time to begin to preach dclivcrance to
the captive. Mr.. Hubert give his brethren
one piece of advice which l hope they will not
be slow in following, as it is the very advice
the infdel abolitonists have been urging upon
them these twenty years or more. He said the
church must rescue the great measures of reform
out of the hands of the sceptics, and carry them
to their ultimate issue. Formerly the Reforms
themselves were of the devil and opposed to
the will Of God, but thanks to some quarter
the tune is pitched upon another key, aud now
it is only the men that arc bad.
As contrast to the above, would with great
pleasure mention discourse preached al West
field on the following Sunday. by the Rec. Mr.,
1o~aer, (uul,clcrsalisD who chccnuily gave
his puiiit ior our lectures. His tcxt-"The |
Puhlicans and harot, shall enter the klngiom
before you" He dwell chiefly OH tho verses
preceding this, wherein it is stated that ia
ther wished u work done, and one son said. Sir, |
/ go, but went not,-the other said, will not
go. but went.
The great idea was, that the church proposed
To do the will of God and lett the work neglect.
ed like the first son. The Reformcrs made no
profession of religion, and some of them rcfus-
ed TO acknowledge even Christ as authority,
yet did the work of christianity.
1t was a manly and noble defence of the
abolitionists. Such an one as but few could
have made in the same time. Mr.. Towner is a
young man of much promise and docs not hes
itato to identify himself with the American
Society. He is doing quite work in the
spread of Liberal Christian sentiments, and in
the Spelling and Writing reform. Mr.. Towner
and Lady will be with US at the Anniversary,
where trust very many Of our friends will
have an opportunity of making the acquaintarc
of this good man.
Thank God that in the church there are
burning and shining lights may their number
be vastly increased.
My meetings at Westheld were not large, but
of the true spirit. found the Presbyterians
had quit their house. The Baptists had sent
away their Mexican war priest and supplied his
place with free mission preacher, who is said
TO be quite ant-slavcry. Good, the work is
steadily onward, l am persuaded.
The churches are compelled to profess anti
slavery or porlsh. Either will do the work.
My week might meetings have been remark
ably good, better than ever knew them, at so
busy season.
hope we shall come up full of faith and
hope to the Anniversary Yours, w.
SLAVERY IN CALIFoRNIA.-A Californian cor
respondent OF the Independent writes;