Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-07-10
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Extract from Eossulh's Farewell Address.

Extract from k0SulllS Farewell Address.
!, therefore, who do not despair Of m,
own couutrys future, though it be over.
whclmrd with miSioriuncs ccririny hnvc
mn unwnyrrins faith in the drslinirs Of hu-
mlnity, nnl 'hprgh the monrnlu example
"i - nluy tnlcn nations inslrGicis us that
neither the diffusion OF knowledge, nor tle
progress Of industry; neither prosperity.
nor power, nay, not even freedom ITSELF G an
secure II future TO nations, still say there /.
one thing which can secure it; there is one
law the ohcdirnce TO which would prove
rock upon which the freedom aud hnppi.
ness OF nations may rest sure To the end of
their days. Aud that law, ladies and gentle
men, is the law proclaimed by our Saviour
that rock Is the unpCrvered religion OF
Christ. But while tile consolation of this
sublime truth falls meekly upon my soul,
like rs the moonlight falls upon the smoo ih
sea- hu,nby Claim your forbenrnncc adie 5
aud gentlemen | claim it in the name o
the Almighty Lord, to hear from my lips u
mournlnl truth.
1t may displcosc you; it lnay offend, hut
still truth is truth. Offended vanity mnv
blame me; power may irown at me, aud
prldn mny call my holiness arrogant, hut
sui truth is truth; aud |, bold in my urpre-
tending humility, will proclaim thnt truth
VIII proclaim It from land to land aud from
sea To sea; will proclaim it with the faith
of the martyrs of old, ill the seed of my
word falls upon tie conscience of men,
Let come what come may, | say with I.u.
ther: God inay help me, | cannot otherwise.
Yes, ladies' and gcnllcmen the law of our
Saviour, the religion of Christ can secure n
happy future to nations. But, alas there is
Yet no christian people on carih-notn n sin
gle one among all. have spoken the word.
Ii is harsh, but true. Nearly two thousand
years have passed since Christ has pro-
claimed the cter nal decree of God, 10 which
The happiness of mankind is bound, aud has
snnctiiied ii with his own blood, and still
there is not one single nation on earth wlicl.
would have enacted into its law. book that
eternal decree.
Men believe in the mysteries of religion,
according to the creed OF their church they
go to church aud they pray aud give aims to
the poor, and drop the balm of consolation
into the wounds of the afflicted, and believe
they do all that the Lord commanded to do,
aud believe they nre christians. No! Some
few may he, hut their nniiun is not-their
country is not; the era of Christianity has
yet to come, aud when it comes, then, only
Then, viii he the future of natious surc.-
Far he IL from me TO nisapprchend the i'm
menSe benefit which Christian religion, such
as 1t nIrcady is, has operated III nnuklud's
history. IL has influenced the private CHAR
meter of men, aud tie social condition of
millions; II was the nurse Of new ciVili-
Zntion, and sOilenng the manners and NOR
ais of men, its influence has been felt even
in the worst quarter OF history in war;
The continual massacrCs OF the Greek aud
Roman kings and chiefs, aud the ext erm-
nation of nations by them--the al-dev nstnt-
ing warfare of the Timours and Gcngis
khans-are in neral not more 10 be met
with; only my own dear fatherlund was
doomed TO experience once more the cruel
ties of the Timours and Gengis khnns ont
of the sacrilcgions hands of the dynasty of
Austria, which calumnates Christianity by
calling itself Christian. But though that
beneficial influence of Christianity we have
chcerluIly TO acknowledge, yet it is still not
10 be disputed that the law of Christ does
yet nowhere rule the Christian world.
Montesquieu HIMSELF whom nobody could
charge with being partial to republics, avows
that despoism is incompatible with the
Christian religion because the Christian re-
ligion commands meekness, and despollsm
claims arbitrary power to the whins nhh
pnssions of lruil mortal and still it is more
Than 1900 years since the Christian religion
became dominant, aud through that long
period despoism has been prc-cminenty
dominant; YOU can scarcely show one sin
gle trllsty democratic republic of any power
which had subsisied but for hundred years
exercising any influence upon the condition
of the world. Constantine, raising the
Christian religion TO Romes imperial throne,
lid NOT rps,orp the Romans 10 their primitive