Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-03

which the church has not been glad to aid amt
sanotify in the name Of the Father, Son aud Holy
Ghost.
At tho very time our murdcroug armies were
ravaging Mexico, the General Assembly Of the
Presbyterian church passed vote Of disapproba-
ton. because the Government had appointed more
ckapiaias from the Episcopal Church than from
others Everywhere the Church is connected with
the military power of the nation. She furnishes
the chapains and from her portals 20 forth the
butchcrcrs Of mankind. But she says We arc inf
dcls As to that, ! think it plain enough to all
present, that if ours be not Chrisfian movement
there Is nonc We rely upon truth and upon God
DO say too much. when say that otherwise there
is no longer any faith in moral powcr2 Do you
remember the very expressive words of him who
"spakc as never man spakc" "When the son Of
man comc,h, shall he find faith on eartl2" Were
he to come now, would he find faith in truth faith
in the Gospcl2 lie would find faith in the ballot
box, the bullet and the bombshcl but it seems to
me mon have lost faith in truth, and all conception
Of what truth H.. We talk of moral suision, and
they tell us VIC must have the Maine Law that
moral suasiou is exhausted / venture to say we
know nothing Of the power Of moral sua3ion.
heard Il man say in New York, that moral sua.
sion had been proved incfcacious Why, said he
ave tried it last winter in Sing Sing. We went
to the rumscllor and plead with him carefully and
tcarfuy aud pointed them to the prison walls,
and assured them We should have them Moc at
last! Did he know anything Of moral auogon ~
But he is like most people.
Moral suasion exhausted. Why what has been
done? More sermons have been preached ON in
inut baptism in one church alone than have been
preached in forty the moral aspects Of temper
ancc. Nlclcycr the churches shall engage ~
zcaously on th, sulicctor temperance as they have
on those doctrines peculiar to themselves when they
have ransackcd heaven, earth, and all that is under
the carth to find motives for cmpcrancc-roasons
why every man should wash his hands and gar
mcnts clean from the contamination Of intcmpcr-
ancc, when they shall have warned the rumsellcr
as they have us of our inhdcty they may begin
to talk about having exhausted moral suasion, aud
must resort to the law.
| say agnin the world has lost faith in truth aud
moral power. Eighteen hundred years ago the
cause of truth relied not ballots or bullets Its
chosen apostles were clad in the arlnor of truth.
and armed with burning words instead of spears
and swords and that generation did not pass away
until converts were multiplied throughout the
known world. And tho great apostle to the Gen
tiles could say in view of all his experience, &c lm
mot ashamed Of the GospcLof Christ, for it is the
power of God unto salvation" Onward and still
onward the mighty work went until it WIS said
behold they have filled Jerusalem with his doe
trircs,' aud scarcely three centuries had passscl
+ before the emperor of Rome struck the eagle from
his banners, and inscribed the crouB thereon, and
s wa, baptized in the name of the dcspsci NazItcnc
D But that day passed, corruption entered aud the
I millennium came not by the conversion of the
world to the church, but the church to the world
Aud there has been scarcely any progress therein
% since. But God has preserved II chofcn seed out.
side and the work has gone on. Now we have the
Slavery to rcjukc the rottcnncss of the church
! md culightcn the gross darkness Of the age. NJ
d rclormcr is appreciated Jesus was crucitcd ai Il
malciactor. Fiery persecution attends thcscrvantt
q of God. We must share the same fate. If VIC dp
j. not conquer by truth, we shall not conquer at all
b If we succeed, ii will be hy the same insiru
u mentality by which the Jewish Church WIS over
thrown, and the Roman power made captive. The
Church consgns US to pcrlition, and rs for me,
c am willing to go there. | love the term iGdc
e better than Christian. | look back and ecc how
r. Jeremiah, Conlucius, and Socrates were received
L md honoring their hcroism do aud chcrFlliup
d do their spirit, ready and willing to shar,
N their fate. If these moral heroes are to 20 To hell
't will go with them. But will tell You what W,
n will do, we will gather ourselves there as We Il,
j. hero, and we will plant the Sahara of Hell Will
Pr oasis Of beauty and love, aud the angels of ctycr
'c will come down with us. (Grcat aprhusc) "a,
Ia | welcome the term infdcl. 1t matters not vln
cr we called let that our aciiops are Just
y that religion il in our life, let us pursue th
~ work we have to do in our own country, the over
st throw Of oppression, assured chat We shall stan,
ol in the sight Of our judge, with dnshackced mill
ions, to testify to the fidelity of our course, and
rd know that with such cioud of witnesses the cas-
~ will go in our favor.
% rejoice in our rcrroach would not cxchang
Nv position with the highest functionary of State o
W Church. love the cause in which We are engaged
~ love to begin Heaven here by cutivatng its spirit
" inhaling its atmosphere, and allying myself to tia
ic brave men and women who have gone bslorc.