Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-08-20

Apostles no matter how horrible the deed or how /
much humanity shrinks back from the actl it must
be done-it must be performed, if il be found that
the BIBLE oujons it---cyen to the staying Of ones
own child
Ought We not to pity tho worslrpers of Bacchus,
and Moloch, and Saturn,-thosc heather nations
who arc obliged to "spell out their way by the dim
light ofnaturc" where mothers throw their infants to
the monster crocadic& stand calmly by and them
deyoured by the hidcous reptile vainly strive to
quiet the crying Of the infant victim, while the
priest places it in the burning of the heated
brazcn divinity. OH ought we not to be thankful
for the Bible2 What else keeps us from being like
the inhabitants of the Fegee Islands, where as
Elder Kinscy told us at campmeotng awhile SINCE
chief slew two of his enemies and threw them in
to heated oven and baked and then toasted upon
them! How thankful we ought to be that, having
the BIBLE, we are enabled by sort of chemical
use Of II SLAVE WHIP to change such victims, rtac
drc Killing Them, so that without baking" they
become first quality Muscayado or New Orleans
brown, Crushed" or loaf sugar, such as the Elder
quietly put into his coffee while taking his break
fast on the campground that blessed morning
How was the Elders story sent home to my mind
the next day. when my friend Mr.. Coo having So
journcd with the fugitvos in Canada learning their
tales Of woe and grief unutterablc which they
could at the time they suffered thcm only pour into
the ear of the Lord of Sabbaoth. AS Mr. Alvin
Coe leaving me- he turned at my gate, and said,
Bro. Beach, there il not such cruelty, such suffer
ing, such untold and unieiiaJle anguish inflicted
under the whole. heaven beside, the poor Ameri-
can slave is compelled to endure" And every in
f,ru,pl mind IL fnren1 tn rpauon1 tsit ie -
And this is all done by people having the Bible ;
and teachers Of the religion which the Bible is
supposed to give; the most Of them are laboring to
prove that this system is Of God and is right, be-
cause they say the Bible sustains it, Hence an
intelligent, land judging from the discourse, will
say learned man, )will stand up, in a large audi
cncc in Hartford o., and intimate that the pure
Jesus, whose very life was love, infinite in benevo-
lence-whose own account of himself, and his
mission on earth, were given by him in the language
of Hebrew poetry;
"Thc spirit of the lord is upon me, because he
has nnonted me to preach the Gospel to the poor
he hath sent me heal the broken hearted to preach
dclvcranco to the the captiycs, and recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised, &c.#
say that learned and popular preacher will
intimate that such being, either has, or may
require his faithful followers to become the hateful
thing, which, because men have no term that will
embody any more utter loathing, they call SLAVE
HOLDER.
Now, why is this? and why, but for my humble
effort, would this man go unrebuked by that audi
cnco? and why were so many good anti-slayery
men evidently shocked at the phraseology was in
some measure compelled to use by the direct ques-
ton of the preacher, would you put your heel,
&C., forgetting the blasphcmy Of supposing that
infinite purity could require such utter corruption
| doubt not that many good men really censured
me, in thought, If not otherwise, for such rcck'
lcssness of expression, put your heel upon Jesus
, Christi To such | say frankly, always seek tc
avoid such expressions, but in truth, would the
devil appear any the less hateful to you, my friend
if he should succeed in getting men to call him
Jesus instead of Satan? Did you consider tha
while you were shocked at what said | would d,
to false and imaginary Jesus, you were doing thu
very thing to the true, while with, not the "heel,
> but the very hooC of this great body polite yo'
crush to the very dust poor bruised and bleeding
humanity! Remember that the true Jesus stylc'
himself the son OF MAN, and thank my God 70
this Immanuel" God wiM uS-truth, which tn
= Bible contains; that we can love. and serve Go
y whom we have not seen," by loving and serving ii
ministerng to the wants of our fellow, or brother
whom we have seen, or may see if we will Tn
true Jesus, in taking the title of "Son of Man,
assumed the relationship of brother to humanity
with which his whole life and even his death, too
y corresponds. Therefore, let my nervous fren
" over there, as he goes down with the iron hoof
II American religion and the American Goyernmen
upon the bosom of the bleeding "little Ones" r.
member that the true Jesus Christ, the Jesus Chri
h of the Bible, of whom you say he is your God! tn
" same Jesus has said, and il is also recorded in yoI
~ Bible so that there can be no mistake about Il
III truth of it, In as much as ye did it to the least
II u one of these my brethren, ye did it unto me-"
IL Again, say, why all this, but for the dolatro'
y reverence for book, and at the same time an IL
Ut piled acknowledgment of the great difficulty, if
ie mpossibiity, of fully understanding its most prO
oil tical teachings.
of The secret was all explained, so far as this pre-
is cher was concerned, when some one informed n
I'd that the wise, and great, and good "Alexand
is Campbell of Bethany, Va, is now engaged amoi
he many other excessive labors in translating the
Vs. cred Scriptures out of the original tongues" &c.
Sc So like the good Fadladeen, in Moores story
Mt Lalla Rook, our preacher may be supposed to ho
with all good Christians, that Truth, is contain
lr in the Bible alone, while he may at the same til
bo strongly suspected of believing that it can on
lot be revealed in the wise, and great and good N
ny Alexander CampbelPs forthcoming translation
H. Elder Bane, of Methodist Episcopal notorie
"o in "banefuP' discourse in the same place, two
three weeks before stated, that there Is nothing
FOL the Gospel preached by Paul that would lea!
of heathen stakeholder, on embracing tho Christi
~ religion, to infer that he ought to free his slares
'e the slave to expect his freedom. That Christian
ICY LID not nnd oght not 10. in manner. interl