Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-12-03
ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.
QUAKERIsM IN INDIANA.

DEAR ROBINSON MOT five miles from here, a
monthly meeting, called Springfield, came TO
the conclusion that they were not bcaring foiM
fd testimony against slavery, and accordingly sent
up to the quarterly meeting negative answer to
their query relative to slavery.
The quarterly meeting lat Milton) changed the
answer to an affirmation, and sent it up to the year
ly meeting all right.
Thus do the Friends answer that and all other
queries, with as much truth and no more If vot.
ing for Shareholders, warriors and drunkards, clos
ing their houses against all teachers of righteous
ness, doing all they in their meetings and out
Of their meetings to battle all reforms and stigma
tize and carrcature reformersif doing these things
is bearing u faithful testimony against war slavery
and intemperance, then do they bear such testimo-
ny.
In Indiana the mass of them voted for Taylor,
and in Wayne Co. they were warm for Samuel Par
ker for Congress- tho ho laudcd every part of the
Fugitive Slave Law, and went as far as the Union
Safety Committee in his devotion to the Union and
slavery. In the Quaker Co. Of Wayne, too, with
Quaker meeting houses scattered all over it, the
18th Art. of our constitution received u large
msjorty-about as large as in any county in the
State. Quaker. opposition to that inhuman enact
ment was not known in Indiana. If they had any,
they kept it to themselves.
One Of their female preachers, by the name Of
Clark, not long since, noticing paper that had
formerly, when she Ind known it, been all whig
hut had changed to be mostly a temperance paper.
She deprecated the change frcm whiggery to item
perance trash" Said I" the advocates of temper
ance were doing more harm than the liquor sell
ers."
Right here at Economy, the church hugs in full
membership, undcaH riM, regular liquor seller
But the ,roridiiness find him SO for his pious abom
nations. This meek and lowly (?l society, some
months ago, refused to let Thomas Frasicr of Iowa.
an orthodox preacher, preach in their sinagogue.-
The only reascn they could have for so doing was,
without doubt, that he is an aboltionist.
As tor the Indiana yearly meetings of both or
ders, they ever .ftWih in heNping abuse and
hlsehood on all reforms and rciormcrs. Will some
one let the world know what good the sccts are do
ing! No, not yet. Doing good is not yet popular
As yet they want the world to know that LUmdmiy
is no part OF their creed. When ant-sla,cry, tenn
perance, peace, and all the other tangible move
ments against the evils Of society become popular
then Quakerism, MethOdsm, and all other iSHS
will be construed to have humanity for their basis
The churches then will claim to have done the
work,
But Llfdels will have to labor long and faithful
u before this great good work is accomplished. !
use the term Indel because il is the term applied
10 all workers Of righteousness by religionists.
care not what name reiormers go by, so there is an
understanding, and as infdelity new means human
I tha do
fined by the American Church, means all that is
ruinous and crushing to man. and lnfdety as
defined by the same tribunal means practical good
ness. ff U...
Christianity sets UP sects, governments, days and
books above man, and sacrifices him to sustain
them. Infdelity exalts man above books, organic
atoms, days and all other things on EARTH and will
labor to overthrow everything, matter how sacred
1t may be held which hinders the full, harmonious
development and progression Of all men and all
women.
The name christianity is held sacred and vener-
able by the mass Of the American people. and re-
formers held on to the term for a long time, urging
that christianity consisted in doing good
But the almighty church overruled us, and decid-
ed war, slavery, tho gallows and other enormities
ito accord with christianity, and the nation resron-
,ded amen.
She then searched the whole vocabulary Of the
English language to find the most loathsome, hated
word to designate those who show their faith by
their works, and byfdei was the one she chose.
The name Infdel does not fit those it is applied
TO. Its meaning will have to be changed before il
will represent them fairly. The term Christian
would suit BETTER for they initiate the example Of
,ohrist in going about doing good, while those who
bear the name christian do not merit it, for the
most of them reject good works as being part o
their religion. Indeed the church, as general
thing, does not seem interested in having the world
any better than it is Saying nothing about the
indifference of the pulpit and Of the different evan
eelicsl assemblies towards the humanitary move
ments of the day. DO nothing s Fundamental
principle in the evangelical creed. Tho fifth art
Of the creed, put forth by the Worlds Evangelical
Alliance declares that the sinner is justified b,
faith alone The Methodist discipline says TIN
same. Martin Luther left the book Of James OH
Of his translation of the Bible, because it contra
dicted Paul. and demanded works to prove faith
Thsye asked what the church is good for woul
nov 'ssi what Its religion is WORTH