Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-07-16
NO. 43.
Denying Christ.

"Shall we deny Christ, in order to free the
slavei" asks the last Christian Press, and then
In answer, gives us two columns TO prove that
joining tho anti-slavery movement of the day
is denying Christ. and that therefore, Christ
ians should be separate therefrom. Slavery,
the Press contends must be abolished by an
"orthodox church, and through Chdst, his
word and his spirit" "Every Other scheme is
not alone worthless, 5m positireiy and deeply
Injurious" "a scheme for reform which pro-
poses to sweep away the foundation Of our faith,
has nothing in common with us, so rs to de-
mand or admit Of our cooperation. The qus,-
ton Of siarery becomes MERELY INCIDENT
AL AND UNIMPoRTANT." Again the
Press says:
"Henceforth we are compelled to consider
the movement of which we have been speaking,
not as essentially anti-slavcry, but one whose
real purpose is the overthrow of evangelical
religion. The slavery question only offers
convenient standpoint for the attack. We do
not mean that this is truo of every individual
thus engaged, but that such is the character of
the movement as a whole"
A most false and slanderous assertion. Di.
rectly the opposite is true. individuals in that
party are, as individuals, loboring to sustain
what the Press calls infdclity, just as others
are laboring to advance evangelical religion
But that the anti. slavery movement is laboring
for either the one or the other, is by no means
true.
We arc now fully sustained by tho comics.
sions Of the Press itself in the charge we have
previously made against it, viz: that it was
ready to sacrifice the slave to it's theological
opinions. In comparison with these opinions,
slavery is "merely incidental and unimp portant."
This is the anti. .SiireJy Of the Christian Press.
The representative of the purcst form of eccle.
sinstical anti-slaycry, which we can find in tho
West, If We may trust its own representations.
Slavery it graciously comedies, is an evil, with
Its unpaid toil-its cruel lash-its bloody MUIR
ders, pcrpetratcd in all forms-its more than
Sodom Of pollution-its annihilation of mar
r:age--its rccklessncss of ell the ties of hu-
manity-its annihilntion of the human soul,
its sympathics, its powcrs, and its holicst aspi-
thttHs-oiaNery " Win lts uloOoy car, urlVlnb
axle deep through crushed hearts and human
souls" "is merely incidental and unipportdnt,"
compared with tho success of Mr.. Boynton's
theological opinions. To join with an iLi1cl
IN stemming food of such inhumanity, is an
offence which evangelical religion" cannot for
moment tolerate. It is to deny Christ, and
bring upon ones self swift destruction.
II such be the estimate which evangelical
religion" puts upon justice, upon humanity
upsn human rights, upon human happiness
here and hereafter, what wonder if opposition
to such a monstrous religion is fast sweeping
over the land, as the Press nffirns. The posi-
lions and opinions of the Press, will drive it
onward with hurricane speed. God has made
men with hearts, and If theology has eaten
them out of ministers and church members, it
has not altogether thus done to the people,.
They will prefer that humanity which God has
written upon their souls, to the heartlcss the
-elogy which the Christian Press inculcntcs.-
The slave has nothing to hope from such a re-
ligion, and if it chooses to disclaim his cause
as "unimportant," he will DO no looscr thereby.
Far better, than that it whino Of its superlativc
importance.