The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-11-17


bin and palm. trees In this room stood TIVE
figures of cherubim, about IS feet in height
,yerlaid with gold. and beneath their expand
ed wings was placed the sacred ark, contain
ing the stone tablets. on which the finger 0
| Deity had inscribed the moral law, binding OF
the whole family Of man. The lid or cover o
the ark was of pure gold, surmounted by tw'
| golden cherubim, and denominated the NERO
SEAT Above this mercy seat, and between th'
wing, Of the chcrubim brooded the miracu
| lous and mysterious cloud OF SHEKINAH, whence
proceeded communications from the Deity
heard by the inqniring priest on the other sld'
| Of the veil closing the door into the apartment
| Hence. God was said to dwell between the
| cheruh.m Not ray of light entered the cham
| Der. and hence again, God was said to dwell
| in thick darkness Into this awful place
| VII ch. as we learn from st. Paul, was type o
| the Heavenly presence, no human being eveI
entered except the High Priest and he only OF
the 10th day of the 18th month in each year
| After various sacrifices, and the significant rite
| Of letting loose the scape goat the High Prizes
entered the Mott HOLY Place, bearing swee
incense and blood When the smoke of the
incense had assembled mingling with the She
kinah he sprinkled the blood, not on an altar
but on the MERCY SEAT covering that mora
| law which had been and HoUld be broken by
| every child Of Adam.
1t is not difficult TO see in this rite, q symbol
! zeal presentation to the Father of the blood o.
| Christ as an accepted atOnement for the sins
not OF the Jewish people, but of the whole
world, while the cloud of sweet incense repre-
stnts the intercession of the Redeemer The
day on which the blood was thus sprinkled or
the mercy eat was termed "the day of atone
mcnth 10 was Ob.eryed rs "a Sabbath of rest,
and the STRANGER as well "a the Jew was re-
CURED to abstain from labor showing, that al
tho gh not of the seed of Abraham, he was in.
terestcd in the mysterious rite
Every fittieth year, new and wonderful
importance was attached to this day Of atone
ment.
And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths Of
years unto thee seven times seven years; and
The space Of the seven Sabbaths Of years shall
he unto thee forty-nine years. Then shalt thou
cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound, on
the tenth day OF the seventh month in the day
of dt0nemeni, shall ye make the trumpet sound
throughout oil uour idnd And We shall hal
low the tiiteth year, and PROCLAIM LIBERTY
throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be IA ub lee unto you, and ye
shall return every man unto his possession, and
ye shall return every man unto ms family. -
Leu XIV, ., 9, 10
This deliverance from seryitude this redemp-
ton of the inheritance, this return OF every
man Jew OF proselyte, to the endearments and
enjOyments OF his own family connected as
they all were with the entrance of the High
Priest before The Sick nah with the incense
and blood Of The atOnement are most affecting
aud significant types Of the dellyerance from
the bondage Of sin, and the purchase of an
heavenly inheritance by the great High Preist
of our profession who by his own blood enter
ed once into the hOig place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us Hence the evangel-
cal prophet, fully instructed in the symbocal
meaning of this institution beholds in vision
the coming Messiah, making the proclama-
ton of the long desired and expected Jubilee.
"The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, be-
cause the Lord hath anointcd me to preach
good tdngs unto the meek, he hath sent me
70 bind up the broken hearted to PROCLAIM
LIBERTY to the captlves, and the opening Of
the prison to them that are bound to PRO-
CLAIM the acceptable gear Of the Lord"-
Isaiah Xxi, /, 2.
Oar blessed Lord publicly assumed the Of
flee which symbolical rites and the spirit of
prophecy had thus long before assigned to
him, by quoting the words Of Isaiah, and then
adding, before all the people This day is this
Scripture fulfilled in your rs"-Luke iv, 81
And shall the disciples Of HIM who made
the release from even the mild and gentle ser
vtude authorized by the laws Of Moses type
Of the deliveranco purchased by him for the
children of men, dare to proclaim, in his name
his divine sanction of the terrible bondage of
the American slave
In proving that there could be no Slavery in
Israel We have not heretofore cited the Jubilee
emancipation, because the law limiting the
service Of Hebrews to six years, and the gener
al statute, declaring there shall be but one
law for the Jew and the stranger, most eifectu-
ally prevented any legal approach to chattel
hood. Had there been no Jubilee, there could
still have been no authorized Slavery. The
Jubilee however, broke mp all fraudulent or
pretended contracts for labor, all cOerccd ser
wee, all iniractions OF personal liberty. The
proclamation was cOuchcd in the most com
prehenSvc terms that language could supply
Liberty was proclaimed, not in certain cities or
in certain tribes but throughout all your
land" 1t was liberty, not to Jews not to
not to men, not to women, not to
children, but to all the inhabitants Of the
land " to every human being that day living
on the soil and within the jurisdiction Of the
Jewish Commonwealth. The proclamation was
to be made with sound of trumpet throughout
all the land" that the captive might hear and
know that he was free and that he that was
bound might take notice that his prison was
open. If Jewish serytude be as is impiously
contended, the warrant and model of Ameri-
can Slavery, where il the American Jubilee
Some writers have conceived the idea, that
the service of the Hebrew servant
was only for six years, that of the stranger
terminated only with the Jubilee; in other
words, that while Jew might not, except on
his own demand, made before the Judges be
retained Tor more than six years, q proselyte
might be held IN service from one Jubilee to
another, Il term of fifty years. The supposition
is utterly ct variance with the whole tenor and
spirit of the laws respecting strangers, and in
direct, palpablc contradiction of the statute sc
often quoted, that there should be but one and
the same law for Jew and stranger. The opin-
ION that foreign servants were to serve IRON
the time OF their engagement till the Jubilee
no doubt arose from the fact that the law au
thorznS the employment of foreign servants
is found IN the same chapter with the instltu
ton OF the Jubilee and as nothing is there
said OF the SIR year term, it has been inferred
that the term dad not apply to such servants
But 1t 80 happens that in the whole book o.
Levtlcus, not an allusion is made to the sil
year term. The same chapter which contains
the Institution of the Jubilee, contains also the
law OF redemption of Hebrew servants, and by
which tho wages TO be paid back are to bt
computed from the day of redemption, up t,
the day of the Jubilee. Hence it might with
equal justice he inferred that the Hebrew Al
well aS the foreign servant was to servo till thu
Jubilee. We have already remarked, that thu
law of redemption is merely in this place ae
commoidted to the Jubilee Just instituted |
the slx years contract oyerran the Jubilee, tn,
tune beyond was to be dsregarded in estima
ting the amount of the redemption money.
MAN. STEALING.