The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-07


Compare the sermons which most OF you have preached
ON slavery and which many Of you have Published TO the
world with the example and precep OF Christ and his
apostles and then say whether you are his ministers Re
member that he that for is against US and he
that gahereth not with scattereth abroad are the
words OF Him in whose behalf you profess speak You
have not only taught that slaves under obligation
10 obey and honor their masters but that il is their duty
TO steal their horses and money to aid their escape You
have not only taught that the laws for restoring slaves
their masters wrong but that II Is the duty OF all
to resist those laws You have melted mobs to hang and
burn in eigy the proposer of the Nebraska bill thus sig
nifyng the fate of which they and you Judge him worthy
Happy for you if this all Look your blood-s tain
ed hands You they who occasioned the murder of
Batchelder by Boston mob You accessories before
the fact that foul crime and in the judgment of all
are guilty than the misguided men your instruments
who welded the dagger poised the pistol In what
spec do you differ from that Barabbas who released
that Christ might be cruced who lay bound with them
that had made instruction with him. pho had committed
murder ia The mswrecioa ~ You only want his courage.
You not only have authority to speak you have
spoken in the OF God but tits in express violation OF
your duty ministers of Jesus to speak Paul directs
Titus TO ordan elders if any be blameess, the hus
band Of wife, having faithful children, not accused of
riot n,ruly. For bishop must be blamecss, as the
steward OF God-not selEwled, not angry, not
lover Of hospitality, lover Of good men, sober just
holy temperate holding fast he faithtM acord as he
hath been tauyhh that he may be able by sound doc
trine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers
For there many unruy and vain takers"
whose mouths must be stopped, who snbvert whole
houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy u-
cres sake Do you think that Titus would have selected
such you for elders and bishops Now turn to the de-
scpion of those who uniahful teachers Jude tells
those whom his epse is addressed that there are GER
tain crept in unawares who of old ordained to
this ondemnation-ungodly men, filthy drenmers, VINO
despise dominion and speak evil of dignes where
Moses burst rail at the deyil But these speak
svH Of those things whch they hoo not These are spots
in your feasts of charity, clouds they are, without
water raging waves Of the sea- oaming out their own
shame wandering stars TO whom is reserved the mist
of darkness forever Paul speaks of them as desiring
to be teachers OF the law; understanding neither wha
they say whereof they affirm And what do you know
of the things you have affirmed of the Missouri Compro-
mise of the Nebraska bill and its supporters? Those
well informed upon these subjects well aware that your
statements respecting them false and you yourselves
must know but that your minds clouded by prejudice
and passion that the mputations you have cast upon
large majority of the members Of Congress false and
luminous The people will think OF you that you are OF
the kind Of teachers described by udhat you are OF the
synagogue Of Satan rather than ministers Of the Cos
pei of Jesus Christ"
pupt the bulw irs from behind which spout forth
political harangues eli ing up strife and melting TO in
surecion Your love Of power makes you impatient OF
merely retaining and mparng like earthen vessels those
things committed to you. Are you not like those sacre-
gious sons of Aaron Nadab and Abhu, who put strange
fire in their censers and whom the Lord destroyed for
their mpety He whose ministers you profess to be never
but once resorted violence and that exercised
scourgng out of Gods house those who desecraed it to
| secular pnrnoses Like Shepherds spoken of by
Ezekiel you your hoeks instead of feeding Them and
while you intent aggrandzing yourselves be
cause there shepherd the flock scattered upon all
the Of the earth and search or seek after
them Not with the of souls and the care Of
the church. you would rule the State Hear what Milton
said while discoursing of such you So long as the
church. true imitation Of Christ be content to ride
upon ass carrying herself and her government along
In mean and simple guise she may be- she Ia lion OF
the tribe OF Judah and in her humility all men with
loud will confess her greatness But when de-
spsng the mighty operation OF the spirit by the weak
things of this world she thinks to make herself bigger and
considerable by using the way Of cpa force and %
rsdotio as she sits on this lion she changes into
and instead Of hosannas every pets her with stones
and dirt And again, in his prayer for the church, he
says: Leave her thus prey TO these importunate
wolves that wait and think long till they deyour thy ten
der hoc these wild boas that have broke into thy yne
yard and left the print Of their polutng hoos on the
souls Of thy servants DO you not remember what Jesus
said to Peter when he prossed his love for hm2 Feed
sheep Only by feeding the flock Of Christ you show
your love for him. not by stirring up sediton and strife
Jesus sent forth Hs disciples like sheep among wolves
charging them be "wise serpents and harmless as
doves But you 90 forth like wolves among the sheep
uniting the wisdom Of the dove with the serpents harm
lessness
To crafty mistaken philanthropy led on by an intsmpc
rate zeaa zeal without knowledge-you offer violent o
position To wisely calculated 10 restore and
perpetuato feeling Of amty and goodwill between III,
people of an sections Of this Union and In way cac
lated TO augment the evils Of slavery but rather to din
| ish them. Some Of your number and perhaps most o
YOU have been led into the great sin you have committed
through ignorance Of the subject through nadvereney
and want Of consideration have desire TO yoJ
harby nor to Judge you unchariaby But Others among
you have no such palliaton for their offence You have
COMPOUNDED yourselves with them, and must for the tins
share the condemnation they win meet in the Judgment
the great Of the American people BE warned by th
humble but pertinent example OF poor Tray and In I'm
ture be careful to keep out Of Dad company
All OF You doing incaculable injury the Church
Of God When your congregations find that you have de
ceyed aud msed them, you have In this instance how
can ron expect them conde in you when you speak t.
them OF those things which relate TO their spiritual welfare
Is Il not better with reference the welfare Of the soul
committed to your care that you should determine TO know
nothing among them but Jesus Christ and him cruc6ed
that You should obey his injunction 10 resis not evil u
overcome II by good or
Shall your weak unknowing hand,
Presume His bolts 10 throw,
And deal damnstiou round the land
On each you Judge His foe Y
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