The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-15
Apti~ ~SIabefyj.
The Scriptural and Political Remedy
for the North in the present Crisis.
by EDwARD z. HALE.

This is an Essay to inquire into the
ust rapid means of removing American
slavery.
These means will be indicated by the
Providence tf God; as it has explained
itself in Scripture and History, and as it
works around us in the history of to day.
For, in every enterprise required for
The advance of the Kingdom of Christ,
man is to be "laborer together with
God" On the one hand, God does not
save passive world from its crimes and
sins, where man does not rouse himself
to "subdue the world" as he was direct
ed in the beginning. On the other hand,
in "subduing the world" man is to labor
under Gods direction His efforts are
powerless unless so made. ''Unless the
Lord build the house, the builders labor
in vain
The object proposed is the removal
Of American slavery.
This is, in other words, the extension
Of the Christian gospel over region
where it has not yet sufficient power.
|. How is the gospel to be extended?
The answer is in the direction of Jesus
Christ himself, where he bids ms disci-
PIES, "Go We into all the world, and preach
die gospel to every creature" tie did
not contemplate system of inaction.-
lie did not rely OH tha. gradual expan-
sion which would come about, rs men
should travel, one by one. from distance
to Jsrusalum, To inquire about the new
light. Nor did he rely upon the slow
creation in Judea of such apublIc opin-
ion regarding the heathenism of Greece
and Rome and Gaul and Spain, that
Greece and Rome and Gaul and Spain
should be shamed BY them into the aban
donment of their heathenism, and turn
ing 10 the Living God. The system of
distant operatioa for gospel extension is
modern sFstem. The reliance on "the
publie osaion of the world" is human
relispo. Jesus knew that sinful men
are .duenced much more By the public
:hion around them. than By the public
5pnIon of men at a distance. He meant
iiat his disciples should act Directly
act lndlFectl y-on those whom they
would save. And so he bade them all
go out into all the world, and preach the
S'sPei To every creature. All are to re-
tei'e. All the world is to be visited
ana all who love him are TO go-some-
where.
lhIs direction has been illustrated i'm
uie History of the Church. Its extern
''Oa IN the rapid progress of the first
'en'urles was won, not by the modern
Means alluded to, but BY the Jealous men
who swarmed into foreign and even bar
Oarious regions and carried the cross
EIth them. Gaul was won to the cross
IN Gaul, Spain in Spain, Britain in Brit
an. Men were saved in theirown homes:
hot as the result of distant instruction,
diplomacy or battle. The church show
edltself aggressive. In fact it "has no
defensive weapons" 1t carried the gos-
pei TO lands which knew it not, and it
saved them on their own soil
The victories of the cross stopped
When this system stopped. Its greatest
Glamphs, since, have been achieved when
~s system was renewed. Of the later
centuries the greatest Christian triumph
nas been the extension of the gospel, in
more or less purity, over America. How
vas this gained ? Not by the men who
ss'ld at home, but by the men who came
Ae'e irOm Europe. They came with the
sosPei' and won the gospels battle in the
Aad where it was to be established. The
movement of the Puritans to New Eng
aug OF the Huguenots to South Carroll
~ was fulflment of the direction to
;'e - brethren, that they should all go out
need were. into all the world.
:, us but very short-sighted reading
'nis direction in which the church is
.a'isned, if it sends out one or two labor
81 o lFom ten thousand who stay at home.
Sas, of Two may not be enough for the
,'',a.. A one or two may be lost in the
Isas I.'.i'ude Moses led all the people of
"A gl ~ up TO canaan when all were need
60. All the flock of John Robin
a MN zane to Plymouth when all were
ca sea here. And the Providence of
whe,a e = 10 @ be studied in every instance
if He aa s sospeiis to be extended to see
hundred ,s - one missionary. or ten or
tbons.ai' of perhaps thousand or ten
anr yasaaa, sa'l: OF his people TO 90 out into
- iesion which needs his svord-and
Ing Of srau .nl.ner the gospel for the bless
quiry. iavS nus, We are led directly to the In
,nJ ~ Where does God wish ms TO oo
H., N what number does he need us.
aUo, "s s may bring the Gospel to bea-
n Tba American slavery %
Dis. position of American slavery is
I. rs. A number of slayeboldars vsr;ous.
: ESTIMATED. from $4,000 to 500 600