Western Reserve chronicle and weekly transcript of the times. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1854-1855, 1855-02-07


and the weak are weak the rich, the ia
vored, must rule, and their shadow must
dwarf all others. If Christian meas
ures, he hears voice saying: " There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither
bond or free, there is neither male nor
female; for ye are all one in Christ
Jesus" Whosoever shall do the will
of my Father, which is in heaven, the
same is my mother, and sister, and
brother"
These are the things that give value
to man.
Itis not 10 be said that there is no diff
ference between men; that one is not
more powerful than another that one is
not richer in genius than another; that
one is not more valuable to society than
another; that education, refinement, skill,
experience gives no precedence over their
negatives. But GoD takes up the least
of all human creatures, and declares,
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the
least of these, ye have done it unto me-
In household, babe is vastly less than
the grown-up children. But who dare
touch it, as if it were as worthless as it is
weak
So GoD pleads his own relationship to
the meanest human creation, as his pro-
lection from wrong; as the evidence of
his rights, as the reason of his dignity
There is something of Cop in the mean
est creature. He is sacred from injury
In these truths we find the reason why
Christianity always takes hold so low
down in human life. Things that have
got their root, need little from the gar
dener; but seeds, and tender sprouts,
and difficult plants, require and get nur-
ture.
A Christianity that takes care of the
rich, the strong, the governing class, and
neglects the poor, and ignorant, and un-
refined, is the antetype of Christ.
1t is in this direction only, that sthe
declaration of mans equality is true
No heathen nation could say that all
men are born free and equal for in
mere earthly respects it is false. But it
is truth that stands only and firmly in
those grand relations which man sustains
D Cop to eternity and to future dignity
all are equally subjects of these. Man
is ungrown. All his fruit is green. 1t
he must stand by what he is, how surely
must he be given over to weakness, to
abuse to expressions. The weak are
natural prey to the strong, and superiority
is charter for tyranny.
But if he be an heir, waiting for an in
heritance of COP, eternal in the heavens,
woe be to him that dare lay a finger on
him because he is q minor
dwell the longer upon this view be-
cause it carries the worlds heart in it,
We must deepen our thinkings of man,
and bore for the springs of liberty far be.
ow the DRAWINGS of surface strata, down
ieep, Artesian, till we strike something
hat shall be beyond winter or summer,
frost or drouth.
do not believe that there is doctrine
,f individual rights nor of civil liberty
hat can stand outside of Christianity
Tney are 10 be seen revealed in nature,
but there is none TO interpret them with
authority. Christ is the Worlds Eman-
,ipator, for he hath declared that men
belong TO Him !; and an oppressor thus
becomes a felon, a robber, and wronger
If COP in the person of every poor and
Yretched victim
A Christianity that tells man what his
,rigin is-of COP; his destiny, to COP
lgain his errand on earth, to grow to-
ward goodness, and make the most of
Christianity is rank rebellion
n despotisms, and insurrection on PLAN
ations. 1t cannot be preached there.
These two radical theories of man
nan, a physical creature to be judged by
Effects produced in Time; or man sPir-
tual creature, to be judged by the devel-
,pment to which he is destined, are at the
oct of all the antagonisms between the
pirit of northern institutions and southern
Institutions: northern policy and southern
,olicy. In the North, it is the public
ointment of the people, that all men are
orn free and equal that every man has
n inalienable right to life, liberty and
he pursuit ofhaPpiness, forfeited only by
riue. The North believe that personal
nd political liberty are not only the
jgkts Of man, but their necessity, that man
annot thrive nor develop, with the true
roportions of manhood, without liberty.
is the Northern sentiment that a man
lust be prepared for liberty, and that the
CT of birth is that preparation that no
reature lives which is the better for op
ression, and who will not be the better
1r freedom, which is the natural air aP-
ointed for the souls breathing. The
North disdains every Pretense that men
re injured by sudden liberty. A fam
she'd man may inJure himself by over
seding but that is an argument not