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WHITE SERMONS ON ABLACK SUB
JECT.-N0. VII.

The small and the great are there; and the servant
| is free from his master" Job, ,, 10.
These words were uttered by that
great and good man, Job, who feared
God and eschewed evil who always
"spoke the thing that was right" con-
cerning God and his purposes. In his
deep ailliction, as he looked abroad over
dreary world, he saw clearly that there
is no refuge from some forms of suffering
but in the grave. In this survey, he no.
ticed particularly the slave, whose only
liberator is Death. In the grave the SER
want is free from his masier-no where
else. Well may he ''dig for it more than
for hid treasures, and be glad when he
can find the grave; for there, and shere
only, can he be free.
We see then, my brethren, that the
perpetuiiy of slavery is clearly asserted
in the Bible-that the purpose of God is,
that the slave shall never, without the
consent of his master, cease 10 be slave
till he ceases to breath-that his servitude
shall terminate only in the grave.
My object in this discourse will be,
first, to consider, briefy,the daring impi-
ETY. Of those who seek the abolition of sla-
very-who would rescue the negro from
that state of bondage which God has said
shall end only with his life: and second
ly, 10 speak of some of the precious bless
ings which God, through the instrument.
ality of slave-merchants and American
planters, is bestowing upon benighted
Africa.
1t is written, "Woe to him that striveth
with his Maker" 1t is, believe, the
opinion of some shareholders that this is
a mistranslation /; that the text should
read, % Woe to him that striveth with his
MASTER" my own opinion, however, is
that the translation is correct. If God,
by the mouth OF Noah, has said, "Cursed
be Canaan" who shall presume 20 revoke
that curse If he has said, a servant
of servants shall he be-" who except his
master, shall dare 10 set him at liberty?
alas, for the deep depravity of man
How many are, even now, striving with
their Maker, and laboring to revoke the
the Divine decree by abolishing slavery!
They labor, of course, in vain. "Their
hands cannot perform their enterprise"
They intend evil against God but "they
have imagined a mischievous device
which they are unable to perform.
"His hand shall find out all his enemies
his right hand shall find out them that
hate him; he shall make them as a fiery
oven in the time of his anger the Lord
shall swallow them up in his wrath, and
the fire shall devour them" On this
point need not dwell. 1t must be obvi.
Gus to every one that none but desperately
wicked men would ever dare to strive
with their Maker thus.
But secondly, | would speak of some
of TIE precious blessings bestowed upon
Africa, through the instrumentality of
slaye-merchants and American planters.
It is well known that wars are frequent
between different tribes Of natives along
the coast; and that the remnaute of a
vanquished tribe, made prisoners, instead
of being killed, as they would be were it
not fur the slave-trade, are saved alive, and
sold to slaYe-merchants in exchange for
rum, brandy, weapons of war, and other
necessarics and comforts of life. What
vast number of lives, then, are annually
saved by means of the slave-tradc! AZ
rica, instead of seeing her sons slaugh-
torca n her sill, sees item transported to