Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-12

possession as Aristotle calls him. = And again:
The doulos therefore, was never 6ired Ssreant,
the latter being called misthios," DC Thlsis the
meaning Of the word as given BY Robinson, learn
ed doctor of divinity az we'll of laws The centu
rion on the occasion said to Christ himself :" say
! to my szaoe do this and he doeth 1t, and do Thou
| but speak the word and he shall be healed" hat
was the Saviours replyP Did He tell him 10 60
loose the bonds that fettered his fellow-manY Dld
He tell him he was SHINING against God for holding
slace? No such thing. But we are told by the
| inspired penman that
"When Jesus heard it he marveed and said to
them that followed: Verify say unto you have
not found so great faith, no, not in Israel Ana
say unto you that many shall come from the East
| and the West and shall sit down with Abraham an
Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven. But
the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into
utter darkness; there shall be weeping and gnash-
ing of teeth And Jesus said unto the centurion,
Go thy way, and as thou hast believed so De 1t done
unto thee And his servant Tor slare was healed In
the self-same hour"
Was Christ dougA:tace? Did he quail before
the slave powerG And if he did not rebuke the
lordly centurion for speaking he did OF
ty over his slave but healed the sick man. and said
that he had not found so great faith in all Israel as
ne bad in his MASTER who shall now presume IN Ills
name to rebuke others for exercising similar author
y, say that their faith may not be as strong as
that of the centufion'sp
In no place in the New Testament, sir, is slavery
held up as sinful. Several of the Apostles alluded
to it, but none of them not one of them, mentions
Or condemns it as relation sinful in itself or VIOLA
tive of the laws of God or even Christian duty,
They enjoin the relative duties of both master ana
slave. Paul sent runaway slave, Onesmus, back
to Philemon, his master. He frequently aliudes to
slavery in his letters to the churches but in no case
speaks of it as sinful. To what he says IN one OF
these epises ask special attention. 1t is LIST Tim
othy, chapter 9th, and beginning with the trst
verse:
81. Let rs many servants [douloi, slaves in the
original, which 1 have before me- as arc under the
yoke that is, those who are the most abJect Oh
slaves count their own masters worthy OF all honor
phemcd.
2. And they that have believing masters, accord
ing to modern doctrine there can be no such thing
as slaveholding believer; so did not think Paul,
let them not dcSpise Tor neglect and not care for]
them, because they brethren but rather do them
service, because they are faithful and beloved, par
takers of the benefit These things teach and ex:
hort.
8. If dnu man teach otherwise and consent not to
wholesome words ecen the cords Of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to
godliness:
4. He is proud, Tor self eo"cested, hno"ing noth-
ing but dotiRg about questions and stres Of scords,
whereof cometh envy STRIFE ratings, evil surmises,
5. Perverse disputing of men OF corrupt minds,
and destitute of the TRUTH suPosing that gain is god
Illness: from such ,cithdrdW thyse!t"
This language of ST. Paul, the great Apostle of
the Genes, just as appropriate this day. in this
House, as it was when he penncd it eighteen hun
dred years ago. No could frame more direct
reply to the doctrines of the gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. Gidding) and the gentleman from Indiana
(AIr. DUNN than is here contained in the sacred
book. What does all this strife, and envy, and rail-
ings, and civil war" in Kansas come from but the
TEACHINGS of those in our day who teach otherwise
than Paul taught and do not consent to wholesome
cords, eren tile cords Of oar Lord Jesus Christi"
Let no man, then, say that African slavery as it
exists in the South, incorporated in and sanctioned
by the Constitution of the United States is in viola
ton Of either the laws of nations the laws Of nature
or the laws of God
And if it "must needs be" that such offence
shall come from this source as shall sever the ties
that unite these States together in ftaternal
bonds, and involve the land in civil war, then "wo
be unto them from whom the offence cometh."