Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-22
"No accent Of tho Holy Ghost
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"No accent tho Holy Ghost
This needless world has lost"
No solemn word of truth uttered from the hear
was ever spoken in vain. Not in vain are such
utterances you have listened to to-night-not
IN vain such tolls these to which our brother
has devoted himself o no; could they be il
vain, one would be obliged to believe that God
s,od hdicated his throne,
NJ, f,; 'ds, the present time seems ever dull
. ,,1 oo,an ace. Around the past there gathers
a halo Of glory loom 'ng up forever and the rays
IS 49, - III SlT,i g. Standing in the present
point, we look back into tie Ia o''.""' PaS'' ana
we wonder at its brightness and y" S'o'y anu
almost defy the and women |ho, 'H""cn y"
their time, stood up boldly for the right SHcrl.
everything that was personal to them thus garner
ing up a glorious harvest for coming ages; ; and
we give thanks to God, from innormost souls
for the good gifts those saints and heroes have
sent down to us-gifts of free speech, free ress
the right to worship our God after the dictates Of
our own conscience, with none to moest or make
us afrad-and as We honor those men and women
of past times, envy them theiI glory and wish
sometimes that could have lived in their day
and borne with them its trials and burdens to
share with them its glory 1t is in the light of the
martyr fires upon which their souls went up to
God, that we and read the beauty Of their
lives and the heroiSm of their death.
But the present moment is becoming the
past and in its turn wears its crown of glory. The
day is not far distant when men and women will
look back to this time and wish they had lived in
our day and shared with us the struggle and CON
fict that is going forward, and borne with us its
burdens. They will look back t. day as We
look back to nn earlier dav envving those whose
lot it was to live now, Though the world generally
knows it not or heeds it not we are living III the
midst of a evolution Men never know that they
are in revolutons-the masses never know it
until they are almost thr gh it and the victory is
won Revolutions are always carried on by Il
few the masses in nltior are scarcely disturbed
hui vUhO hna thn rI rn
always few. 1t is rot harder now to he a true
reformer, II seli-Sacrtclng, heroic, Christian man
or woman than 1t was IN the DAYS whcn Jesus OF
Nazareth walked the streets ol JerGSaiei Insult
ed and stoned BY a rnin IN rabhIc' deriuei ana
scorned Ivy the pollshed priest aud LEANED scr'ue
Ever, from age 10 age, they VINO VIII ilVe G"ml!
in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" The
contest has always been the same from the begin
ningot the woria tlil now 1t IS the oid battle
between rlght and wrong, trrth ana falsehood
called by various names appearing under various
phases, but ever the same. La this age 1t takes
the form ot contest between human slavery ana
human freedom, bat 1t is not the less the same "io
battle that waged eighteen hundred years ago, and
and IN every year before and since ltlsa blessed
lot to live IN TINS age ana country, II we nave Du
eyes ann !nted to see 1t and hearts strong enougL
to choose to be on the right side. The conflict l.
one of not only great Importance to our nation IN
volvng its true prosperity and Its llte but 1t IS
conflict important to the world. There is nothing
so important that agtates the civilized world.
comes very close to us here we stand In the
midst of this mighty revolution and look over ou
land and see 1t rocked from side to side, and from
centre to circumference, whlie many persons arr
just opening their eyes and asking how 1t all came
about.
little more than quarter OF a century ago,
young man, obscure and unknown without what
the world calls influence or power, stood uoin tn