Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-20

have BEEN one by one thrown away: If they have
lost the power and the skill to WELD them II we
have become so enervated by luxury that we can
not recall their ust surely we must not blame
those, in their moment of indignation, feeling the
necessity Of making resistance Of some kind, and
that straightway, determinedly snatch up such
arms as are nearest at hand, and plunge into a.
conflict of blood.
But our snlvation comes not by such means.
Nor does |. come by the caucus or the ballot-box.
1t is gained only by the regeneration of our hearts,
the rene val of our faith in Gods righteous laws,
fresh determination to abhor that which is evil, to
ceave to that which is good, thorough revolution
in our moral convictions, total conversion to the
sacred truths of the Guspelthe truths that God is
our Father and man our brother. Nothing short
of this will put in the just position toward this
great iniquity. Oh where is the Church
Where the representatives Of Him whose very
look, are told, struck band of ruffans to the
earth? Where are the 10000 preachers of the
gospel of brotherly love, sent forth by the Master
to heal the broken-hearted and preach deliverance
to the captives? Where is that promised gift Of
the Holy Spirit which to give men power over
scorpions, and enable them to cast out devils
Alas the Church has committed suicide. 1t has
ceased to be Christian. 1t has deliberately and
wlfully turned against its Lord Of this asser-
ton offer you testimony and a symbol. Here
is the testimony. Mr.. Atchson. whose bad name
has become familiar to you all declares that the
reason why slavery is not attacked in the South, is
to be found in the fact that all the Southern
churches are Evangelical" Here is q symbol.
This day has been appointed for great religious
solemnty in our neighhrrins city Of IIoboken.
The bones of ST. Quietus, taken from the catacombs
of Rome, together with the vase containing his
mnrtyr-blOnd, precious relics presented to the
Catholic Church Of that district by the reigning
Pope, to be carried to their resting-place.
with all the pomp and circumstance which so
great an occasion dem nds. Is not this what the
whole Church is perpetually doing-gathering up
the bones and singing the praises of the old
martyrs, when the cries Of to.day's martyrs
ringing in its cars? The true Church is not or
gnnzcd rs yet. But times like these will organize
it fast. The living Word will 60 forth, and
mon the real disciples together. The sign of the
Son of Man is already in the heavens We may
hear Of wars and rumors of wars. Let not your
heart be troubled. lie that endureth to the end
shall be saved
Once to every man and nation comes the moment
to decide,
IL the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good
or evil side:
each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep
upon the right,
And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that dark.
ness and that light.
Hast thou chosen o my people on whose party
thou shalt stand,
Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the
dust against our land?
Though the cause of evil prosper yet tits Truth
alone is strong,
And albeit she wander outcast now, I see around
her throng
Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her
from all wrong.
Backward looks across the ages, and the beacon
moments SEQ
That, like peaks of SOME sunk continent jut
through oblvion's sea,
Not On in court or market for the low, fore
bodng cry
OF those crises, Gods stern winnowers from whose
feet earth's chaf must fly;
Never shows the choice momen.o till the
judgment hath passed by
Careless seems the great Avcnger: hstury's pages
but record
One death-grapple in the darkness twixt old sys
TENS and the Word
Truth forever on the scaffold Wrong forever on
the throne
Yet that scaffold swnys the future, and behind
the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch
above his own.