Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1856-10-28

Christ and his Apostl, andwherethey
were preached: i was ! Iaround them.
And, though the Scribd and Phari-ll
secs were denounced BY 6nr Saviour
for their hypocrisy and n bing sswid-]
ows' houses, = Yet not awol 4 did He ut.
teragainstslaveh lding. p one occa-s|
sion Hewas sought for BY 4 centurion
who asked him to heal his Ave, who
was sick. Jesus said he Mild 90;
but the centurion objected, s. ing.
.Lord, / am noteworthy thou I6nldst
come Under my roof but spaA the
word only. and my servant shat Be-
For Lam d man under III
thority, having soldiers Under me; an
Isay tos this man goss and he geetlis
and to another COME, and he coIneth;'
and to my szaU5 do this, md he doetii,
it, Matthew 5. 0. The word rends
cred here q eryant" il our translation
means slave: 1t means just such q
servant as all our slaves at the South
are. Ihare the original Greek.
Here the hammer fell. Mr.. Steph-
ems asked that he might be permitted
to 20 OH as long as the gentle man from
Ohio (Mr. CampbelD had taken Up
his time. He had but little more
to. say. Mr.. Giddings, of Ohio, OBJ
iected; and what follows is. the sub.
stance lot what he intended to say ii
he had not been cut off BY tile hour
rule 1T \ H sIsk
The word in the original is d0ulos, and
the meaninglof this word, Jas given III
Robinson s Greek and English Lexicon,
is this--I read from the book: In the
family the doalos was one who ID bound
to sefps, slove, and was the property 81
his master "a living possession as Ar
istotic calls hired serpaat, the latter being
called nasthios," DC. This is the mean.
ing OF the word, as given BY Robinson, q
learned doctor Of divinity as well ss 81
of laws. The centurion on the occasion
said to Christ himself, ~ say 10 NY Stare
| Do this. and he doeth Il, and DO Thou but
the word and he shall be healed Z
SSIaa - She Savior reply? Did He
what was tii6lak. laose tie bonds thai
tell him to 60 and i5e1G MI II ,ail
fettered his fellow man? -, III III
him he was shining against uuu iof ny y
ind a slaves No such thing. But we
are told by the inspired penmanthat
when Jesus heard it he maryelled and
said to them that followed: ssVerily / say
unto you'll have not found SO great faith,
no, not in Israel. And ! say unto you
that shall come from the East and the
West. shall sit down with Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom Of Heay-
en-. But the children of the kingdom
shall be cast out in utter darkness; there
shall be weeping and gnashing ofIteeth,
And Jesus said unto the centurion, CD
thy way, and as thou hast believed SO be
it unto thee. And his servant Tor slay,e1
was healed in the sclf-same hour i
Was Christ a doughfaces Did he
quail before the slave power? And if be
did not rebuke the lordly centurion fol
speaking as he did Of his authority over
bis slave, but healed the sick man, and
said he had not found SO great faith in all
Israel as he had in his master, who shall
now presume in His name to rebuke 9th
ers for exercising similar authority, or
say that their faith may be as strong as
that Of the centurion III.
In no place in the New Testament, sir,
is slavery held up as sinful. Several 81
the Apostles alluded to it, but none 81
them, not one Of them, mentions or con-
dennis it as a relation sinful in itself sor
yiolatiye Of the laws Of God or even Chris
tain duty, They enjoin, the relative du-
ties Of both master and slave. Paul sent
"a runaway slave. 0nesimps, back to Phi
lemon, his master. He frequently al
,ludes TO slavery in his letters to tile
churches, but in no case speaks Of itias
sinful. 70 what he says ii one Of these
epistlesI ask special attention. Il is LIT
Timothy chapter 9th, and beginning
with the lstEerse:
~. Let as many servants | doaloi, slaves
In the original, which i have before me
as are under the yoke that is, those who
are the most abject Of slaves counttheir
own masters worthy of all honor, that the
name of God and his doctrine b. not bias
phemed. It ~ st H #stk
's2. And they that have believing mas
ters, according to modern doctrinessthere
can be no such thing4as = slayehelding
believer; 50 did not think Paul, let them
not despise Tor neglect and not care for
them, because they are faithful and below
ed, partakers ofthe benefit. These things
teach and exhort. lssssSt s9i /
- vi AMI man teach otheYwise and
consent not to wholesome words, erenkke
cords Of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the
doctrines which il according godhness:
"A. He is proud, or ss.f concealed, |
kno,eing nothing, bit about questions and
stryes of ,cords. whereof cometh envy,
strife, railing, evil surmises 4S
IS. Perverse disputings Of men Of Dor
rupt minds, and destitute Of the truth, sup
posing that gain is godliness: from such
WITHDRAW ttyse!f."
This Language DC st. Paul, the great
Apostle of Ihe Gentiles, is Just appropri-
ate this day, in this House, as it was when
he penned it eighteen hundred years ago.
No man could frame more direct reply
to the doctrines Of the gentleman from
Ohio (Mr. Giddings and the gentleman
from Indiana Mr. DUNN than. Is here
Iconto;na,a III tho sacred hook What does