Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-13
From the New York Tribune.
THE PIOUS SHAREHOLDERS.

! We have moro than once had occasion to nc
knowledge the fact that the warmth Of slavehold
! ing piety is found to glow the more ferccy the
further South you find it. If you wish for sound
doctrine, go to Charleston or Savannah. No
TaylUrism Tyerism, no taint of the right
hand extremes of Andover nor Of the lefthand
deiectionS of New Haven, is to be dGfiling
the white robes Of slaveholding Christianity.
Beecherlsm is scarcely distinguished there from
Parkersm. Pure and undcfled religion prevails
Ialone-religiCn pure from morbid philanthropy
and undefled ny innovatug speculation. They
hold the faith as it was delivered hy their fathers
and they can away with no tampcriugs with it,
Piety is, as n general thing, proportionate to the
number of slaves held by the elect brethren. If a
SAINT In Grape be twice saint in lawn,a saint with
a hundred negroes may well take precedence in
the path to heaven Ct one that only owns fifty 4;
and II cnniessor rise to the possession OF five
hundred, the halo that irradiates his brow is
enough to illuminate whole church, not to say u
presbytery a diocese.
i Nor must it be supposed that the ayeholding
churches are jealous only for the purity of the
faith that hath been committed unto them. They
exoraiso also etriot sereeillanee the lives
and conversations of clergymen and professors,
and either correct gently lapses from pure moral.
ity or else cut off the Offending member and cast
I it from them-as was done in the case of the gross
| heresy and immortality of the Nov. Mr.. Boardman,
by which be had shocked the saints of Beaufort.
The crime Of dancing hath more than once cxer-
ciscd their anxious thoughts, and the offense Of
prolane stage plays is one that wcigheth heavily
On their hearts The posture suitable to be used
in prayer is another question which hath power
fully agitatcd their souls, and hath not been en-
titey set at rest yet. 1t is true that some Of the
more material of the discussions to which these
vital matters have given rise have been held in
! the Northern States. But 10 has been generally
on the frontier, where the Southern brethren are
! in strong force, and greatly influence, if they do
not entirely control, the assembly Of the good.
| There is plenty of mint anse and cummin tythed
everywhere is well known to all but we think
the more Jealous of the exactors of the tenths OF
these herbs will be found among the Southern
Christians aud their South.side brethren farther
North.
An important question has lately been settled
/ bv the Lutheran Synod of Missouri. II touched a
matter noless vital than the mode of distributing
the sacramental loaf among the believers. The
gDdly were divided in opinion to the point
whether it were more orthodox to cut it or to break
il. Grave doubts hung over that portion of The
vineyard, and there was danger of schism and Il
divided Zion. The dspute was finally settled in
favor Of the knife on the ground that breaking the
bread was connected with the P0piSh doctrine of
the Real Proscnce and this, although il was al
mittcd that breaking, and not cutting, was the OK
ample set by Christ aud the Apostles, We do not
perceive, ourselves the precise pertinencv of the
argument on which the decision was made and
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new Lutheran orgaE to be established in Charles
ton we believe, in place of the one in Baltimore
suspected Of heretical tendencies to the tounda
tion doctrine Of Southern and Southside Christian
/ ity. We wish to he made cognizant of tho reason
why the division Of the loaf by the fingers savors
Of the Scarlet Woman rather than that by the
knife.
Of course, if this can be established, there is no
more to be said on the subject. Where a Papist is
in the case, the mere Scripture must give place
Otherwise, we should warn Southern Christians
and we hope this caution will be enforced bv the
Southern Aid Socioty-how they undertake to
Substitute the Spirit of the Scripture for the Letter
thereof The first kiiloth Slavery, while the Sec
ond, wisely expoundcd, moketh it alive. Now,
there is that Scripture which saith, The servant
that knOweth his lords will and doeth it not shall
be beaten with many stripes :" who would have il
tanlpered with and explained away by any lf the
new lights? On this hang the Southern law and
the Snthside prophets. We remember to have
heard story, told by a very eminent Baptist Doc
tor in Divinity, of Il ministering brother of that
order of the South, whom he visiting, who one
Sabbath morning hogged his negro boy with his
own pastoral hands until he stood in pool of his
own blood, for not having done his lords will in
the matter of blacking his boots, and who then
proceeded to the Sanctuary, where he administered
the Ordinance Of the Last Supper to his flock with
edifying JUNCTION. Now submit that it was of
much less consequence to the interests of vital
piety at the South whether this godly broke
or cut the elemental bread on that secession than
it was whether or no the Scriptures should be 50
distorted as to debar him from that preparatory
exercise where with he mad fitted himself for the
services of that holy day.
While we cordially congratulate our Lutheran
brethren of Mssodri upon having escaped
dalous breach ih their order through the unani-
nous adoption Of the cutting of the sacramental
bread instead Of the breaking thereof we would
D = 4 Al.
habit of deYiating from the literal strictness of the
written Word--a habit which hath led to many Of
the grevous delections of the Northern Church,
which have caused much distress TO the South
ern Zion And we trust that the Southern Aid
S S,ciey will cooperate with our humble zeal for the
liety which it was gathered to aid, and see to it
that no damnable heresies be suffered to creep
into the Southern fold, through any tampering
with the received canons Of slayehol1ing faith.