Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-08

ist. Nine years after | happened to be in the same
hall and each one was equally careful to say he
was just as much an anti.slavery man as nybody
This is an evidence Of progress and encouraging
to those Who are Responding.
l have no objection to being called an infdel; in
fact, | hope to be an infdel to a church that will
fellowship Shareholders and men. stealcrs.
III. G.. Wright obtained the floor and said. /
have an objection to the change proposed by friend
FJss. Was Jesus Of Nazareth n ChristianY / be.
lieye he now abhors the name. Constantine, organ
lied Christianity. lie began making Christians
with the sword. he ravaged countries and %pillOgod
cities, and made christians on the "Sharp's rifles
system-in contrast with this the doctrines Of Je.
sus were, peace, love, good will, good for evil" "
forgivness, SC. The resolution claims that the
Christian Church is inadequate to secure the free
dom and regeneration of men. ! believe that is
most emphatically true. The Christian Church is
destined to damnation. 1t is founded on :hc plen'
airy inspiration of the Bible. The Divine author.
ity Of the book, word for word. Show me n chris
tan who pretends to follow the precepts and ex-
ample Of Christ.
A T. Foss still hoped the change would be
made. Thought we should not be understood
without some explanation
Joseph Merritt thought the difference between
the friends arose very much from a want of q def
mite understanding of terms.
II. c. Wright continued. I still have another
objection to the amendment. / think the name
ought to be forgotten and the principles and spirit
of Christ remembered. The name Christian ought
to be forgotten from the fact that every thing abom-
Unable is associated with it. Friend Foss himself
could not join any Of these churches without be.
coming totally depraved.
SQjourner Truth remarked, VIC ought to be like.
Christ. lie said, Father, forgive them, they know
not what they do" If we want to lead the people
We must not get out of dere sight.
After some farther remarks by r. Glazier. Jr,
Warren Burtis of Rochester, George Sumter of.
Hamilton, G. w. and others. Mrs. Seymour of
Waukegan Illinois, (under spiritual infuence) said
We would not forever defend the name. Christ
taught the same doctrines of peace and love which
are taught here.
But Meme, Meme Tekel Upharsin' is written on
all the popular churches. Truth will elevate for
evcr-Truth let it be free to investigate. The
Christian churches have been quarrelling about
their creeds and dogmas while four millions Of
their brothers and sisters were in bondage. Mrs.
Seymour continued her remarks for some time very
appropriately, after which
IL. G. Wright ahd A. T.. Foss made q few re
marks, when Erastus Hussey obtained the floor
and said
II l understand the term Christian it implies
the good of man. Now if the term has become
obnoxious, how are we to remedy it; not by saying
such hard things that the people will not hear us.
/ My friend spoke about Constantine introducing
g Christianity. The people of that age were igno-
rant, superstitious and barbarous. l think we
: might as well say the planet Saturn should not be
called by that name.
n But Mr.. Chairman, when truths come into the
world l want to know through whom they came
| am for progression, and if a church or people
g fail to progress in light and knowledge, the public
: mind will leave them behind. l think the doctrines
Of the Christian Church have spread the princi-
0 pies of right, Notwithstanding the many evils she
q has fostered. But a man is not accountable for
0 any thing more than he knows.
n If this resolution goes out to the world as it is,
n they will say we are infdels. Now l don't want
Z to be called an infdel; again, I believe that all the
n principles of right which we receive are revealed,
Q the intidel is understood by the world to be one
n who does not believe in that revelation. III. c.
t Wright Jesus was an infdel to Judeism ny
QIussey) an infdel may be disbelieyer in any Deity
g whatever, or in the doctrines of Christ, or of the
inner light.
Sojourner Truth spoke u short time with good
effect.
Geo. Sumter and Mr.. Morrison Of Harmonic also
: spoke on the proposed amendment, after which
Warren Chase continued the discussion as follows:
{ l was from my youth ny, an in6del. l am a be-
lever in God, and | consider the Bible, as both
true and false, containing as it does ome of the
most noble and God-like truths and principles, and
u then some of the most degrading and debasing err
rors. l do not believe the present Christian church.
es are calculated to work out the salvation of the
race. Do not ask me to endorse any religious or
y ganizalion until it has washed its hands Of all
governments which enslave one fifth Of its sub
; jocts.
II. c. Wright again said:
| do not believe it necessary for me to 90 down
to help others up. Must 1 go down and be a dem
ocrat in order to help them up? Heaven save me
if | must, but | don't believe 1t. Christ himself
did not do ii, and although lie would deal out
milk 20 babes" yet he held his own noble STAN
q dard high and clear above the SCOTS and jeers OF
, those around him and still he did not fail to de-
nounce the hypocritical, the false and the wrong
f doer in the most bitter and strongest terms. But
l am speaking of belief, and when l use the term |
do not mean what the person has been taught to
believe, or what be would like to believe or almost
= persuade himself to believe. But what he is con,
f WINGED is true, that / would have him carry out and
nO6lV Iire up to. This, it appears to me, is what
constitutes the true man, pure and u~nspotted be.
fore the world" If you believe you are right, try
? to get the world up where you are; and it would
be folly for you to place yourself in the ~quagmire
g of degradation, for then you would not be able to
a give the necessary assistance.
y l do not believe there is a people on this Globe
v so utterly degraded and destitute of a true moral
sense as the people of these United States. Where