Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-09-20
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THE SCHOOL OF ANTI SLAVERY.

The SCHOOL OF ANTISLAVERY.
Those who enlist in the anti slavery cause, do so
with reference to the good of others oppress-
cd than themselves, but, we find, according to a
law governing the moral world that, in proportion
- our eaortsa are Jealous and sincere, they react
upon our own souls, rousing new thoughts, purer
affection, and better faith.
Many earnest souls who have sot unde the
droppngs of the sanctuary, waiting to be taught
how they grow in grace. and glorify God have
found themselves at loss to determine upon prop
er rules of conduct. The principles given were
indi,tinct and the application uncertain; the mint
and cummn were tithed, to the neglect of the
weightier matters of the law. Hence arose a
thousand fine casuistries, and do not know that
the religious world is yet of mind on the ques
ton "Whether it is right to walk in the fields on
the Sabbath day." To some such hearers, anti
slavery has been a new gospel. Its principles, few
and simply grand make plain the duties Of life
Such are the sacredness Of the human soul above
laws, and institutions, the authority of reason,
with the consequent recognition Of human rights.
Like generalization in physical science shese prop
ositions make the science of morals clear to the
comprehension They are the axioms which being
admitted and applied will mathematically ADJUST
the relation of each individual to each other one,
and 70 ALL. Having received them we find no un-
certainties, through them God is justified in his
ways to man.
In our own natures recognise two tendencies
one, which by itself becomes evil, the other good
The work Of individual culture is to bring the
lower into har rmonious subsection to the higher
and since individual improvement is at once the
basis and ultimate of reform, we should seriously
seek the means of attainingit.
If we are endowed with faculties which lead us
to hate, to fight 10 doubt, to hoard and to despair
il does not follow that God created man other than
"yery good" the evil of the social world flows from
the perycrted direction and undue predomnance
of This side of human nature. These instincts are
necessary to the formation of individuality, and
wa know that before sefhood is developed our
relations to others can not be conceived of children
then, we are ignorant and imbecile i'll attempts to
aid our fellows Thus, one needs to be a good
hater of all evil, to become good lover OF ali
good, else attraction would merge sell IN all
around it, and leave us without power OF resis-
tance Tha. liberality may be an efficient trait' I"
must needs have ground work acquisitlVeness'
and faith becomes discriminating when counter
noted by a due sceptcism, which on the other
hand, uevoeucc limits and gives aim to acquisi
tiveness ana lends moral furce to the blows oi
con,bativeness and destructvehess, and the social
sentiments of lovo and friendship compel clan
nshness and Jigotry, to mingle in the bonds o
fraternity.
To become worthful members of humanity, our
higher nature must be 80 educated as to control
our selfish instincts, making of them coopera'
tive motive power, which never acting alone. are
vet force indispensable to the perfection of the
human constitution. The anti.slavery movement
supplies class of facts, and an aspect OF moral
duty, preeminontly calculated to widen the intel
lectual scope, TO warm and expand the social ana
religious sentiments, to arouse the truest patriot
ism, to satisfy the highest ambition, and to give
spirit of unconquearable perseverance to the wor
ker in its ranks. The immutablc principles OF
truth and Justice contain within themselves
promise OF ultimate triumph, whereby faith abdes
and hope shines immortal.
A thoroughly selfish man is thoroughly hated,
while in proportion one forgets self, and seeks
the happiness of others, one wins their regard
There is no cause which can so fully engage the
devoted sympathy Of the human soul, no enter
nrse which can 50 lead to that entire selfforgetfu-
ness, which is the absorbing glory of all true he
roes, the strength of the statesman, and the grace
of the Christian The words of Christ "IIe that
loseth bis life for my he ruth's) sake, shall find
it," may be used most pnro<Dtely in this con-
nection. When the soul is freed from bondage to
self, it finds indeed new life through unreserved
devotion to principle, it enters higher place of
existence, it assumes the dignity of an angel, it
Becomes more conscious of its relations to the In
finite.
Such is one estimate of the antslavery field as
a place Of individual culture, that we do not hesi-
tate to affirm, that the highest type. of manhood
and womanhood, which exists, or which can exist,
is found, and has received its development here
II is the only true church Of the living God on
earth, and according men fail to appreciate and
adopt it's worldwide creed they shrink in moral
ststure by its entire denial they become mere pig
mics.
1t is an enterprise which contains the germ Of
all benevolent reforms. its positions assail all op.
pressions, and in their triumph must destroy every
vestige of physical and spiritual bondage hence
it is one which should be most dear to woman
Every mite of influence. which her intellect, her
intuition, her sympathy, or moral power exert for
the elevation of the oppressed, tells, according to
heavens divinest law, on her own redemption
Let us work with thought and hand, sisters, never
ceasing, till the rights of woman held sacred,
and the world. through her, rejoices in freedom.
A. E. l.. r.
PLEASANT LAKE, Indiana.
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