Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-11-21

| We all know what Unon.saving is-it is the out
and out pro slaveryism of politics applied to the
stability of government. Anarchy is unGoubted-
ly bad but the remedy in this instance happens to
be worse than the disease. Oppression is poor
substitute for disorder; robbery may produce
quiet but it cannot command respect Hence a
government. saved by pro-slaveryism, is only the
worse for being saved There is a time for decay
and disruption and that nation which canno. hold
together without injustice, has already existed too
| long Conservatism, applied to political organi-
cations that have not for their greatest good and
only object Of existence, the preservation Of the
rights of all men, is a palpa5le cheat--a mock
pretence. The odiousness of the vice Of Union.
saving arises from the cool contempt with which
it filings aside those great original rights that God
planted in our nature, or barters them FOR the
worthless fgment Of an unprncip Piled adherence to
an organization,
That Church.sav:ng is, in principle, indentical
wiki Union saving, there be no doubt. The
men who give themselves to this work, have all the
characteristics Of their brehren-t Uuion-sayers
The latter would save the State, irrespective OF
| Iright-would ignore the righteous claims Of mil
lions of human beings and crush them through
lnterminable generations in order to buila UP and
psrpetuato political system. Church, saving, in
like manner, ignores all rightt tahcs for its su-
preme point, that the unity of the Church must be
maintained. Not duty--not righteousness is its
CHEST aim its one object, and all-commandng
principle, is union. We may well abhor union,
gained or conserved in utter disregard Of moral
principle. But especially may we ahominate a
union of this kind, when formed in the Church-a
body protesting to be based upon purity.
Church-saving is practical wickedness. 1t is an
open remuneration Of morals 1t filings righteous
ness to the winds, and inaugurates policy as the
ruling element of the Church. When man6ge-
ment and trickery are thus substituted for virtue
in the house of God itself, we may be sure that
boundess corruption must follow.
But what is this great thing that Church, saving
would do, if it could? Why, it is simply keeping
the Church externally one-itis preserving ysi
bic unity-an obect well enough in its way, to a
limited extent, but by no means worth securing,
at the sacrifice of principle. Something Of family
grouping. even in the Church, there is and must
be; denomnationalsm in its essential features
Is, not vice-it is only the expression of an in
herent diversity peculiar to our nature. The er
fort to ccuuteract this moderate sectarian tenden.
cy, and bring on sort of religious communism,
would not be censurable in itself though from the
nature of things, it must forever be unsuccessful
we blame the effort only when it is made, as in
the case of Church saving, in contempt of moral
principle Let men seek, if they win. to blend the
visible Church into unit, but let them not do this
in shameless disregard of morals. Another thing,
however, have they in view, who chiefly concern
themselves with Church,saving; the unity which
they seek to conserve, is not that Of the whole
militant Church, but merely that of their own de-
nomination-they want TO ''be the biggest Church
in the land" 1t is, then, in truth, only intense
sectaranism that under-lies the whole Church-sav-
ing movement DenOminational pride, is the very
best element Of this terrible policy, which propos
es to conserve Church in defiance of justice.
How insulting to the name Of Him who came to
die for SIM is this deliberate purpose 10 build mp
Church in iniquity The Jews made the first
grand experiment in this line, by putting the
Saviour to death, rs purely conservative meas
oh uin hot had tha Cd OG