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tbat OHilSl ana the apostles shOulu ADD
another word upon the subject; yet they
have not failed to do so.
Our Lord in his expositions Of the
Moral law and Golden Rue, as in all his
other teachings, has most clearly shown
the opposition of christianity to slavery.
lie opens his divine commission, and the
commission of all his ministers, By say
ing, Tie spirit of the lord is upon me,
bee; use he hath annointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me-,
to cal the broken hearted, to preach de-
/ Iiverancc to the captiyes, and recov-
ering Of sight to the blind, to set at lib
erty them that are bruised, to preach the
acceptable year oftho Lord = or the
worlds jubilee. Christ uttered moi the
first word Of encouragement for the
doomed institution. The parable of the
servant that owed his lord 10, 900 talents,
and imprisoned his fellow servant; IA
hostile to all modern ideas of slavery.
So also is the parable Of the servant who
refused TO occupy the talent.
The gospel says, Masters, give unto
your servants that which is just and
equal" Who does not know that Just
tice and equality would annihilate slave
Try? To the servant, who is about COM
mencing a christian life, it says, "rt
thou called being servant, care not for
| it," (be not over anxious concerning
IT'D but if thou msyest be made free, use
/ it rather" That is, if it is in your pow
er to become free, avail yourselves Of the
privilege by all means, q For he that
is called IN the lord, being servant, i.
the Lords freeman; likewise also he that
is called, being free, is Christs servant
Te are bought with a price; be ye not
the servants Of men" The gospel Of
universal freedom declares. "God hath
made of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell on all the face of the earth.
One is your Master, even Christ; and
all ye are brethren. There is neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncic-
cumcjsion, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
free but Christ is all and in all. For
ye are all the children Of God by faith in
Christ Jesus. For as many Of you as
have been baptized into Christ, have pat
on Christ There is neither Jew nor.
Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female; for We
are all one ia Christ Jesus" There is
no distinction Of nation, or caste or cellar,
or sex for all are emancipated in Christ.
I am asked why it is that many CON
rnentators and learned men suppose the
Bible authorizes slavery. Ireply; Why
did the Roman Josuits imprison Galileo
more than 200 years ago fer ths heresy,
as it was called, Of holding the earth was
ball revolving round the sun Why
did DR. Emmon9, aud learned men few
years since, denounce as infdel, the iisa
that the work Of creation was affected n
longer periods than six literal days?
Friends, the Bible does not change, but
knowledge is increasing.
Pure christianity, in the 6rst four
centuries, destroyed the slavery Of Rome,
and we'll nigh Of the world. False cans-
tianity, during the last four centuries has
done It's utmost to again introduce and
extend it. The Revelator says that lnys-
tic Babylon would make merchandise Of
4" slaves (gr. somaton bodies) and the
souls of men" True to the des-
cription given of Antichrist, Eve Of the
Popes issued their bulls or DEGREES for
the enslaving Of man Wis, Pope Marin
V, in 1880; Eugene ", in l433;
v, in l454; Calixtus III, in
14s8; and Sextus ", in 1884 They
grant the sovereigns Of Portugal plsnary
permission " to take any Of the Guineaps,
or other negroes, By force or by barter
to reduce their persons to perpetual slave
ry, or TO destroy them from the earth; to
the Kingdoms, goods and pos
sessions Of all in6dels or heather in Afri-
ca, or wheresoeyer found" Here was
the origin of modern slavery; which
differed from all that proceeded it in BE-
ing based on color. Although the insti-
tuition has not " Abraham to its father"
ii may claim ave papes, or popes. "Iae
mother of haflJts' had Cardinal to IN
troduce the system on our continent, the
learned Calnet 70 give the proper glossOs
70 the word Of God, and she has uumer-