Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-27
THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL.

Hitherto We have said nothing in regard to the
religious excitement which IL pervadipg the country
1t is not our province to oppose or aid it. except as
II is connected with the emancipation movement
Nevertheless we may be permitted to chronicle
some OF the facts connected with it. We are a be.
lever in religion, pure and uudefled', which
is evidenced by visiting the widow and the faith
erless'; and We veneratingIy worship at its shrine.
For its revival we labor.-It would be the emanci-
patton of tho slave-the salvation Of the world
Whether this religion which is now being revived
is Of this sort Ior whether it be our popular. national
religion, the friendly a~pologist for Shareholders.
and the enemy Of righteousness, its fruits and time
will determine.
This excitement is wide spread visiting the great
cities and country Gowns as well as villages great
and small. 1t is stated in the ne newspapers,
that $1,000 have joined the Methodist Episcopal
Church alone, (these are mainly in the North
will they make that church an anti.sluvery
church!) Daily prayer meetings are held in many
Of the cities and populous TOWNSHIP thousand
attend daily in Jaynes' Hall, Philadelphia. All
denominations unite to promote il. The most
proslavery among ecclesiastical hunkers, are its
friends and supporters. 1t finds favor with men of
the world. Tho secular press chronicles its tri-
SHR.s eAOhs AV ~
preaching and PRAYER meetings along side Of theat.
rical entertainments, and the wares of liquor mer-
chants. DR.. Cheever. Mrs. Stowe and a few others.
propose to bring it to tho anti.slavery test, while
the New York Day Book, the distinguished
Northern advocate Of slaveholding. and the espec.
ial supporter Of Lecompton Democracy. ridicules
and sneers at DR.. Cbeever's effurt in the following
choice style Of jealousy for "holy things".
"If any one ever read . more outrageous para
graph than the above ia any journal, We will give
r the matter up. The Hera!d's articles are pious in
? |comparison with the cool, selfconplacent wicked.
q ness of these niggerites, who would dare make
God favor the horrible beastislities of Apolitionism
The idea OF connecting the vilest delusion of mod
q ern times, (for Aholitiunism in its results is even
e worse than Mormonism) with holy things. is so
Y superlstiVely m0nstrous that it is only those whose
q minds have become thoroughly debauched with its
falsehoods, who can Tor q moment endure it. The
d Independent is evidently TO be pitied for we greatly
o fear 1t talks about as well as it knows how"
A friend from Philadelphia, whom we met on the
cars, last week, handed us documents which
show some of the machinery in use to get up and
pcrpetuate this great religious revival. One of the
documents is a closely printed full sheet circular
addressed to Each minister of oil the evangelical
churches in the United States. at is no fanatic
al or infdei" affair. 1t states The estimated annu
e al contributions to religious societies, such as mis-
"a sionary. tract, and Bible societies, &c., in the Unit
IL ed States. to be SO 900 900. which is about ~ cent,
= TO each evangelical COMMUNICATE. there being 4.
,e lie, 900. Then follows the constitution of tn,
"Americrn Systematic Benevolent Society" and
proposition and plan through its fundamentally
to raise a"ten-million charity fund"Jy the Sabbath
schools Of the country alone. 1t is proposed to di
vide this $40, DOC, 900 into Is equal parts, givin,
five of these parts or one third. to foreign mission,
and one fifteenth to each of the following objects
Or Home missions, the Bible, Sabbath School. Tract
tt American Systematic Bcnefcence, Seamen's Frient
and Education Societies, the poor. the Sabbatl
= School Library, and, finally, "as a token of respec
and affection, Ito the Pastor".-The officers of ,b'
Society number sixteen Doctors of Divinity, be
sides numerous others. ~Clergymen and Laymen.
1t will be observed that cur four millions o
Or American heather. have no recognition by thi
III association which claims to be Auxiliary to ever
q benevolent institution in the porld" while it propose
to aid the Tract, Bible. Missionary societies. whic
ut have for years. systematically" suppressed a
condemnation Of slaveholding, and by their apolc
b, gies for and fellowship of shareholders as christians
IT, have more, than almost any other instrumentalit
perverted the conscience of the people, and thu
U. secured the growth and permanence OF Slavery
~ith these purposes and connections. this movement
will inevitably, as the associations to which it
AUXILIARY. have done before it. become the a~uxiliar
Ks of Shareholders in their wicked usurpasions.
u. In order to give success to this ten'million eI
or. ~.erprise, it assumes the clap-trap form of a joir
7al stock association; and remembering how successf'
I'd. the Hungarian certificates of stock were in raisin
his money for Kossuth, and how more recently, q
ow han. Central American. and other fllibustering at
nd swindling companies have found men willing
nat exchange their dollars by thousands for certificate
s a of all sorts of stock. this association, hoping f
vil the like success, has also issued its certificate
md The children of this world must look we'll to the
Ky laurels. or they will no longer be wiser in the
generation than these ''children of light.
nee If any one doubts this let him read the followir
10 certificate Of stock. securing to the holder. Q
i've I6ces and honors here and a foe, simple title to
IL. tenement In the kingdom Of Heaven bsrsafts