New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-30
Why, my trends, Il :

ing out of those principles Wben say al Chnstea-
dom az course mean the exceptions 70 take 81
,bemseIv,s believe that there has been met m
rortan, testimony borne in this Society," from The ssy
aays Of George Fox, a. well as IN many testimonies
lopg before-I believe THAI there nave IN Ns,mo-
n;es AGAINST war which have prevented many msn
,,om taking part in the Government az II -. In
member, when a child, sitting IN thus very meeting
houss-perhaps Il Is so altered thai II is hef1iyus
same-when listened to the language 9, Enas uSn,
flat insured apostle of this age-woen bs'enedt 70
him on the great questions of war and human sayery,
his bold utterance, bis uDcompromising testmooyn
seemed 10 me that he must carry con'lepon 10 tue
heart, the mind and the uhderstanas y, ~
bearcr. But there has a generation rsen up wnea
has suffered to be Incorporated WIN our tnP's atn
too much of the generally received scheme OF sANs
tiop and plan of redemption. There ~ enF,mg 10
.rnopg ma too much of another mode OF salvation
,Ian The bringing forth Of good fIuts, the producing
IF good works showing our faith by our HE, and
snifit of peace within Ourselyes-a splrt ina. VIII
Dot lay a stumbling. block in brothers way
a sn;r;; that will not judge smother. We are too
7eaiou, too tenacious OF what we deem sound Do
$40 Eyery sect l. SO. We are not a whit IN
advance of other denominations, though y hss ever
been The beauty Of the socisy one Ta Believed by al
Cbr~t;ans-a belief in God, the simple truth, the gace
Of God which bringeth salvation, and those o.auuui
Scriptures which are revealed unto US ,hropsn me
amounting which We have receNea %o, we have
no need that any man be just. All that W. haso
10 do is to stir up pure rds in one another py way
of remembrance. II any say who is he, mShl We ny
believe in him, the simple answer ls, ne
midst of We, though 20 may know It not. - e
his coming is SO simple that overlook II. ksoei'e
n then, obey il And then may we urge 10 one
another the works that obedience produces. ana VIC
shall never fall shall not be found IN greas consro
versy, we shall not need learned expostYnsU sec
What It's works are. For what required ous 20 40
Justice love mercy, and walk humbly before God
What are the high attributes by which he has made
~ h,'i'S mass before them" These the attn.
butes by which He makes himself knows. In
the attributes of omnipresence, onnlPp1enos 49,, na
omniscience, the attempt to know oo1 hSs 'snoE
Csnst tbou by searching find out tod NO. ne IS
HIGHEST Heaven With all the theology that pas eyer
been palmed of upon credulous Peope, 49, ia
notbing been obtained-Do more knowHase VI .le
Highest; and with all the use mace OIL luz .hsnSosv
there has always been failure to make 'heosogy
science 1t is learned mystery, ana sosne,hng
which the intelligence of the has had 10 ueein.
was, therefore, great testimony "n ny ~ .u - ~
bore against the scholastic divinity OF tne TINE tne
dogmatic theology of the age. Most oil all was ther
testimony against the forced modheatIons " .his 10,
ioiou. want we should bear 1t as well as they;
want that we should understand what that theology
was. that We may avoid having it incorporated upon
orr ,o,k that we should be careful not TO have any.
thing added 10 our simple Christianity when suoud
cucumber it with any gloomy dogma or encan'oet .ne
neonle with useless forms. l believe II The people
were true 10 themselves now if the Christian ofcssors
weroh honest baptism would go By the board. wead
not speak unchsritaby; l believe there are many
honest Baptlsts. DO not aouOt tne hoI al sVyL;
the virtue the excellence of many OF them on, lthmk
il is deporabe that there should be 80 mucn error IN
termngled with the truths which are rehnnS ana
purifying them. Ifthere were boidness worthy Ok
The vocation wherewth we are called, now many
would acknowledge that they could no loDge come 10
II table and take the bread and VINE p wv many
would acknowledge that true worship and tr1e aevo.
ton did not consist In bow.ng OF the he'u COT aay
Now. we pretend to be Baptsts, when We are not;
we profess 10 be Sabbatarians when we are nt there
is need for remonstrants. We should look upon the
field and scatter the seeds OF common honesty and Jus
tce: scatter our influences and bear our testimony
against human slavery every day in the week.
would ask not only the subject Of wars there
need of faith in the earth Not only there iaithess
to the possibility OF settling disputes without
recourse to ams-for though there is standing
reward for the best essay on settling disputes without
recourse to arms there is awaut OF faith to compete for
it, This very morning in taking up morning paper
perceived the testimony of more captains OF YES
GELS since the habit of hogging as il ia called, in the
navy done away with by law, the happy effects
of upon the sailors how it had increased their SELF
respect Many thought that they could not possibly
manage a company Of sailors without violence. Be
eye il Lot. Every heart is sooner reached by the
moral appeal by the touching appeal to their own bet
ter nature than by any violence The same respect
begins to be paid to the little children; the coercng
ystem the publishing system passing away from our
tchools Here then another evidence that the old
ystem is passing away. Look again at the prison;
he prison discipline is mitigated, even though We
It'll have the prison. The time may come when
I'd and Christian love shsn so prevail that !.
Our alDshouses even beginning to be beautiful.
Let US spread peace principles before the people;
spread the appeal and the people viii hear
they connot resist an appeal And so with human
slavery How much more are we thinking Of the form
OF worship, than we are of justice to the millions in
bondage Here is the kind Of preaching and il seems
to me essential in our day 10 make it Apply immediate
ly to our own nation and our own people and 10 our
own lives. We can comment at large ON the wicked
ness OF former days can hold up early friends
to our CONNIE ndaton for their faithfuness and their
testimony in their time. That is WELL But Il should
be to neite us to bring on principles 10 bear in
time ask if the subject Of human Slavery with all
the light and intelligence that there Il in this nation
if there had been fathfuness on the part of pro-
essors If they had exalted the standard OF nigh prn-
cpes above the standard Of creed and of foru would
Slavery have resisted l tell you No! There has
lDfdehty-whati Is it, have faith in the schemes
ofsavaton have faith in the worship that IL con-
fined to churches and performed by oral prayers and
harmonious songs and by learned discourses, while
justice is trampled under foot, while it il greater
crime to break the Sabbath than il is to put human
being on the auction-block every day Of the week;
while man can sell his ieow-nan and wtle he can
mipge IN every way IN the guilt of crime and oppres-
sion acknowledge that kind of in6delty that shall
not bow the head TO such religion. We are work
ing inquity because there is protest aysnst IT, IL
IL true that little band has lifted up It's voice
like irumpt, in which include him whom named
Just how-the Venerated, the reyered Elias Hicks;
ard since bis day have gone forth amid good and
evil report and have spoken unto the people whether
they would hear or whether they would forbesr
These have been instrumental in awakening the ma
ion On this subject the agitation has gone ON, and
how little will 1t avail that political comb nation. pass
their decisions If the moral Geese of the people ia
aroused The field is white for the harvest. the
aboreIs upon have scattered Their seed and IL has
not been IN vain that they have thus labored Anti
Slavery principles have been spread. and the socs.
ties have taken II up; there are noble advocates
everywhere-n England, 10 France, and in his cOun-
Try. And as, inthe subject Of peace, these lsbors