Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-23
MoNrRosE, Summit county, Ohio.
A MANLY AND CHRISTIAN LETTER,

THE Rev DR.. Chcever, having been invited to
attend a social gathering of the New York Young
Mems Christian Association, one evening last
week, sent the following truly noble letter.
Finding that | cannot be present at the social
gathering Of this evening, | inclose the sentiment
which was put into my hands in regard to the
standard bearers of the Gospel. The great OBJ,
stacle against the triumphant progress of the Cos
pei in this country is the system Of slavery, and
the habits Of Subserviency and Il selfish expedien-
cy with which the support of such a system nee,
essarily letters the ministry and the Church.
Hence the necessity Of your "diligent support ana
hearty co-operations " in the etfjrt to let loose the
thunders of the Word Of God against that I'M
guilty. One of the most direct and constant aims
Of n Young Mems Association should be to con-
centrate, and sustain an intense, universal, un.
modified and always aggressive energy against
that sin for it is the sin by which our country is
to perish, if it be not resisted by the Church and
the ministry Of the Word of God. Young men
are needed, with their youthful energy engto6ed
and preserved, as John Foster said, to be explod-
ed everywhere in an uncompromising hostility,
for the rebuke of such wickedness. But alas for
the spirit of concealment and expediency in the
Church in regard to it 1.-THE young adventurer
advances through an avenue formed by a long line
Of tem2ests and demons on each side, all prompt
to toucn him with their conductors, and draw the
divine electic element, with which he is charged
away ~ cS'N' S1NA
whether in the church or out OF it.
1t is one oe Burk's remarks that good works are
commonly left in u rude, unfinished state, through
the tame circumspection with which a timid pru'
donce so frequently enervates beneflcence. In
doing good, we are generally cold, languid and
sluggish, and, of all things, afraid of being toe
much in the right. But the works of malice and
injustice are quite in an other style. They are fin
ished with q bold, mastery hand. touched as they
are with the spirit of those vehement passions
that call fourth all our energies whenever we op
press and persecute." The work of young men is
to concentrate and direct those energies in behalf
of the oppressed and against the oppressor, They
therefore, must associate, not to create among
themselves beforehand the caution and timidity o.
old men, but to preserve unimparied and aug
meuted those qualities that in young men are SO
precious-that impulsive fervour which, in the
path oe duty, does not stop to calculate the con
sequences that enthusiastic love of truth anc
freedom which cannot endure falsehood and slave
nv; that open and straightforward directness anC
decision in speaking and acting that regard tt
righteous principle that contempt of conceal
ment, thickness and compromise that unwa
vering determination for Justice and liberty, anc
that measurement of all things by the Word o
God, always necessary for great usefulness, Blu
especially at such a time as this, in our OWL
country.
We do not want a Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION to take the form of an Eclectic Circumlo
cntion Office, where the great question is. hon
not TO do ii, or in regard to unpalatable trnth
Hop not 10 speak i'll but how most freely, full
swiftly, and effectively to speak it forth, and Il
do it. We want a Young Mems Christian Asso
citation on tie Eclectic" principle that both re
duced and conciliated Gideon's army. "Whoso
ever is fearful and be afraid. let him return AM
depart early" We want young men who, j
appointed to go to Ninevah, will not. by way o
compromise and expediency. take o voyage t.
Tarshisb. We want an Association for our owl
times and our own country ready to confront thos
very sins by which our own country 10 ripe TO