Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-05-07

vehls 10 most perfect justice, our relations and OBJ
legations to Him as our Father, to our fellowmsn
ne our brother. 1t is an embodiment Of all those
fundamental truths which constitute the basis OF
Gods moral government over the race.
1t does not seem difficult to me to determine the
relation Of the Bible to Slavery, First, in consid'
GRAFTON what is it's object. My understanding is,
that it's design is to establish q system Of Truth
and Duty, q perfect rule Of faith and practice Its
object is to establish a pure Religion, to restrain
our immoderate tendencies, to infuse new life and
vigor into our moral being and thus bring us into
a right relation to ourselves, to our fellow,men,
and to our God. This is Christianity, pure and
practical as it fell from tho lips of its Divine Au-
thor. The Bible, 10 summing up mans whole
christian duty, thus beautifully expresses it,
What doth the Lord require Of thee, but to do
justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with
thy God 7" Here is the whole of Religion brought
to view in one clear comprehensive sentence and
anything less than what is here required, is not
Christianity, no matter by whom it is preached
and %practiced. Hero is o proposition that COM
~prehendS the very highest relations Of our exis.
tence, as we'll as the more subordinate occurrences
of every day life.
The frs, relates exclusively to US and our fell
low'men. 1t is no 6ne,spun theory couched il
: evasive words, but it is plain and practical, ant
l the Divine injunction is to do it. 1t is Scriptu
r raj phrase and must be solved in Scripture Ian
n guage, and thus interpreted it is but o varied OK
o preston of the Golden Rule,
! The second is to love Mercy; that is, show favo
to the miserable. 1t does not satisfy this com
mand to be simply admirers Of tho beauties re
o sultiDg from the exercise of mercy, but We our
I selves are to lore it. Finally, We arc to wall
humbly with our God. No man can walk humbl.
with his God and maintain IN ungenerou
S relation to his fe!low.men. Walking humbl,
with our God consists in a just appreciation and
? perfect exemflifcation Of those laws which wer
!. instituted and maintained for our government
I Now who is it but knows that Slavery is OF wa
Q with God and man and if tho Bible is ~pro-slave
n ~, why does it exalt to such prominence q RICH
relation to both7 Who is it but knows that to d.
T justly would liberate every slave in the land, an,
d that to lore mercy would elevate him to man
hood Who is it but knows that to walk 'humbl
with God is to be governed by Love to all men il
our actions, and that the least variance from thi
is not walking with God. God is Love, and b
n that IL not Influenced by this divine principle, hat
% not the spirit o. God. God Almighty is ever q
work developing the means to educate and eleva,
the entire race, and he that walks with God mus
help in this grand and glorious work. God A
es mighty is the great benefactor of mankind, an
v. has been for six thousand years, teaching th
n world great lessons Of Truth and Duty and h
he who walks humbly with his God must be diliger
10 in doing the same. This is all Bible doctrine, on
if it is proslavery, where is the sense or consis
US ency it its proclaimipg those truths so utterly a,
ty tagonistical to Slavery ? l tell you that the do
trine, that The Bible is pro-slavery. is a wicked pc
version of its sacred truths to IN abominable pu
ce purpose. that if the Bible is consistently construt
| its seemingly discordant elements will beautiful
by harmonic, and all %conspire to build up the gre
CO Temple Of Human Liberty.
ng SAMUEL PETERS.