Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-08-06

THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN METHODIST
CHURCH.

Stephen S. Foster once made a sreech TO prove
that tho broad aisle of the Methodist Episccpal
Church was the broad road to He'll, and a good
Judge of evidence, who listened to the speech, said
The proved it. Who ever starts out lecturipe
on radical anti-slavery, will soon be able to believe
the assertion true, even without so good a pleader
as >. ). Foster to sum up the evidence. Certainly
meet with none others so morally blind, so scared
of conscience and hard of heart in reference to
the practical Christianity of Abolitionism, as some
of the distinguished members of this church
And find FROM recent Investigations that l have
been accustomed to give it too much credit. Even
in its early and better days, l find it was a slave.
holding church Notwithstanding the noble anti
slavery testimony of some of it's early Minister'S
My too great ~credulity had led me to believe The
declarations of its ministers that in the beginning
it was a genuine abolition church, unde6led with
the crime and guilt of tolerating slaveholdips
members. But it seems these ministers are no
more to be relied upon than the crowd of Hippaut
clerical ~falsi6ers who even nowadays tell the peo-
pie that the Northern Church has had no connec-
ton with slavery since the Division in 1874.
sat down. Mr.. Editor, to give you On extract
from the history of this church (slso new to me.
SO far as the details of its enormities are concern.
ed), showing that from the commencement it has
been anti-christian, even as now, in the hatred and
persecution Of the FREQ colored man even when q
member Of its own communion. From "Tbe His
tory Of all the Religious Denominations in the
United States. q work published in Harrisburg.
Pa, 1852, / extract the following. The writer 10
giving the origin and history of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
GIn Nnuamhar 17S7 tha Nolorod ooooI. 49,
ing to the Methodist Society of Philadelphia, con.
vened together in order to take into consideration
the evils under which they labored, arising from
the ankind treatment of their white brethren, who,
considered them a nuisance in The house of ,corship,
and eren pulled them off their keees ,chile in the act
of prayer! and ordered them to the back reats.-
From these and various other acts of unchristian
conduct they considered il their duty to devise q
plan in order to build a house of :heir own, to
. worship God under their own vine and fg tree
In this undertaking they met with greet opposi.
, ton from an elder of the Methodist Church who
E threatened that if they did not give up the build
ing. erase their names from the subscription paper,
3 and make Acknowledgements for having attempted
Q such a thing, that in three months they should oil
8 be publicly expelled from the Methodist Society.
Q Not considering themselves bound to obey this
8 injunction, and being fully satisfied they should be
: treated without mercy, they sent in their resigns.
ton. ri
d Being n,w outcasts. they had to seek for
friends where they could and the Lord put it into
the hearts of DR.. Benjamin Rush, Mr.. r. Ralston,
and other respectable citizens, to ~interpose for them
both with advise and. assistance in getting their
building finished Bishop White also aided them
and ordained one from among themselves. after the
order of the Protestant Episcopal Church to b,
n their pastor" i.i.l ~. 57
might add further extracts from this history o.
oppression Of the colCred Methodists by thei,
70 white brethren, which induced their separation
and finally at a later period resulted in the forma
tion of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Of The above however is sufficient to show the anima
of the church then. Theo, as now, it dspised thu
ID poor and joined hands with the opprsssor. Thu
D. giving abundant evidence that it was PRACTICAL,
is "anti OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ID Yours, r,