Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-02
Ibe Anti- 5lauerp Bu9le.
From the Cierkenwsll (Engand) News
WOLVES I'M SLEEPS CLOTHING.


history of the Christian Church when the caution
given by Christ to his disciples was not needed
beware Of false prophets, which come to you in
sleeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves" The test Of discpleship is rs much
needed in our own day as it was when first given
in the Sermon on the Mount "Ye shall know them
by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns,
or figs of thistles 7"
We are loud in our anti-savery professions in
this country. We have bought "Uncle Toms Cab
in" by the tens of thousands, and VIC have been
touched TO the quick by its narrowing recitals
and vet those who have examined into the founda-
tions of slavery know that it is materially based
upon the pro-slavery action. at least in its reflex
influence, of the churches of this country. The
test of fellowship with American churches has
never gone beyond the external wool of the animal
with US. We have been utterly careless, provided
that it had the orthodox appearances, whether we
introduced into our fold sheep Of Chrst's flock,
or wolf of Satan's breed. We have as praeti-
cally bowed to the infalblity of verbal orthodoxy
as Romanists have passively submitted to the
written decree of popish infallibility. The per-
sisteht SHINING against light and knowledge by our
religious denominations, in the matter of Ameri-
can slavery, has been enough to plunge the whole
land into infdelity to Christianity. Reed and
Matheson, from the Congregationalists Cox and
Hoby, from the Baptists Cunningham and Lew
is, from the Free Church of Scotland and others
who have crossed the Atlantic. have sat down at
the table of the Lord with shareholders, and there
by rivetted yet tighter the previously loosening
letters of the slave. But deputations, in courtesy
must be mutual and accordingly the Americans,
very naturally, taking the Anglo-American dele
gates as fair exponents of British sentiment were
not particular In sending over men whose hands
were clean in the matter of slavery. In l849, the
admirable scheme theoretically Of the Ecumeni-
cal Alliance brought over from the United States
shoal ofBiblcal defenders of slaverya and at least
one STAKEHOLDER. The attempt to graft the m perma-
nently upon the Evapgenical churches of this
country was defeated by William Lloyd Garrison,
George Thompson, Frederick Douglass, and others,
who lifted up the skin and discovered to the Chris
tian public Of this country the wildbeast charac-
ter of the men it concealed. The Alliance, the
most powerful ecclesiastical organization ever con-
vened in England, was compelled-we use the
term advisedly-in Difference to the awakened
British sentiment, TO rescind Its own resolution,
which virtually admitted Shareholders to Christian
fellowship with our churches. That which 80 sig
nally failed in the corporation has subsequently
been sought to be accomplished In the individual.
a rPecimen of the attempt to snuggle the excom-
ununics&ed into the church over the WALL instead
of by the open door, has recently been made by
ID two of our leading religious organisations
Congregational Union and the London Missionary
SoGiety-in the person of the Rev. DR.. Pomroy,
Secretary Of the American Board of Commission
ers OF Foreign Missions. The chairman of the
the frstnamed organization not only gave to the
rev. gentleman "the right hand of fellowship. u
but extended to him "a cordial greeting" Tc
whom this act ofChristian fellowship accorded
To q recreant anti-savery man; once member o
the American Anti-Slavery Society, but who, un
der the influence of the Annas and Caphas of the
United States betrayed Christ in the person of the
poor slave for whose salvation he died. Such is
the man /; and what is the body whom he repre-
sentsf An organization lending its powerful in.
huence TO the perpetuation of American slavery
an association whose pro-slavery action has
brought upon il the withering denunciations OF
Mrs. Stowe and DR.. Cheever. Mr.. Wilson Arm
istead, Of Leeds, preferred an Indictment aeains,
Dr. Pomroy and his clients on this head. By his
silence be pleaded guilty to charge which was az
pstsnt to the world as the sun at MONDAY.
Whist is The action as regards slavery of this
American Board of Commissioners, in Irregular
standing and intimate union with nearly the
whole Of the American churches 7 By its Chris
tian fellowship IL sanctions the acts of the worst
eisveholders in the United States. Among its
? members, for example, are the Od School Pres