Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-02

majesty OF his might God teaches by the voice
of Calvary, by the death and resurrection of his
Son. to take care of the weak lovo them, lift them,
raise them that they may be helped and that you
may help them. What says England when the
questi ,n.is put to her, What is the duty of the
strong to the weak To get opium and indigo out
of them. France says take them from the coast Of
Africa as voluntary slaves. Our natioh says give
them the CATO 'nine-tails. never forget, that
my father and my fathers father, that my mother
and my mothers mother, were members of n
church on earth and if Christ had NOT sahctife1
it, it would be enough for me that they had be-
Ion ged to it, and God forbid that should for
get it. woul1 stand and see the years work 60
past without lifting a finger If might sec the
church Of my fathers standing in the Lords place
and doing the Lords work. For moro than thirty
years the dia pason Of this nation has been the
sighing and dying of the slave. In my day the
conflict has taken place. / remember the day OF
mobs, when Birney's press was thrown into the
Ohio, when Theodore D. Weld was pelted with un-
vitalized eggs, ard when it was as much rs a
mans life was worth to be called an Abol,ionist
But those Churches which refused to discuss the
question have been overrun with il; Synods which
have erected dykes have been carried captive
and whole neighborhoods have been converted
The Tract Society is about the only Society that
has maintained bad consistency and if to speak
for the poor and oppressed will be accounted fol
condemnation in the Day Of Judgment il will moi
have this sin to answer for. | am ashamed of the
institution. If they would give up their claim tC
being considered religious Society, and, taking
the money they had obtained under false preences
devote it to publishing books In the line they hat
laid out, | would find no fault, But now the So
ciety stands as authorized by the Churches while
there is not a vice or sin no, inherent in slavery
the crime which they are called on to condemn
They are so busy teaching the Gospel that they
cannot touch lying, stealing aud adultery, and thi:
because there is certain kind of religion which
they can teach apart from practice. But who dc
you suppose think teaches the most infdety
Do you imagine would designate Theodore Par
ker? No one need be afraid of him he is toe
open and above-board. Shall I shy Garrison OIL
Wendell Phillips him OF the iron tongue or silver
lips :? No, no; though they are called very naugb
ty inidels, and l am afraid they not sounc
as | am should not call them such dangerous
men. Both of them would have to takc a littl
more catechism before they will be orthodo,
! (laughter). 1t must be some infdel bookselle
then, No, q man might as we'll think of sellin,
cockroaches as of disposing of such books in
Christian community. When young man wan.
one of them he is too far gone for them to do hin
any harm. The men who are fabricated to sleel
devotion, who have a text for every omission anc
commission, who make long prayers while they are
devouring widows houses, who turn up their eye:
whenever they mean to do a wicked thing, who
take the livery of heaven to serve the devil In
these are the men who are the most dangerous
teachers of infdelity. They are the lawyers and
pharisees whom Christ denounced. declare thai
the temple stands again in Nassau street, and thai
the priests and lawyers are there, as the priests
and lawyers were in the temple of old. Turning
to his father, who in tho pulpit, leaning over
the desk, he said, Were l as old as him, if the
Society which l now address should otet take the
stand the AmericanTract Society have, in the sup
preston of free inquiry, would denounee it JUS
as fearlessly as have done the former. God had
sent them to do a great work. Use your other
brethren, whom you love so much. l love then
tool mean all the pious things, but you mus
take them for granted. Use those brethren as thu
Spartans did their IIelot slaves. Show them tC
your children, they rise and stag ger, that ir
their wickedness they may learn lesson from TIT
sight.-H w. Beecher.