Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-02-04
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

that prescription is an fundamentally that Satan
has used in all ages Of the world to confound the
councils Of the righteous, and place sinners in
high places ; II was used In this way TO silence the
prophets OF God who refused to parder to the cor
ruptions Of King Ahab it wa, used 10 this way
to silence the teachings of Jesus Christ and his
followers it was used in this way to crush out
Martin Luther, John IIuss, Jerome Of Prague.
Calico, Sydney and q host of others in the six
teen,h century and 10 the present day Satan is
making a last desperate effort through this instru-
mentality 10 the hands of his most able engineers
THE slave.holders) aud their uuderlings the Amer
lean Government, and its time serving pu!pits, to
crush out this gospel Of human rights thatGod has
sent us to preach. 1t becomes you therefore TO
see to 1t that your prescription of us does not par
take more of the leaven Of this spirit. than Of a
sincere desire TO promote the glory Of God and the
best interests Of man.
To you, the trustees Of the Free Presbyterian
church. we would say, it is not difficult for US to
understand why those churches thu. hold unques-
tionable criminal completely with the sin of Slav-
cry. should refuse US the use Of their houses, or
in other words, refuse to come to the light or let
the light of n pure anti-sIavery gospel come to
them lest their deeds be reproved. But when you,
the Free Presbyterian church, the church, that has
taken q noble stand in the very front of ecclesias-
teal reform, that has purged herself of all ecclesi-
astical completely with this sum of all villanies, BY
declaring. officially, that she will not extend the
hand Of Christian fellowship to any that are COM
plicated with it, that has heretofore labored side by
side with US in this great work OF humanity, de-
liberately closes Ter doors against us; We are con.
strained to conclude, that either the friends OF
freedom have dcgenerated, or the Free Presbyteri-
an church--the flower, the hope of Gods people,
has returned to the base conservatism from which
she had escaped. We have through our friends
that have from time to time occupied your pulpit.
dome many goo1 works. for which Of those do
you turn US out 7 We have cried aloud, we have
spared not, We have lifted up our voice as a trump.
ct. and told you, the professed people Of God, your
sins, anG as the representatives of the house Of
Jacob, your transgressions. You said "amen."
We have held up to your view the institutions of
the country with all the vital Goodness crushed
out of them, by the satanic folds of the institution
of slavery. You said "amen." We ask you to af-
ford an opportunity TO some of our friends to emp
ty a vial of truth into the wound inflicted upon
this monster of iniquity by the sword of God in the
hands of John Brown, and you refuse to admit US,
unless we answer afirmatively, the following
in.erogations.
DO you believe and maintain the inspiration of
the Bibles?
"Do you belive in the divinity Of Jesus Christi"
Do you oppose all secret, oath-bound socie-
ties p
You seem to have discovered that you are not
bound to receive the truths of God, unless he sends
them to you through the channel that suits your
particular views. You have discovered that Gods
truth is not safe when left free to combat with the
errors, and sophis,riss of wicked men, and that
he has qualified and appointed you to decide what
shall be received as truth. and what rejected as
error; forgetting that God requires all his rational.
intelligent creatures, to receive the truth discrimi-
nately, from the love of it, and not merely as ma
chimes. ~impelled by the the force of such circum-
stances as you are disposed to impose upon them.
The Jews measured Jesus Christ by what they re-
garded ns the standard Of inspired authority, and
agreed among themselves that whatsoever should
ac~kn knowledge him as the son of God should be
turned out Of the synagoguc. Jesus Christ soems
to have had q perfect appreciation Of the utter fal-
lacy of such tests, when he charged his disciples
to "beware of false prophets, that come to you in
sleeps clothing. clothed in all the external ap
pearances, professions, rights. and ceremonies Of
the church, and people of God; you will no, be
able to know them by these, but by their fruits
ye shall know them" This seems to be the only
test of christian character that he ever set up. The
Saducees denied the doctrine Of spirits and the i'm
mortality of the soul. but in all the burning re-
Dukes administered to them for their ungod!y lives.
Jesus Christ does not once reproVe them for this
in6delity; further, he represents an infdel Samar-
itan as doing the work that the church, in The per-
son Of the priest, and tho Levite refused to do
and said to a doctor of divinity, go thou and do
likewise, or in other words-there is a lesson on
Christian character taught you by an in6del; go
and practise it.
We propose to address scverally the Methodist
Episcopal. and Disciple churches on this subject.
In the mean time, that We may not do them injus-
tce. we give them an opportunity to send US, in
writing, their reasons for refusing US admittance.
ADDREss--
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