The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-07-04

u admit that there is evil in all the other rels
tons of social life, to-wit: the marriage rela
ton, the parental, the filial, that of friend
ship, &C.
Now if you say there is no evil in the slave
~ relation, which you do say when you den,
it to be evil, you manilestly so beyond evel
the infidels. You out Herod even Herod.
The proposition or position is be it remem
bered, that the relation existing between mas
tiers and slaves has no evil connected with it
Then, of course, it is schOlly joyous. Is there
any other alternative? An institution wholly
and entirely good-one utterly devoid of evil
is one under the operation of which all white
men should delight to live-should delight to
See their children enjoy. Now for one white
man, l had rather die thousand deaths (nay,
l had rather, but let that pass than be DOOM
ed to live as slave-to be reduced to iaUOl-
,'atary servitude or see my wife's children re-
duced to that social status-which | cannot
but regard as, social position, the most over
whelming curse that could be inflicted on a
rebeiious race. But, sir, the descendants of
| Ham deserved it. There is no excuse for the
the deliberate disregard of Gods moral gov
ernment in regard to the most sacred ties of
| human life, and there condition is the proof
! of it. Will the reader bear with me? Sir
my wife is cursed-I say espectfully-your
wife is cursed-the wives of all men are
cursed. And pray how? They have to bring
forth their offspring in exquisite pain Of body
and in peril of natural He-gigantic evils
and they, under Gods legislation have to oc-
cupy, in relation to their husbands, a position
in the social state of inferior authority Sir,
our Mother Eve was the first in the trans
gression and we, loving our wives, came in af-
forwards.
Now, in humble christian submission, Isay,
these evils are right-these infections are just
And why? Because they owe their existence
to God, and although they are repugnant to
my natural sentiments, as is slavery-or rath-
er as are the erils of slavery-still, I musS
not set my feelings in opposition to the dspen-
sations of justice, to the acts of God. can
not regard Gods government Of our natural
or fallen world as wrong, as abolitionists are
fain to do because it happens to be an evil
happens for causes set forth in the Christian
Scriptures, to be less than the perfect state
so to the Scriptures for enlightenment as
well as for consolation. Feeling-sensibility
-emotion-passion,i is not guide for the right
in these matters, for as DR.. Young says
ale feels nothing
Who nothing feels, but for himself Alone
And when Jeek for others, reason reels
o erlOaded from her path, and man runs mad"
Mr.. Editor, you have doubtless seen the la
test deliverance Of the Northern Methodists
on the question of slavery. They, in the
new rule of their faith and practice, exhort their
people and preachers 'to seek the extirpation
of the evils of slavery" These religionists |
are dissatisfied with the existence of evil in |
certain social state, and being unwilling to seek |
to reconcile its existence with the benevolence |
of God, they desire its ertirpation thereby |
desiring to alter and amend the moral govern
amelioration are quite different processes-the
one demanding diuiae attributes, and the 9TH
er coming within the circle Of human agency.
1t is undeniable that Christ, their master,
never taught or practiced the determination of
evil. The Savior Of men taught and practiced
the duty Of bearing evil with patience and for
titude. This is what he did with the evil Of
pain and natural death especially.
Did he ever seek to extirpate from our
world the evils of husbandry-the evils of
the evils of bodily sickness-the
evil Of subsection to oppressive civil authority
or any Of the many evils that sometimes
almost block up our pathway of moral proba-
ion? He never did. He taught his disciples
% kiss the rod Of moral discipline-to submit
With patience to the ills of They seek
ng to be wiser than what is written, "gnaw
heir tongues for pain-blaspheme the God
II Heaven because of their pains and their
sores and repented not OF their ieeds Christ
aught, submit yourselves one to another in
ear of God-be in subsection to the Father of
Spirits and liye," but they, eve desire our
,eople and our preachers to ertirpate evils"
Jesus went down and was subject to them
Ie bore the evils of life, when as God, he
night have exterminated them.
Had he been an all powerful or divine being
md had exterminated evil, been a christian
Tirtue, his not exterminating it is at once a
proof of infirmity of moral purpose-laxity Of
moral determination. Believing Christ to have
,een God, we much prefer to think that Grad
eating evil from our world does not come
within the pale of the divine wisdom, since
lie sought it not
Let me draw another inevitable logical de-
luction and l have concluded.
These religionists seek the determination of
he evils of slavery. Christ never sought to ex-
terminate any of the evils incident to human
but on the contrary taught the du-
y of patience continuance in well doing under
heir operation.
Now when Christ and these religionists
ONE face to face, will they not have oppoItu-
lity to say, if "extirpating'' the evils of life be
praiseworthy enterprise, that they exceled
lin in their system of moral instruction
hat their rule of faith and practice was bet
er than his? His is the Bible and theirs
heir new Book Of Discipline. These reli-
ionists preach the Gospel. 1t is admitted on
II hands that the Gospel was designed by its
uthor to remedy the evils prevailing in the
everal relations of life Now | charge upon
hese preachers that they are anti-Gospel,
ince, if the evils of life are ertirpated, there
5 no necessity for it. Hence the process of
evil is process to dispense with
he medatorial system of Christ, and hence
hey are not only anti-Gospel but also anti
Christ. Can anything be palmer, OF shall |
estate the argument?
The Gospel is made necessary, let me re-
peat, by the existence of moral evils in our
evils being the judgments of
God, the ruins Of the fall Now, if men can
-emoUe the judgments of God-ertirpate them
rom our world by mere human agency, they
dispense with the necessity of remedy by
the gospel, under whose opera
ton the judgments of God are made tolerable
by the exercise of Christian fortitude. Now
can any man be called friend of Christ who
by human agency seeks to "extirpate" Chat
is their word,) the evils of moral character
that make up the Judgments of God, to rem
edy, to soften, to ameliorate which, Christ in
stituted Gospel? But do they not surren-
der the whole argument in admitting the
evils of slavery to be moral? 80, foolish
Galations who hath bewitched you that you
should not obey the truth?"
w. s. GRAYSON.
Benton, Mss
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