The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-05

80 world declares Thought is Kingo King, indeed
and most mighty and magnanmous one no douns, The
own concsit-an powerful 70 foment and augment 'ho
STRIFE winch be rs poweIless TO allay " al 'us rht
coined in the North the arrogant assertion thls
King IS The very last with which, at TINS PROSE- !. &
No patience OF a rejecting people should haze pen
abns,d. For fact, he material greatness ~, wv
td states seems 10 have completely ongro"n w ~" 49,
OF thc Nest ed minds so that, urgent rs y our neeu
pressing as Is the occasion, no man or SET ., MN n
horizon of sectional influences prejudices, AM win
views enlightened, just aud bonetcont, 70 emufa9N @
sntirety Of the Union, and 10 secure us Po0ps -"
No my friends Cotton Is not King and Huma gh3ggnt
n not King 4doslai melek The Lord alone = Mug,
ImaLooho be- Il pldSaoa, and His royalty rog eti oFsr
ali This very Cay of humiliation aud OF prayer, WHAT =
bu the q ition OF His supremacy, the c'nes.oh
II Ills power and OF weakness, the sup2hcaoa
Which dstrt addresses 10 His mercy But - ol
shat these supplications may be gracloasly reseei
Shat Ills supreme protection may De vouchsaea nv
c.untry, it is necessary that we should pesh a VI
pc Of Nineyeh did, we must believe IN COL Ahl Nya
say we, DO not mean merely us handful OF lacaopo
NEon loving Hebrews hut mean the whole OF the PEG
pie throughout the United states the President ana s
a. bnet, the President elect and his ADVISERS, the s~.
of public opinion North and south II they truly and
honestly desire to country let them oenevo ~
Sod and in His holy word and then, when tne autnoIy
OF the constitution is 10 be set aside for higher
INV, they win be able to ,-o appeal ,a !" a sns
Word of cod which affords its supreme sanction TO
the constitution There can be no doubt, my irends that
however much Of personal ambition selishness pride
aud macy may into the present unhappy
4aaTrc between the two great sections OF lhe Common
itself the difference u opinion respecting saveholdng,
which the section denounces sinful, aye as The
saost heinous OF sins while the other uphods
q perfectly lawful 1t Is tho province Of statesmen 10
examine the circumstances under which the constitution
The United States recognized the legality Of slavchod
6g, and under what circumstances If any, becomes
CRIME against the law Of the land But the question
whether savohodng ID sin before God Is one that DO
longs the heologian have been requested by arom
citizens Of other denominations that should ON this
day examine the Bible view Of slavery the religious
mud of the country requires 10 90 enlightened on this
subject IN compliance with that reques and after hum
bly, praying that he Father Of truth and Of mercy may
enlghten my mind and direc. my words for good am
about to solicit your earnest attention. my friends 10 tnis
serious subject My discourse will fear, take up moro
your time than in the habit OF exacting from you
but This day Of penitence, and the having 10 ison .
long and sober discourse must be accounted as pon
tenlla infection
L. How far back trace the existence OF slavery
q Is slavchoding condemned as sin Ia sacred Scrip
3. What the condition Of the slave in biblical times
among the HebrewsY
And saying with father Jacob, for "Thy help
hope, Lord, proceed 10 examine tho question, how
hr back we trace the existence Of slavery
II 1t is generally admitted that slavery had its origin
as Or e s
20 le him live and reduces him to bondage The life be
has spared the body he might have mutated destroy
m any way he plcases Such was ana through great
part Of the world still Isl the brutal law Of force. When
shs state Of things first began IL is next to impossible TO
decide. If consult sacred Scripture, the Oldest and
most truthful collection of records now or at time in
existence, find the word nGeed slave, which the Eng
hsh version renders servant first used by Noah who,
N Genesis ix 25 the descendants OF his son Hum,
by saying they should be ng1od rabidn the mcane.t
sf slaves or as the English version has H. OF
servants The question naturally arises, how came
thing Of slavery There existed not at that timo any
human beings earth, except Noah and his family OF
equal, with their wives and children Noah had no
Rayts from the time he had quilted the ark he could
acquaintance with the word slave and the nature of
slavery must date from before the 1ood and existed ia
ms memory only until the crime OF Ham called II FORTH
Wen apdJ pNay hat frafn n
wrath Noah IN his anger should have shed up the idea
and practice Of slavery but that he did so is fact which
JustiAed when tracing slavery as FAR back it be
rraocd arrive al the conclusion that next TO the
domestic relations Of husband and wife, parents and
children, tho oldest relation of society with which
we are acquainted is that Of master and slave, Let
WITH which slavery after the food is recalled into
btence. Among the many prophecies contained N tie
Bible and having reference 70 particular times persons
and events there three singular predictions referring
q three distinot races or pqones Mh.ch seen
sent day. The first OF these is the doom OF Hams de
socndas, the African pronounced upwards Of four
thousand years The second Is the CHI racer Of the
descendants Of lshmae the Arabs, pronounced nearly
Four thousand years ago ard hs third and last is the
promise continued and nestruct Die nationality made
90 ms Israees full thousand i've hundred years ago
IL has been said that the knowledge that particular
prophecy exists helps to work out IT'S fulhlmcnt And
am quite willing TO allow that with US lsraeles such Is
she fact The knowledge have Of Gods gracious pro
misses renders mperha5le even though the greatest
and most powerful nations Of the oden time have utterly
perishcd II may be doubted whether the fanatic Arab
Of the desert heard OF the prophecy that he Is 10 re
"a wild man, his hand against every man and every
mans hand against him. cen xvi, 10 But yon and
J, and all men of Ordinary education, know
that this prediction, at all times has been, and
- now, strictly and literally FULFILLED, and has
mover been interrupted Not even when tho
followers Of Nahomet rushed forth 10 spread his doc
srines, the Koran in one hand and tho sword In the
her and when Arab conquest rendered the fairest por
ton Of the Old World subject the empire OF their
Mphs did the descendants Of Ishmae renounce their cha
raccrscs Even the boosted civilization Of the present
century and frequent intercourse with western travel
Arab wild his hand against
everybody, and every man against himo.a most con
yincng and durable proof that the word OF God s true,
and that the prophecies the Bible dictated by the
Spirit Of the Most High But though, in the case OF tho
Arab, II is barely possible that he may be acquainted
that the fetish serving benighted African has no know
ledge Of Noah's prediction which, however, Ia nowhere
m the native home Of the African Witness the
horrid fact that the King cf pahomey Is at this
deep xench, sufficient TO float boat; that the
vistms are innocent men, murdered 70 satisfy
that this monsrous and meet ncndsh net has met with
opposition either from the pious indignation Of Great
Britain from the JEALOUS humanity of our country.
Now, am well that the Biblical critics called
tionalsts who deny the possibility " prophecy, have
whch have spoken was never uttered by Noah out a
made centuries after him by the Hebrew wrtar
81 the Bible 10 oraer 70 smoothen the exermina'on
the Canaaatcs whose land conquered by the Israel
aes. With supcrhuman knowledge like that Of the "a
.onalkts who Claim TO SIT in Judgment on the word q
God do not think II worth while 10 argue. But would
ask you how IL II that prediction manufactured for
pu poee-a fraud In short and that most base and
holy oneshoud nevertheless continue in forco and be
carried out during four three, two thousand
years. for thousand years, loss here make
difference. Noah the occasion in question bestows
on his Shem spiritual blessing Blessed be the
Lord the God OF shem and 20 this day remains fact
which cannot be denied that whatever knowledge o Cod
and Of religious truth Is possessed BY the human
has been promulgated by the descendants uf Shem Moan
oestows On his son JaIheh blessing, chiefly temporal
hut partakng also of spiritual good May God enlarge
Japhcth, and may he dwell In the tcnts OF Shemr
ths day remains fact that cannot be denied that tho
descendants OF Japheth Europeans and their ofsprng)
have been enlarged 40 that they possess dominion in
every part Of tho earth, while at the same tmc they
share Ia that knowledge Of religious truth which the
descendants ~ Shem tho first promulg te Noah
did not bestow any blessing his Ham but uttered
bitter against his descondans and TO this day
remains fact which cannyt be gains Cd that In his
native home and generally throughout the world the
fortunate negro s indeed the mcancst OF slaves Much
has been said respecting The nlcriory Of hts intellectual