Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-04-18
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Third. On the bold and false assump-
ton that Christ sanctioned ,ytarery by refer
ring TO servitude in cases coming before him.
| We have one example in the ease OF the
Centurion. Math. VIII, o. q say to my
servant, do this and he docth it. = What
does common sense say we have hcreY. A
stakeholder speaking of bis absolute author
ity over his slave, and the prompt obedience
of the chattel to his holderf What does
common sense say2 For Pro-Slavery doc
tors have far more sense than common Il
Il Common sense docs say, here we have II. A
| good captafa of one hundred Roman sol
diers. e. His military authority, like every
Other Roman Captains, was recognized and
4 obeyed promptly by those under his com.
nand. e. That those soldiers were, like
ordinary soldiers, well drilled and prompt in
their duty. "a. That the Centurion believed
in Christ's Divinity and Mediatorial author
| ity, like his, commanded prompt obedience,
and thnt a. his soldiers obeyed him, no dis
eases would promptly obey Christ. And this
is Christ's precious enloW pronounced up
on sarehoGlcrl" 81 have not seen so
great faith," Just so of Christ sanction of
Slavery, from first to last-a miserable,
blundering misnomer. ------.
| Fourth. On the Jallacious assumption
that the Bible designs, its general sane
tiol Of Slavery, degraded and inferior race,
and that that race is the African, and no
other. Here we have assumption upon as
sumption and fallacy upon fallacy, IN series,
one 70 back and confirm the other, from be-
ginning to end. Not one single cause, oc,
casion, reason. condition, circumstance or
mishap in all the Bible referred to as even
bsnf,nu tho oror,,d nm vrhich ora m, nm maj b
{ enslave another, in any way or manner re-
ferring to color, cast or inferiority Of race =
!, No, not even Noah's curse. That had for
It's occasion, cause, end, moral reason, the
punishment OF sin-God's Judgment upon
!, the Canaanites when their cup Of iniquity
, should be full. | 's'"
d The Bible scryitude sanctioned is the ser
: vitude OF the same race, color, kin, and IT It
| were Slavery it would warrant Us here and
now TO sell and cnslaye one another, the
: poor, the indebted and the unfortunate OF
0 our own friends and neighbors.
Ignoring oil these facts, by q kind of Pro-
Q Slavery sliding rule. to suit the strong and
the tyrant, this Bible servitude is applied
Z arbitrarily 10 the poor, weak, defcnceless
and degraded colored race, just because we
: have tho power and the unprincipled avarice
to steal and ens'aye and degrade them.
a 2. The iohote course QfNe Pro Slare,y
' drgip,ieat from he Biblc (. unli1se the arau
! mont 20 sustals anything else about ,ohich
I there ira controversy. 1as.a. u, we,
81 First As where Christ and the Apostles
D address or speak Of nidstery, we must under
stand them to be shareholders then holding
| slaues; forgetting the Bible custom of speak
Q ing Of one who had once sustained u certain
y character or relation, as IL he still retained
'k,.. t.a la Ia
a wall" the deaf hear, " the dumb speak,
Q "tho dead stand before God, and Rahab
' is called 1.-The harlot, who once was a har-
lot. Precisely such license does Paul en-
, ploy when he says, and they that have
/ believing masters, Timothy, vi, 2, speak
ing of those who may have held slaves be-
fore conversion. This is the more evident,
, for since the conversion of master and SER
) want they arc now called ''brethren, Jditl,ful
} and beloped;; and as in the case Of Onesimus,
I not R0,o a. a serrdnt, but ADORE a serradt, a
brother beloved" For Onesimus was the rel.
ative Of Philemon--"a brother in the flesh
Q and IN he Lord"
s Second Everything in the Bible which
= cannot be rec0nciled to Slavery must DO ig
Il nored or turned into unmeaning nonsense, -
! The law against manstealing, against taking
I labor without wages, and Christ . broad pro
g hibition against being even called master, al
ri such are left without use or application Z
that to which il most obviously has an ap
Q plication. m -
oil Third, That toaohing servants to obey
5 (slaves assumed) sanctions the claims of thu
# master. Admitting the assumption tha
n Paul exhorts slaves to obedience, We den,
r that that sanctions the shareholders mora
claim. Examine, IN order, the fiye portions