New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-06
CHURCH ANTI.sLAvERY SOCIETY.


The sermon by DIR. Blanchard, President Of Whea-
ton College Illinois, delivered in the Church of the
Pnritans hast evening, listened 70 by large and
attentive congregatOn'
"sLa the throne Of inpy have fellowship with thee which
iauoeih mischief by alaw'-Psam 81, AZ
He said that men had acquired power and abused it,
The governing influences of society, the natural shelter
and shield If the defensele had made the poor their
ey and sought at once to confirm and to conceal their
rapacity by legali1ng It, The preacher proceeded to
yindcate the law of liberty according 10 the Word Of
God CHANGING at the history of the practices of the
churches in America in their treatment Of the sin OF
sayeholiing. He said that the position Of not few
of the ministers OF the Gospel was the ZANE as that
announced by Dr. Leonard Bacon of New-lIaven who
had said in reference 10 report presented at meeting
of the A. b. c. f. NJ, that he would like it "better ii
II contained distinct ayOwa that slayehoilng is not
a Fin in ITSELF in such sense as 10 dsquaGfy man
for church membership" He said that the mission
OF the Church Anti-Slavery Society Wac to dIspel
such a wicked theory from the church Of Christ to
purify the public sentiment and 10 give the church a
ioer sense Of its duty. The great mass OF our people
had not vet learned that men trained from infancy TO
res, ect no rights in whose skn is black, had no
respect whatever for human nights IN white or black
beyond compulsion. They were called, then, by the
living God TO instruct the churches Of this nation that
when this war should cease no compromise would ever
he possble which did not include the humiliation OF
Slavery. He demanded ii the people should be
made TO believe that slavehoding was no crime, and
freedom no blessing 10 mankind what was TO prevent
lis
While then they prayed for the troops they must teach
their churches. They must literally "move heaven
AID earth" They must move heaven by prayer and
earth by instruction; and when the religion of the
land wac purified, the land would itself become pure;
and if not we children might live TO broad
beautiful, and beloved country united and happy be-
cause free.
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS.
SERMON by REV. WILLIAM II. GREEN, ID. ID.
my | H be
ISAIAH Xix 3.
The movements of the last few weeks, said the
preacher, fitted in some measure to enter into The
feelings Of jew the threatened invasion OF his
country His religious feeling, well IA hispatrotism,
stirred TO its depths. The land was the Lords land
The people were TO him peculiar people. Jerusalem
WIS the city of their sOemnies and the glory OF the
Kingdom Should Jerusalem, then, be destroyed
Should Israel be cast off and all the hopes they had IN
dulged be disappointed No. God had not forsaken
her.
people But II they considered the obstacles both ex-
ternal aud internal which the church has to contend
against who would suppose that the world could ever
be converted TO God. The church, however, had been
taken by God into ls service ana nc wouia Nv ner lor
her work. Ii the mission assigned her was undertaken
on her own account she might then at down and con-
slider whether with force OF twenty thousand she
could meet an enemy with forty thousand. But God
would provide her the means for the accomplishment OF
this work. She was not even called to sit on the 0s
dom of her measures. The work was OF God and
could not fail for everything however apparently ad-
Verse; entered into and contributed to the accomplish
ment Of Lis designs If G1d then had selected ~ ; the
men TO do his will He laid low all the pride and the
glory of man at by the instruments he selected
and the way in which he qualified them for his work.
Further, the plan OF GOD could not DO defeated py
glored In his church. as In all the other works OF his
6auds lie made the universe for his gloryj the
heavens proclaimed 1t, aud the earth and zee, and all