Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-09


d monShip and all true sancti6caiion beo;p and o,,
just herein the doing of the will of God with
b pure heart. His will is that the impenitent shal
repent peieve aud be saved, that the Christian
y shall be perfected and sanctied. that the stotes
y man shopla do justice and execute judgment fol
d oil Them that are oppressed that the voter shoul
IL cnoose rulers who are just, ruling in the fear o
l. God In each of those cases there can be no plti
ma'e success, in the highest sense, but BY doin,
n the Will OF God, with pure heart
:, GODS wisdom consists in a supreme regard t.
n the true and right in the abstract, reducing IT, al
q ways to practice, without varableness or shadoy
1t oil 'ornlng lie who does this is wise with Cod
Il WISDOM Ills precepts concerning all things ar
g It9"'' lie sitteth upon the throne, judging ,ight
lie controls all worlds beings and things, for th
d one grand object of maintaining and establishing
It the right, and cOufOunding aud overturning tho
y toyong. lie that would secure Gods helm ant
e Gods success, must not deviate hairs breadtl
=, from ''9h' and the true, "in the abstract" lie
'hat ue7iates in one point is transgressor, and i:
/, guiity oil oil. The truth, the whole truth and
b. nothing but the truth-the right, the whole right
and nothing but tho righ', should be the one sin
gle aim Of him who, in any part Of Gods uni
r verse, desires to succeed
inns may be very true in the abstract saws
lr. ordly-wise-man, "but it wll never answer
10 practice 1t may be good theology but it is
eau pollcy. 1t may do in heaven, when VIC get
| 'here, II we ever do but will never answer in n
world like this. We must take things as they are.
We must take the world as i! is."
True my friend. But what if ii should turn
out IN the end, that things as they are, and The
c0Ttd as u ts' are in Gods hands, as the CLAW is
in the hands Of the potter, as the saw is in tho
hands Of him that sbaketh it2 And what if he
hath sworn by himself and will not lie, that
things as they are, and the world as it is" shall
oe overturned, and overturned, and overturned
until he whose right it is shall come, and the true
and The right in the dbstraot, aud nothing else.
shall remain
WHAT if his counsel should stand, and he sbould
do all his pleasure, working all thipes-yesl all
! things as they are-after the counsel Of his own
"hl! And what il every event that takes place
shallintaiiloiy contribute to bring about that one
great design Of maintaining the true and the
righAtsnd Of crushing to atoms every thing else?
! Ii all this should turn out to be true, what
would then become of all your tsmporizing cxpe-
dients, and sinful compliances and compromises
and crooked courses, to dodge the true and the
right?
What If the page Of universal history, up to the
present hour, be found, on examination, to be one
continuous unbroken testimony to the unremit-
ting energg Of Divine Providence for these very
ends?
hat 1t the sccnee now enacing before your
eyes hat if the news you read, every morninr.
IN the daily newspapers, or weekly, in the week.
lies, DO orly continuation Of this same worlds
history showing up ''the world as it is, and things
as they are" TO 10 nothing more nor less than
COOS great theatre, appondages, and instrument
!ahtles' by which he is carrying on the world-dra-
ma, with its successive scenes and catastronbies |
every one Of which teaches this little moral that
there is and can be no wisdom, but in an pnwave-
ring adherence to the true and tie right without
without subtraction, without intermis-
sion, without change?
The wisdom of the world is fooshness with
dod,' A thousand years hence, perhaps the pious
readers Of this worlds history in search of the
most striking illustrations of the folly Of the
worldly wisdom, may fix their eyes upon the histo-
y Of the United States Of America, in the nine.
eeuth century, and find somewhere about the
7ear lSeO the elimination of the most instructive
catastrophe on record. Let as try TO look at our
elves as nation, in tho light in which fulura
ges will look at US.
Here is a nation declaring it to be selfeyidept
hat all men are created equal, and they are en-
owed by their creator with certain inaliepabIe
ights, amcng which are life, liberty and the pu-.
ut OF happiness-that for the security Of these :
ghts, governments are instituted among men. 6e. =
wing their just powers from the consent Of the "
overned. The representatives of the nation SOL
nnly appeal to the Supreme Judge Of the world v
II the rectitude of their intentions to orEanizs
overnment for these ends. Such Government ?
icy profess to institute, by Constitution to .es
blish justice and secure the blessings Of liberty"
ct they administer that government to establish
justice and perpetua!e the denominations and the IT
lrse of slavery. L
They claim that they do this, because that Con- GO
tuition to establish justice and secure the bes co
ngs Of liberty" lays them under s moral and on
'litical obligation to do sol And they cling to a
is poliey OF permitting millions Of the nation tc st
oppressed, as the necessary condition of preser nj
ng peace, unity, security, and the stability and es
rpetuity of the nation and the Government i'm
earned men, deep read in history and civil policy th
this! Is not "the wisdom of the world foolish tn
SIS with God2" an
For thirty years the subject is agitatod by the ira
mOnstranoes OF a small part of the people, who pa
Q denounced as disorg anizors and traitors For Of
r!y years the combined powers of Church and dir
ate; the wealth, literature Official poslton and re,
litica and ecclesiastical influence of the country nu
, employed, not to devise means of removing TIE
great national sin, the great national curse, FL,
to pot stop to the agitation respecting il. and
persuade or force the whole people to settle rie
+" again into silence aud quiet, doing nothing, wh
empting nothing. and saying nothing, in res. po
ito it. Surely--is not "tho wisdom of this of
rid foOlishnesS with Godi" do
BY continuous series Of remarkable Providen- is
God himself, most sigually seconds the efforts th,
ha heNNa sN.N.