Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-03-14
REVIEW
Of n Sermon Preached by DIR. Van
Dyke, nt brooklyn, N. W, Sab
bath Evening, Dec. %, 1900.
No. G.

o. We icaVe Tue Via lcStaHlentl Tor the pres
ent, and turn to the New. The Pro-Slavery
assumptions offered for argument fiom the
New Testament, are in perfect keeping with
their gross assumptions inregard to the Old
Testament. They find the word servant
and they take for granted that they have
beyond disputation,i Sbarey; then they find
1t easy to soy" There is, plainly .oriftea. !"
Our friends have always the advantage of
us hereto say is an easy labor; especially,
when we write for good, credulous people,
who. will much more easily comprehend and
receive an assumption than an argument
We shall notice some of the assumptions
of our author, which, we know, he found
less difficult to make than to furnish the evil
dence of. their truth. ~. .i,,-f ''i4 4
Assumption first. He says, at the advent
Of Christ Slavery existed all over the civil
lied world, in Asia Minor, Judea, &c. Con-
sequently wherever Christ preached slaves
were as numerous as they are now in South
Carolina. ..'i,',.f ...,,ro
AS all this can easily be said, SO, it can
easily be believed by those who have deep
interest in believing, and who wish not to
take time or trouble to examine for them
selves. That there were slaves in Asia
Minor there is evidence to believe. So of
gard to Judea, and among the Jews-where
IS the evidence? What writer Of the time
says SC, of the Jews, and Of Judea? know
Cicero and Livy both speak of the Slavery
of Asia Minor; and of the Tyrians and
Sfdonfafs us slave tIudvrs. But It ruquirrs
little Interpolation, and a little assumption
to make these authors say the Jews held
slaves just as the South Carolinians. .,re
"a This is like another assumption, which
we shall insert with number one. ~ 1t is this
-"When Paul stood upon Mars, Hill, sur
| rounded by ten thousand times as many
Shareholders as there were idols in the city Il
| Pro- Slavery doctors love to deal in long
yarns; andthcy certainly calculate well upon
their market ,.,, Il, lfuit. ,-uph
| Ten MOlsdnd times as many ystrrehOtiers
Pctronius saysit was easier to find god in
| Athens than man. Pausanias says that
replete as the whole of Greece was with
objects of devotion, there were more in
| Athens than in all the rest of the country.
This agrees well with Paul account of the
numerous idols Of Athens. And X Pliny
speaking Of theiridols, says, 'many volumes
wonld but contain something, since no mar
can speak Of the whole. What a magni
| flying glass the eye of our defender of Slave
II ryl Why, this magnifying writer woult
make the population of Athens at that tint
many hundreds Of Millions What Blu
this big story is, we presume, only to pre-
: pare us to swallow larger when they come
: To return: Assumption aside, and in tn
absence of shadow of testimony, is it no
more reasonable, that since all Slavery
founded in theft was prohibited to the He
, brews, any servitude among them was tha
regulated by their own peculiar law? Henc
! it is much moro reasonable to conclude, sine
7 Christ confined his ministry to Judea, ant
/, to the Jews, he never saw a stakeholder, o
3 never addressed one? What are the eyi
d denees for the truth of the assumptio
: worth And if true even, the assumptio
? is worthless, in the faeeqof what Chris
n That Tie setyitude with which Christ wa
r familiar was Hebrew seryitude, and reguli
3 ted by Hebrew law, even Bishop, .Hopkir
y seems to admit: He says it was, IN accort
i ance pith the Mosaic .Mio." Servitude
d accordance with Hebrew law is not SLAYER.
!, Is not 1nan-stealing; is not founded on maj
n stealing; is not pur Slavery; and is not tn
b 1ssaaptioa second. an all the instru
, Etious Of the saviour "-he, says-".All Il
ltl moral wrongs which ever had been known
al affiict society, arc forbidden bs name. :" tn
Y is not only q large assumption, but it
srl monstrous Look tit, for it is all need'
ie to defend Slavery First, An infnitessim
ieI part only Of all Christ said and did, is 7
le corded. The Apostle John says, the wor
N would not contain the books, had, all be,
isl written. Second, the whole Bible, Old al
IN New Testaments both, does not, BIZ, nam
g. E condemn all sin, nor the one hppdredh pa
u of the endless forms, and phases and shad
I'd Of sin. And more, the Bible does, not pr
ie tceed upon the principle Of condemning eve
'n sin by name. The Ten Commandments
~ mot condemn sin upon that principle y
ni1they forbid all the sin ever committed
NJ the whole race of Adam since the fall, Al
ee that will be committed till the end of I
% world, And do these few sstsa words" nd'
ad m sSThiSa, ia, Christ condemned by name ye
lie few Of the great sins Of his time ,as on
ne cord. Idolatry, as our author truly has
,rs was prevalent sin. and one OF great en-
kel nifty. Yet in all that is recorded Of Chri
u. he is not found 10 have used theterm idoldt
M nor idolator, nor ifiol, net once. Then,
!de idolatry not forbidden? Certainly it is not
i'm the ttssumption be worth d fig. But more
BE- if the assumption proves what was design,
ire It proves that Christ sancf oned idolatryt
IN, Can ai,v man defend Slavery, from the Bi