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frmed; and the context renders it certain that
Christ meant Just this, and nothing else.

frmed; and the context renders IL certain lnat
Christ meant Just this, and nothing else.
We might quote other passages to the same
effect, particularly that concerning "a certain
"man" who went down to Jericho" and " fell
among thieves" and, being by them " stripped,
60 and wounded and left for dead, was looked
upon and left to get on as he might by "a
priest" and /" Levite," who, we judge by
certain characteristics, to have both been ances
tors Of the Rev. DIR. Raphall. But Christ ex-
plcitly condemned their heartless conduct, CON-
meuding that of the good Samaritan, who, seeing
fellow creature in distress, stopped not to con-
cider that he was of u detested race and lineage,
but few to his relief, bound up his wounds, and
mnistered to his every need He who does not
feel that this narrative is aimed directly at such
religioDists as DIR. Raphall may be very good
Jew I'VE don't believe he is, but the DIR. is bet
ter authority for that than we are), but he is
certainly the poorest sort of Christian.
Can any one need to be shown that Christs
Golden Rule is utterly, irreconcilaby hostile to
Slavery Suppose son or daughter of the
Rev. DR.. Raphall were this day slave in
Dahomey, would be doubt its application to the
case And if that rule condemn the enslave-
ment of Jew by negro, just as clearly does
it condemn the ensayement of negro by
Jew. No Hebralst pretends that the Slavery
allowed by Moses (' for the hardness of your
"hearts') was the Slavery of negroes exclusive
", OF was confined to any particular race or
color. The - heather round about" the Israeites
when the Law was given by Moses, were not
negroes, nor anything like negroes, but Arabs
and Phpnicians, scarcely distnguishable by
physical or mental characteristics from the He
| brews themselves
Christ was born into world full of Slavery,
AS DIR. Raphal asserts. Where is that Slavery
! now 7 yanished-meted away in the light OF
Christian equity, the fire of Christian love. On
Sunday next the very last Christian nation in
Europe that held slaves will cease to hold them,
| leaving Mohammedan Turkey the only slayeholdlns
country in tho most enlightened and Christian
| quarter Of the globe. The Catholic Church has
| formally declared that Slavery was overthrown by
| Christianity, which no one who studies history
| can doubt. Christianity is gradually roofing ont
| Slavery in Asia and America, and fighting 1t even
| III AlTlca. III INC Picechoo vi '"''" '1'N' '
| weight is due TO the circumstance that Christ
never specially condemned Slavery BY their
| :. fruits We shall know them
1t is sad, deplorable fact, that Slavery
units men for Freedom. The slave of yesterday
| is the hardest master to-day, end the Irish
kerne, trampled under foot for twenty gener-
ations, make just about the meanest Doughfaces
in America. No people on earth have been
more oppressed, robbed, trodden down, and per-
secuted, than the Jews; hence we naturally look
to them to furnish apologists and pettitoggers for
| Slavery. We rejoice in the knowledge, how
ever that only part of them are thus per
| yerted, but that thousands Of the children o
Abraham, purified and made wiser by suffering
| are among the most faithful and consistent up
holders of the inalienable Rights Of Man.