Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-07-02

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ssdreamsH na areans'' and have girsn fstAsi
sign or tha wonder'' which has deceived
them. aAnd thai prophet or dreamer Of
dreams shaA fought TOP be put to death. -
Deuteronomy lssA chap. Iss sazss.
BsecsfrfTI, - ssssnxr.ss am
nos prepared exactly nov 70 answer salts
fasssgily perhaps, ehs scripsuHal ssatins-8
ny addueed to prove me inhdel to God and
bis holy word; bat | am ready 10 reason
this matter with any being on earth aside
from the Bible.
Ghost Of M-Trus, you are found
lighting against holy writ aud the irtss
God !; and have run after q strange GOD
called an ''anti-slsvsry Godo sfesod
aade 9Th hands" and "higher lawn
God, and thsEeby you have brought dsz-
ISOLATION, death and destruction 70 ell shs
people of the and Of your biEths and more
ever, your inddel teachings have induced
the in6dality Of the land 10 destroy the
excellent Government bestowed By God
upon your unhappy nation. No reason
ing can be Of use to yoa, Ia fighting against
holy writ or against God. Your infaeli-
" to Your nation, and her laws, 10 holy
writ and to God, has manifested itself to
all men. You preach treason to Gods
people. Your throat is an open snpal-
Eshre; with your tongue you used DECEIT Tie
poison Of asps Is under yoar lips Your
| mouth is full OF carsing and bitterness
aour feet are stciff to asSd bIoodi dsstrGe-
1 ton and misery are in Jour ways snd
the way of peace you have not knoSn---
Roman, Sd chap 18th to 18th Esfsss IN
elusive. ....,..-..
i You apply the spithet traitor to the
lpaariot who would arrest tha wila rain,
goa, By your treason to God and youi
county, have brought upon His people
Read from I'd ohronielss 2Sd chap. i2aE
aad l3th verses now when Athaliah heart
he noise of the people running and prais'
ing the King, 1.-THE Constitution and laws
She came TO the house Of the Lord ans
she looked and behsld the people stood b.
the Constitution King stood b. bis pill
liar and the people rejoie
ed lrf ..a .-a.-
Then Athaliah rent her clothes and said
etreason, treason !" and they killed he
} read ''Thou art the man."-AashAn
Il B.-I may be in error; bat If an,
! cannot recede from it, IhaEe gone to
far. What shall do2 / can neither de
lay, confess, nor reform. | fear that
may have been ambitious OF a great pam
as a reformer ana philAuthropist. / ar
aware that ths Clergy have great Paws
over the minds Of the psople-they Al
ways had whether they were hsasbsn o
civilized, since the world began. Were
fully convinced that have been wrang
ling against Coos teachings-and TIM
| have been instrumental in exciting tn
present devastating war, now ragiag il
the Land, would repent in dust and ash
Is, and cry to high Heaven for mercy, an
as far as my powers permitted me lpray
,, ing for Coos help) make amends By turn
: ing from the false, to the only true God
and his holy word.
Ghost Of Mi you were ignorant 0
Gods requirements of you, it were vel
but Gods spirit has given ns TO kBos
that He has enriched your mind with
vast comprehension of thought, and stof
, Of knowledge rarely bestowed upon NOR
tails; but tho Lord commands me an
who shall disobey) to lay before you stil
further proofs Of the errors into which 20
have fallen, and to admonish you Of til
awful effect produced by the promal
CATION of those errors. You do moi
nay, you cannot deny that both the Jew
iah and the Christian Churches were il
part composed OF slaves. Abraham, an
the shining catalogue Of names OF th
patriarehe, every one, owned slaves, o
bond servants, TO which / alluded In
previous dialogue. Read the 20sh chap
18th verse OF Exodus. "Thou shalt no
! eoyet thy neighbours wife, nor his man
servant nor bis maid servant" Whel
David assembled the throne, he took frou
tSaups estatesons Of the slaves n&Ina Zibs
and twenty slaves belonging to ziba All
fifteen sens, and presented them ~ ssrv
ants TO Mephibosheth who was Jonathan
son.--2d Samuel 9th chap. 3D. to ash vsrs
Elisha the prophet owned slaves, or a
least one by the name of Gehazi.--2'
Kings, 4th and 9Th chapt. Does any on,
deny that slavery wns not only tolerated
bat even commanded by God, and psac,
tieed by all the holy men Of old before
| and after the food, and by all the inspir-
1 cd, under the christian dispensation; ant
that every natisn Of when We hare ar
account uphold slAyery in one farm Of
another, and hare done 20 from IL Hfsl
sxistance as such, until its fall !; and anliI
Inew; "forever."
j B.-I confess have in various ways
taught different doctrines from those
taught by Moses and the prophets and
Those OF the founders of the christian re-