The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1864-10-15
~ NoI.edera. ~ Prayer.


the following prayer for the use of the
EpiscopaGans in the seeded States. 1t
would be difficult to say which is the
most atrocious, its Misrepresentation,
it's scurrility, its inhumanity, or its BIAS
phemy. What must be the Christianity
that eliminates in such production
o God, Thou hast ordered human
government SO as to make it necessary
and wise that there should be rulers and
subjects, masters and servants, rich and
poor, and that these inequalities Of con-
dition and diversities of rank should be
permanent and inevitable.
From the beginning hitherto Thou
hast also, 0 righteous God, associated
the institution OF slavery as All organic
form Of involuntary labor with Thy
church and people, thereby securing the
slaves religious teaching and provision
for their temporal wants, and to the
world the beneit of service, not other
wise at tainable. Thou hast also In Thy
written Word given us instruction as to
Thy will and our duty in the relation OF
master aud slave, embodying this author
itative teaching and Divine protection In
Thy holy and 1mmutable law, and in the
teachin- of our Lord Jesus Christ and
His apostles.
BY Thy holy, wise and powerful provi-
dence, y Lord, Thou hast introduced
slavery into these Southern States. which
Thou hast allotted to our fathers and to
us as habitation. Thou hast brought
this people among US, and hast multi
piled and blessed them, and by their 10
nor, their social progress, their spiritual
attainments, and their conversion to God,
Thou hast ordained out of their mouth
praise to Thy great name, that the tongue
of Thine enemies might be stilled, and
Thy wonder-working providence adored.
And now, o Lord, it is time for Thee
to work, for mer have made void Thy
law, and teach for Thy will the COM
mandments of men, and philosophy,
falsely SO called. They consent not to
wholesome words even the words of our
Lord Jesus Christ, nor to the doctrine
which is according to Godliness, but are
proud and destitute of the truth, doting
about questions whereof have come envy,
strife, railing accusations against us Thy
people, and Dlasphemous speech against
Thy holy WoId and Thy righteous name.
For the truth OF Thy Word, 0 Lord,
which is forever established in the heav-
ems for the justice and wisdom Of Thine
eternal providence and Thy righteousness
and consistency of Thy dealings with
Thine ancient people, patriarchs, pro-
phets and apostles, we are prosecuted,
DETAINED and overwhelmed with the mis-
cries brought upon us by malicious, mer-
ciless enemies, who neither regard God
nor man.
But Thou, o Lord, beholdest from
heaven the rage and madness OF this peo-
pie, who have set themselves against
Thee and against US who reverence Thy
Word as the Word of God, and as being
all-proftable for doctrine and for instruc-
ton III righteousness. And as thou hast
commanded that from such men we
should withdraw ourselves, we now in
Woke Thy omnipotent arm for protection.
D Thou that art glorious Ill holiness,
fearful in praises, a God doing wonders,
in Thy meIcy lead forth Thy people, our
wives our little ones, our man-servants,
our maii-servants, and guide us in Thy
strength to Thy holy habitation. Bring
us in and plant US in the mountain OF
Thine Inheritance in the place, o Lord,
which Thou hast made for us todwell in;
and may we know by joyful experience
the bleSsedness of that people whose God
is the Lord, and whose law is Thy sure,
immutabie Word, free from the despotic
interpretations and endorsements. Es-
tablish us, therefore, 0 God, as Confed-
cracy of States, and build us up on that
rock OF eternal truth against which the