M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-01-07


and its frui 5, which, bat for tho very
existence Of slavery would be totally
lost.
And get the various Churches have
made and ere making a great ado
about the sin of slavery this ia sim
ply hypocricy and isunticsm.
What say the New Testament scrip
lures on tho subject of slavery I
l Timothy, VI chapter. / & 9 vers-
es, reads hs follows:
"Let "a nnny servants rs are nrder
the yoke count their own masters
worthy Of all honor that the name of
God and his doctrine be not LAs-
phemsd."
"And they that have 6siicv;aQ ma.
ters, lot them not despiso them, be-
cause they are brethren bnt rather
do them service, because they are
faithful and beloved, partskers Of the
benetit.-Theso things teach aud ex
hort"
The R'v. DR.. Clarke, the great
Commentator, in commenting on the
SO verses saws:
"Jhe word servants here means
SIdveS converted to theChristian faith.
and the word yoke in the stgte of
slavery.
What says the infdel Vap Anada
to this scripture and DR.. CIarke's 5
comment 7
Again Corinthians, VII Chapter,
2l, 20, @3 and "a verses
art thon called being a servant {:
care not for it hut if thou mayest
be made free, use it rather"
"For io that is called in the Lord
beinga servant. ia the Lords freeman.
Likewise also he that is called, being
free ia Christ's servant"
"Ye are bought with price; be
no. We the servants OF men
"Brethrcn, let every man, wherein
he ia called, therein abide with God. ="
Or. Clarke says:
ut is very likely that some of the
slaves at Cotn'.h, who had bean.cori
verted to Christianity, had been led
to think that their Christian privi-
leges absoIved them from the neCessi
ty Of continuing slaves, or, ut least.
brought them on a level with their
Christian masters. A spirit Of this
kind might have soon led to coufusi-
on and decentralization, and bron nght
scandal into lhoChurch. 1t was ther D..
fore. very proper subject for The
Apostle tH interfere in aid to his
authority the persons concerned would
doubtless respectfully bow"
AT the end OF this chapter Ito fur
ther says
"Ihe conversion which the script.
ure roqnires, though it makes q most
essential change ia our souls in refer
enCe to God, and ir our works in re.
terence roth IT, God and man. makes
none in our civil state; and if a man
is called, i. g. converted, in q state O!
slavery. he does not gain his manu-
mission in consequence of his CONVEX
sion he stands IN the same relation
both tJ the State aud to his fellows
that he stood in before aud ia not to
assume any civil rights or privileges
in consequence Of the conversion of
his soul to God. The Apostle decides
the matter in this chapter, and orders
that every man should abide in the
calling wherein he is called"
Abraham Lincoln and the infidel
preachers are not for letting the mig
ger abide in his calling. Ii the Apos
tie were here he would he shut up in
Fort Lafayette, as being disloynl, and
to the Emancipation Procla
and all the infdeI preachers
would respond amen.
DR.. Clarke, in another place, SAYS:
"Christianity makes no change in
mems civil affairs, even Il slave did
! not become a freeman by Christian
Again he says:
"Tho Apostle informs tie pro2rie.
tors OF these slaves, that they should
act towards them both according To
justice and equity, for God, their
master required this OF them, and
would at last call them to accou nt for
their conduct in this respect"
From l Tim.,'VI cha pter, 9 verse,
we learn, that there were in the
believing (that is Cbristian)
and their slaves were moi
(because ther had also been
,onverted) to despise their masters.
but rather to do them service. Now
the Van Andas and the Whites. who
leach o contrary doctrine, do no, teach |
according to the Scriptures, but are
neither believing or obeyins
what the Apostle says. The doctrine
Of the Rev. religio infidels ie summed
up in the oft repeated declaration Of
the irfdei Burlingame