The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-10-17

did not teach His cniidren 70 |
throw OF the yoke Of bondage, but TO
submit TO it. God gave Abraham d. |
rectioas ~ TO how he should demean
himself towards the servants OF his
house and promised him great reward
because be VAS faithful. God used
bondage. IL you may 80 call IL, to jus
tify, TO bring blessing TO his people.
All things work together for good with
God and out Of the sale Of Joseph God
brought blessing to His chosen people
in oil ages TO come; and % We can not
deny IL TO be fact in the pafriarchiai
ages, and yet We can state that no
blame can be put upon the fatherhood
Of God. for in the patrisrchial times,
he provided
FOR THE RIEssIN6 OF ALL,
both the master and his servants
Coming into Mosaic ages, there 10 no
evidence that goes to show that
under this dispensation slavery was
established, but there IL all the evil
dence YOU want 10 show that it Was
recognized as fact slavery that grew
out Of poverty slavery that grew from
paternai authority, and slavery for
stealing. You have got some OF that
now.
In this dispensation there WAS no
such slaves As existed among US with
the colored people. When . man Was
a slave he could go TO another and sell
himself for the time, until he could
work out his bondage. IL he stole he
became q slave To the one from whom
the property Was TAKEN Et:irls were
sold rs maid servants TO men with the
view not TO be slaves. but with the
~ft I'D hs.. N o. hel
wives: and provisions were made un-
der the Mosaic law which provided q
yer Of jubilee for the releasing Of
slaves.
| Coming on To the Greeks and Romans
We find slavery among them, and yet
Christianity did -,... sin
NOT THROW orr THEIR SLAVERY.
This gospel was preached TO all classes :
the high classes and the low Glasses,
among the free and among the bond.
This gospel Of the free was preached
to all classes, and whatever class .
man was converted in he remained i'm
that class. Ii he was q bondsman he
was taught to be obedient To his mas
ter; and Paul, when he sent back a
slave 10 Philemon that had run away
he sent him back not as q slave-not as
a servant, says he, but a. brother be-
loved. He was recognized as such in
Christ Jesus.
Then comes negro slavery, rs il origi.
mated i'm the world more than three
thousand years ago by the Carthage
mans going into Africa and capturing
the poor negroes and carrying then
off and trading them with other ma
tons. This same trade was taken ar
by the Portuguese in the fourteenth
century, and by Spain in the fifteenth
century; and when America Was dis
covered, in 1892, great impetus wa,
given to the trade, and the trade wa,
| encouraged by the Roman Catholi,
Church, under the power Of which
both Portuguese and Spain existed a
that time. Priests OF the CathOli,
: Church encouraged slavery, and thu
the great controlling Church. from tn,
J., third century up to the fifteenth-th,
: Church that controlled the destinies o
mankind and held the gospel within
its grasp-encOuraged slavery for al
! these ages.
No intelligent man will undertak,
to refute this statement.
And coming on later the establishe,
!. Church Of England recognized il an,
3 encouraged it under that government,
Z and it was not until the year 1893 tina
: q single protest was heard against tn
q slave trade. Then the idea was brough
2 up, and bill abolishing it was passes
!. in the House of Commons, but i'm tn
: House of Lords it was killed; and
h was not until 1908 that a law wa
passed in both houses giving the eman
cipatiOn Of slaves and abolishiug tn
slave trade.
Then later, in 1900, come across tn
: water and you will find slavery exist
g ing in this United States of Americ
Il under the Constitution. You find ths
u nothing was said against il in tn
n churches until 1874; then the Metho
y dist Episcopal Church set itsel
u straight by declaring in the Gener,
+ Conference in New York against sla,
le cry. Come on later, and the SoutI
u holding that the doctrine of SLAYER
10 was right, seeded from the oths
States.
1t These are facts that we cannot den,
a and while it is fact that the Churc
IT has been the friend of,
AND HAS ENCOURAGED SLAVERY,
mr. still thessSpirit of Christ and the ger
m eral mass of mankind has been
IN work, from the Quaker movement
he the 10th century, to the emancips tic
a Of slaves in the British Empire, m
ne the emancipation Of slaves in Braz
That has been the result Of the II
creased light which springs from Il
CrOes-the liberty that was born in q
is Son Of God. In other words, the Spir
sc OF Christ has mingled with the int
of ligence Of the world. One can see tn
en- the Spirit Of Christ gets in the air
ne the atmosphere of the worlds INTEL
l hps
r tiOn in morals.
ch The speaker, DIR. Thompson, vi
at used this expression, was not Think,
In, Of slavery Of the human body, but 81
to very of the mind. Not the slavery
the human body in the sense in viii
he the colored man was . slave until {
u late war, but humanity rs q slave
N. other powers: to political powe
de-, financial powers, to social influence
t q Take your dictionary and study {
on definition OF slavery: it means an
,m thing by which one man 10 given su
te- power over another as to control
,rt thought or control bis action. or CO
ne troll his manner of life, and il is
~ this sense that we think Of il lust nc
Take the last several centuries. a
notice how
~ MEN WERE NOT ALLOWED TO THINK
o. s~ Ask the definition of the bloody Inq
:. sitiOn of Spain. Ask the de6nifion
=; the fires that lit up Scotland in ,
% days Of bitter persecution. Ask {
IL smoke from burning martyrs in Er
. land and Switzerland and Norw
iAe The answer Is Ecclesiastical SLAVE
just at this point I want TO- read
CT. selection from Herron's .Fsea.for
IN. Gospel" one Of the mtAc INTEREST,"
to books that has been written in Z
,Ie age:
in But the Church was, withal. in &C
md way. Az in institution il had come to e.
MT for its own sake. making religion the
hsr gust of Intelligence. the suspicion Of ms
honesty, and the protection of blaci
crimes. It had juggled with righteousp