. Autographs for freedom. and terrible heinousness, whenwe contemplate the vast waste of intellect, the vastwaste of moral and spiritual energy, which has beencaused by its poisonous touch. And yet the povv^er of the State, and the influenceof the Church, are given to its support. Many ofour leading statesmen are engaged in devising andfurthering plans for the extension of its territorialarea, thereby hoping to perpetuate and eternize its 150 OoN-DiTiOK or THE Slave. bloody existence, wliile tlie majority of our most dis-tinguished divines find employment in constructingdiscourses, founded upo
. Autographs for freedom. and terrible heinousness, whenwe contemplate the vast waste of intellect, the vastwaste of moral and spiritual energy, which has beencaused by its poisonous touch. And yet the povv^er of the State, and the influenceof the Church, are given to its support. Many ofour leading statesmen are engaged in devising andfurthering plans for the extension of its territorialarea, thereby hoping to perpetuate and eternize its 150 OoN-DiTiOK or THE Slave. bloody existence, wliile tlie majority of our most dis-tinguished divines find employment in constructingdiscourses, founded upon perverse expositions ofsacred writ, calculated to establisli and fix in tlie mindsof the people the impression that slavery is a divineinstitution. Although this mighty power of the State, and in-fluence of the Church, be opposed to th^, slave, lethim not despair, but be full of hope. For God isupon his side, truth is upon his side, and a multitudeof good and able men and women are engaged inworking out his Oberlin, August 27, 1853. Clje gible vs. Slaben. OTHINGr, says Dr. Spring, is more plain to -^^ my mind than that the word of God recog-nizes the relation between master and slave as one ofthe established institutions of the age; and, thatwhile it addresses slaves as Christian men, andChristian men as slaveholders, it so modifies thewhole system of slavery as to give a death-blow to allits abuses, and breathes such a spirit, that in the sameproportion in which its principles are imxbibed, theyoke of bondage will melt away, all its abuses cease,and every form of human oppression will be un-known. The Bible is no agitator. It changes humangovernments only as it changes the human charf^ aims at transforming the dispositions and hearts ofmen, and diffusing through all human institutions thesupreme love of God, and the impartial love of man.
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