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Show M. D. Convvay. copal hi scs which, in the la;-;t con veat ion of that Church in New York, greeted are olution unfitvorablc to the reopening of the slave tt·ade; they would not even consider it, especially as they were just putting on thcit· purple and fine linen to go to Richmond. And then what time or heart had they to think of negroes, when there was the poor sainted Ouderdonk to be wept over and delivered from bonds l Shall we find him with the Baptists? Lately the great publishers of that denomination in New York, Sheldon & Co., published l\:11-. Spurgeon's volume of di courses; and somehow, another of those theological accidents happened. The London ed ition, when it reappeared in America, had lo t frequent and earnest allu ions to the slave! All the churrhes, however, commonly known as Orthodox, are interested in the Tract Society,- Presbyterians, old and new school; 1\Icthodists, Dutch Heformed, BaptiMs, EIJiscopalian -, &c. The tracts published by this society are from various sources, and often reproductions of ome of the fine t works of Wilberforce, Wesley, llanuah 1\.forc, and other. . Now, a year ot· two ago it was discovered that in very many of the old standard tracts, strong appeals for the black man had been expurgated. lie who pronounced lavery the sum of all villanies had grown dumb on the subject; and 'Vilberforcc was made quite at ease with the system against which he waged a lifelong battle. Now, when to the assembled American Church, each denomination, represented by its leading men, this discovery was announced; when the publishing committee acknowledged that the negro had lipped, as he has an irresistible tendency to do, out of their plan of labor and their tracts, do you think there was a thrill of horror running through their hearts? Did the Church ri e up in its strength and affirm that Christ had come to save the Negro as well as the white man from the evils which affect and deo-rade him? 0 Not so; a smile of approval over pread the face of the Church, and the . amc committee was reelected. M. D. Conway. 353 Nuw, brethren, I ::<ay that jt i our mi~:ion to cngr:n·e the r.omplete "Chri~tus Consolator" on th<· IH·nrt of Arncriea ; to re~torc the figu re of the fettered N<·gro IJ:t('k to the place from which the uncl11i tian Churcl1 has rrasc•<l him. 're nwst paint that picture on tile land, though, if n ·<·d be, our hc•n,·t'~ blood go for pigment. I am gla<l tha t 1iteratur and nrt han· c·xpurgatcd the Negro. It is the outsp aking of a f;tet; he is erased there because he is e rased from the heart and conscience of the populm· church. IC he had been l<.ft in the Pennsylvania prayer-book, it would have been a fals hood. Now that church, Trinitarian, or Unitarian, or No-tarian, is the true and only true church in this country, wh ich fl.•<•b it to be it ' mi.'~ion to rc tore the cffilCed fi~ure; to p1·int the C'<llll plcte frontispiece 011 cve1·y hea rt within it pale of influen('e ; to do away with a ~puriou and expurgated Christianity. And I am confitlent thnt the mass of men know tl1i~ \\'Cil enough, whether they arc ready to openly stand for it or not. I am ati~fied that you, my congrc•gation, sho11ld I withhold my tongue from that <!'V<>nt which claims it tlii~ day, would ~ till be li:-; tening to that eYcnt; fin· it is 1 he natun• of wrong to pre: heavily, and of h e roi.:~m to be <•loqtH·nt :tJHl jrrepres .. iblc; the right nnd true man, being dc•ad, yet :'fW:tkcth. In short., all the pow(' rs of earth and hrll could nut Prevent. that old dead hero of Viro·inia from bcin cr hr<ml iu n r:> our pulpits to-day. Should we hold our peaec, the Ycry slolles would cry ont. Is John Brown a hero? It will one dny be told, to pmvc the tupidity of thi age, that c::u ch a que~tion wns a k<·<l by sane men; that there were eyes so dull that they co11ld not S<'C in n man dying for· a r •ligious principl ·, nny thing more than'· f~matic," "madman,"" trait or." SN~ ltim , tanding there on that o-rcat prophetic .1\Iondny, in the armory of the United States, b •aring, nceording to Uul. Lewis \Vashington's te timony, during the whole day, t!tat heirloom of tho fhmily, the sword which Frederick the Great 30% |