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Show TilE late Dr. Chalmers, not long before his death, spoke with clisapprobation of Abolitionists in the United States, " for undertaking," as he said, "to decide, without sufficient evidence, upon the irreligious character of ministers and clmrch-mcmbcrs. 1?wy, forsooth, undertake to exclude men from the Lord's table, ·who arc in good and regular standing in tho church of Christ, because they happen to hold slaves I l'hey pretend to decide who, and who arc not Christians !" It is marvellous that so learned and so clistinguished a man should have fallen into such a mistake; and, on hearsay, ventured to utter a most calumnious accusation against the friends of the slave. ':1.1hc .Abolitionists migl1t, perhaps, make decisions in the case not wide of the mark, founded upon the rule given by Jesus Christ:" By their fruits ye shall k now |