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Show 8 THE MONTHLY OFFEil!NG. the bondman's redemption l If you have nst, we woulJ advise you to procure one forthwith, ~nd g1ve 1t a conspicuous place in the most public room m your h?use, where it may plead for suffering llnd outmged humanny. It wdl cost you but six and a quarter cents. A p1cture hke the above adorns the front of the box. Behold the woman upon her knees, in chains! What sorrow and ang111sh are depicted upon her countenance. Perhaps she. 1s a SISter or daughter, or what is more probable, she IS a poor distressed mother, imploring the GREAT Goo, wnh clasped hands, and earoe,tness equal to the. occasio1~, to restore to her embrace, a beloved infant, wh1ch had JU5t been torn from her bosom. It may be that the slaveholder has JUSt deprived her of a brother, a father, or husband. Reader, what would be your feelings if slavery sho•1ld enter your dwellinu and deso!tlte your fire-s1de, by carrymg away one of your little group 1 Bring the thing home to. yourself, and you will be better prepared to sympatfnze w!lh the oppre"sed. . Look at the beautiful pillars of our government, entwmed with chains. Around their base are fetters and clogs, and whips and gags. This is a fair representation of our republican gove1:nrnent with respect to sla:ery. But, notwithstanding th1s revoltmg p1cture, there 1s. somethmg 1n the scene, which to the friend of the slave IS truly cheerin"'. Mark the rays of light emanating from the arch re~ting upon those pillars. Those ~ays contain not only li,.ht but heat. Already are the chams begmmng to melt a~ay. The anti-slave~y societies only need funds to .enable them to scatter li,.ht and heat throughout the Un10n, by which all the'e ext~aneous fabrics, which have gathered around the pillars of our republ1c, w1ll be burned to dross and cinder. Fail not, then, as soon as you secure one of these depositories, to decide in view of your conscience and your God-in view of the degrnded , brutal1zed, and. beni,. hted slave-in view of the declaratton of your D1vwe M;ste1'," and as yc would that men should do unto you, do ye also unto them likewise,"-11-e say, in vtew of all these MONTHLY CONCERT FOR THE ENSLAVED- 9 considerations, fail not to decide what shall b~ the amount of your weekly oblation, and then in view of that decision, let every returning Sabbath moming be a witness that you '' Remember those in bonds as bound with them." MONTHLY CONCERT FOR THE ENSLAVED. 'Why is it that the anti-slavery monthly concert is not established in vour town ! It cannot be because you have no time to spare. Do you not attend conference meetings, and political meetings, and social parties, &c. &c. l. You can meet with your friends to pray for the converswn of the heathen across the waters, or beyond the Rocky Mountains, or for a revi1·al in your own neighborhood, or for the conversion of a father, wife, sister, daughter, or some dear friend. You can meet with committees of bank, steam· boat, rail-road, meeting-house and hundreds of.other corporations, half a score of times every month Without any inconvenience; but when you are requested to meet once n month :o plead for the temporal and eternal interests of millions of the most degraded heathen in the world, for· "ooth you cannot command tim~ for such a purpose. Wh~t interest have you, my friends, 111 the slavn, when you will offer an apology like this 1 . . Let no consideration prevent your estabhshmg th.e con· cert forthwith in vour place. Let the last Monday 1n eve· ry month witness' your wrestlings with God for the bond-' man's deliverance. Let effic1ent plans ue there made for the successful prosecution of the cause for the coming month. Let every collector have the monthly suhscription collected, and then p•y it over to the Treasurer, that our friend Chapman can have the money to apply to the cause as soon as may be. During every moment of delay the slave is in chains. We want to hear his ransom shout. We long to mingle our praises with his, on the great day of his redemption. |