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Show 62 TilE lllON'l'IlLY OFPERIN!f. a Whole roused people, which must end, as all battles for freedom ever do, in being won. Persecution. misrepre• sentation, opposition of the most malignant and unantici· paled character, she has met; but she ever joyfully testifies that the principles by which she has striven to win freedom for others, at what the world calls a sacrifice, have been to her a better inheritance of happiness than any thing that the world can give or take away. Plead the Promises. Not to pray for the slave, is almost as great a sin as slavery itself. It is practical unbelief of the promises, and makes God a liar. Think of the promises of God for the deliverance of the enslaved! The Bible is full of them. Here is a single specimen out bf hund-reds; "The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are op· pressed." (Ps. ciii. 6.) How positive-how emphatichow universal-how unconditional! And yet there is ono condition, though not expressed. "Thus saith the Lord God: I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them." Then plead the pTomises. A. S. Almanac. 1'he Olfering. 'Ne have the pleasure of finding that the Offering gives great satisfaction to the friends of the cause, and enables them to do much good, by increasing the numbers of the subscribers to their contribution cards. vVe have assur• ances from the most able writers among the faithful anti· slavery friends, that they will contribute to its pages with pleasure, from a conviction that it will supply a vacancy in the publications, occasioned by the discontinuance of the Anti-Slavery Record ond Slave's Friend. Excellent com• munications, already received, will appear in due season. MISCllLLANEOUS. 63 'fo .Juvenile Societies The little ones who have put their hands to the work of freeing the slave, will find the " Offering" a suitable pub· lication to read in their little circles, when they meet to work for the cause. Lines. Could'st thou forget thine infant son, Or thy gray father, made a slave! Forget riot, till their rights are won, The sires and babes, thy love might save. {)(]-The Liberty Deii . ..(:Q) This beautiful Annual will be issued as a Christmas and New Year's gift, the last week in the year. ~ Anecdote. A preacher, worthy of the name 0f minister of the Gos• pel, was warned by a more worldly-minded brother with whom he was arran<Ying an exchange, against touching on certain exciting topi~s, in his pulpit. The total-abstinence question had almost upset the pa~ish-anti-slav~ry had well ni<Yh divided the church, owmg to the obstmacy of one wh; had persisted in introducing those subjer:ts with· out his consent, and he ;vished his brother would not al· Jude to them. He thought it wise, also, to give a caution a<Yainst dwellin"' too strongly upon the doctrine of future r~tribution; as he had a prospect of gaining over some Universalist" to his church. if that subject was not made too prom ineRt at first. " Then, sir," replied his friend, "I think it would be better for me to decline the exchange at once; for, in the present state of our churches in Mas• sachusetts, it seems hardly worth while to preach at all, if one must not touch on "temperance, righteousness, C! juigment to come." |