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Show I ' ~....:::.,- ~'"1 Jill' 150 CONDITION OF THE SLAVE. bloody existence, while the majority of our most dis· tingu-ishcd di¥ines find employment in constructing discourses, founded upon perverse expositions of sacred writ, calculated to establish and fix in the minds of the people the impression that slavery is a divine institution . .Although this mighty power of the State, and in· fluence of the Church, be opposed to the slave, let him not despair, but be full of hope. For God is upon his side, truth is upon his side, and a multitude of good and able men and women are engaged in working out his redemption. 0BEli.LIN, .August 27, 1853. ) "NOTHING," says Dr. Spring, "is more plain to my mind than that the word of God recognizes the relation between master and slave as one of the established institutions of the age; and, that while it addresses slaves as Christian men, and Christian men as slaveholders, it so modifies the whole system of slavery as to give a death·blow to all its abuses, and breathes such a spirit, that iu the same proportion in which its principles are imbibed, the yoke of bondage will melt away, all its abuses cease, and every form of human oppression will be unknown. The Bible is no agitator. It changes human governments only as it changes the human character. It aims at transforming the dispositions and hearts of men, and iliffusing through all human institutions the supreme love of God, and the impartial love of man." |