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Show lH LIBERTY AND SLAVERY. These things teach and exhort. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words even the words of onr Lord J esns Chris; and to the doctrine which is according to goilliuess, he is prot<d, /mowing nothing." Mr. Sumner congratulates himself that he has stripped "from slavery the apology of Christianity." Let servants "count their own masters worthy of all honor," and " do them service," says St. Paul. "Let servants disobey their masters," says Mr. Snmuer, "and cease to do them service." "These things teach and exhort," says St. Paul. "These things denounce and abhor," says hlr. Sumner. "If any man teach otherwise," says St. Paul, "he is proud, knowing nothing." "I teach otherwise,'' says :MJ·. Sumner. And is it by such conflict that he strips from slavery the sanction of Christianity? If the sheer ipse dixit of Mr. Sumner be sufficient to annihilate the authority of the New Testament, which he professes to revere as divine, then, indeed, has he stripped the sanction of Christianity from the relation of mastet· and slave. Otherwise, he has not even stripped from his own doctrines the burning words of her condemnation. Dr. Waylanll avoids a direct conflict with the ARGUMENT FROM THE SCRIPTURES. 175 teachings of the gospel. lie is less bold, and more circumspect, than the Senator from Massachusetts. lie has honestly and fairly quoted most of the texts bearing on the subject of slavery. lie shows them no disrespect. lie pronounces none of them imperfect. But with this array of texts ?efore him ho proceeds to say: "Now, I do not sec that the scope of these passages can be misunderstood." Nor can we. It would seem, indeed, impossible for the ingenuity of man to misunderstand the words, quoted by Dr. Wayland himself, "Servants, obey in all things your masters according to tho flesh." Dr. Wayland docs not misunderstand them. For he has said, in his Moral Science: "The dt<ty of slaves is explicitly made known in the Bible. They are bound to obedience, 1ideli ty, submission, and respect to their masters, not only to the good and kind, but also to the unkind and froward." But when he comes to reason about these words, which he finds it so impossi)llc for any one to misunderstand, he is not without a very ingCTiious method to evade their plain import and to escape from their influence. Let the reader hear, and determine for himself. "I do not see," says Dr. Wayland, "that the |