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Show incomp~tibility of sbvcholding with Christianity, is a.n ex· llrc:-:.si,·c one. ]1uL its silence is not all: thrrc is an f'xprcss r ecognit ion of the compatibility of slavcholdi1Jg with Chris4 tianity: "Let ns mnny servants ns arc under the yoke connt their own masters worthy of all honour, t iLat the na.mo of God and his doctrine be not bhlsphemo<l. And they thai have believing masters, let them not despise them, becaus6 they arc brethren ; but rather do them scnice, beca.usc they are fai thful anu beloved, partakers of the benefit." (1 'l'im. vi. 1, 2.) 'J'hc word here rendered servant means, liternJly, sln.vc; it is never used for a hi1·etl servant. It is somctinw~, ltow4 over, employed metaphorically: thus bau men are called servants (6oi·~~) of tl1e devil, and good men, servants (l:loii~~) of God; but in both these cases it is an absolute service that is designated. So St. Paul calls himself a servant (lloiih.O~) of Jesus Christ, and some men, not having the fear of rhe· toric before their eyes, ha\'C inferred from this that the word, even in its litcra.l application, could not nlways mean a slave; but this is u, palpable non scqu.itur, as I will show by two uncxceptionn ble witnesses, :Mr. Scnn.tor Sumner and 1\lrs. Stowe herself. l\lr. Sumner, in his spoeob in tho United States Sonoto last August, (a copy of which he was so bcitevolrnt ns to send roc uudcr hi~; official frank, nnd for which I am much obliged to him, as it has furnished me with this illustration,) holds tho following language:-'' Sir, I ha.vc never been a politician. rrhc slave of principles, I call no party master" (p. G); and Mrs. Stowe tells us, (vol. i. p. 230,) that ''Miss Ophelia was the absolute boncl-slave of tho 'ought'." Now if ~'lr. Senator Sumner could be the slave of principles, and Miss Ophelia tho slave of duty, I sec not why St. raul could not be the sbvc of llim "ho is the incarna.Lion and cmbodi4 mcnt of both. 11 :-l C L E T 0 l\1 'S C A H f ~. (j:j of Bthuet CwYocrn I if .t herc cou ld b e any doubt about tllC mcanin{l' many s , c '. t~lC aposnc himself has explained it: "Let a~ et vnnb as arc under tl. k . mnstcrs worthy f ll l w yo e count their own to fintl a s· I .o n ~~nom·." Now I cl~:lll cnrrc any ono mg c Instance m tl 1 1 ° turo in which the 1 .. " lC w lO e range of Greek litera-hircrl servnnts . P Hasc scrvnHts untlcr the yoke" means And th ' ot any other scnants than sla.vcs. esc servants arc here exhort d t . masters worthy of 11 I c o count t.hcu· own doctrine be not bl ~ llOnodur, that the nnmc of God and liis asp 1eme . But it will be saiu 'l'h · . . slaves, and it does n~t ~ l;s lS nn mcu~cation of duty on the holdin(l'"'thcm in bond· o ow th:tt then· m:tstcrs arc r ir•ht in eommn~ld to u "{' . <Jge, any m~rc than it follows fro~ the s, 1 ,\.ny man Slmte u 1 turn to him the other that J . .· l s _on t 1.0. one check, to G ' JC JS Il <'T lt m srrutmg u rnntcd,jOr the argument's sak o . b s. verse? "A d tl I e' ut what says the next n lCJ t lat have bclicvin not despise them been th g masters, let them them service b~caus~ u~~ i a7 ~rethrcu; but r:ltbcr do takers of the' benefit." ley rc <llthful and beloved, par. ~'here were, then, at the time the h ost.lc wrot words, Christians who were "faithful pI b . c , these who yet 1 ld . am elo1 eel nllll ' . , ~~ even thctr Christian brethren i b d ' But,_ Jt Wlll be said, these Christians wcr n on a.ge. fcetly mstructcd in their duties o l . e: as yet, 1m perdone such a deed L t ' r t l?Y "ould not have from which the ~ssa (l' e us sec h~w thts is. ~.f.lhc epistle St. Paul to St f,. . lo bofor? us IS taken, is ~ddrcssod by so by th 1· .' I mOt ly, the fll'st btshop of Ephcsus,-madc Cb .. o .tymg on of the apostle's own hands -and tho E ~IStlans hero referred to wore members of th: church of w/:l,etslus. Nolw this church was favoured beyond all others we lealrCn af p.o st c'.s perso naI presence and m·n u. strations. 'l,his ' om hiS farewell address to them at ]\f"l t (A xx.17-38). "Y I 'c us, cts 9 .- o mow from tho fu·st cby that I came into ,. |