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PRAYER

FOR THE OPPRESSED.

A PREMIUM TRACT.

CLEVELAND, OHIO.

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY, BOSTON.

SLAVERY UNCHRISTIAN.

The spirit of the New Testament is against slavery, and the principles of the New Testament, if fairly applied, would abolish it. In the New Testament no man is commanded to purchase and own a slave; no man is commended as adding any thing to the evidences of his Christian character, or as performing the appropriate duty of a Christian, for owning one. Nowhere in the New Testament is the institution referred to as a good one, or as a desirable one. It is commonly--indeed, it is almost universally--conceded that the proper application of the principles of the New Testament would abolish slavery every where, or that in the state of things which will exist when the Gospel shall be fairly applied to all the relations of life, slavery will not be found among those relations.

Let slavery be removed from the church, and let the voice of the church, with one accord, be lifted up in favor of freedom; let the church be wholly detached from the institution, and let there be adopted by all its ministers and members an interpretation of the Bible--as I believe there may be, and ought to be--that shall be in accordance with the deep-seated principles of our nature in favor of freedom, and with our own aspirations for liberty, and with the sentiments of the world in its onward progress in regard to human rights, and not only would a very material objection against the Bible be taken away,--and one which would be fatal if it were well founded,--but the establishment of a very strong argument in favor of the Bible, as a revelation from God, would be the direct result of such a position....

PRAYER

FOR THE OPPRESSED.

A PREMIUM TRACT.

CLEVELAND, OHIO.

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