more firmly
established than ever by means of our great national commotion on this
subject, is enough to make a serious mind reflect whether it be wholly
the work of Satan, or whether the providence of God be not concerned in
this great and difficult problem.
It is certainly remarkable that religion, which once gained such a
footing in Africa, so soon and entirely died out there, but that the
Africans, transported to our land, are of all races the most susceptible
to religious influences. If we should visit a foreign missionary field,
and learn that the mission had been blessed to the extent which has
characterized the labors of Christians at the South for their slaves, of
whom, according to the "Educational Journal," Forsyth, Ga., there are
now four hundred and sixty-five thousand connected with the churches of
all denominations, we should regard it as the chief of all the works of
God in connection with modern missions. It is this providential and
Christian view of slavery which quiets my mind. Now, suppose that,
contemplating a foreign missionary field where such results should be
found, one should object: "But there are evils there; people do not all
treat their dependants as they ought; hardships, cruelties, and some
barbarisms remain;"--we should not, I apprehend, proceed to scuttle such
a ship to drown the vermin. But I can see that Satan must be in great
wrath to find himself spoiled of so many subjects. One stronger than he
has brought here hundreds of thousands, who, in Africa, would have
perished forever, but who are now civilized and Christianized. Satan
would be glad, I think, to see American slavery come to an end. We have
no right to go and steal people in order to convert them; the salvation
of these slaves will not, in one iota, extenuate the guilt and
punishment of those who were engaged in the slave-trade. But "the wrath
of men shall praise Thee." In the writings of anti-slavery men I do not
remember to have met with cordial acknowledgments of what religion has
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Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.