s their example; and in
this connection, not only in this passage, but elsewhere in speaking to
slaves, the Apostle brings in the most sublime truths relating to
redemption. You will be struck with this in reading what is said to
slaves, that in several cases, the train of thought proceeds directly
from their condition and its duties, to the most sublime and beautiful
truths of salvation. How divinely wise did these exhortations to slaves
appear to me, that morning, in contrast with the spirit of the Northern
abolitionist, and his talk about "Bunker Hill," "'76," and his
"grandfather's old gun over the mantel-piece," and his injunctions to
slaves as to the duty of stealing, and even murdering, if necessary, to
effect their liberty. This is not the spirit of the New Testament. The
idea of submission on the part of "servants" to "masters," of "pleasing
them well in all things," of "fear and trembling," "not purloining but
showing good fidelity in all things," is not found in the Gospel of the
abolitionist. He complains that we do not send the true Gospel to the
South. There are passages in the Epistles addressed to slaves, which, if
faithfully regarded, would make fugitive slave laws for the most part
needless. No wonder that the New Testament, with its exhortations to
meekness and patience under suffering, and the duty of those who are
"under the yoke," and of masters as being "worthy of honor," and the
caution that the slave do not take undue liberty where his master is a
believer, nor assert the doctrine of equality in Christ as a ground for
undue familiarity, or disobedience, is repudiated by the vengeful spirit
of the abolitionist. How well the Apostle understood him! "If any man
teach otherwise," that is, contrary to these injunctions as to the duty
of slaves who have believing masters, "he is proud, (that is the leading
feature of his error) he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about
questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings,
evil surmisings." What
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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.