pears in these rays of Divine light, with characteroistic reverence for the true God. This reverence always includes qualities which fit men to control the slaves of animal appetites, devoid of self-reaspect, and to train them in virtue and religion; Thence Ham is made a slave and subjected to Shem's control. Japheth is enlarged by the Almighty, lo until he dwelle he is further enlarged in Shem's tents, or in other words

-until

› by the Almighty, until

slave labor; and authorized them to enslave poor
young females of their own race, to save them from
poverty and orime; and to enslave such of their
own brothers with families, as had not skill to pro-
vide for themselves. They were directed also to sub-
ject their criminal
domestic
and service of masters, that their murals might be
sions. All this shows that God's peculiar people
corrected; and society secured against their aggres

the
he degra

to and he Ham's masteram is made his servant, were taught to use slavery, as a good he scrip

in other words, until he exercises despotie control over Ham, and friendly bocontrol over Shem, in working out the great results of human progress.

ded and helpless. And it is written in
tures for our learning.

Jon This shows that in God's families, slavery was at this time that the Savionr set up his king

for securing these
as a necessary means for controlling,

results, in nations as well as
must be

When Shem's mission was ended in Asia by the coming of Christ, Japheth had begun in Europe to assume the responsibilities of his mission. It dom. We are deeply interested therefore in knowwhich Japheth had established, within the limits of his control. His control, or government, extended over a hundred and twenty millions of souls.

buded man. It showing the inferior and degra-ing what Jesus did in his kingdom with slavery, Improving, and

ob

also, that qualifications, fitting men for religious progress, such as Shem had, are not the qualifications which fit them for political aoand scientific progress. This shows also that the medium man may do well in religion, while he can not rise above mediocrity in the higher attainments ar of science and skill, in the progressive developements 11 of the natural world, unless Japheth, or the superior oman, will dwell in his tent, and lead him on in the

We have already seen that Christ interfered, in no way with the prerogatives s of earthly governments. But we have seen also, that within his own kingdom, he exercised absolute control over everything sinful in the sight of God, whether it be that which is sinful in itself.

path of progress. Religious progress is best pro- to be sin by Divine prohibitiohat which is made

moted by the moral power of the masses the
world's progress, by the intellectual power of the
classes.
SHE

<?> The great truth_of Japheth's superiority and
mission, has been in a course of development since
other was inaugurated in the West of Europe,
La China, the East Indies, and Asia generally,
Shem had risen to a level above which he can
› never rise unaided. Ham never has, and probably
→→nover can, share in the great results of Japheth's
mission, without the absolute control of Japheth

If slavery therefore be sinful in either of these respects, it must be prohibited in the Church of Christ; and just here, let me remark once for all, that if slavery be a lawful relation, yet it is a relation that subjects the slave very often to injustice and cruelty by the master, just as the marriage relation very often does the wife; just as the parental relation very often does the child; just as the political relation of ruler and people very often does the subject. The authority given of God in all these relations is often abused by those who exercise it. Now, let dom, has given his

as a humane benefactor. Freedom and equality it be noticed by all sanet Christ in his king

and approval to all those relations, but not to their abuse. And let my reader notice, that Christ in his Kingdom, has cor rected all the abuses of authority in these several relations; and has made ubedience in them, to be obedience to God; requiring that this obedience be rendered with good will to the authoritive head of these relations. This is as true of all these relations, as it is, of any one of them.

9are Ham's social poison. Moral health, or intellectual manhood, cannot be secured to him while Hobe drinks this poison. yd Slavery was decreed of God for the correction hief sin and the good of the world. "It made its ap pearance according to the Bible, first, i in the family of Abraham, in the domestic form. This took, place when God called Abraham from Ur of the LA Chaldees, to inaugurate Shem's mission, under the od patriarchal form of government. God called him The reasoning which aims to destroy the relaquinto the land of Canaan to survey the theatre upon tion of slavery, because of injustice, cruelty, or which, after four hundred years, his mission was oppression, on the part of the master will-apply to to be prosecuted to its consummation, under a na with exactly the same force against the marriage tional form of government, with God himself as relation, the paternal relation, and that of ruler - the lawgiver and governor sure keeper, and prolations, can be abused and His authority in all of while pros and people, because God's authority in all these re ecuting his high trust mulgator of God's will, bought and raised a very them, is abused. If therefore, the abuse of His large family of slaves. At his death, this man who authority in one of them, makes the relation to be - was selected of God to know and teach His will, sinful, then the abuse of His authority in the oth Bigave these slaves to his son Isaac in perpetuity. ers, makes them to be sinful also, In the Church ai Isaac at his death, willed them to Jacob. Jacob of Christ, the abuse of God's authority in these while young, married in Padan Aram, and by his relations is prohibited, and the right use of 1 His own'skill and industry, made large additions by authority, is enjoined. It' is enjoined equally in purchase to those slaves which he inherited at his all, as in any one of them. father's death. With these slaves, and their inDerease in Egypt, Abraham's seed were miraculously led by the Almighty from Egypt to the land of Canaan. They had then been domestic slaveholders for some four hundred and fifty years. While the Almighty delivered them from national bondage, He fully sanctioned their system of domestic bondage, in allowing their slaves to celebrate the passover, and prohibiting it to hired servants. s is serv They were required, when they reached the promgovern ised land, to destroy utterly, without mercy, seven n and ob of the most degraded nations of Ham's descendants, , was a gand to enslave the balance of them; which amountsa governed at that time, to seven or eight nations more, vithin the limits given to Abraham by promise.-od gave to Abraham's seed at the same time the rkets of the world also, for a larger supply of

While ism helds slavery to be a sin; yet it admits it sanctioned in the church. If this be so, then according to abolitionism, the direo tion given to masters and slaves in the New Tes tament, is direction given to teach them how to live in sin; and so of the direction given to husband and wife, parent and child, ruler, and and people. Consistency will make all these di rections, to be directions given to the parties to teach them how to live in sin. How can we estab lish a difference when the Holy Ghost has made no difference? God, in his word has established each relation, and given to its head the authority to govern. He has enjoined obedience in all these relations, and for the same end in all. That is, that God may be glorified--as you will see in the references now to be made.

21 9001 caindo asijub osi aindo ad or 9b8m The object now to be accomplished, is simply too will now bring to the notice of my reader already eady referred to and quoted at length. show from the New Testament, that the Roman Slavery which existed

established upon their ruins.

If upon the principle of private property and personal rights, still the question would come up, whether the settlement of these rights, and the relations out of which they grow, was to be left to the powers that be"-or to this new king of universal dominion. To answer these questions is one great object of the apostolic letters. The passages in these letters, which sanction human governments as ordinances of God, that are to be Geged by the disciples of Christ, have been

there respect of persons wi h him.so

Here is instruction for a Christian family, a domestic empire, containing within itself, the elements of a state for whose welfare a system of control and subordination was established by the Roman law and sanctioned by the savior; in which husbands, parents, and masters, are invested with authority over wives, children, and slaves; and the exercise of this uthority, and

ceive, such a service as this is, from all other men? Again, the wife is bound to obey her husband, in every thing. Now, if this obedience of the wife does not grow out of her relation to her husband, then she is bound according to abolitionism, to obey every other man, in every thing, and every other man has an equal right, with her husband, to require it of her. The slave is bound to obey his master, and to please him well. If this obligation does not grow out of the relation the slave stands in to his master, then the slave, the wife, the child, and the citi zen, are all released from all the obligations of obedience, in these several relations; and may inaugurate the anti-diluvian lawlessness and licentiousness, as more in accordance with the freedom and equality of the "higher law” of the present day.

The letter from which I have quoted, was writen to a church, that on two accounts, was second to no other in importance. First, for the facility with which statesmen, both in Europe and Asia, could obtain knowledge concerning the effects of Christianity on civil government; and secondly, for the influence which would be exerted by her members, in this great social and commercial centre, upon men of business and pleasure who visited that city, as well as upon the members of other churches on the two adjacent continents.

the yielding of this subjection cheerfully, are made to be Christian duties. Christ recognizes these relations as lawful; and he recognizes the authority and subjection which belong to them, as just and right in the sight of God. He gives instruction how God is to be glorified by the parties. The husband is to glorify him, by such an exercise of his authority over his wife as will prove that he loves her as himself,-by a love, which in character resembles that of Christ to the Church. The wife is to glorify God, by a submission to her husband, which in character resembles that which is due to the Savior by the Church. The child is to glorify God, by an obe. dience to his parents, which God makes in his word to be right, and promises to reward with good days and long life. The father is to glorify God, by such an exercise of his authority as will not provoke, and by its severity, beget wrath in his child; but by such an exercise of it as will bring him up to social, moral, and intellectual manhood in the fear of God. The servant is to glorify God, by an obedience to his master, the same in character as the obedience he is commanded to render to Christ. The master is to glorify God, by an exercise of his authority over his servant, the same in character as the obedience required of his servant to him; that is, that he is to exercise this authority with singleness of heart as to Christ-Christ having required it to be done, and made it to be a me- In addition to the importance of Ephesus, as dium of serving bim, when done by a right rule a social, commercial, and religious centre, the and to a right end. These several reciprocal Apostle attached additional importance to it, duties, grow out of these several relations. Each from his personal knowledge of the habits of of these relations, of husband and wife, parent the place, and the character of the materials of and child, master and servant, has the sanction and approval of God, both among the patriarchs under the law of Moses, and now by the authority of Christ, in the organic laws of his king dom, which visibly, is a gospel Church where all its ordinances are administered, its doctrines taught, and laws enforced. This being so, then I ask, if a man honors his understanding by limiting the slave's obligation, as the abolitionists do, to such duties as the slave owes to every other man, as much as to his master; that is, that the slave is only bound to speak the truth, to be honest, to perform moral requirements, which are due by him to all other men as much as to his master; and that these moral requirements are equally the duty of all men, and do not grow out of the relation he stands in to his mas

ter.

Some of the greatest and best men in the abolition ranks have put forth such an interpretation as the above, of those plain portions of God's word, and thousands, if not millions, have swallowed the poison; but these distinguished abolitionists, from some cause, have omitted to mention the "obedience," and "subjection," which grow out of the relation itself, and which God has positively commanded Servants are positively commanded in the letter above quoted, "to obey them who are their masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of their heart as unto Christ, with good will doing them service." Query. Do the slaves of the New Testament, stand in a relation to all other men, that makes it their duty to obey all other men after this model? And have all men authority from God, to control, direct, and re

which the church was composed. He had labored here in person, night and day, for three years; going from house to house, teaching the doctrines of the gospel, and exhorting to the discharge of its practical requirements. During this time, he had invaded and overthrown in that city, a branch of the most dangerous organization to truth, which had ever existed. Satan in every age, has succeeded among its members, in securing accredited mediums of communication with the spirit world. The witch of Endor, was enabled by Satan, to induce sensi ble men to give up God's word, and resort to these medium for knowledge, both for the present and the future world. They had an existence among Ham's descendants in Palestine. God, in his law, ordered them and idolaters to be put to death. Both were put to death for the ame reason. Both exalted lying spirits above the Eternal I AM. Hence, the New Testament caution, "Try the spirits." God's word, under the Mosaic and Christian dispensation, furnishes the test-if they speak not in agree ment with that, they are not of God.

We have lately been informed of their organized existence in China, and that this organization, dates back centuries before the letter of Paul to the Ephesians was written. The masters of this diabolical art, and their Satanic mediums, are among us. Their mediums are perhaps as unconscious of Satanic possession, as was the damsel who followed Paul until he turned and cast the Devil out of her.

Christ was constantly ejecting Satan from the bodies of men when here on earth, and restoring them to their right minds again. The Apos

These five verses bring to our notice the doc trine of Divine subordination established under the Gospel between masters and servants. They bring to our notice also, by unavoidable inference, the teachers of a doctrine that is subversion of this subordination both in Church and State. The moral character, and conduct ascribed to those who subvert the doctrine of "Divine subordination, in Church and State, is also brought to view in the small compass of these five verses, and at the end of them, a command is given to withdraw from the opposers of Divine subordination.

Blaspheming Hi name and doctrine, are repre- The Apostle says of the abolitionist at Ephesented as consequences originating in the insub- sus, "he is proud, knowing nothing”—that is, he ordinate tendency of the doctrine which these k knows nothing of God's will concerning slavery, believing servants had received. Now let it be as that will has been announced by his Spirit in noted by the reader, that the Apostle had never the Bible- or if he knows it to be in the Bible, delivered any doctrine to servants, that had an then he does not submit to the Bible as authoriinsubordinate tendency. But on the contrary, ty. in his letter to this church one year before, he had taught servants to "obey them that were their masters according to the flesh in singleness of heart as unto Christ, with good will doing service as unto the Lord." In the same letter, he taught the servants in that church, that Christ would reward them for that service. In the second verse he teaches believing slaves, who had believing masters, that they were not to despise their masters because they were believers; but the rather to do them service, because they were faithful and beloved brethren, who would be benefitted by their service. Now why were such direction and doctrine as this necessary? Neither Paul, nor any other Apostle, had ever taught the servants of that, or any other church, that the doctrine of the gospel authorized be lieving slaves to despise christian masters be cause they were believers in Christ. Where did this anti-christian hatred in the heart of these servants come from? Certainly, not from the teaching of the Apostle. He taught obedience to masters with good will from the heart, whether they were believing or unbelieving masters. He taught that God required this of them, and that when they rendered it, they were to render it as to God-which made it a part of their religious service. The doctrine which begat hatred in their hearts to their masters, was a doctrine taught by some one else, who did not consent to the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ on this subject (referred to by the Apostle in the 3d verse.) This being the state of facts, the Apostle tells Timothy in the second verse, that he was to teach servants, "to honor their masters, and to serve them with good will from the heart, as to the Lord"-to teach, that this was their duty, made so by the Savior, -that be must "teach and exhort," them to the discharge of this duty, that God might be glorified, his doctrine honored, and scandal avoided. He then tells Timothy, that if any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the wholesome words of Christ" and would not wipe his hands of all responsibility for such treasonable and insubordinate sentiments in the church, it would be proof that he was "proud, knowing nothing" on this subject, that he was in rebellion against Christ; and therefore he orders Timothy, at the end of the fifth verse, that from all such characters, he must "withdraw himself." In the fourth and fifth verses, he tells Timothy the description of character such Abolition sentiments produce, and how such characters employed themselves. Now if such characters were not already in Ephesus, then why does the Apostle speak of their char acter and co duet ?-and why command to withdraw from them?

We can, and we ought, to compare the abolitionists of the present day with the abolitionism, at Ephesus, or with the description given of it by the Apostle. If they are identically the same, then we run no risk in assigning to each the same father.

The question comes up who are they from whom, by this command, Christians are required to withdraw themselves? Can individuals be ascertained from their character, and with as much certainty, as that light and darkness are not the same? I think so, for the following reasons: First, there are classes of individuals at the present day, who teach what the Apostle forbid to be taught that is, that servants under the yoke of bondage are not bound by the law of God to count their masters worthy of all konor-who teach that all laws which subject men to slavery are laws which disgrace the civilization of the world. Secondly, there are classes of individuals who teach that such laws ought not to be obeyed, and that resistance to them is the highest style of Christian duty. Thirdly, there are large classes who teach that slavery is the greatest of sins-the sum of all villainy.There are classes who teach that the slave so far from honoring his master with all honor, ought to run away from his master, to steal his property, to burn his house, and in every way to resist these New Testament directions. Organized abolition is a unit, made up of thousands, if not millions, of individuals who are actively and zealously engaged in teaching all the abolition opposition to the laws of God and men, that I have specified above, and much more of the same kind. They are banded together, not only to teach it, but to carry out their teaching, by overthrowing slavery and the sovereignty of the slaye States, at whatever cost of life and suffering, so that four millions of happy slaves shall be made free from labor, to perish of want."

Now my reader, I must be permitted to say that the abolitionists of this country and Burope are engaged in teaching a doctrine which is plainly and palpably at war with a most important doctrine of the New Testament--that of civil and ecclesiastical subordination. A doctrine so dangerous to the peace, prosperity, and happiness of Church and State, makes it the imperative duty of all Christians to withdraw from all ecclesiastical connexion with them. This the Apostle expressly charges Timothy to do. No Christian man who knows what abolitionism teaches, and who wishes honestly and sincerely to know from whom the Apostle requires him to withdraw himself, can be at a loss in deciding that abolitionists are the characters. They teach