Slavery in America: With Notices of the Present State of Slavery and the Slave Trade Throughout the World, Ausgaben 1-14G. Wightman, 1837 - 320 Seiten |
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... Christ had not yet been fully obeyed - that remonstrance , faithful , earnest , solemn re- monstrance , should be tried ; and that on the effect of such remonstrance must depend the steps which should be taken . It was contended by the ...
... Christ had not yet been fully obeyed - that remonstrance , faithful , earnest , solemn re- monstrance , should be tried ; and that on the effect of such remonstrance must depend the steps which should be taken . It was contended by the ...
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... Christ , in whom is neither " Jew nor Greek , barbarian nor Scythian , bond nor free , " to cast from them such ungenerous and unholy prejudice , and to put the en- slaved people in possession of their social rights , in the seats of ...
... Christ , in whom is neither " Jew nor Greek , barbarian nor Scythian , bond nor free , " to cast from them such ungenerous and unholy prejudice , and to put the en- slaved people in possession of their social rights , in the seats of ...
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... Christ ; that , in the resolutions which follow , we speak for ourselves , whilst , at the same time , we have abundant ground for entertaining the most confident assurance , that they are in full accordance with the views , and wishes ...
... Christ ; that , in the resolutions which follow , we speak for ourselves , whilst , at the same time , we have abundant ground for entertaining the most confident assurance , that they are in full accordance with the views , and wishes ...
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... Christ cur Lord , both theirs and ours , " and which imperatively prohibits our " suffering sin upon our brethren , " we feel it our incumbent duty to expostulate most affectionately , most respectfully , but most earnestly , with our ...
... Christ cur Lord , both theirs and ours , " and which imperatively prohibits our " suffering sin upon our brethren , " we feel it our incumbent duty to expostulate most affectionately , most respectfully , but most earnestly , with our ...
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... Christ , while the abomi- nation of slavery is cherished among them ; and that we think it a violation of consis- tency to receive any deputation from these assemblies to the churches of Christ in Great Britain . 6. That these ...
... Christ , while the abomi- nation of slavery is cherished among them ; and that we think it a violation of consis- tency to receive any deputation from these assemblies to the churches of Christ in Great Britain . 6. That these ...
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Seite 283 - Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Seite 94 - HARK! from the tombs a doleful sound! My ears attend the cry; " Ye living men, come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie. 2 " Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers; The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
Seite 196 - Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Seite 282 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh : for he hath been dead four days.
Seite 70 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Seite 84 - If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion toward his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious...
Seite 224 - When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved heaven itself in darkness, doubtless, a God of justice will awaken to their distress, and by diffusing light and liberality among their oppressors, or, at length, by his exterminating thunder, manifest his attention to the things of this world, and that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality.
Seite 21 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily : and thy righteousness shall go before thee ; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
Seite 29 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Seite 224 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.