The Commission From God, of the Missionary Enterprise, Against the Sin of Slavery; And the Responsibility of the Church and the Ministry for Its ... May 27th, 1858, Before the American Mis - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Commission From God, of the Missionary Enterprise, Against the Sin of Slavery; And the Responsibility of the Church and the Ministry for Its Fulfilment: An Address, Delivered in Tremont Temple, Boston, Thursday, May 27th, 1858, Before the American Missionary Association

But the Missionary Enterprise advances by God's truth, and can accomplish these glorious predicted results only by the application of God's word to those very forms of sin, that in and through the prevalence of Christ's Missionary Kingdom are to be destroyed. In the light of that word, and by its condemning power, the peculiarity and greatness of the sin of oppression, in its intensest form, in our own country, as our own sin, must be demonstrated.

If you would see at a glance how the fire of God's word shoots its lightnings against this sin, you have but to take your concordance, and run through the passages under the head of oppression with its cognate terms, and you will be satisfied. The blessed old Hebrew language never had a word for slavery, nor a term for slave; it was too free and sacred to admit it, the reality itself never being permitted of the Almighty. And the unlimited reprobation and wrath of Jehovah against this sin are manifested in passages so multiplied and direct, and by inferences unavoidable from so many other passages, and by historical instances so blazing with solemn and terrible evidence, that it is impossible in this brief hour even to refer to them. The Hebrews had a fugitive slave law, but it was in behalf of the fugitive, on purpose to preserve him from being returned to his master. "Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee. He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates where it liketh him best; thou shalt not oppress him." The sending of the fugitive servant back to his master is stigmatized as oppression, and forbidden of God. Put this alongside of the Fugitive Slave Law in these United States, and the indication of God's judgment in regard to it is unmistakable; the reprobation of our legislation by the Almighty cannot be denied.

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