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awake
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course
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bought-upworship? is
hollow subserviency,
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it a cringing and [by a
because he is great and ;
dissolves
few hours of patientshining,
the iceberg on which allthe storms of winter
rich and powerful, and we dare not do have beat in vain. 0, that so happy a
otherwise1 His eyes are a flame of fire ;
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had been thought of and pursuedby
he reads the inmost soul,and will accept no all the other denominations ! But the day
such service. From our souls we adore and ; is past when this monstrous evil would so
love him, because he is holy and just and ! quietlyyieldto gentleand persuasive measgood,
and will not at all acqui the wicked.
We love him because he is the father of the At the time that the Quakers made their
fatherless, thejudgeof the because
widow;"
attempt, this Leviathan in the reeds and
he liftethallwho fall, and raiseth them that rushes of America was
young and callow,
are bowed down. We love Jesus Christ, because
and had not learned his strength Ṭhen
he is the Lamb without spot, the he might have been "drawn out with a
one altogether lovely Ẉe love the Holy'hook;"then they might have "made a
Comforter, because he comes to convince the 'covenant with him,and taken him for a serworld
of sin,and of righteousness, and of jvantforever;" but now Leviathan is fulljudgment.
0, holy church universal, grown. Beholdțhe hopeof him is vain,
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throughout all countries and nations ! 0, I Shall not men be cast down even at the
ye great cloud of witnesses, of all people! sightof him? None is so fiercethat dare
and languages and tongues ! "
differing in
j stirhim up. His scales are his prideșhut
many doctrines, but united in cryingWor- up together as, with a close seal;one is so
thyi8 the Lamb that was slain, for he hath near to another that no air can come beredeemed
us from all iniquity !
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! tween them. The flakes of his flesh are
"arise up!" be not silent! Testify against [joinedtogether.They are firm in themselves,
this heresy of the latter day,which, if it theycannot be moved. His heart is
were possible, is deceiving the very elect. as firm as a stone,yea, as hard as the nether
Your God. your glory,is slandered. Answer
mill-stone. The sword of him that layeth
mightythunderings ! Answer with the in-
multitude in heaven, who cry,
day and night, (Holy, holy,holy ! just and
true are thy ways, 0 King of saints!
with the voice of many waters and at him cannot hold. He esteemeth iron as
numerable straw, and brass as rotten wood. Arrows
cannot make him flee; sling-stones are
turned with him into stubble. He laugheth
at the shaking of a spear. Upon the earth
there is not his like : he is kingover all the
childrenof pride."
There are those who yet retain the delusion
thatșomehow or other,without any
CHAPTER III.
very particular effortor opposition, by a soft,
genteel, rather apologetic style of operation,
MARTYRDOM.
Leviathan is to be converted,baptizedand
At the time when the Methodist and Christianized.They can try it. Such a style
Presbyterian Churches passedthe anti-slavery
answers admirably as long as it is understood
resolutionswhich we have recordedțhe to mean nothing.But justthe moment
system of slavery could probablyhave been that Leviathan findstheyare in earnest,
extirpated by the church with comparatively I then they willsee the consequences. The delittletrouble.
Such was the experience of batesof allthe synodsin the United States,
the Quakers,who tried the experiment at as to whether he is an evil per se, will not
that time,and succeeded. The course theywake him. In fact,theyare rathera pleasant
pursued was the simplestpossibleṪhey humdrum. Nor will any resolutions
districtedtheir church,and appointed regular
thatthey "behold him with regret"givehim
committees,- whose business it was to go especial concern ; neither will he be much
from house to house,and urge the rules of annoyedby the expressedexpectation that
the church individually
on each slave-holder, he is to die somewhere about the millennium.
one by one. This was done in a spirit of Notwithstanding all the recommendations of
such simplicity and brotherly love that very synods and conferences Leviathan himself
few resisted the appeal. They quietly!
has but an indifferent npil
of his own
yieldedup, in obedience to theirown con- Christianity and an impressionthat he
sciences, and the influenceof theirbrethren. would not be considered' quite in
This mode of operation, thoughgentle, was with the universalreign of Christ on earth ;
as efficient as thecalm sun of summer, which but he does n't much concern himself about
keeping