Mr. Birney´s Letter to the Churches (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Mr. Birney´s Letter to the Churches Its effects upon its subjects are to stupify and benumb the mind, to vitiate the conscience, to multiply the sins of the grossest character, to exclude the knowledge of God and Christ, as well as of the necessity of any preparation for the world to come, and of course, to prepare them for hell. Its effects upon those who maintain it, and in some measure upon those who witness and consent to it, are indolence, diabolical passions, deadness to the claims of justice and the calls of mercy, a worldly spirit, and contempt for a large portion of our fellow-creatures; therefore, as far as their qualifications for an eternal state are modified by slavery, it rather prepares them for the sentence of the damned than for the invitation of the blessed. That the above are some, but by no means all of the characteristics of slavery, no one, with our opportunities of witnessing the thing itself, will deny. New, does it not seem passing strange, that a "monster of such hideous mien" should have been received within the very midst of the church of God - that it should find in its bosom, its surest and softest resting place - that it should be fondled, sleeked and cherished there? and that if any one attempt to tear him from his lodgment, with one consent all cry out, "Let him alone! let him alone! we have become so accustomed to his presence, that much of his deformity has been taken away, and we cannot do without him; we are preparing him for his discharge, which, as he is slow to learn, he will probably be ready for, in some hundred or two years: then he can be dismissed without injury to any one concerned; but don´t disturb him now; he is very quiet, all things are going on well. Make what preparation you please for his future dismission, but by no means touch him at this time. The church! the church! you´ll endanger the church, and make it more unpopular than it now is. I charge you, wait for a ´more convenient season.´ God is opening the way for his discharge in his own good time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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