After the cars had started, I took my Bible from my carpet-bag, and read
these passages: "Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not
only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is
thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering
wrongfully." Then this is enforced by the example of our incarnate God
and Saviour, who is held up to Christian slaves as their example; and in
this connection, not only in this passage, but elsewhere in speaking to
slaves, the Apostle brings in the most sublime truths relating to
redemption. You will be struck with this in reading what is said to
slaves, that in several cases, the train of thought proceeds directly
from their condition and its duties, to the most sublime and beautiful
truths of salvation. How divinely wise did these exhortations to slaves
appear to me, that morning, in contrast with the spirit of the Northern
abolitionist, and his talk about "Bunker Hill," "'76," and his
"grandfather's old gun over the mantel-piece," and his injunctions to
slaves as to the duty of stealing, and even murdering, if necessary, to
effect their liberty. This is not the spirit of the New Testament.
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