The
idea of submission on the part of "servants" to "masters," of "pleasing
them well in all things," of "fear and trembling," "not purloining but
showing good fidelity in all things," is not found in the Gospel of the
abolitionist. He complains that we do not send the true Gospel to the
South. There are passages in the Epistles addressed to slaves, which, if
faithfully regarded, would make fugitive slave laws for the most part
needless. No wonder that the New Testament, with its exhortations to
meekness and patience under suffering, and the duty of those who are
"under the yoke," and of masters as being "worthy of honor," and the
caution that the slave do not take undue liberty where his master is a
believer, nor assert the doctrine of equality in Christ as a ground for
undue familiarity, or disobedience, is repudiated by the vengeful spirit
of the abolitionist. How well the Apostle understood him! "If any man
teach otherwise," that is, contrary to these injunctions as to the duty
of slaves who have believing masters, "he is proud, (that is the leading
feature of his error) he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about
questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings,
evil surmisings.
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