Slavery In The Methodist Episcopal Church Classic Reprint

Author : Shipley Wells Willson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331858225
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Appeal on the Subject of Slavery written by Shipley Wells Willson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Appeal on the Subject of Slavery: Addressed to the Members of the New England and New Hampshire Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church Dear Brethren - If any apology be necessary for our troubling you in this manner, we trust a sufficient one maybe found in the importance of the subject upon which we address you. It is a command of the infinite God, that we should open our mouths and plead a righteous judgment for the poor and the needy, who are dumb, and appointed to destruction (Prov. xxxi. 9); and it is in obedience to this command that we now appeal to you in the behalf of more than two millions of our fellow citizens, who, we know, are made poor and needy by the bondage which they are compelled to suffer, and who are dumb in a most affecting sense, inasmuch as they are not, and never have been, permitted to speak for themselves. On the subject of Negro Slavery, as its exists in the United States, we think we can say that we have bestowed the most serious attention for a number of years past. It has interested our sincerest sympathies and prayers, both for the enslaver and the enslaved; nor are we conscious of having neglected any means which might serve to afford us a consistent and enlightened view of the question which we now wish to propose for you consideration. But it is not the cause of two millions five hundred thousand slaves that we plead merely, nor yet the millions of their posterity which are yet to live and endure the evils of an unjust and violent bondage; but we plead for the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which we are, unworthy indeed, but we trust devoted members. We feel that we should prove ourselves utterly unfit for the relation which we sustain to this church, either as members or ministers, were we longer to keep silence and do nothing to avert the dreadful evils with which Slavery threatens, so evidently, her peace ad prosperity. We cannot look on. with indifference and see some of the plainest rules of her discipline outraged and set at defiance, though we were to leave out of the account the part which so many of her members and ministers have taken in the unnatural and anti-Christian work of Slavery. In approaching this subject, we are conscious of no unkind feelings towards any who may differ from us in opinion; we wish to speak the truth in love, to discharge a solemn duty which we owe to God our maker, to the church of which we are members and to the thousands of the poor slaves from whose minds the lights of science an (religion are shut out, and who are held in a bondage more oppressive and cruel in many respects, than any other of the kind which ever prevailed among men. 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.