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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

- Supnose a communitying itself "tie church," tolerated theft or gambling; and vvere in every other respect goou, amiable and hospitable, and "chivalrous," too, f you please; would it be right for Chrislian churches in other sections of the country, where community held it wrong to steal or gamble, to extend Christianfellowship to them, and ask them to the communion, and into their pulpits, as Christian teachers, simply because the evil doers did not see it to be a sin tostea! and gamble? And especially would it be right if they did so afterlight had been pressed upon them on those subjects, and they had refused lo see it? - VVhat think ye,should we be doing right to join hands wilh them stil}, and thus tacit-r ly consent to theft and gambling? Or would it be right to rebuke ihem, and abstain fróm Christian fellowship with them, until repentance should bring forih its fruils? Now this is precisely the present predicamentof theslave queslion. Slaveholders nre unrebuked at the communion and in the pulpit, except by the abolitionists, and they, to the great whole in the church, are but a mere hanlful ; while at the same time the mass of professed Christians wiH confes?, (abstraclly) that slaveholdinff is a most agüravated sin.