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Virginia Bible Society

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
June
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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-What, 'símil theAmerican Ohurches fnrm hible pocieties, and !edre themselves before God, that hev wilt rive ït to th? A'hole world, & thrn withh-ld it rom 2,500 000 sonls in their midst? What lave wc Keen here? A Virg-ininn a Christian hveo(pr comes here nud npppals to ns bnut the Va. state bible poriety to eend the He lo tire ertreae eadff of the eorth. V7hy(on't he eive thé bible to lus own slaves nnd teach thfm to rcad it,bef.re he osks tor money to sein] biblps to the slaves in disiant lands. How does he look, the ngent of the Virginia bible ociety, begg'mg fbr money, to give tó ihe Chinese men, anti Hihdno Parihs, and refusing to ffive il to f00 000 be'mgs in liis own states? Why what a hypocrjte? Is God to he thus mocked? I wiil raise mj voice ngninst sucli hypocrisy as onr us I live. It shall rinp in the earc of överv slnve holder who fukd ui to hplp Inm jiVe bibles lo the healhen 1000 miles off, while he wühholds ïlipm IjdM ut his own door? VVIiy the very l he sends to the Hindoo, is bought with tha blood of the souls of ns slavea. It is dividing the gains with ïlell nnd God. if (his is Christianity, vvell might the heathen sav, deüver

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Signal of Liberty
Old News