Praying Slaveholders

Wlmt makes this term any more compatible with the requirements of Christ, than to speak of prajingr gamblers, or proyinq pickpockets? Should we affirm that a certain man thal by the high-way occasionally took Iiis neighbor's money by force, was a Christian and a praying man; what kind of views would i one suppose we had of Christianity? If a man wlio robs nis neighbor of his money can ! be a Christian, one would think the devil might be a Christian too. Bnt he pray?, - O yes, he pray.. So does the slaveholder! and 1 he robs his unofiendins: victisn of his money, reputation, wife, chüdren, and of himself, and doorns hisposterity todcgradation, misery,and 6orrovv, Eecond to the cala mil íes of thosein hcll alore. But hO ís a Jchrislían because ( forsooth he prays! We recerrtly heard aman who was formerly a slave, make a remark respectirig his mistress, which we wilt give jn his own words. He said, 'She used to pray eo fervcntly and appear so humble that one would her to ba & Christian; but she would spring frotn her knees oii lo a slave's back and suck him as dry as a tnink in lwo minutes.' No wonder the idea of a pray ing slavedriver should sound somevvhat dissonant to many, cspecially ío tfae elave.- The Religión of Jesús Christ, and the systeDï of American Slavery, are in our opinión antipodes - they are incompatibles of the