The Ladies Of North Carolina

MIE LAST SHALL BE PlftST."aci Is it possible thatour Southern lders ever read the sentencent the hend bic tliis art iele with n. reaiizing sense of 'O1 ï reverse of fortune that awnits the ha ndnian and his master ï A chango of re. ïrlds, may change their condition, in bic lation to each other. Christ says, "In int y Father's house are many mansions." ass liose who now live in their parlors, may co on be placed in the rernotest part of H at magnificent building "not made with n mds, eternal in the heavens." "For ns stc e body is one, and hath many members, id all the membei s of that one body, ar ing many are one body; so is Christ. - th ar by one spirit are we all baptised into sa ie body, whether we be Bond or Free; hc ld have been all made to drink into one ra jirit." This body, or house has many w embers that are represented by the ha ;ad, the eye, the ear, the hand, and the ar ot. See 1 Cor. 12: 12-21. 1 Pet. 2: 5. i fu The Jews were once a 6laveholding s0 sople. SeeLevit. 25: 45, 46. But now, The priesthood being changed, there is ti( mde of necessity a change also of the " ïw. Heb. 7: 12, They were called to ubmit to the new dispensation of mercy, ut they would not do so. Rom. 10: 3. stephen, addressed them in the following I, anguage: "Ye stiffnecked and j :ised in heart and ears, y e do alwiys ■ ïist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, I sodoye. Acts 7: 51. Yes, their 1 thers held Slaves, and they were determined to persist in the same unhallowed 1 practice. "And even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts." 2 Cor. 3: 14-16. And David saith, "Let their table be mado a snare, and a trap, and a recompense unto them." Rom. 11: 9. "Let us labor therefore tol enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." Heb. 4: 11. Those ancientSlaveholderswere early informed of the unhappy consequence of disobedience to the divine command.ses says, "The Lord shall mnke thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commcndments of the Lord thy God, which I command theethisday to observe and do them." (Deut. 28 : 13.)- This law is summed up in one word, "Thou slmltlove thy neighbor as thyself." Have they obeyed? If so, why did Jesus teil them, "Yeare fromBENEATH," (John 8: 23.) "Mnny that are first shall be last?" (Matt. 19: 30.) "For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he thnt humbleth himself shall be exalted." Luke 14: 11. We hope that the modern Slaveho!der3 will see this and tremble at God's word; it cannot be trifled with, with impunity. The light afflictioi.s of the Slave will work for their eternal glo ry, when they shall be exalted above their unkind oppressors, that now hok them in cruel bondage. As true as there 1 is a God, "The last shall be first." Saint Paul says, "I have fought a good fight, " (not by whipping slaves,) I have kept the ' faith; [that worketh 11 to no man,] ' henceforih there is laid i[) for me a crown " of righteousness, which the Lord the " righteous Judge shall give unto me at 1 that day," etc. 2 Tim. 4: 7. Will that crown alsobe given tothern whoseworks ' are "Envv, and strife: and división; wood, 1 hay, stubble," when their worjw shall be ; burned up, and they suffer loss; and they 3 themselves shall bo saved, yet so as by fireí I Cor. 3: 3, 12, 15. And shall the e Slaveholder, and the Slavedealer that part 1 a man and his wite forever, by selling - them and sending them away into distani 1 lands, receivo a crown in the great body s of Christ where we shall be membersof v his body according jo our works? Christ l says, "If ye love me ye will keep my A commandmenls." The Slaveholder pro1 fesses to love God, yes, he daré inako this high profession to piety, when at the lf same time he will turn a deaf car to úbu of the most sacred commands in the Holy f, Bible. And that command is as follows: f VVhat therefore God hath joined togethe er let no man put asunder." They virlu- ally and practically advocate the doctrine e of Fanny Wright and Robert Dale Owen, e with a lie in their mouth when they say, 0 that they love God, whose word they do t not regard. The poor, heart-stricken 'f wife is n slave, she must be sold and drogged from her dear husband forever; sho must takc her leovo of him to see his face no more. She must be hurried ; ofT into the wide world to meet its temptar tions and contend with its storms alone; 3 her heart, her bleeding hcart must be most sorely oppressed willi sad emotions 1 and inexpresable struggles nmongstran- gers in a strange land; the command of f God to tHé contrnry nötwithstanding. - t The day must come, in which she must leavo lbo walls of iho house, the firesido