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Methodist Testimony

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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-Tho folio.■ëapiwu i me jLiuDiin Kegister Ir land, o nnswer to tho representations 'f James Caughey, an American Meihodi. Minister. "Thirdly-Thou answ ered tns .. Methodist body in the freefSlatesE . all it cuuld for the aboUtioLftv6 that it was almost powerless to efiW hing. Allovv me to ask thee whai U .? tneaning of ih iblloving resolution 1 ? I have tüken from araongst tnanv oTh ssued by the Methodist Lodv y,?S States? ' '"eiree The Ohio Annunl Conference resolved I hat thosc brethren and citizens of .1 ' North . who resist the aboü.ion movem ' wuh firmness and moderatioo, are ,ï irue Iriends of ,he church, to the 11,2 ihc souih, and lo ihe consliluiion of,,, coinmon country.' &c."03-We undëmund that eerlain ver shrewd calculators upon politica! affuinhave discovered (hal the Liberty pari; has now arrivcd at its maximum, and U the very presagos of which havft atlcnded itdcring the present year, are but '.he indicalions of its npproaching úissok, tion : jjnst as the heette flush on the cheelt of the consumptive patiënt, only thows ho firtn ia the liold of the discaso upo,, h constitution.Weareinclinedto think tho uishea tf these gentlonien have had sume nfluenca npon iheir conclusions: for it is an eaiablished principie of human nature, that me are much incüned tobelieve that for which they strongly hope. The followingurticle from the Tocsia shows, tml ,he Wjr prophets ol'New York and Michigan ngreq c.xuctly in their prediclions. Whata M. mu kable coincide nee !" When the proplw ets all agree, the eveni will certainlycoiQa to pass, wiil it noi?"Aftcrthis election U will he the la3t of ! you - i lus was the cry last fa; and the liberty party, 9O fUr us the Siates have voted, have augmentcd their votefivefold Sage prophets, these! And vet 6orr0' who would be knowing ones, kept up thii silly cry, sull, (jus election will be the lustot you.-' Poorcu.'s, howtheyhate togoovtofotfce! Why, gentlemen, wo nuv'ut butjusibcgun- hardly that. You will see us un ihe course Jong before you :n the spring elections. You don't Jcnow Beller read our papers; (ha locsin for exainple.fórThe amount of flour exportod (rom Michigan n 1842 s eslimaiod as foüow In the Free Frese ;A New York Editor saya: "ín all the places n the vyest tvhere I hnd an opportunity of observmg, it is common for travellers to drink rum and use profana language." TheMendians sniled ior Sierra Leone on the 26th uit. The fnrewell meeting was held at the Tabernacle New York City.Gkorge TnoMPsow, lately made (he following declaration in a public meeling in England: ''There are six millionsof our countrymen who never tiste wheaten bread (pom. Riofilh tomonth, and year lo year, not because the hand of God has nót supplied i but because odious and unnalural Jaw: prevent it from coming to otrr shores.- That part of the human rnce which wa would keep the most holy,the most chaste are fast abandooing themselves to vty of viee, ondgiviiig tbemselvea up victims o lust for the sake of a morsel of bread.'Mr. James Curtís of Ohio,is lecturing to the popiilation of Englnnd on tho capacity ond willingness of America to supply Eng- land with an abundnnce of bread stuffa ra excbange for fier manufactures.