Lanterna Rally

Author: Samuel Blanchard How

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781333420093

Excerpt from Slaveholding Not Sinful; Slavery, the Punishment of Man's Sin, Its Remedy, the Gospel of Christ: An Argument Before the General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, October, 1855 Mr. President: Two principal objections have been made against receiving into our Church the Classis of North Carolina. The first objection is, that if we do so, We shall destroy the peace of our Church, and introduce among ourselves distraction and divis ion by the agitation of the slavery question. The second objection is, that slaveholding is a sin, and that therefore, we ought not to admitzslaveholders into our Church. I shall attempt, first of all, to show that slaveholding is not a sin, and that therefore, there is no reason to exclude slaveholders, simply because they are slaveholders, from union and com munion with us. If this is established, then both objections necessarily fail: for it would be alike ah surd and wicked to disturb the peace of the Church for that which the Scriptures teach us is not a sin, and which was no barcto church-fellowship with the Apostles of Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.