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Excerpt from The Commission From God, of the Missionary Enterprise, Against the Sin of Slavery; And the Responsibility of the Church and the Ministry for Its Fulfilment: An Address, Delivered in Tremont Temple, Boston, Thursday, May 27th, 1858, Before the American Missionary Association
But the sin is too plain, too glaring, to need a repetition of the thousand proofs of its wickedness in the sight of God. Oppression, the reign of the Oppressor, the trampling of society and law upon the poor and needy, the oppression and destruo tion of the children of the needy, their bondage and degrada tion under deceit and violence, are forms of sin, especially when organized and national, that cannot consist with the ad vancement of true Christianity.
A slave-holding Christianity, by this demonstration, is a forgery and falsehood, a corruption of religion, a defiance of the Living God, a libel upon the gospel, and a perversion of it for the sanction and protection of some of the worst forms of human wickedness and misery. By the testimony of God's word, and the verdict of mankind, the climax of oppression, the consummation of its malignity, and the concentration of all its evils is personal slavery, the buying and selling of men, the claiming, holding, and making merchandise of human beings as property.
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