were so, with all the veneration he had for that holy Book, if it were shown to him that it sanctioned the traffic in human flesh, he would throw it from him, and learn again his religion and philosophy from the flowers of the fields." — Pennsylvania Freeman, No. 204, August 6, 1840. From this it is clear, that the Bible is of no account with this society, if it happens not to coincide with the course of abolitionism.
But, says one, does St. Paul, in his writings of the New Testament, anywhere seem to sanction the enslaving of black men? We will hear what he has said, and then judge. See 1 Cor. xx, 21, where both the fact of negro slavery and its legal righteousness are as plainly, though incidentally, stated, as it is in Gen. ix, 25, Levit. xxv, 44-46, or any other doctrine of the Scriptures, elsewhere. In the above scripture, St. Paul, in making some remarks on the condition of the different classes of men, who were converted to Christianity under his as well as the preaching of the other ministers of the gospel, says, that on account of their being converted to the faith of Christ, no man was to forsake his business or calling, but was to remain as he was, in such a particular; showing, thereby, that Christianity did not contemplate the breaking up of the civil relations of the country, even as they were then in operation among the people. To make this point clear, he seizes upon an extreme case of human calling, which was that of slavery, and urges that such a one was to expect no change in his temporal affairs, on account of his faith in Christ. With a view to impress this very principle on the minds of all men in that age, he
