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1 Charles D. Cleveland, True Gospel Preaching: What Is It 1 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/tgpchw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 49. TRUE GOSPEL PREACHING: WHAT IS IT?* I HAVE been requested, my friends, by the Secretary of the Parent Society, to open this meeting with a few remarks upon the object of our organization. But, as that was stated by the Secretary so fully at the formation of this Society on Wednes- day evening, I will merely say, in a word, for the benefit of those who were not with us then, that the great object of this organization is TO UNITE ALL CHRISTIANS, ON THE BASIS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AS DIVINELY INSPIRED, AGAINST SLAVERY, AND TO CONCENTRATE THE ENERGIES OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AND OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES UPON THE EXTINCTION OF OUR GREAT NA- TIONAL SIN. Sad is it, indeed, my friends, that there should be any need of such an organization,-that there should be a necessity to form an association outside of the Christian Church to do the work peculiarly appropriate to the Church itself; for the very existence of an anti-slavery, a peace, or a temperance society is a standing rebuke against the Church of Christ. If, at the Reformation, the Christian Church bad incorporated into its faith, preaching, and practice those principles of the Christian religion which the friends of Peace, Temperance, and Freedom have arrayed against every form of oppression and wrong; if every Christian denomination, Papal and Protestant, had simply but firmly taken the consistent course that the Society of Friends has taken against the three great scourges of the human race, INTEMPERANCE, SLAVERY, and WAR, there would now be no need of any such organizations as this; for, as the Rev. Albert Barnes has well said, There is no power OUT of the Church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were - Remarks delivered at the first meeting of the Church Anti-Slavery Society, Philadelphia, at the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Cherfy St., be- low Tenth, Friday evening, March 9th, 180, by Pro. Charles D. Cleveland. 1 Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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