A Dead Issue: And the Live One (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Meter, B. F. Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330746198 ISBN 13: 9781330746196

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from A Dead Issue: And the Live One

It would be an all-sufficient reason for writing this book, to draw the attention of the rising generation and of those who may follow to the Truth; and thus counteract the erroneous, false, and harmful impressions which are continually being made by school teachers and others upon the rising generation. The twaddle and silly sentiment which is thus used as argument against the institution of slavery could as well, or better, be used to oppose the slaughter of beasts or animals, birds and fishes, for the sustenance of man, and the burdensome labor imposed upon horses and all domestic animals. God, the Almighty and infinitely wise Creator of all things, has given man no more authority or right in His Holy word and Testament for these last named things than he has to possess and use slaves; and His infinite wisdom is as well displayed in His provision for the institution of slavery as for food and raiment or the institution of marriage and all the provisions which He made for the use and benefit of the human beings which He created as the crowning act of His creation of this world, that they should have dominion and control over it and all that is on it and in it. We are confident that we find abundant testimony in God's Word as contained in the Old and New Testaments to convince all who accept this book as inspired and true, that "Bible Slavery" was as Divinely instituted as any of the other institutions and precepts set forth in that holy and inspired Word, and besides this and in connection with it, furnish a subject of sufficient magnitude and importance to enlist the most serious and earnest thought, even of the greatest living Statesmen, and all who have an earnest desire for the welfare of mankind.

NOTE - I am indebted to a pamphlet published from two or three lectures delivered by Rev. Stuart Robinson, D. D., of Louisville, Ky., while sojourning in Canada in 1862-3, and there perhaps more from necessity than choice while the abominable old unpleasantness was raging furiously in this country. He was one of the most learned and distinguished divines then living. I have drawn on this pamphlet freely for scripture testimony which he had already collected in proof of the sentiments and views which I entertain and have expressed in this book.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330746198
• ISBN 13: 9781330746196
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 108
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