It being thus obvious that slavery is in opposition to the whole spirit and tenor of the gospel, could it be believed, that such an institution was to flourish and prevail, amidst the brightness of the millenial day. Surely in those halcyon times, when the lion shall lie down with the lamb, when the venomless serpent was to sport with the young child, and the weaned child was to play upon the hole of the cockatrice’s den, there would be no such sight in all God’s holy mountain as a haughty and ferocious master frowning on his slave. All pride, and usurpation, and oppression, and cruelty, would have fled away before the breath of peace and the smile of kindness; and was it not then the obvious duty of all Christian men both to pray and to labor for the removal of so great and manifest an obstacle in the way of Emmanuel’s glory?
