Grant County Herald

SLAVERY AND THE CHURCH.—Is it not wonderful that at this day, under the light of Christianity, 1860 years after the death of Christ. a crime executed by the Divine law under the penalty of death, along with that of murder. should have been rescued from that criminal fellowship and revived under the Gospel,into Christian communion, as if it were a virtue! Was there ever a more malignant and extraordinary hallucination? The church in which it continues remains in the favor of God? A crime gibbeted by the law of God is taken by Christian surgeons from the gallows, is exhumed by gospel resurrectionists, galvanised into a hideous life, and set among living guests at the sacramental feast as a suitable companion with faith, hope and charity. And those who undertake to thrust the torch of God's flaming law within the skeleton, and to drag it forth beneath the condemnation of the Gospel, are themselves assaulted and pronounced as being greater sinners and infidels than those who, in the very church of God practice and make profit of the iniquity. I say it is an unparalleled madness. Dr. Cheever in London.