CHAPTER XII.

SLAVERY AND THE CHURCH.

NON-FELLOWSHIP WITH SLAVEHOLDERS.

Scriptural view--Church must keep slaveholders out--If they get in, it must expel them--If the Church sanction slavery officially or practically, withdraw from it--Non-slaveholding required that it may be holy--The pillar of truth--That it may honor the Scriptures--Convert the world--Be faithful to slaveholders and to slaves--Non-fellowship required by decency--humanity--If fellowshiped, we shall have slaveholding preachers, and women-sellers and cradle-plunderers for class-mates--Cases given page 169