"I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts." "As the partridge setteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." And now we will listen to a few selected PRECEPTS AND SAYINGS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. "Call no man master, neither be ye called masters." "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them." "Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another." "Do good to all men, as ye have opportunity." "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." "If thou mayest be made free, use it rather." "The laborer is worthy of his hire." "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." Some years ago a clerical lickspittle of the slave power had the temerity to publish a book or pamphlet entitled "Bible Defence of Slavery," which the Baltimore _Sun_, in the course of a caustic criticism, handled in the following manner:-- "Bible defence of slavery! There is no such thing as a Bible defence of slavery at the present day. Slavery in the United States is a social institution, originating in the convenience and cupidity of our ancestors, existing by State laws, and recognized to a certain extent--for the recovery of slave property--by the Constitution. And nobody would pretend that, if it were inexpedient and unprofitable for any man or any State to continue to hold slaves, they would be bound to do so on the ground of a "Bible defence" of it. Slavery is recorded in the Bible, and approved, with many degrading characteristics. War is recorded in the Bible, and approved, under what seems to us the extreme of cruelty. But are slavery and war to _endure_ for ever because we find them in the Bible? or are they to _cease_ at once and for ever because the Bible inculcates peace and brotherhood?"