CURSE OF CANAAN--Doubtful authority--Did not allude to slavery--A mere prediction at best--Africans not the descendants of Canaan page 88 CHAPTER VIII. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. PATRIARCHAL SERVITUDE AND SLAVERY--No patriarch ever owned a slave--Slavery had no existence in the time of the patriarchs--Diodorus, Athenæus and Rollin quoted--The Hebrew word SERVANT not equivalent to the English word SLAVE--Abraham's servants converts from idolatry page 94 CHAPTER IX. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. LAW OF MOSES AND SLAVERY--Levitical statutes not perfect--Allowed what it would now be wrong to practice--Dr. Stowe quoted--Servitude under the law of Moses essentially different from American slavery--Meaning of "buy," "heathen," "bondmen," and "forever,"--Servants not stolen--Voluntary--Provision for religious improvement--Kind treatment--Could not be sold--Equal to their masters--Certain emancipation--Salvation of the heathen the primary design of introducing foreign servants page 107 CHAPTER X. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. NEW TESTAMENT AND SLAVERY--SERVANTS mentioned but not SLAVES--DOULOS does not mean SLAVE--New Testament does not regulate slavery because it cannot be regulated--Slaveholders not addressed by the Apostles--Onesimus not a slave--Character of Roman slavery--Contrary to the fundamental principles of revealed religion--The character of God--Common origin of man--General Redemption--Moral precepts--And is necessarily unjust and unequal page 124 CHAPTER XI. AMERICAN CHURCHES AND SLAVERY. THE POSITION THEY OCCUPY. Presbyterians (O. S. and N. S.)--Congregational--Methodist Episcopal, North and South--Methodist Protestant--Wesleyan Methodist Connection--Baptist, Regular--Freewill--Seventh Day--Evangelical Association--United Brethren--Various Churches--Summary View page 149 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 CHAPTER XIII. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. Kind slaveholders--Examples--Excusable slaveholders--Slavery a political matter--Fault of the public corruption--Fault of the laws--Slaveholders from necessity--Slaves their property--All right ONLY this one thing--Take them in to convince them of the wrong--Mr. Fee's opinion page 184 CHAPTER XIV.