The scriptural position of a Christian and a Christian society in relation to sin, may be ascertained from the following quotations: "But I have written unto you not to keep company--if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or railer, or drunkard, or extortioner, with such an one, no, not to eat." "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord; and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you." "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." "Now we command you brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly." In these passages the duty of open and decided non-fellowship with sinners is unequivocally asserted. 1. Do not "keep company" with covetous persons and extortioners. Do not "eat" with them at the sacramental table, for this would imply a sanction of their sin. 2. "Come out from among them." Let there be between you a plain line of demarcation so that the whole world will know that you are not in favor with their sin, and are not a party to it. "Have NO FELLOWSHIP." Be not united in any associations which require it. Go not with them to the sacramental board. Unite not with them in benevolent efforts for the conversion of the world, for this would require fellowship. Have _no_ fellowship. 4. "In the name of the Lord Jesus withdraw yourselves"--cut off all ties which imply fellowship. Do this solemnly--do it in the name of the blessed Jesus--do it for the glory of God--do it as an act of discipline--withdraw yourselves from _every_ disorderly walker--from every "darkness worker,"--let them be unto you "as a heathen man and a publican." Now how are these scriptures to be obeyed respecting the great sin of slavery? We answer: 1. The church should debar slaveholders from its communion. While they remain impenitent in relation to the monstrous sin of slavery and refuse to emancipate their slaves, they should be peremptorily refused admittance into the fellowship of saints. At the _door_ they ought to be met by an emphatic "No sirs; your hands are red with blood, your purses are filled with unjust gains, you rob the widow and the fatherless, you make merchandise of men, repent, reform, do justly, love mercy, or away ye men-stealers!" 2. If by any means slaveholders have obtained a place in the church, they should be plainly dealt with, according to the directions given in such cases by the sacred writers, and in case of a refusal on their part to "hear the church," they should be immediately thrust out--accounted as "heathen"--"delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh."