Excerpt from Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible: The First Part of a General Treatise on the Slavery Question

Oh men of God! men of God! it is a terrible responsibility. The responsibilities of those churchmen who extinguished the religious light of the Netherlands in blood, or of those who ordered the massacre of St. Bartholomews, were a feathers weisrht to yours. They stood on the same plea of conscience as you do now: just as you do now, they thought themselves serving the cause of God and religion: if told that their conscience was erroneous, they would have mocked at the admonition as you do at mine. They will be fearfully wakened up in that day of wrath, when all of us shall stand before that great white throne of Him, from whose face the earth and the heaven flee away. God in his mercy grant that your wakening up may not be in eternity! Has it ever struck you, my clerical friends, that possibly, only possibly but the merest possibility is enough to make the stout heart quake possibly your conscience, in regard to slavery, may be erroneous? possibly you may have mistaken the law of God and the spirit and principle of the Gospel? If I can rouse you to this possibility, and lead you to search the Scriptures fiiithfully and prayerfully for the mind and will of Christ, I shall have done a good work in the Masters

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