bly of that very branch of the Presbyterian
Church, now in session here, after discussing for days the
validity of Roman Catholic baptism, threw out as inexpedient to
be discussed, the subject of that great wrong which was flinging
back into the agony of Slavery, a brother of one of their own
ordained ministers, and could not so much as breathe a word of
condemnation against the false and cruel deed which has just
been consummated at the capitol of the nation.

When such facts are occurring in the midst of us, we cannot be
guiltless concerning the lambs of Christ. It is we, we who make
up the public opinion of the North, we who consent that these
free States shall be the hunting-ground, where these, our poor
brothers and sisters, are the game; it is we that withhold from
them the bread of life, the inalienable rights of man. As we
withhold these blessings, so is it in our power to bestow them.
The sheep then that Christ commands us, as we love Him, to feed,
are those who are famishing for the lack of the food which it is
in our power to supply. And we can help to feed and relieve and
liberate them, by giving our hearty sympathy to the blessed
cause of their emancipation, to the abolition of the crying
injustice with which they are treated, by uttering our earnest
protest against the increasing and flagrant outrages of the
oppressor, by withholding all aid and countenance from the work
of oppression."

To say that Dr. Furness, in his pleadings for the slave, was "instant in
season and out of season," is not to exaggerate. So palpably was this
true, that even some of his sympathizing friends intimated to him, that
his zeal carried him beyond proper bounds, and that his discourses were
needlessly reiterative. To these friends,--who, it is needless to say,
did not fully comprehend the breadth and bearing of the question,--he
would reply as he did in the following extract from a sermon delivered
soon after the one above quoted:

"Again and again, I have had it said to me, with apparently the
most perfect simplicity, 'Why do you keep saying so much about
the slaves? Do you imagine that there is one among your hearers
who does not agree with you? We all know that Slavery is very
wrong. What, is the use of harping upon this subject Sunday
after Sunday? We all feel about it just as you do.' 'Feel about