Excerpt from Pictures of Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Advantges of Negro Slavery and the Benefits of Negro Freedom, Morally, Socially, and Politically Considered To the people of the United States and the Christian ministry; especially those of them who seem to have forgotten the prize of their high calling, and have converted their pulpits into places of politi cal, sectional strife, and rendezvous for recruiting in civil war. I have written the following chapters on the relation between Christianity, civilization, the prosperity of the universe, and negro slavery. I have long feared a dis solution of this great and glorious Union would sooner or later occur in consequence of sectional, political questions being introduced into the pulpits of the Christian church, believing it to be as much infidelity to have introduced the slave question into the church, in the way it has mostly been done, as it would be to deny that the several Epistles of Paul were a part of the Gospel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.