Thy mantle on thine offspring thrown; Nay! if the youth, so bright and dear, A child of Grace, thy rich reward! The purchase of a Saviour's blood, His meek and lowly image shown, The Sacred Covenant of the ETERNAL WORD; God's never-ceasing Love and Mercy known! So shall each generation bear The fruits of thine example, where The reaper's work with prayers and tears: The fruits of faith, hope, love, and prayer! Oh that such grace were understood; All nations with its bliss imbued ! The high, the low, the rough, the rude; Where Guilt, and Hate, and Death intrude, Oh that we had Ithuriel's spear, To touch the Serpent's malice here, But, God forever hath in view That which is holy, just, and true. Justice and Mercy here combine; And such God's rule, ALL Souls are Mine! If ye but keep this law divine, In new creative power to shine, Its holy grace is given for you, Oh if the State Christ's sceptred image bore, The radiant dewdrops of celestial Truth Would sparkle in the blossoms of our youth; So on we pass, attended, as we go, With radiant proofs of Mercy from above; The signs more visible we could hardly know, Of dear parental tenderness and love, Not even in sweetest dreams more clearly given, Though brought by choirs of angels down from Heaven, Descending and ascending in our sight, Making more beautiful than Morn, Midnight;— A manifested stair-way for our Faith, To show a careless world the Escape from Death! Oh blessed guardians from the paths of sin, God's pardoning Love, an Endless Life to win!! Oh from the carelessness that brings despair, Safe at Thy Mercy-Seat, and happy there! CHAPTER VII. THE PREPARATION FOR OUR CONFLICT.-OCCASIONAL LEtters FROM MESSRS. CORLISS AND WATERS, AND FROM MRS. CHEEVER TO MR. WASHBURN AND OTHERS.-MEMORIALS OF MR. WATERS' AMERICAN CONSULSHIP WITH THE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR. MY labors in preparing the volume of demon strations from the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures against slavery were for a time exhausting and confining, especially as we were compelled to provide beforehand for the expenses and circulation of the book by subscription for copies. We were also driven to the necessity of going without a publisher, no one being willing to undertake it. This made its circulation comparatively limited; but we were thankful for having been permitted to bring out before the community from the Word of God itself the grounds on which the churches of Christ and the Government and whole people of the United States, as of the world, were bound to make war against slavery, to abolish it by law, in obedience to God's law; and if battles and prolonged campaigns were necessary, to carry it on |