Gold Nugget 234 - Satisfied With Slavery

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      The advocates of slavery used to contend – for lack of better argument – that those who were in bonds were contented with their condition.  As if this were not the very heaviest indictment against the cause they pleaded!  Surely the fact that slavery made men and women satisfied with degradation and dishouour was the most damaging impeachment which could be framed!  And it is the fact that so many thousands of those who were created for purity, wisdom, worship, righteousness, eternal life, are satisfied with the darkness and death of sin, - it is this which constitutes the most eloquent appeal to take them that enlightening truth which will awake them from their shameful apathy, inspire them with a manlier and nobler hope, and satisfy them with a treasure which cannot fade, with a joy that abides for ever, with a life which is eternal and Divine. 

      Unchristianized humanity stands ever before the eyes of a living Church and pleads with a powerful if not a passionate entreaty, “Come over and help us!”

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Acts II p.36-37, Acts 16:6-10, (W. Clarkson)

 

Gold Nugget 234

Satisfied With Slavery 

 

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