Extinction of Slavery

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Excerpt from Extinction of Slavery: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Extinction of Slavery in the British Colonies, on the 1st of August, 1838 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed in him - 'If ye continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.' - They answered him - 'We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou - "Ye shall be made free?" ' - Jesus answered them - 'Verily, verily I say unto you, whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son abideth ever. If the son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. - John viii, 31-36 We are now far advanced in the second century since Europe began to display on a grand scale, the more intellectual and moral results of the influence under which she lay during the dark and preparatory period usually designated the middle ages. It is not a figure of rhetoric to say, that the time has been one of unparalleled brilliancy. Athens had the age of her Pericles, Rome of her Augustus. In other nations civilization has reached for the day its culminating point, and shone with distinguished lustre. But all previous eras of light fell short of the one we are now contemplating, at least in the multiplicity of its grandeurs. One age the arts have embellished, another has been ennobled by letters. The spiritual element of humanity was resplendently kindled on the banks of Jordan, in the midst of surrounding twilight: and. scarcely in any country has the dire lust of ambition failed to light the funeral pile of its false glory, and seduce men to kneel even at the immolation of their fellows. But the passing age borrows its honours from the wide circle of human thought, feeling and enterprise. 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.