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Spurgeon on Slavery.We make the following extract fromhis letter to the “Watchman Reflector. ’’Our Southern Baptists will not hereafter when they vist London, desire to com mune with this prodidy of the nineteenth century. We venture the prophecy that his books in future w’ill not crowd the shelves of Southern book merchants.—They will not, they should noh‘I do from my inmost soul detest slavery anywhere and everywhere, and altho’ I commune at the Lord’s table with men of all creeds, yet with a slaveholder I have no fellowship of any sort or kind. Whenever one has called upon me, I have considered it my duty to express my detestation of his wickedness, and w'ould as soonthink ot receiving a murderer into mychurch, or into any Sort et friendship, as a manstealer. I shall remember that my voice echoes beyond the Atlantic, and the crying sin of a manstealing people shall not go unrehuked. I did not know that I had been so fully adopted a citizen of your republic, but finding that you allow me to be one of yourselves, I will speak out quite severely enough, and perhaps more sharply than will meet with approbation.Finally, let me add, John Brown is immortal in the memories of the ood in^__1England, and in ray heart he lives.’I am yours most truly, *C. H. SPURGEON.Clapham, London, Jan. 1860.
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Penfield Christian Index
Penfield, Georgia, US
Wed, Feb 08, 1860
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