This direct enlightening agency they
left without the ever-present illuminating Spirit. If men.html">men of old
wrote can furnish no reliable guidance to the men of a later
same Spirit in the same way. "The letter killeth; it is the
races on an equality; all are alike ignorant and imperfect; all
made. Master and slave.html">slave are equal before God; there can be no such
to a spiritual being. In harmony with this fundamental principle,
slavery. The Friends' Meeting became a refuge for those who were
emancipating its slaves, Benjamin Lundy moved at the age of
center of an active domestic slave-trade. The pious young Quaker,
with this traffic in human.html">human flesh. He felt keenly the national
soul that never again did he find peace of mind except in efforts
Lundy was led on to active opposition to the trade by an actual
his eyes and by his sympathy for human suffering.
His apprenticeship ended, Lundy was soon established in a
Though he now lived in a free State, the call of the oppressed
few of his neighbors, and together they organized the Union
bondage. In a few months the society numbered several hundred
the whole country, urging them to unite in like manner with
adopt a policy of correspondence and cooperation. At about the
Mount Pleasant Philanthropist and other.
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