The right to buy and sell is clearly stated.
Upon the whole, then, whether we consult the Jewish policy instituted by God himself, or the uniform opinion and practice of mankind in all ages, or the injunctions of the New Testament and the moral law, we are brought to the conclusion that slavery is not immoral.

Having established the point that the first African slaves were legally brought into bondage, the right to detain their children in bondage follows as an indispensable consequence.

Thus we see that the slavery that exists in America was founded in right." It is not at all remarkable that this same note should have been struck by the Church a generation or so later in relation to the defence of capitalistic property.

In the great museum at Asgard there is a book entitled "Essays in Application," written by Henry van Dyke.

The book was published in 1905 of the Christian Era.