[The Sable Cloud by Nehemiah Adams]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sable Cloud CHAPTER VII 24/33
Slavery is the sum of all villanies.
Our master's will is our law; we are subject to his passions; we are chattels; we 'are his money.' This is the language of your God,--the God whom you worship; and not only so, but you circumcise us to worship Him! "Some benevolent Levite, jealous for the character of his Maker, replies, 'But God did not institute slavery; He found it in existence, and he only legislates about it, and regulates it.' "A thousand groans are the prelude to the withering answer which the slaves make to this apology for oppression. "'He broke your bonds, it seems,' they cry, 'in Egypt, and in the Red Sea.
Did He "find slavery" on the opposite shore of the Red Sea? Why did he not merely "legislate for it, and regulate it ?" No, He enacted it. How dare you apologize for your God with such a miserable pretext? He made the ordinance separating a husband from wife and children, unless the husband would submit to the indignity of having his ear bored and to the doom of perpetual bondage, in case his wife was a Gentile.
If he goes away, he must leave his wife and children.
Great indulgence have you in multiplying wives; that is winked at "for the hardness of your hearts;" but the poor Hebrew must abandon his wife and family if he chooses freedom! They are his master's "property," "his money," and God gave the servant these children, knowing that they would be the "property" of another, and that he would have no unencumbered right to them; and down through all ages they and their descendants must be servants.
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