[145] Gillet, I, 453. The assembly urged religious education on the slaves “that they may be prepared for the exercise and enjoyment of liberty when God in his providence may open a door for their emancipation.” As to buying and selling of slaves, it recommended “Presbyteries and Sessions under their care to make use of all prudent measures to prevent such shameful and unrighteous conduct.”
[146] Ibid., II, pp. 239-41. The assembly said: “We consider the voluntary enslaving of one part of the human race by another, as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, as utterly inconsistent with the laws of God, which requires us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and as totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel of Christ, which enjoins that all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
[147] Gillet, II, 241.
[148] Ibid., 242. See also Fourth Annual Report of American Anti-slavery Society, 1837, p. 62; and Patton, Jacob Harris, Popular History of the Presbyterian Church, p. 444.
[149] Thompson, R. E., History of Presbyterian Churches in the United States, p. 123.
[150] Thirteenth Annual Report of American and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, 1827, pp. 67-8.
[151] Tenth Annual Report of American Colonization Society, 1827, pp. 67-8.
[152] Quarterly Review of the M. E. Church, South, April, 1892, 119-120.
[153] Methodist Quarterly Review, lxiii, 132.
[154] Quarterly Review of the M. E. Church, South, April, 1892, 120.