[Lesson VIII].—Channing on the relative productiveness of free and slave labour, [215]; his opinion that the admission of slave territory was just cause for the dissolution of the Union, [217], [218]; his deference to the opinion of Europe, [218]; labour and capital, the political influence of slavery, [219] to [221].
[Lesson IX].—Channing’s views of the scriptural argument in favour of slavery overthrown, by a parallel between slavery and polygamy, [222] to [230].
[Lesson X].—Channing adopting and endorsing Paley’s slander on the integrity of Paul, [230] to [232].
[Lesson XI].—Channing’s plan of emancipation and inflammatory counsels to the free States, [232] to [235].
[Lesson XII].—The zeal of abolitionism not according to knowledge, [235], [236]; Channing’s opinion that the negro is one of the best races of the human family, [237]; Channing on West India emancipation and Southern character, [237] to [239].
[Lesson XIII].—Sympathy for those suffering punishment from God, for sin, considered, [239] to [241]; the deterioration of sin the inevitable cause of slavery, [241] to [243].
[Lesson XIV].—God’s government of the universe, and his declaration of the right of man’s property in man, [243] to [246]; God’s blessing on the slave-owners, [247], [248].
[Lesson XV].—Ham’s intermarriage with the race of Cain the cause of his doom and that of his seed to perpetual servitude, [248] to [250]; God never entails a curse without sufficient cause, [250], [251]; the mark on Cain, [252] to [255].
STUDY IV.
[Lesson I].—Extracts from Bower, [256]; the Treuga Dei, [257], [258]; Bishop England quoted on the action and records of the Church, [259], [260].