 | John Aspinwall Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1882 - 558 pages
...unanimously resolved, "That we consider the voluntary enslaving of one portion 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 law of God, . . . and as totally irreconcilable with the spirit and... | |
 | John Aspinwall Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1884 - 600 pages
...unanimously resolved, "That we consider the voluntary enslaving of one portion 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 law of God, . . . and as totally irreconcilable with the spirit and... | |
 | James Gillespie Birney - Slavery - 1885 - 52 pages
...the eighth commandment. In 1818, it adopted an "EXPRESSION OF VIEWS," in which slavery is called " a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature," but instead of requiring the instant abandonment of this " violation of rights" the Assembly exhorts... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Presbyterianism - 1886 - 888 pages
...people under their care. 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 law of God, which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and... | |
 | United States - 1886 - 594 pages
...of civil war ? or that in 1818 that noble act of the Presbyterian Church declaring slavery to be " a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, utterly inconsistent with the law of God, and totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - Church history - 1894 - 462 pages
...statements as these : " We consider the voluntary enslaving of one portion of the human race by another as a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, and as utterly inconsistent with the law of God, which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves,... | |
 | Samuel Jennings Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1895 - 428 pages
...these ringing words : " We consider the voluntary enslaving of one portion 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 law of God which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Presbyterian Church - 1895 - 480 pages
...people under their care. \Ve 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 law of God, which requires us to love our neighbour as ourselves;... | |
 | Leonard Woolsey Bacon - Apologetics - 1895 - 328 pages
...point of civil war; or that in 1818 that noble act of the Presbyterian Church declaring slavery to be "a gross violation of the most precious and sacred rights of human nature, utterly inconsistent with the law of God, and totally irreconcilable with the spirit and principles... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Authors, American - 1896 - 510 pages
...nature of slavery : — 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 law of God which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves, and... | |
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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... 
