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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
December
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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Br. Wade, Missionary of the American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions ?.t Ta foy, has become the Missionary of tho imerican and Foreign Baptist Missionay Society, rccciving fromthem the samo support he has heretofore received. We ïlip the following extract from his letter )f acceptance, nddressed to tho Commit:ee of the nev Society and published in ;ho Christian Reflector: "The Committee pledge itself tosustain my Missionary who prefers to receivo bis support, in whole or in part from it," rather than be a partaker of the contribu:ions of slave-holders, the avails of the jnpaid labors of the slave. This Iprcfer. [ supposo the Committee means to be unierstood to mean, it will give ihe same amount of support that the Board novr ivea, and that what are termed extra exexpcnses, will bc paid by it, as they now are by the Board; with these provisions, I cheerfully accept the pledge; not that I feel so conscientious about receiving support from slaveholders, that I would sooner give up my work and leave the heathen to die Jgnorant of the gospel than roceivo such support; for I think, though slaveholders will not do justice to their slaves, vet the Lord has claims upon them relative to his cause among the heathen; but so far as receiving such support goes to strengthen slavery, I wish to discird it"A Paradox. - In the same letter Mr. Wade says: "How slaveholders can give their money to send the gospel to the distant heath en, and yei approve of a policy which keeps their slaves in ignorance of the same gospel, is to me a paradox. Do professing slaveholders do this? Slavery as it exists in America, I consider a monstrous evil, both to the master and slave, an outrago upon justice, a disgrace to the American flag, and the reverse of all Christian principies; I cannot suppoae it will survivo the first dawning of the millennial age." We are sorry that there exists an evil which makes it necessarry in the judgment of Br. Wade for him to dissolve his conneciion with the Board of Foreign Missions. We are grieved that such a black sin as that of American Slavery should prevent the continued co-operation of brethren beloved in the great work of Missions. Butsoitis. Wre can only say, that we earnestly hope and pray for the speedy removal of this stumbling block to the advancement of pure Christianity - this accursed barrier to the full fellowship of American Baptists, in the execution of the sublime designs of the Saviour in the

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