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Wrong Names and right Names. Protest of Christianity. 



nies of Sabbath breakers. Surely, if there be 

 the least propriety in speaking of a slave-hold- 

 ing Christianity, this -may as well be called 

 a Sabbath-breaking' Christianity. But no ! 

 there is no propriety in either, when we call 

 things by their right names. There can be 

 such a strange anomaly as slave-holding, Sab- 

 bath-breaking Christians, but there is no slave- 

 holding or Sabbath-breaking Christianity. She 

 alike eschews both, as utterly at war with her 

 doctrines and requisitions. They are both alike 

 an incubus upon her, not her offspring. 



At the best, they are but temporary moles 

 and blemishes upon her fair person, which time, 

 together with her own internal purity and ener- 

 gy of constitution, will soon wash off and make 

 to disappear. They are deforming excrescences 

 upon the noble tree of the American Church, 

 which, unless they be soon cut off, may produce 

 the vegetable gangrene or dry rot. But never 

 call them her limbs or leaves, for she indignant- 

 ly denies the parentage, and asserts that they 

 have fastened on her like leeches, but are not 

 of her ; and she protests that it would be as 

 unfair to call the monarch oak by some para- 

 sitical vine that now and then coils over it, as 



