God And Our Country a Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Church I
God And Our Country a Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Church I
George Putnam
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Why, then we must dissolve all compacts, — that of the commonwealth, the county, the city ; we cannot trade with men, or do any busi- ness with them, for many of them are great sinners, and all of them more or less. We must dissolve our families, for there is sin there. The Christian must break all bonds and stand literally alone ; nay, accord- ing to that principle, — no union with sin, — almost ev- ery man would have to tear soul and body apart, for one or the other of them he will find stain...ed with some sin. The only sense in which we can say, without absurdity, that we will have no union with slavehold- ers, or with any other class of sinners at the North or the South, is this, — that we will not take any part in their sin, nor encourage, nor countenance it. And 23 this the Christian may and should always say. But union with sinners must continue in many ways as long as human society endures, that is, as long as man is man. It is a false and foolish plea, that we must dissolve the union on Christian grounds, to avoid the responsibility of being identified in any way with sin- ners.
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