The History of the Rise: Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament: Original Text

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Independently Published, 2020 M02 28 - 464 páginas
No subject more pleasing than that of the removal of evils.-Evils have existed almost from the beginning of the world; but there is a power in our nature to counteract them-this power increased by Christianity.-Of the evils removed by Christianity one of the greatest is the Slave Trade.-The joy we ought to feel on its abolition from a contemplation of the nature of it; and of the extent of it; and of the difficulty of subduing it.-Usefulness also of the contemplation of this subject. arcely know of any subject, the contemplation of which is more pleasing, than that of the correction or of the removal of any of the acknowledged evils of life; for while we rejoice to think that the sufferings of our fellow-creatures have been thus, in any instance, relieved, we must rejoice equally to think, that our own moral condition must have been necessarily improved by the change.That evils, both physical and moral, have existed long upon earth there can be no doubt. One of the sacred writers, to whom we more immediately appeal for the early history of mankind, informs us that the state of our first parents was a state of innocence and happiness; but that, soon after their creation, sin and misery entered into the world.

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