{"id":620,"date":"2006-11-01T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T03:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/620"},"modified":"2006-11-01T22:19:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T03:19:56","slug":"american-board-of-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theliberatorfiles.com\/american-board-of-commissioners\/","title":{"rendered":"American Board of Commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>September 22, 1848<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An article by Quincy strongly condemns this &#8220;representative Body of the Congregational Churches of America&#8221;, meeting during the past week.\u00a0 That body &#8220;has not withdrawn its former endorsement of the Christian character of Slavery; but, on the contrary, it has renewed it.\u00a0 Its action when stripped of the coat of many-colored words in which its spiritual Fathers have decked it, amounts simply to this, &#8212; that the Board does not regard the act of holding human beings as property, as essentially sinful, or sufficient cause, in itself, for exclusion from the Christian church. 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