Daniel Dana, Presbyterian, condemns slavery. Let religion’s power and love bear upon slavery. (A future, unfilled hope). This will soften the hearts of masters.
Today, we see pushback when a religious person advocates fair treatment of workers. (Maybe also some not see role religion had in fighting slavery, or worse assume biblical orthodoxy of slavers.)
How can you soften the hearts and demonstrate the omnipotence and meekness of the gospel?
![DANIEL DANA (1771-1859) Sermon before MA Legislature, 1837 "Let religion, with her deep-seated wisdom, her assuasive power, her omnipotence of meekness and of love, be brought to bear upon it [slavery]. It is religion which must open the eyes, and soften the hearts of the masters."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/899/898/302/183/403/original/dbb3588fc8c3ac4a.png)
William Sclater,Puritan minister, writes on mercilessness. Christians needn’t look to pagans for examples: it abounds in his own time. Poor widows cry as turned out of house by remorseless landlords. How can grace exist in such people?
Today, do we see this as whole towns are dis-peopled to make room for Airbnb rentals? In ethnic cleansing and genocide?
How can you seek to be more merciful today?
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!["Examples of [mercilessness] we need not fetch from the heathen, our own times abound with them: to hear the outcries of poor widows, and orphans turned out of their house, and home, to the mercy of the merciless world, by remorseless landlords, dispeopling whole towne-ships, and leaving not room for the poor to inhabit, whose bowels that hath any spark either of grace, or good nature, yearn not?"](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/603/032/482/041/560/original/910081d5d08eff3f.png)
