Unitaria, Dec. 13th, 1851.

Dear Douglass:—The following resolutions originally passed at a Communion season by the church in this place, were last sabbath adopted and passed at a Quarterly meeting of the Wesleyan Methodists, some ten miles from this. By publishing it in your paper, you will oblige.

Yours, respectfully,

R. Pike.

Resolved, That there is a wide difference between Christianity and the popular religion of the day. Christianity, is love and expansive benevolence; a positive and absolute good, without any admixture of evil; it breathes peace on earth and good will to men; it condemns and disallows all sectarian divisions among brethren; prays and seeks to make them all one, as the Father and Son are one, that they all may become one in God. It condemns war, slavery, monopoly, and all unrighteousness. Firm, unyielding, and unbending in its claims and requirements, it demands absolute and perfect obedience to the perfect law of God. It never compromises, it never assumes a neutral lukewarm position on any subject relating to humanity; it proves all things, and holds fast that which is good; and meets with unwavering, unceasing hostility, all such hell-born edicts as the Fugitive Slave law.

Popular religion is very limited in its love and benevolence; it breathes peace and good will only to those who can frame to speak its own peculiar Shibholeth; it festers, builds up and sustains all the sectarian divisions which exist in the Church; it approves, upholds and supports war and human bloodshed, "Kneeling amidst a brother's blood." "To offer mockery to God." It sustains slavery by its connextion with it, by its silence in regard to the enormity of the sin, by holding and selling slaves; by appropriating the money received for the souls and bodies of men, to the funds of the church, and by its open, unblushing advocacy of the Heaven defying

abomination. The monopoly of the earth, and the fullness thereof, is pursued with eager haste, with untiring diligence, by the popular religionists of the day, and by their practice and traditions they are doing all they can to make the commandment of Jesus of no effect, where he says, "Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth." It sanctions by its compromises, its neutrality or its silence, and sometimes by its open advocacy, flagrant violations of the law of God. The fugitive slave law, one of the most unjust of all the unrighteous enactments of men, is upheld and supported by popular religion, its ministers from the pulpit exhort us to yield obedience to its unholy requirements. We hate, and from our inmost souls loathe, that religion which would impel us to extinguish our manhood, turn blood-hound, bay on the track of our poor unoffending outraged brother, seize, and re-plunge him into the horrors of slavery.