Supplement to the Christian Lyre: Containing More Than One Hundred Psalm Tunes, Such as Are Most Used in Churches of All Denominations (Classic Reprint)
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The price is sixty-two and a half cents for each volume. The two volumes bound in one, for one dollar. The Supplement added for twelve and a half cents.
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Seamen's Devotional Assistant and Mariners' Hymns: Prepared Under Direction of the American Seamen's Friend Society (Classic Reprint)
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The friends of Jesus Christ and of mankind, who have access to mariners; should endeavor to place at least one copy of the work on board of every vessel.
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A view of the action of the federal government, in behalf of slavery Volume 2
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Selections For Reading And Speaking: For The Higher Classes In Common Schools (1847)
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The Christian Lyre: A Collection of Hymns and Tunes Adapted for Social Worship, Prayer Meetings, and Revivals of Religion; The Work Complete, Two Volumes in One, With a Supplement (Classic Reprint)
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While with ceaseless course the sun 1 sinner's, turn, Why will ye Hasted through the former die'.z A year. R Maker, asks you M y souis their race have run, ever more to meet'us here'; Fix'd in an eternal state, They have done-with all be low, We a little longer wait, But how little; nope can know.
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People of Color, articles published in The Christian Spectator, 1825 (eSourceBook for Towards a Metaphysics of Society 5)
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These two articles from The Christian Spectator, the review of Yale University, published in 1825 are fundamental texts of the abolitionist movement. Attributed at Joshua Leavitt (1794-1873) and written five years before the emergence of the "immediate abolitionists", at a time when the Colonization scheme of Liberia seemed to be supported on all parts, these articles give a very insightful view of a "middle way", between the extremes of full colonization, considered here to be impractical and even of a doubtful morality, and what will become the uncompromising view of the abolitionists of the 1830s.
In the first article he states that due to the impending threat of civil unrest, slavery is the concern of the whole of the United States, not just the slave-holding States.
He makes a distinction between the legal status of slavery on the one side and the religious and moral arguments on the other, and states very clearly, coming from a former lawyer, that slavery is a legal relation, and not just a question of property, and that threats to the public good (civil unrest) allows for legislation to be severe this legal relation.
He removes the notion of criminality from the existing slave-owners, from the simple fact of being a slave-owner (a fundamental stumbling block for "immediate abolitionists" who refuse any dialogue with sinners and criminals).
But he extends the guilt of slavery over the whole nation, for having made iniquitous slave laws.
By doing this he gives a clear and stable platform upon which negotiations could have taken place with the slave-holding states towards the abolition of slavery, providing that prominent personalities with enough political courage had decided to take action.
However, by the second article, and already in part of the first, Reverend Leavitt takes over from the lawyer, and mixes religious, moral and legal arguments, sustained by a historicist vision of the inevitability of the "march of Liberty" which blinds to the efforts that could be made towards lessening the prejudice against black people. This prefigures the uncompromising stance of the "immediate abolitionist", and helps explain that Leavitt joined their ranks in the next decade. The guilt of the whole nation becomes a moral charge against "the intemperate madness of those who uphold the slave system", and behind this moral stance appears clearly the unwillingness from the North to share with the South in the financial burden of the removal of this National shame.
These article give a glimpse of what could have been, if the religious matters had been kept separate from legal and political questions, and if the preaching had concentrated in finding a solution expressing charity for all, instead of pointing the finger of blamer and keeping the strings of the purse tightened. An excess of religious zeal may be one of the decisive factors in the failure to avert a most expected and anticipated war, and in fostering racial antagonism up to the 1960s.
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Joshua Leavitt was an American Congregationalist minister, reformer, and abolitionist. He served as editor of The Emancipator, The New York Independent, The New York Evangelist, and other periodicals.
Background
Joshua Leavitt was born at Heath, Massachussets, the son of Roger Smith Leavitt, a leading citizen, and Chloe Maxwell, daughter of Col. Hugh Maxwell, an Irish soldier in the American Revolution. His paternal grandfather was the Rev. Jonathan Leavitt, of Suffield, Connecticut Early distinguished by good scholarship.
Education
Young Leavitt entered Yale in 1810 and graduated in 1814. Later he went to Northampton, Massachussets, to study law. In 1823 he returned to Yale and completed a two-year divinity course in a year.
Career
Leavitt started his career as a preceptor at Wethersfield Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1819. He practised a short time at Heath and at Putney, Vermont. He was ordained and installed, February 1825, as Congregational minister at Stratford, Connecticut. Three years later he went to New York to be secretary of the Seamen's Friend Society and editor of the Sailor's Magazine. Known among New York friends as "the sturdy Puritan of New England, " he entered upon strenuous literary and reformatory activities.
"Possessing, " as he wrote, "no musical skill beyond that of ordinary plain singers, " he compiled an evangelical hymnal, The Christian Lyre, which went into many editions. As early as 1825 he wrote for the Christian Spectator in opposition to slavery. His name appears also in the Journal of Public Morals as an editor and chairman of the executive committee of the American Seventh Commandment Society. Having a vigorous physique and, according to his Independent associate, Henry E. Bowen, "rare confidence in his own judgment, " Leavitt undertook publication, in 1831, of the Evangelist, an organ of religious revivals, temperance, anti-slavery, and other causes.
He was a member for a time of the Colonization Society, but he differed with William Lloyd Garrison as to its policies. When the New York Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1833 Leavitt was a member of its executive committee. He was among those who fled from physical violence when Dr. Lewis Tappan's house, an abolitionist rendezvous, was mobbed.
The financial depression of 1837 forced Leavitt to sell the Evangelist, but he reappeared as editor of the Emancipator. Before the election of 1840 he also edited the Ballot Box, which supported the party headed by J. G. Birney. Soon after this he moved the Emancipator to Boston where he opposed the Mexican War and espoused, besides anti-slavery, many causes, such as temperance, cheap postage, and free trade. He wrote vigorously and sometimes abusively. In 1848, when the pioneer work of the abolitionists was complete, and the Emancipator was visibly struggling for existence, Leavitt had an offer to return to New York as assistant editor of the Independent, then about to appear. He hesitated, but his friend, J. G. Whittier, advised: "Not all that thee might wish, Joshua, but a good harbor for thy old age. " Such it proved to be.
As office editor of the Independent for nearly twenty-five years Leavitt disappointed the expectations of those who predicted that he would be fiery and troublesome. He wrote millions of words of lucid editorial comment, handled correspondence, and won the affection and respect of his younger associates. His editorial labor continued until a few days before his death, which followed a stroke of paralysis.