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@pteranodo.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 10:37 AM

Congregationalist minister Samuel Hopkins: everyone who supported the slave trade, even in ignorance, was an emissary of Satan. Today we doubt the devil exists or blame him for the church sound system. Either way, what we let happen to others goes unexamined.
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Black square graphic. Left: a painted portrait of Samuel Hopkins, a clean-shaven older man in a red cap, dark coat and white clerical bands. Beneath it in bold white type: "SAMUEL HOPKINS (1721–1803)," then in italics, "A Discourse upon the Slave Trade." Right, in white text, the quotation: "In this general, but very superficial and scanty view of the slave trade and the slavery connected with it, who can forbear pronouncing that they who have encouraged, prosecuted, or supported this traffic in their fellow-men—though some of them may have done it in ignorance and unbelief—have really been the emissaries of Satan, and agents for him who delights in the wickedness and misery of mankind?"
@pteranodo.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 10:58 AM

Congregationalist pastor Edward Lawrence: those who have ventured to the farthest verge of woe are quickest to see want next door. Today "charity begins at home" means the family, full stop. Lazarus at the gate is presumably someone else's household.
#christian #congregationalist #bible #compassion

Edward A. Lawrence, Congregationalist pastor in Marblehead, Massachusetts, took a pin to "charity begins at home." No one is quicker to spot want next door, he said, than the person whose giving already reaches the farthest verge of sin and woe. The wide heart sees the near need. Today the slogan has moved house, into the family itself, with manly marching orders that stop at the garden fence. Lazarus at the gate is presumably someone else's household.
@pteranodo.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 10:05 AM

Matthew 25: why the right hand? David Thomas (1813–1894) notes it's not doctrine: Christ was hungry, and you fed him or didn't. We'll casserole a fellow churchgoer, but hungry strangers moving nearer? Suddenly it's Scrooge asking about the treadmills.

#congregationalist #bible #compassion

Square black graphic. On the left, an engraved portrait of a curly-haired man in a dark coat, seated, chin resting on one hand, pen in the other; a faint caption beneath reads "The Editor of The Homilist." Below the portrait in bold white text: "DAVID THOMAS (1813-1894)," and in italics, "The Practical Philosopher." On the right, a white-text quote: "Why are some placed on the right hand [in Matt. 25]? What is the reason the Great Arbiter assigns? Hear it: 'I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was naked, and ye clothed me.'"