And how few can be brought to admit, that whatever abuses may prevail nobody knows where or how, any such thing is chargeable upon them! Thus our Princeton prophet has done what he could to lay the southern conscience asleep upon ingenious perversions of the sacred volume! [Footnote A: For April, 1836.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church met in the following May, at Pittsburgh, where, in pamphlet form, this article was distributed.

The following appeared upon the title page: PITTSBURGH: 1836.
_For gratuitous distribution_.
] About a year after this, an effort in the same direction was jointly made by Dr.Fisk and Prof.Stuart.In a letter to a Methodist clergyman, Mr.Merritt, published in Zion's Herald, Dr.Fisk gives utterance to such things as the following:--"But that you and the public may see and _feel_, that you have the ablest and those who are among the honestest men of this age, arrayed against you, be pleased to notice the following letter from Prof.Stuart." I wrote to him, knowing as I did his integrity of purpose, his unflinching regard for truth, as well as his deserved reputation as a scholar and biblical critic, proposing the following questions:-- 1.

Does the New Testament directly or indirectly teach, that slavery existed in the primitive church?
2.

In 1 Tim.vi.2, And they that have believing masters, &c., what is the relation expressed or implied between "they" (servants) and "_believing masters_ ?" And what are your reasons for the construction of the passage?
3.