Get a Conscience
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Everett Piper Everett Piper's Blog - Updated Feb 17, 2011
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In 1833 Orange Scott,
the founder of the Wesleyan Church, felt his conscience aroused by the sudden
realization that a great evil had been going on right under his nose and he had
not noticed or cared. Looking around at the cheap labor being used to prop up
the agricultural machine of the South, Scott declared:
I [feel] it
my duty to call the attention of my countrymen to the wrongs and outrages
suffered by the wretched slaves of our land, to which I had been so long
indifferent and a stranger; that by having a torch light presented to the
slumbering national mind, it would be roused to see the evil and defilement of
the land, and throw off this great abomination.
Embarrassed by his ignorance
of the injustice suffered by those around him, Orange Scott went further:
[I have been] ignorant on the
question of slavery...though I am ashamed to confess it. I did not suppose
that slavery existed [in my circles]. Indeed, I scarcely knew it existed at
all.
Finally,
in conviction he proclaimed to anyone who would listen:
Shall we turn our backs on the
cause of suffering humanity…? No! Never!
Today,
with upwards of 300,000 underage girls being held in sexual slavery in the U.S.
alone and with 27 million being trafficked worldwide… Today with teenage girls
being salaciously exploited by the same men who sanctimoniously demand their sexual
liberation… Today with over 46 million women violated each year by the
profiteers of a billion dollar abortion industry…Today is perhaps the day for
us to remember the lesson of Orange Scott, pray for a conscience, awaken from our national slumber and set aside our indifference to the evils that defile our land and stop turning
our backs on the cause of suffering humanity.
