“the theory of slavery is not, in itself, right:” but the practice of slavery is not, in itself, wrong. The law of love and the golden rule decide the question of slavery one way, but Paul’s advice to servants and masters, and his sending back Onesimus, decide it the other way.… The relation, though not founded in moral right, when “once constituted” is not a moral wrong.143 The hermeneutical alternative toward which Stuart pointed, but which Goodell would not accept, holds that the Bible itself