Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-02-11
Feb. ll,lsss.

ask Of you the needed funds-we ask of
YOU the suitable men--we ask your sym
psthies and your efforts, your counsels
and your prayers. /.
During the last year Of our labors, the
burden OF this undertaking has rested
mainly on the State Of New York. Its
sixty thousand Baptists, were they able,
are not entitled, to monopolize the honor
and the reward of'this good work. The
Object is one consulting the common good
Of cur Union, and no section OF our coun-
try should be allowed to engross the whole
care, and expense, and credit Of this enter
prise. u. ar... ...
In sending forth our agents, we wish,
according to resolution adopted by the
same meeting, at Richmond, to employ
men whom Con has most largely blessed
with success and influence, as pastors
not young and untried men, hut those who
are known to the denommatIon-men who
shall not exhaust the soil at one crop, but
having CLEANED its first scanty ears, shall
leave il more richly MANFRED for sue
ceeding harvest-men, who shall, not
merely gather the contributions of the
churches, but preach the gospel as they
60 and shed around them holy and
healing influence over those portions Of
ovr vineyard, which may have been here
toGore the scenes of discord, or have
become known as the seat Of doubt and in
difference, regarding the benevolent enter
prises OF the day. The churches must
consent to sacrifice their pastors, in order
to admit ofthis MEASURE and pastors must
deny themselves, to undertake this charge
Our churches also must.be prepared to
look upon agents, not with scowling dis
lie, as unwelcome and mportunate men
dicants; but they should be chaorfully hail
ed, rs aflording the channels for transmit
ting abroad, upon the fields SO long desc
late, the treasures which the churches
had been long anxious to pour iorth.-
They should be regarded, not as interior
ing with the local and more limited mis-
sionary efforts ola neighborhood or n
States but as preparing only to deepen &
prolong the channels through which the
charities the church may flow forth in
stronger stream, upon the wo.d And
with the cause Of Foreign Mission !, so
closely and so deservcdly bound up in the
hearts ofour brethren, our society inter,
NEEDLES bat TO aid and advance it. The
0bjectis one Our churches at homo need
strengthening and training, and multiply
ing; and all that they may become there
by but the more numerous g. the more cOpi-
Gus fountains, tor swelling the tide Of mis-
sionafy feeling, that from Christian lands
is fast setting out towards shores long un
visited by the gospel Our objects. VIC
regard not only as k inbred, but as being
one AMI indivisible; for Foreign& Home
Missions are merely the farther and the
nearer sides Of the same great net that u
TO envelope and gather in all nations.
We will not aim to p Y you with ap
peals 10 sectari1n pride, although w,
might tell you Of the need and the value
Of union to our branch Of the Christian
Church. But we would strike deepe
for the roots,ofo our hope andof your duty
We tell you of perishing millions, dwell
ers in your own land, who look to 70,
now for the relief of their spiritual wants
or who will look to you, in the hast day, n
their guilty abettors and accompliccs il
the ignorance, the errors, and the wicked
ness that shall have DESTROYED them. W
tell you Of Savi)r, and of his love to you
and ofthe message he len wih you. ate
having brought it to you. The frsel
given gospel we bid you freely give. An
as the stewards of your God, for al! tn
wealth, influence, and talent that belong
to you, we ask you, brethren, will yo
suffer the American Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society to have but one hundred Nj!
siOadries when the churches alreod
planted need well-nigh three thousand. I
supply posts now vacant, and the fields il
viting us might well employ as man
more2 At the least estimate, shall on
hundred do the work Of four thousand ?
Shall the Society, that hears your nam,
any longer creep along the shore, timid
sllirting the coast or will you. no,
brethren, launch it fairly upon the water
fully manned and equipped, 10 60 forth u
onthe broad deep which God has spre;
before it in the spiritual needs of our ov
nation2 Shall ten thousand dollars b
as for the last year Il ,cas, tie limit TO Il
contributions of American Baptists t
Home Missions; or will you rise, bret
rem. in the strength Of the Lord, to ta
your own strength, sweep past the me
crate bound assigned you by the Resol
ton which heads this appeal, and 81
What is needed shall be ,giecn, thouj
it multiply tenfold the amount heretofc
contributed to this good work" And
low US, brethren, to remind you tn
whilst as dying men, what we do needs
be done speedily and with all our mig
what, also, is done for the great Westt
Valley. the repository Of our nation
strength. and the garner Of our hopes q
people, must be done promptly, and mig
lily, IT tits to tell onthe forming charac