Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28

most efectual way to produce it in the
minds of thousands who read their wrl-
tings, without any suspicious of the effects
which they are adapted to produce. Why
not, brother Wilson? So of the details of
war, of the slave-trade and slavery; of
popery, of the works of darkness i'll gen
eral. If the above doctrine be correct, let
VIM. Laid and Thomas G. Upham be- |
ware how they give to the world the
blood stirring "details" Of war; let
Thomas Clarkson, George NJ Stroud,
VIM LLOYD Garrison and numberless 9TH
ers, pause and consider lest their de
tails " Of the African slave-trode and Amer
lean slavery, cater for the mouths ofthese
human flesh -devouring and soul-killing
monsters let George Bourne, Samuel 3.
T Smith, Theresa Reed and Maria Monk
suppress instantly, any further " Details
concerning monasteries and nunneries,
|
er Wilson's doctrine, they are taking the
most efrectual way to produce in the minds
Of thousands who read their writings
: taste for the very denominations they are
laboring to expose finally, let Judson and
Brown and the thousand other missiona-
! ries who have gene TO carry the light Of
1 Christianity into the dark places Of hca-
thenism and idolatry, at once put out their
lights and come away, lest their "details !"
Of the vileness and depravity Of heathens
incline all Christendom TO embrace hea-
- thensrn Show the difference, who can
!, In paragraphs preceding the one we
d have quoted from lions Advocate, the
. editor talks about extremes. Those who
cover up the foul deeds of licentiousness,
= and will hear nothing about it, he places
/ in one extreme; those who are carving
ID light into these dark places, and exposing
- to the public gaze their horrid acts Of in.
10 fanny and loathsomentss, he places in the
r other extreme. Very well-Tartarus was
le one extreme, and E!ysium was the other
i error is one extreme and truth is the 9th.
VS. err rebellion against the command Of
~ God, to cry aloud and show the people
. their transgression and their sin, is che
ne extreme and obedience to the same com.
Us mand is the other. He who will busy
w himself looking for the halfway place be:
tween these extremes, must do so, but We
H. have no sympathy with him.
of We ask our fearful brother wherein the
al weekly sheets to which he anudes hav
nd transcribed Bible commands, or Bible ex
res amples? Is their language stronger o
os- more direct than that with which the b
- bic every where abounds? Why dee
lid not brother Wilson take his scissors t
nd certain passages in Soiomon's Proverb:
IS in the writings of the Prophets, in John
he Revelation-but especially the "details
nd in relation to Lots daughters, Dovic
Oman, and various others? Or why dos
ny he not 90 to the translators and introduc
a. a bill for "expunging" a thousand {
nd these obnoxious passages, and,paSs hig
De- censure on the Omniscient for directin
Ia his writer's to throw out their "Shccts, fl
Use ed with the details of RIGHTEOUSNESS r.
or MAY be our brother is so "deIicatc' thu
IT." he omlts reading, and passes over, all thes
be-. passages, thus tacit!y teaching his house
or hold that this portion ofHoly Writ jSscon
we dalous and baneful.
m But, gravely, we reject as unsound an
Nv Bible-condemned, the doctrine, that
IN faithful exposure Of SIN, in "detaiI,' cal
49,, rying rebuke along with it, is the vron
MI way to produce reformation-the rigt
Let way to prevent it. On the contrary "
m, aver that this very detailing is one in2poI
let tant part of the means that God has az
Is pointed and has always used to produc
his reformation. Not only so, it is most phi
en- losophicaI. What was the effect on tn
nat public mind of giving the late details re
1 .y, specting certain drunkard in the State
,ev , Maine, showing that his blood was II
fammable. Can it be supposed that tE
publishing of these most horrifying fac
induces to drunkenness2 And VIII
are should the later and moro horrifying fac
led respecting Richard P. Robinson and Z
aid Ion Toy-ot+ moro Induce to lcont;o,,o,,,lo