Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-06-09

and white TO the harvest. Let every in
diyidual take these things seriously into
and then prayerlully deter
mine how much he may be permitted to
do towards the accomplishment of this
glorious work.
On motion of Rev. D. D. Pratt, Of
Nashua, N. H.,
Resolved, That il is our solemn and pressing
duty vigorously to employ such means as are
adapted by the Divine blessing, to bring more
missionaries into the field.
II the field is the world as has been
said, the harvest is truly great, and the
laborers comparatively few. The num-
Der needs to be vastly increased, before
they can occupy the immense fields that
are already white to the harvest Let US
do our best, and thousands, ifnot millions,
Of the heather must 60 into the eternal
world before we can send them the knowl-
edge of eternal life. This thought should
incite US to work the more vigorously 10
procure and send them the Bread of Life,
with the least possible delay. In the first
place, we must pray to the Lord of the
harvest, that he will send forth more la
borers into his harvest. In this all can
join-old and young rich and poor, high
and low. We can pray by ourselves when
in our closets, and together in the Monthly
Concert for prayer A solemn appeal
must also be made to the churches for men
to 60 as missonaries,-to ministers, stu
dents, and private individuals, whose duty
it is TO preach the gospel, but who have
not yet begun to prepare. TO be sure we
cannot make missionaries of all these per-
sons but we can wake them up, and set
them to rejecting on their duty III relation
to this sub ject and then they will offer
themselves to the Lord, to be placed in
whatever part of his vineyard most needs
their cultivation
On motion of Rev N w. Williams, of
Newburypolt,
Resolred, That it is the duty of all parents in
the church, TO give up their children in faith and
prayer. to the work of the worlds conversion.
He said he had two reasons for offering
this resolution; one that had been sug-
gested by the treasurer, because some of
the faithful laborers have gone to their re-
ward; and others must soon go; and
some means must be adopted to supply their
places, The second, because there are
many professedly Christian fathers and
mothers, who oppose their sons going to
preach the gospel to the heather. He
had known many cases of this kind,
where promising young men had been
prevented from becoming missionaries
solely by the opposition of their parents.
= Instead ofthis, parents should early dedi-
cate their children to the Lord and pray
earnestly and untiringly for their sanctif-
cation. 1t is here alone that we must look
9 for the men who are to fill the places OF
; those now in the field, for the men who
are to be instrumental in the conversion
! ofthe world.
, Rev. President Wayland offered the
following resol ution.
\ ResOlued, That the chara cter of the enterprise
in which we are engaged, demands peculiar
measure of piety in the churches.
A principal argument of DR. w. in
! sustaining this resolution, was, that the
= churches here impress their own charac-
ter on the heather If the churches here
q are cold and dead, they must expect that
:, the results Of their efforts in Burmah and
!, elsewhere will be likewise cold and dead
p But if the churches here are Jealous for
n truth and holiness, where pure and ardent
o piety abounds, it may reasonably be ex-
= pected, that God will bless their efforts
4 abroad, and revive the spirit of primitive
Christianity among their missionaries and
q the converts from Pagan darkness. Il
: would afford US pleasure, did our limits
: permit, to notice more fully the remarks
: Of DR. Wayland; and others, We have
I. been able barely to allude to some of theil
principal topics which should be suficien
to awaken a new interest in the churche:
!. relative to the most important subject a
Of which they aim. The Lord has opened
5, an immensely extended field of usefulness
= before the Baptists Of America, and it il
" high time for them to come up to the worl
in earnest with liberality and zeal, AM
perseverance, in some humble degree com
mensurate with the vastness of the worl
!; God has given them to do.
NEw-ENGLAND CoNvENTIoN.--It wa
!, mentioned in the Convention, on Tues
- day, that a man was present who had pai
\ $500 for his own freedom; and cal
y was made for his appearance. He cam
=, =, to the platform-an intelligent, well-dress
ID ed negro, 40 or so years of age-and toll
" his own story. Some years ago his mas
- ter told him he might have chance t
Pc buy himself:-he worked hard, night an
y day, and succeeded in earning $500, tn
!. - amount required; when his inhuman mas
~ ter sold him to a Philadelphia me-chan
=. This man offered him the same opportun
i ty of purchasing his freedom, and he Ia
= bored in a'pacEet boat until he had agail
: earned and paid his 5000; when he wa
4 4, again sold into perpetual slavery H