Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-03-31
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WINE AT THE EUCHARIST. The /
Rev. Mr. Hunt, the celebrated lecturer on
temperance, in reply to the Rev. Mr.
Miller, published in the Southern Rel !
Telegraph, has the following penitent re-
marks. They are inserted here because
We think them conclusive-Ch. Sec.
'For myself: unite with you, in dep
rccating every and any attempt to exclude
wine from the Lords table. I have ever
been opposed to it. | would not adminis-
ter the ordinance, if | could not obtain
wine, the fruit ofthe vine, any more than
| would administer the other ordinance if
[ could not get water Ny invariable
language both in private and public has
been, would just as soon substitute bran
dy, or beer, for water, in baptism, as !
would substitute brandy, acetate of lead,
and logWOod, or any thing else, deeteri-
Gus or not, instead of wine, the fruit of the
vine, at the Eucharist. We have no
right to change the divinely appointed eI-
ements, nor can we say why they were
selected. The whole scripture, given bv
inspiration, is to be received and obeyed,
not according to human whims, or philos-
ply, but according to it's plain, common
Sense meaning. Why water and wine
We're selected, is not for us to know. But
being selected by infinite wisdom, we have
no right to change them.''
HAvEEsTRAv-, n Y, March l.-De
strurtionof q 2chole Family By the Cold.-
We have just learned the particulars of
one OF the most melanC holy circumstances
it has ever fallen to our lot to record
During the protractcd inclement weather,
much fear has been entertained for the
safety Of the more poor and destitute in
habltonts that reside far up the mountains,
and to approach whom has been ilnpossi-
bic, from the vast body of snow on the
ground. The few warm days have, in a
measure, dissi pated the immense snow
drifts, and persons have ventured into the
( mountains in quest Of timber and wood, or
In pursuit Of game. Many are the objects
Of suffering and distress that issue from the
mountain cabins, some with frozen feet
some with frozen hands, aud some brought
to the verge Of the grave bv absolute hun
| GER. Last Saturday person was pa ssing
| HlOHSu lIl6 mountain. Wnen, beyond the
Orange county line, he saw a man, near a
cabin, IN sitting posture, and partly COW
cred with snow. On approaching, he dis
covered that he was frozen to death, and
that he held in his hand a wooden shovel,
with which he had evidently been labor
ing to open apassage from his snow-bound
habitation. Satisfying himself that the
man had been some time dead, he entered
the cabin, upon the floor ofwhIch, to his
infinite ho1 ror he found the frozen bodies
ola middle aged woman and two children.
He Immediately raised the neighbors, the
nearest of whom resided at the distance of
a mile and half, and on further examin-
alton, it was ascertained from appearances,
that they had consumed every particle OF
food and fuel, and percciving no Likelihood
of the storm abating, it is supposed that
the father was attempting to clear path tc
some wood, which lay a short distance
from the cabin, when he expired and the
mother and children, being destitute of(ooc
and fire and poorly clad, could not have
long survived him. 1t Is difficult to i'm
ag;ne a situation more repIete with horror
and distress than was that Of this unfortun
ate family, when they felt all the torment
ofco}d, hunger, and appr oachirg DEATH
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