Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-04-19
Vol. IX....No. so.

me edEH anu ouIy Remaining lie Gf tho
church must labor most indefatieabIy II
draw such an influence around them A. n
keep the church from speedy ruin. This is
the reason why, in answer to the prayers
Of those who do live for God, there are M
more revivals. The church has but Jus,
enough holiness and prayer to hold it TO-
gether. In some places little more, in
some not enough, and'they 60 down.
8. A vast majority Of the church need
constant urging to get them TO perform the
most obvious christian duties, such as FAM.
ly worship, and contributing to objects Of
benevolence. There is also ar! almost end,
less variety of sins of commission 10 ths
church, against which ministers are preach.
ing all their days with little effect. In Our
present state, FIVE ministers to q ehuNa
would not keep them from the neglect cf
some Of these duties and the commission Of
some Of these plain sins.
4. The church is now so corrupt that /, i,
impossible to introduce any important SUBJ
ject of moral reform, however WORTHY, or
we'll supported by unapswerable arguments
without causing her to rock as though the
;ime Of her dissolution had come. This i,
seen in the conduct of many professors Of
religion towards the Moral Reform Society,"
They decidedly oppose the doings Of that
Society, although it aims, in the wisest and
only efficient way yet devised, at the erter.
mination Of one Of those vices which mos,
curse and degrade the family Of man. They
are not yet completely divided by it, because
its claims have not been sufficiently pressed
to induce decided action.
Again, see how the church reeled in
many parts of the land under the excite
ment about Freemasonry. There was d.
vision, contention, reciprocal abuse, and in
many places ruin. Ali about subject pro.
fessedly we'll understood, by both contend.
ing parties.
Again, look at the influence of the AboG.
ton question upon The church. 1t now ap-
PEARS that when the claims of the poor suf
fering Stare in this land of 6casted ecvaI
rights! shall be more forcibly and generally
presented. and when the benevolent, and,
with regard to the slave, the only pbilan.
thropie doctrine Of Abolition shall reaecte
little more light upon the nation, the church
in the United States will be rent in twain,
Who would have supposed that the church
founded on principles Of pure bsaeeolencs
would ever split on question like Mist
Any person looking on and taking no side
IN these questions would have said, the
church, let others do as they may, will be
unlted-will all go on one side Of all these
questions. TIE subjects are plain. Reason
Is the same in every man when unbiased;
and above all, the Bible is explicit on the
principles involved in all these controversies.
Why then do these divisions exist? Ian
swer because of the radical errors Of the
church.
Dear brother, in my opinion, we may
preach and write against all these errors
while the world stands. and the church will
still be Ignorant Of the mysteries Of GodU.
ness-will be sinful and comparatively in-
efficient. Some, Of this age, have made
praiseworthy efforts to purify the church
but the one thing necdfuI is ret yet done.
When that is done, the church will march
right on to the speedy conquest of the world
In my next will present the real cause Of
all these evils, showing how they can gen
orally be removed at single sweep; and
that the only remedy is for the church 10
receive the doctrines of primitive Chris
uahlty. Yours, &c. TIAorHY.