Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-12-13

tie as the love OF gain, With the trdftlck
ers in bodies and souls, Moral Reform
operations are most unWelcome. Like
the men whose business it was to make
silver shrines for the Goddess Diana of
EpheSus, their craft is in danger from the
diffusion Of right principles among the
community. What is il to them, that
thousands of their fellow creatures are
pressing down to destruction through this
open gateway, 80 long as their purses are
Ind with the profits accruing from it?
Let those, whose folly regards money as
on y secoadnry good, refuse to enrich
themselves with the spoi|s of bartered
virtue and blasted character, of expiring
hope and murdered innocence No such
scrupIes disturb the consciences Of these
men, who like the spider, feed and faten
on the very elements that are poison and
death to others.
AS We look through the different strata
Of society, and See how they are all, from
the lowest to the highest pervaded by the
sin Of impurity, it seems to the eve Of
sense impossbIe to eradicate an evil SO
1eeply imbedded in the very centre Of the
social system. When shah we find a
spot which has escaped the dire c0nta gion?
Our halls Of legislation our courts of jas
tee, our seminarics of learning, the work
shops of Our artisans, and even the affairs
of our God have al felt its whitening
influence Men in the highest walks of
life, are so deeply dyed with crime that
we almost forget our abhorrence of their
guilt, in establishment at its unbIushinr
audacity. If there is less actual profit
qacy among US, as a people, than among
the inhabitants Of France, there is so
much less of refinement here, that the
difference seems hardly in our favor.
What then can be done to arrest the
progress ofthis widespread evil? What
remedial system shall be devised, pro-
portioned to its magnitude But one
such remedy exists, provided by infinite
love, and placed by infinite wisdom in the
hands of fraiI children Of the d1st. 1t is
tie application Of g0sDel truth, brinGjpg
/ about Mc prcrn'cnce Of gospel principIcs.
; No human being is too weak or obscure
to assist in this mighty work. none is SO
situated that his or her influence will have
no bearing on its ultimate issue. The
God Of Joshua, Of BaraS, of Gideon, and
Of David IS still on the throne, and it is
still his glory to accomplish his vast de-
signs by means Of the most insignif-
cant and unlikely instrument. He who
enabled IL unlettered fishermen to over
eurn the most splendid, imposing, and
lrmly based system of pagan mythology
the world ever saw, and to plant the
standard of the cross above the throne OF
the Caesars, has lost none of his ability or
willingness to save. His eye scans the
length and breadth Of the enormous evil
we are called to combat, and his hand can
guide us, feeble and worthless as we are
in ourselves, to sure and speedy victory.
1t is necessary that we should feel our
own utter insuficicncy to accomplish the
work of reform, but this conviction must
be united with faith in God, which stag
gers at 10 apparent difficulties in the way
of the fuIiImeut Of his PROMISES A
season Of preparation for any great
change in the moral world, is never one
Of favorable appearances" The rubbish
that has been accommodating for centuries,
is scattered around, the foundations of
many generations are torn up, and he
who looks only on the unsightIy materi
ais, can scarcely realize that the day is
comino when the top-stone Of stately and
splendid edifce viii! be laid, "with shout
ings of grace grace, unto it, Yet such
we know is the fact; and when our part
ofthe labor is done we shall have only to
stand still, and see the salvation ofour God.
Fret not myself, because of evil doors,
neither be thou envious against the work
ers of iniquity. For they shall soon be
cut down rs the grass, and wither as the
green herb For yet little while, and
the wicked shah not be; yea, thou shalt
diligently consider his place, and it shall
not be-" wait on the Lord and keep his
way, and he shall exalt thee to inheri: the
land when the wicked are cut off thou
shalt see it."-Ado. Of Mor41 Reform.