Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-29

shall receive as teachers such as may offer
to give instruction. 1t is well known,
that many are admitted in different denom-
nations to the pulpit, and are greatly use
tul there, who have given no attention to
classical literature; that number vastly
greater have happily performed the du-
ties of the sacred office, whose knowledge
of the Greek ar Latin is no better than
merely nominal. Why should an Edu
cation Society, in distributing the funds
of the church, insist upon qualifications,
preparatory to the pulpit, which the
church easily dispenses with in admitting
to the pulpit!
4. 1t may be reasonably doubted wheth-
er any Education Society can safely be
entrusted with as much power as the
American is permitted to WELD. 1t has
arranged system of operation, by which
it draws into its treasury nearly all the
funds which the churches in its field Of
enterprise appropriate to such objects as
it embraces 1t has become one Of the
most powerful Of our "standng benevo-
lent institutions" 1t finds itself able vir-
tuaIIy TO prescribe to the churches the
qualifications by which their ministers
shall be distinguished. A very large
number of those ministers, embracing
especially 1.-The leading influences" Of the
country, are enlisted either as patrons or
btne6ciaries in Its design. Here are to
BE- found, in commanding places, most Of
the heads of our colleges. If any methods
of education for the puI pit, other than
they approve of, are anyw here employed,
how easy a task must it not be for our
EduratIon Societies, by direct and indi-
ret means, to discourage and embarrass
those VINO have dared to digresa from the
authorize ed track Their own benefclaries
they NAV disown, for the grave offence Of
adopting such methods Of education as
some of the wlsest heads and best hearts
in the world have recommended. What
4 tremendous power are they able lndl-
rectlv to WELD And whoever dares to
complain that this power has in any IN
stance been abused, exposes himself to the
reproach Of hostility to great benevolent
institution! Let the friends of learning
and religion see to it, that their best inter
csts do not suffer injury from the hands
which have undertaken to promote them.
5. 1t is remarkable that late report of
the American Education Society was un-
derstood to admit, that some thousands OF
the sous Of the church ought to prepare
themselves for public usefulness without
the aid of classical learning On the
ground Of this admission, an appeal was
urged upon the managers by a committee
of the Oneida Presbytery, in behalf of
INDECENT students in the Oneida Institute
The manner in which this appeal was dis
posed of, was thought to be remarkable:
whether indicative Of thorough educa-
ton and a liberal mind | will not under
take to determine 1t was understood to
to this-that as the Oneida Insl-
tute was not a college, nor an academy
nor place Of prirate instruction, it could
not be expected to furnish the advantages
Tor education, which the report contem-
plated What technical consistency have
we here! What agnani1nity and liber-
atty! Patronage could be extended to a
deserving student in an academy; but if
he entered an institute, the friends of
education and LIBERAL learn
ing could afford him no aid
So his ordship decreed, with grave solemn Tone
Decisive and clear, without one if or but
That whenever The put his specacIrs on,
By daylight -hgh-eyes should be shut"
May God our Savior take care Of His
who, for the sake of studying
His word, refuse, even at the hazard Of
lacking bread, to give their days and their
nights TO the elegant nonsense of dead
pa gans. B. GREEN.