Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-12-20

larger amount of contributions than our
Society has yet received2 We need for
the present an average of one agent to
every State in the Union and, besides
graluitously furnishing with our periodi-
cal the thousand ministers or more who
are already pledged 10 preach on the SUBJ
ject of peace, it would cost nearly $4,000
to put single tract at one cent piece in
every family in New England alone, and
100000 for the whole country Money
is Just as essential 10 this cause as to any
other enterprise of benevolence or reform;
and never can it reach a high degree of
success, until its protested friends contrib
ute to it with the same degree ofliberaEity
that they do to kindred objects.
The public have been demanding in
this cause brick without straw" and ap-
parently expecting, that a single layman,
with here and there co-worker, would
Fproduce, with a few hundreds of dollars,
as much effect on the community as
scores of men in other enterprises with
thousands Of coadjutors scattered in every
nook and corner Of the land, and tens of
thousands of dollars contributed to sustain
their operations with vigor. Whence the
sudden and powerful impulse to the anti
slavery movements It's friends have
given literally to the cause, and few
men of princeIy fortunes have pledged
their hundreds every month, their five or
ten thousand dollars year. The cause
of temperance did not even start without
pledge of more than $4,000; and :he
State Temperance Society o. New ork
alone in one year raised nearly $4,000
and e rcuEated more than four millions Of
temperance publications. Without funds,
what could have been dOne2 Nothing.
And can the cause of peace be Carried for
ward any better wjthous money?
The present wants of our Society are
argent. Our tracts are nearly exhausted;
and we ought not only to issue new edi-
tons, but to publish new tracts, We
would, but cannot supply with our peri
odlcaI all the pastors willing to plead this
cause before their people. The number
t of agents now in the field ought to lie
more than quardrupIed Immediately:
their services are Indispensable for the
present to awaken public attention. Our
: present means will enable US to send forth
on y small part Of the publications ne
cesSary to meet the increased and ncreas-
ing demand for light on this long neglect
ed subject
Will the friends of peace suffer this
cause still to languish for wat of funds 2
It's wants could easily be supplied by a
general effort. Every one Of the thousand
ministers pledged 10 preach on the sub
iuct, should feel himself bound, we think,
to encourage among his PEOPLE a conlri-
button to the cause; and an average Of
only ten dollars from every congregation,
> would meet our present exigencics. AS
tho 25th of December, the time for the
concert Of prayer for peace, comes this
year on Monday, we hope ministers will
not fail to preach on the subject The Sab
bath Immediate Y preceding and give all
q the people then an opportunity to render
US such aid as they shall choose Can
not many individuals send us two dollars
t each, the sum requisite to make person
an annual member, and secure our peri
odIcal without further charge? will not
female friends Of the cause, foremost in all
such labors of love, make their posters
: life-members by raising the small sum Of
p $40!
We might urge upon the friends Of
God and man the strongest motives to eff
/ fort in this cause. Do you desire the sal
= walton of so1Is! War DESTROYS them with
out number. Would you increase the
efficacy Of the gospel at home? War
neutra Lies its saving power. Would YOU
J. send the gospel through the world Wor
obStruclS its spread and triumph, besides
DESTROYING in Christendom itself more
) souls than all the missionaries among
t the heather are instrumental in saving
e Would YOU check intemperance, iCen-
. tiousness, and other forms of gross iniQui-
ty? War has ever been a hot-bed Of
: denominations Would you put an end to
. slavery, and piracy, and other gigantic
sins O.? War was the origin, war has ever
= been the support of them all. Do you
long for the millennium? 1t never osn
e come without peace to herald its approach.
: This cause is Identified with the dearest
hopes with all the great interests of our
. world; and fain would we enshrine it in
o the hottest affections Of all that love GOD,
J. and wait for the coming Of his kingdom
q GEO. c. BEcKw1TH,
Cor. Sec. Of Am. Peace Soc
NIB. Money should be sent to James
K. Whippe, Treasurer American Peace
Society. at Whipple and DamrelPs Book
sore. No. Q Crrnhll, Boston, where all
the S ociptv's publications. can be had, and
h The Advocate of Peace, its periodical, at
/ 81 year. Contributors are entitled to
=, receive in peace publications one half the
r amount of what they contribute. What
o ever is raised, we hope, will be forwarded
f ,rithout delay.
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