Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-05-23

they who dwell at ease in Zion continue to |
slumber, we would here express our united
opinions, and belief, on several important
points Of Christian duty in the form OF the
following resolutions
]. Resolved, That the plan OF efforts
hitherto contemplated by the Church and
her leading ministers, for converting the
world, is very far shorts OF her ability, and
utterly inadequate to the end in view, and OF
course, by no means equal TO the acquisitions
Of her Lord. 49,. =. .
q Resolved, That the inspired injunc-
tions Of seli-denial, economy, frugality, re-
trenchment and benevolent effort, and the
gospel prohibitions against laying up treas
ures on earth for the purposes Of personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, luxury and ease, are bind
ing in common, and 10 the same extent, on
the Christian at home and the missionary
abroad, and therefore both should be govern
ed by the same principles, and measured by
the same rules. a.r..s 81. r.. 49,.
3. Resolved, That on an average, 100
Christians at home couldsusiain one ofIheir
number abroad, or every hundred Christians.
a visionary TO the heathen-that most OF
the churches might afford each man Tor the
missionary field, and sustain him there
that many churches could afford several for
that purpose, and that there are local church.
es in the United States, one Of whom could
alone sustain the American board, at its
present rate of expenditure, without danger
of being impoverished.
4. Resolved, That those who accumu-
late wealth for themselves, and do not hon
or the Lord with their substance, live in.vi-
olation of the commands OF Christ, expose
their own souls 10 death, and deprive the dy@
ing heather of the bread of life.
5. Resolved, That Notwithstanding the
present debt Of the board, The great embar-
rassInenI in carrying on the work Of mis-
sions is still in The lack of men rather than
Of money.
g. Resolved, That the practice founded
on the apprehension that benevolent efforts
| TO save the heathen might retard the work
Of Christ in Christian countries, Is prepos-
| ferrous, and utterly at variance with the pre-
cepts and promises Of the Savior, and un-
worthy of the counIenance Of every sober
| Christian.
z. Resolved, That to expect OF missiona-
ries and assistant missionaries 10 accom-
plsh vastly more under the influence Of a
whitening atmosphere than Is expected from
ministers and Christians at home, is mani
testify unreasonable,-aRdth the deliberate ex-
pectation that schools and seminaries on
heather ground can and will accomplish
vastly more than is usually expected from
schools and seminaries in Christian lands is
also entirely unreasonable and without foun-
dation. -. VI -
8. Resolved, That a contempt for men On
account of their imbeeility and degradation
and color, and an unwitlingness 10 make
sacrifices for their elevation and salvation,
is the very opposite Of the Spirit Of Christ
| and Of the true spirit Of Missions.
9. Resolved, That the fact Of 1900, 600
Of the descendants OF Pagan Africa, and
one or two millions of the Romanists from
Europe, being in the midst Of the eYangeli.
cal Churches in the U. States, while it i'm
poses an obligation on them 10 labor cheer.
| fully with vigor for their immediate CONVEX.
Sion furnishes no valid excuse for not di
fecting their hiefenergies 10 the unevange
liked in other lands.
| THE LETTER.
| "KALUAAHA, Nov. lS. 1887.
To the Editor OF the EmaaeipatOr
Dear Sir,-An accidental perrsal o
some of the numbers of your paper iudu
ces me. though stranger, 10 write you
write on a sheet containing a sort O
circular TO Christians in form of resolu
tons; not doubling that while you ar
engaged in the truly philanthropic am
d Christian work Of pleading tor the op
pressed in the land of freedom, you hav
deep interest also in the efforts of thos
who are laboring TO break the boads Q
pagan darkness.
Though our fields of labor are at
great distance from each other, and ar
different in some respects; yet feel tina
=, our object is the same,-hat of breaking
every bond and of letting the captives g
, free. Be assured. sir, that in the prose
cution of this object you have my pray
ers and best wishes for your success. n
Intelligence from my native land interest
me more than that which announces tn
! progress Of the cause of the slave
81 do not write this to encourage vot
: The contest in which you and your &C
y adjutors are engaged, is not Of so doub
4 full nature as make it difficult to pre-
! dict Oh which side victory will eventual
-. fall, and Of course you require not tn
r stimulus of consolatory remarks to ure
you on. write because it is priviIeg
for me. las think it sho I'D be for ever
Christian 10 take an open and decide
stand in favor of those who are laborin
k 10 crush slavery. Especially is this
r privilege at time when morbid prudenc
II or timeserving policy is setting afloat tn
h sentiment that It is subject with whic
]. the missionary should not intermediate.
5. must confess that if the immediate ubo!
1: ton of slavery is a subject la whic
g Christians, of every name, circumstanc
81 OF occupation; whether public or privat
g individual or corporate, may not an
y should not take an open, nndisguised, an
ID ! active nart. 1hen thsrl.L is M snhinc, L. q