Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-10-03
VERMONT APH.

,ou do not set the powers that be over the G
laws of God. Suppose the next Legislature
Of Vermont enact law compelling all reli-
gious denominations to pay tithes to the E.
piscopal Church. How many readers of the
Telegraph are there who would acquiesce 2
Not many, trust. Well, what is the rem
edy? | fear all would not wait the mild,
and wholesome, and christian operation OF
such remedy as the Peace Convention pre-
scribes. But remember your own favorite
text be subject to the powers that be-
All, say you, but they have got the powers
that be above the Orddining power-the |
power of God they lord it over my con-
science. You are now prepared, then, to !
inquire for remedy. And what saith the
Gospel? Does it require or allow violence
for violence-plunder for robbery-reslst-
ance unto blood Does it not rather require
patient suffering Of the wrong, using only
christian remonstrance, and committing the
case unto God?
Now just step out where you can take
liberal survey of the whole ground-an6 al
low others to occupy as elevated position
as you claim for yourself. You cannot ac-
quiesce in the law uniting church and state,
because you believe 1t TO be anti-christian.
Just SO, the friends of Peace cannot acqul-
esce in any laws that are based, or TO be sus-
tanned, on the principle that one man has
right to destroy the life Of another. The
Peace man believes that all laws and govern
ments which assume the right Of man TO take
the life Of his fellow, do violence to the laws
OF Christ's kingdom, just as the religious
t liberty-man believes in regard 10 the laws
: uniting church and state.-The remedy for
5 the two is one-chrstian protestation aad
r remonstrance, and in the mean time patent
! ly suffering the wrong until these with the
0 help Of the Lord work deliverance.
: twill be seen, then, that the supporters
q of the powers that be have no violence tc
! fear from Peace-men, except what violence
they do themselves. by running against Cos
' pei truth. Nobody has anything 10 fear from
those who refrain from all violence.
One more view Of the supposed obligation
" to be in subsection to the powers that be-
> We are told that they are ordained of God
Let US see now what can be meant by tn
passage referred to. Can it mean that al
the governments of man, from the slave
laws Of this Christian nation to the arbitra
= ry mandates of cannibal chief, are ordair
:, ed of God? See those Christian armies i
8 battle array Suppose the one TO be the in
:, strument Of the British government-lh
other OF the American, making hig
pretensions to christianity, claimin
to be ordained Of God. The time is set fc
os deadly encounter: it is to commence to-mo
re row morning at sunrise. Now the mo:
n. proper thing that christian can do is, I
Mt ask Gods blessing and help, whenever
ne is about to lay his hands II any importar
lg work. What then have these Christian a
Sc mics to do tonight, but to go to God in pra,
IN er for his blessing upon their enterprise 2
h Think, then, Of the awful impiety Of thes
= deadly enemies going 10 the same holy Co
n and asking him TO assist them both in th
m work of mutual buchery!
O. close this introduction-whic is alread
w of three times the length designed when
u sat down-by subscribing most heartily I
a. the Declaration, as expressing the sent
h. ments of my head and the feelings of m
ID heart. Whoever will denounce me as a {;
1e natic, or a lunatic, for SO doing, let him fir:
re point out to me, and to the world, throug
r. the columns Of the Telegraph, wherein
ur discords with the holy Gospel of our Lor
r Jesus Christ As fast as its heresies or il
IS errors are pointed out, | will frankly abar
is don them. But whoever will prosecute {
If prescribe me for what he himself cannc
= gainsay: will only pity him and pray ft
v him.
ut From the Liberator.
r. DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS
l. ADOPTED BY THE