The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-06-08

Snch of the fruits of the gospel seen among
this degraded people. Who would not wish to live and
die in u work like this
Comparatively few cases of discipline have as vet oc-
CURED in this church. and the greater part those which
now exist for offences which would be overlooked or
tolerated in most churches in the United States OF adu
terry there have been four five in this church of
l5OO members scattered region Of country one hun
bred miles in extent, and peculiarly exposed they
by the native manner of living Most of those who have
fallen, give evidence of penence, and cannot
that there is open and decided apostae among them
In short, the moral aspect of things here is all changed
The Spirit of God has breahed upon this dark chaos of
mind and glorious renovation is the result. Order,
peace, honesty purity and Affection take the place of
confusion, contentious treachery pollution and malice
Long cherished divisions have been healed the bitter
fountains of and revenge dried up and husbands
and wives, after spefu separation of five ten years.
have, by the gospel been reunited in the bonds of aec
ton and peace In thousands of COTTAGES where all was
void and wild, the tear of penence and gratitude
falls upon the domestic altar and the morning and
evening prayer go up sweet sacrifice to God through
Jesus the Mediator of the covenant.
Our large Westinghouse, capacous enough to seat about
five thousand often found too strait for and the
people, of their accord have built second house 1l5
by fifty feet, that may divide the congregation when
the largest house will not ACCOMMODATE all who assemble
to hear the gospel. y
In relation all objects of benevolence placed before
them, this people ready to assist according to
their power yea and beyond their power, than any peo
pie ever They poor to the letter. and view of
their extreme poverty will make any feeling heart bleed
yet out of their deep poverty they will give with
prisng readiness Not grudgingly'-hey cheerful
givers Often, however, their donations turn to little
count for want of ready Market and thus their kind de-
signs frustrated.
My beloved associates Mr.. and Mrs LYMAN are patient
and faithfully devoted to the boarding school under their
care, and their abor give promise of much good to this
people in training set of teachers to take the charge
of our numerous schools Mr.. and Mrs Wilcox doing
well in the station and schools but these valued
will their particular
of labor, shall not speak that subject. My brethren
having relieved me from the of schools, give
myself entirely to the work of the ministry preaching
the word to pastoral duties and though my present and
increasing labors and responsibility very great yet the
Lord has hitherto sustained me- and have been made
ceedng joyful in the solemn and overwhelming work
committed to my charge. Let beg that you will pray
for me, that God will grant grace take heed to
self and to all the flock which the Holy Ghost has
made overseer feed the church of God which he hath
purchased with his blood taking the oversight thereof
with ready mind that may feed and guide and rule
this flock in all wisdom, becoming myself example
them in meekness, in faith purity. Oh for wisdom to
60 in and out before this great people Oh for grace
shine as light in the midst of crooked and perverse
on holding forth the word of life in such that
may eoice in the day of the Lord Jesus that have not
run in vain nor labored in vain
1t is to US peculiarly grateful reflection, that
the brethren whose labors have been so sgnally
blessed of Heaven, have for long time been deep
ly interested in the cause of the American slaves.
The monthly concert of prayer for the enslaved is
regularly observed by them. In letter dated as
far back as Nov, 1887, Mr.. Hitchcock of the Sand
witch Islands mission, held the following language
in letter addressed to Amos A. Phelps, the for
mer Editor of the Emancipator:
"Though our fields of labor great distance from
each other and different in respects feel
that object is the sametha of breaking every bond
and of letting the capves go Free Be assured, sir that
in the prosecution of this object you have prayers and
best wishes for your No intelligence from
tive land interests than that which the
progress of the of the slave.
do write this to encourage you The contest in
which you and your coadjuors engaged, is not of
doubtful nature makes it difficult to predict which
side victory will eventually fall and of you require
not the stimulus of consolaory remarks to urge you
write because it privilege for las think should
be for every Chrstan to take and decided stand
favor of those who laboring crush slavery Es
pecay is this privilege at time when morbid prudence
tmeservng policy is setting about the sentiment that
is subject with which the missionary should not inter-
NEEDLE. must confess that if the immediate abolition of
slavery subject in which Christians of every name, cir
eumstance occupation whether public private ind
vdual corporate may not and should nct take open
undisguised and active part then there subject in
which they should do Of all the denominations that
have cursed the earth, where there fragrant than
that of enslavng and crushing to dust our fellow men or
all the sins which Christians called upon to oppose
the present day, where is there henous than
the your Society aboring to desroy The mere
fact that insisting upon the immediate abolition of slavery
and that describing in Bible language the odousness of a
fc in human flesh will dsobge class of interested per-
sons however great proof that either sound prudence
or the religion of Christ, requires to forbear
trail position in reference TO the immediate destruction of
slavery be justifedby the spirit of tho gospel more
than the position be in reference to the destruc
ton of imtemperance, perjury hghway-robbcry And
there be little doubt that those sins intimately
interviewer with the worldly interests and profits of
large portion of the country the existence of slave
ry, the policy which now keeps many aloof from
those who aboring put down the latter, would do
the in reference to those who should strive to put
down the former Were the sin of holding slaves conn
ed to few-and those few of little wealth inAu
encs, the neutrality which exists in reference to its
immediate abolition, would probably be unknown. How
dsconsonan to the benevolent but Incorporating spirit
of the Bible 4! "Open thy muuth for the dumb in the
cause of all such appointed 10 destruction. Open
thy mouth judge rghteousy, and plead the of the
poor and needy" is divinely inspired injunction, which
no human policy whatever can justify in evading.
" am happy to inform you Of what hope you may be
officially informed hereafter that this mission ESQ far as
know TO A MAN ARE IN FAVOR OFTHE N1MEDI-
ATE EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVE, and that we of
body deeply interested in the the
object to which your paper is devoted. As do get
the paper indeed any other exclusively devoted to the