Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-21
drinkers hare been denounced as beino

drinkers haze Deen uenounceu as being
accessory to the crime of drunkenness,
without design of questioning their good
Intentions or uprightness of heart. On
this principle, too, have Shareholders
been denounced as violating their obliga.
ton to God and their fellow men, without
impugning their notices. Why all this ?
Because, when men have pursued a prac-
tice, wicked in itself,) until they consid-
cred it right, it becomes accessory to
speak in thunder tones, that they may be
led to see their error and forsake it.
will next allude to the quotations from
Mr.. Miller's address.
1.-The church is not right on this SUBJ
ject--we must get the church right-the
church is receiving money from the slave
States, and employing it to support mis-
sionaries in preaching the gospel to the
heather. What is the difference between
this. and the Selling Of indulgences &c."
Mr.. Ingraham thinks the American
Board ridiculed by Mr.. Miller's illustra-
tons. As to that, ] cannot tell. The
Colonel is peculiar sort of man. |
do not think he designed ridicuLing the
Board, but that he thought it not consist
emit for that bod y to receive the price of
unrequited labor, to be appropriated TO the
sending of the gospel 10 the heather. His
manner of treating subject is quite differ
ent from that of some men-more of a
mixture OF grave and jovial language =
and he has a peculiar way of acting it out
I do not think he impresses an audience
with the great truths of our cause, as be
would, should he omit some parts of his
language, and gestures. Still | think he
is doing good. Neither do I think all
preachers ofthe gospel leave the best i'm
preston. But they may still Go good
As to the churches not being right on the
subject Of slavery and emancipation,
think he told the truth. / believe if the
church was purged of this abomination
slavery could not stand. And while min.
listers and laymen at the north maintain
that it is not necessarily stm to hold their
) fellow men in bondage, the STAKEHOLDER.
take courage, and will continue the prac.
Ltice We read that Judas sold his Lord
: for thirty pieces of silver-that that mo.
; ney was appropriated TO the, purchase o
; a field, and that in consequence of the
bloody manner in which the money wa
Y obtained, the field was called the field @
0 blood. For this act of betrayal and sale
Judas was left to destroy himself Nov
s what shall we say of those who profess t.
K love and serve this same Lord, las did Ju
# das, and still sell bis image? Woulc
n the Apostles have accepted of that none:
for the furtherance of this same Redeem
s er's cause2 can hardly believe it,
: And what shall we call that which is pur
d chased with these Donations? 1t appear
! to me that those who receive them with
J. out rebuke, are stained with bIood-guilti
e ness. And believe as sure as their is
y God in heaven, that unless those VIII,
y buy, hold, and sell their fellow-men a
e goods and ehattels, soon repent and for
sake their ungodly practices, they will b
/ left to like fate with Judas.
0 When MIR. Ingraham was in Brandon
d he laid down the principle, that he VIII
st patronised rum-seller, or those VIII
: drank intoxicating liquors temporarily
were accessory to the crime of drunken
y ness. And believe while he was paste
: of the church here, bylaw was passed
T. that his church would not receive mai
+ to membership who sold ardent spirit as
drink. Ii that was correct principle t
; act upon, see not why we at the nortl
are not accessory to the crime of slavery
: SO long as we patronise, and hold fellow
ship with, Shareholders. Donations ar
!, generally solicited before they are receiv
ed and if man is so wicked that W
> will not patrOnise him, it appears to m
inconsistent TO ask aid from him by wa,
q OF donation. ask him TO shew the di
> ference in principle between the rum-sel
= Ter and slave-seller.