Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-27

the terms and conditions upon which =
dissolution shall take place.
10 this office. or demand, your Com
mIitee, appointed on the 9TH OF October. in
their Report, dated on the 4th, object, on
Inc ground that, in their opinion, there is
nothing between us for such tribunal to
settle At the same time, they depart en-
lirely from the issue previously rendered,
and taken, and launch you forth upon an
ocean OF specific charges, in navigating
upon which. apprehend that you viii
ma some difficulty and meet with some
DELAY In arriving at the point proposed
oeing evidently some what farther of
now than when you first set sail. In nv
poor judgment We should have hardened
uhlo me, and not have loosed from Crete,
anu have saved all this harm and loss
10 departing from a regular issue, and 10.
| luSlng 10 come to trial. have now M
luflher counsel to offer. To the pilots
mat you have chosen, | commit both
yourselves, and the responsibility of your
voyage Allow me 10 say, however, as
your Trend and dropping the presen,
metaphor, that these things, which YOU
are now doing, are not done in corner.
on are as city set upon a hill. The
eyes OF The Christian World are upon
you. From the point where YOU now
Sland' three ways lie open, and only three.
= you move, you must take one of them. |
7 gu are obliged to do this by strong ne
cess,'y-a necessity laid upon you not by
my hand but By Gods. One of these |
four things, you must do. Either,
Ftrst-Take refuge from the preach !
ing of Hollis Street pulpit, in some other
church where you may hear better. or in |
some shelter where you will hear none. /
Or,
Secondiy.-Take me before an eccle-
slas'lca! council, where whatever charges
you have to make against me, NAV be
heard and finally determined. And this |
you may do by means of Committee |
especially raised for the purpose of con-
ductIng your Cnnse; which committee
you may authorize 10 say ant inr:aiapr
a~t tGclam, = We will either find occa.
sion against him, or will make il > or,
You may entrust your business 10 the |
three gentlemen who have served you ON
me last Committee, whose Report is now
before you for action, and whom YOU can
instruct TO go before the Council with |
their own Report, which you have order
ed TO be printed, and they have published
to the world, declaring that, in their
opinion, there as nothing for such a tri-
6nnoI TO settle : or,
Ihardty.-You must reconsider and
rescnd your vote of Sept 80, in which
you declare that you do not anproye and
WI not endeavor to sustain, the principles
OF me entire freedom and independence of
your pulpit. as those principles have been
illustrated IN my ministrations; thus, in
vItlng me TO 60 into it again, with The dis
tlnct understanding thai, while in it, | |
shall handle any topic that | think 7
ought as | think | ought and aohpn /
think | ought-ln one word, that | shall
use the freedom that have vindicated.
both for Hollis Street pulpit, and for INV
own spirit so long as hold it:-or.
f0urthty.-Failing all these, YOU must
consert 10 stand still, and hold the position
that you have chosen to assume, in The
eyes OF the Christian World, and TO God.
GenHemen In my last letter to YOU,
l SAID The cnterprize of displacing me
nom my pulpit is yours now saw
IN that enterprise you are doing gour best.
10 save yourselves from the disgrace of
failure L shall continue to do my best,
to save you from the still deeper disgrace
Of success.
L am gentlemen, of the minority,
Your friend and servant.