Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-02

ANoN, Can tley Claim spirit AKIN 10 MS,
: who cherish contempt for any man or
class of men. because they are degraded,
Ignorant, or are guilty of skin not COL
ored like their own? ?" The supposi,ion
is reproachful to the name of Christ. The
man who cherishes this feeling of con-
tempt for his fellow-men, let his profes-
slons be what they may, has no more af-
unity with the spirit of the Lord Jesus
Christ. than the proudest Pharisee that
ever mouthed the heavens, or poured
scorn on his Lord because he received
sinners and ate with them. | would as
earnestly pray that the church might be
relieved from the loathsome inccmbrance
OF men who scorn the degraded and col
ored around them, as | would that she
might not fellowshiptne drunkard and the
profane2 And can men Of this stamp
breathe the spirit of missions! Impossi-
BILE! 1t matters not how much they talk
on the subject, nor how many prayers
they may make, nor how literally they
may contribute TO the cause of missions
In the estimation Of Him who is of purer
eyes than to behold iniquity, all these
amount to nothing. | correct myself
they amount TO this show the hollow
heartedness of their professions, lust as
the garnshine of the tombs of the proph-
els, showed the hypocrisy of the Jews
E1e who not only does not love, but who
scorns his brother whom he hath seen,
because degraded, ignorant, co1ored, can
he love the heather. certainly no less de-
graded, and colored also, whom he hath
not seen Nothing more absurd can be
Imagined. Let all who cherish feelings
of scorn for the heather among you, by
chasing them with the brute creation, or
who can see them in bondage without an
effort to relieve them. or who can them
selves treat their fellows as property,
cease at once to claim possession of the
missionary spirit. God may possibly
make use of their property-even the ill.,
gotten gains of those who oa0n their fell
low men though [ should as soon think
that the golden wedge and shackles of
Achan could have been accepted, as the
offerings of these men. However this
may be, 1t is certain that they will never
be accepted oftheir Judge, unless spec.
dy and hearty repentance turn away the
anger Him who has styled himself the
Avenger Of the oppressed "He that
loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,
how can he love God whom he hath not
seen !? And this commandment have we
from him, that he who loveth God, should
love his brother also. Inasmuch as We
did it not unto one ofthe least of these. We
did 1t not unto me- Nothing, my broth
err, more shocks me than the attitude
which l see is taken by men of high
standing and lofty pretensions and devoted
piety, among you: men who write letters
on revivals-ln fine, men who are regard
ed as champions in the cause of Christ
Why, according to the reports of editors
who advocate these men, they can spit out
unmeasured scorn on the poor slaves
among you, and 60 directly to the mis-
sionary meeting and plead in behalf of
the heather. How must the blessed Je-
; sus De moved by their luquence-at their
thrilling appeals in behalf of those for
whom he died! But the subject is too
serious for sarcastic remark-'t is awful
PROCLAMATION, as the cay of God will show.
a The Lord save the conductors of missions
from the guilt and danger of fauerine
men of this character, lest they should
r withdraw their inhuence-no longer ad
4 vocate the cause Of missions, no longer
$ labor to secure the contributions of Oh.
i pressors in your land, to break the chains
i from the oppressed in other lands. Suct
d are the feelings of one of your brethrel
:: at the Sandwich Islands; am ccnfden
d that they are the feelings of nearly all
Vt though | am not authorized to speak OF
). their behalf. lam happy however to sa,
e to you, that the monthly concert of prave
d for the enslaved, is observed at most. ifno
It all, our stations, and that our interes, i,
n. the cause of immediate emancinatio,
lie strengthens as light breaks in upon US
e, Most certainly do l pray that God wi
Is speedily arise and vindicate his own cause
n save the oppressed. and enable al! VIII
of love him to abandon neutral ground, an
g be known as the unfnching advocates ,
al right, the world over.
"a But while we, as mission, fully ACRE
n with you in declaring to the world, th;
all no man who cherishes feeling of COZ
g. tempt for his fellows, on account of the
lie degradation or color, can claim affinit
is with the spirit Of Christ, or can be regar
In ed as possessing particle of missional
slr spirit, we entreat you to feel with us, tn
I'D the fact of 100000 of the descendants
w Pagan Africa being in the midst Of Il
he evangelical clutches of the United State
while it imposes an obligation on them
INT labor cheeriully and with vigor for the
tn immediate conversion. furnishes no val
he excuse for not directing their chief en-
md gies to the unevangelized of other LAM
we Permit me, my dear brother, to urge U
lu- on your attention the above, which Y
wn will see is ono of our r.sol,t;ons f