Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-27
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INJURY to the sense, and no injury to tb
syntax' was omitted by the composiro
though 1t Is to this hour uneficed. in IN
manuscript; was detected, in correct;o
Tie press, BY neither the author, nor IN
Pfoof-reader at the office, and was Inn
,eit out OF the printed, though it was de
llVefed, and it may now be seen, iG IN
written sermonl And now, man, stand
ing out before the world as Chairman O
committee of Christian Society,";
maa' who, in one public document, ex
presses his beleithat the purity of tina
society will be endangered by nv contin
uling any longer connected with #. dares
10 another solemn document which, with
MS own hand, he has given to the public
through the columns of the newspane,
press to say without fear of contradic.
llon'' that two published sermons of his
own Pastor. do not contain all that was
uelivered, because, in one Of them. one
word was dropped out by an error of
press And the beauty of the whole is.
understandable tenderness of his NEIGH.
oors good name he says this without
meaning to call his veracitv in question y
y no. not for the world would he do 81
cruel a thing as that. He would on,v
blast his eood faith, without toaching his
veraclty! he would not call his veraci-
ty IN question, but would hold it up in
such light, as 10 destroy it beyond all
question And yet, for nearly two years
since The preaching and publishing oflhat
sermon, he has been, as he had been for
many years before, hearer ofmv preach
ing, with all his family! Did that man.
when ne wrote this paragraph, believe
that IN publishing that sermon, tbouoh
paftaklng with him of the common inher-
ltance of human lall;biIity, | had acted in
good faith If ye0, why this assassin stab
at my good failh2 If nay, why, by com
ing with his family year after year, 10 lis
ten 10 my religious instructions, and unite
with them, in the devotons in which
have led, has he betrayed his high trus,
as husband and a father, in exposing
his wife aud children 10 the corruptinq ia
fiuences of failhless man, and thus en-
dangered the moral well-being of his fam
lily, and sinned against his own soul?
My friends-I have only shown this
man the horns of his dilemma. Let hin,
choose, at lis leisure, on which Of them
he will hang.
gentlemen of the minority, have now
said all that think it important to saw 10
yol directly, or through YOU, of the Re
port OF the majority of your committee.
But | pray you to allow me, through
you, also, 10 say q few words to the Pro
prletors of the Church, since they have
eft open to ne no channel of direct com
munlcatlon with them, by instructing any
Of their committees, or other officers. 10
their doings to NE.
Gentlemen, Proprietors,
hope you will allow me, without Of.
ence OH your part, to call YOUR attention
o our present position, in relation 10 each
other.
In my first Letter, in reply to your do
ngS IN relation to ne, which lrl,er is Of
late September l6, | rendered YOU an IS
sue, as to the main spring, or moving
cause OF your annual proceedings against
me. In your Reply to that Letter. viz
IN the Preamble to your votes. at vopr
meeting, Sept. 80, YOU distinctly lake tha,
issue. In my second Letter, dated Oc,o-
Der 7. demand a mutual council 10 trv
hat issue, and TO settle all matters in con-
lroversy between US. Appended 10 that
Letter, and offered for your consideration
Immediately after it, by Mr.. James BOYD,
at my request, were the Preamble and
votes, of which the following Is a COPY;
as you will see, a way for the
final settlement Of our present controver-
sy. @
Whereas, in our present controversy
with our Pastor, Rev. John Pierpont, we
have joined issue with him, upon the es-
sentlal question between us; he, in his
last Letter to US, in effect affirming that
temperance Is, by way Of eminence, the
Exciting Topic his zeal in the cause of
which, and his efforts for its advancement
constitute 'the head and front ofhis of:
tendang,' and we, in the Preamble to our
last vote upon that Leler. denying this 4;
and.
Whereas, it is absolutely due to the
character of both the parties of this con-
roVersy, that this issue should be settled
Dy some common and competent tribunal,
IN presence of this Christian community
and for the information and admonition Of
other churches, and of coming times,-
therefore,,
Voted, That a committee of - he
raised by this Society, and clothed with
.ull power to agree with our pastor, upon
mutual council, before which this issue
shall, by them be carried, and BY which
it shall be settled.
Voted, That the decision of that tribu-
nal shall be conclusive. final. and forever
binding upon both parties, upon the fol-
loving points, namely: