Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-10
ENCOURAGEMENT.


cation was designed for the public. 1t has no APP
pearance ofbeing intended for else than an
accompaniment to the money received with it,
But ait is to good to keep" 1t will be perceived
that the writer lives in Canada
0. S. Murray: Dear Sir: l have taken
your valuable paper many years. have Of !
ten contemplated writing to you. 1t was
once no burden TO wife letter. But age
a large family, cares, and a broken mind
have much altered me.
Al first paid in advance for the Tele-
graph, with others, at $3.50. mex, paid
So, punctually. | still take the paper tho
delinquent, which has much troubled me-
! Al one time The 1Gat hindered at another.
Canada money, feared, would not do-and
could not change it. Again, poverty pre-
venled-l could not &c, hold Of The money
know not how,to do without your paper,
nor how to pay for it. Your reasonable
price, augmented by United States postage,
70 cents; and Canada postage, 81 cents,
) makes quite sum for me, in poor health,
and large weakly family. l take no other
paper. My wife says stop this answer
| cannot do without it. have long been a
tee-totalist, fully. | use neither tea nor to-
bacco. have not bought a fur hat in about
: Is years, and never will own another. nor
spend shilling uselessly, to decorate this
body, until | can punctually pay for reli-
gious newspaper, and Go more to promote
the blessed benevolent institutions of the
: day. Your paper has fed and comforted
n me and my delinquency has stung me. II
: you knew all, you would pity me. have
: properly enough in land; hu, the qra,
o cramps me. l am like calf in so fee
barn without hay
h When read you, true to your motto
j. fighting sin in high places, in low places
- and in all places-when Lovejoy fell an,
lie Lynch law prevailed-I thanked my CO.
a. That friend Murray was among the Cree
Mountains, fearlessly trusting in Him.
:, have been often amused at the fancie
squirmings Of mistaken friends aud barefac
- ed scoundrel<, under the operation of YOU
=. unhoned lazor.* But above all am mos
., pleased at the stand you have taken in be
= half Of the down-trodden slave. Blesse
j. be God, ii is His cause, AID He will sus
ed tain it | have read but little, except /
Id your paper, on the subject. Blu, my Who'll
heart is in tie cause. l believe part of the
30 woes are known-the rest eternity will di:
Or. close. In 1904 saw about $50 blacks di:
a3 charged from ship, in Detnerara, nearly n;
by ked. On going ashore, alone, passed
ID, strip of cloth, with several gashes across h
Oh back, the width Of my fingers, dried up
be the sun. AS he stopped TO take up a bunc
ng Of cane leaves from the boat, the blood star
ed in several places. This scene ofle
comes fresh to my mind, when read tn
they are said TO be well used aud the Xix
Stick to the cause of the slave, dear s.
with a fearless, steady aim-witll an und
W vided heart-and whatever thy world
e,' prospects may be, thy soul shall thrive-t!
~" last end shall be peace, and thy e,erni
&C. blessed. May GOD guide, direct, prote
!" and bless you, as the advocate Of uniyers
: liberty. And amidst your trials. rememb
'ss for your comfort that MANY prayers are {
81 iered up on your behalf, by those whose :
ch. z..
ces you may never see in The flesh. l on
thought TO write TO you TO go on, and
your glorious cause brought poverty, saw
IN your paper, aud money would be rails
..,. at any sacrifice. But times have altered.
IN am crowded /; and as feel, | dare not prol
n. ise for others. But go on. 1t is heaye
zen. ly cause, and God is good and never chang,
mi | enclose you s..
,old have sometimes thought that you did /,
first pay SGtiIcienl attention 10 one heinous $
ord In the church, have reference TO e.rbar
and gance IN dress. Was this one sin l.
aust aside, and the money thus saved applied
into The Lords service. every blessed ;nstituti
] 10 would be sustained. The holy Judsoa NO,
t. not mourn, and other missionaries compla
'ofd have feared that you and yours were c,
) re- taminated with the evil.f Think of
anu suhject-pray over task counsel OF G.
see and act accordingly, for the Redeen,e
ever sake.
@ | am, dear sir, with all due respect,
Yours, - - -