Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-07-08


much as it may subject the moral advan-
tages of many TO the monetary power of a
Wan infelicity, which, were it found
In all the churches OF this city, would .
bring them all, at once, under the control .
OF few of its merchant princes. Nay, if
all the twenty six Congregational Church /
es of Boston were staining upou the same
platform as this, in the article regulating
votes, there is a single individual of your
number, who, if he could be brought so 10
use his power-as we all know that he
could never be-could, with his own right
hand, thrust out from his pu pit every
Congregational Minister in the city, and
lock the doors OF the church both against
him & his people. Perhaps we may see,
by and by. how this power-this moneta-
ry power,->not the power of tIls lndlVld-
alias been brought to bear upon our
case, when | come, as | now do, to the
consideration of the votes passed at your
last special meeting.
And, in what | have to say of these, |
beg, Gentlemen, that without offence. you
will allow me to speak with perfect plain
what mean, I'disturb or hurt your feel
ings, pray you to consider that that is
not my object, but an inevitable accident
10 tina; which as my object, viz to set you
right and to keep myself So | would do
. you good and not evil-and | will studi-
ous!y seek to do you no injustice while
, an: taking care that you do me none. =
, The simple truth is, that in both these
! votes, that bear directly upon myself you
have taken wrong posi.ion-a position
from which you must retire; for, In II
iyou cannot safely stand sill, and from j
YOU cannot go forward without certain de
feat. | do not say that, in attempting tC
dispIace me from my pulpit, you have un
dellaken a wrong thing; but that yo'
7 have gone about it in wrong way
! Thus, sooner or later, you will see.
- / shall, first, notice the vote which
;. though second in order, is fist In its i'm
a portance.
Voted, That we no longer wish tn
- services Of the Rev. John Pierpont, a
i Pastor of this Society
:, That this vote is true expression {
:, your wishes, l cannot doubt. But Their
% q is line in one of the Hymns, sung
II our Church
ri "Not what we wish, but what want"
" that suggests an important truth in mora
ut that we may sometimes acGnt what "
v. do not acish for. The world wanted tn
m Gospel of Jesus Christ long before
Sc. wished for it. The Christian Ministry
in 10 this day, wished for much less than it
nd wanted. And have never learned thu
m in either medicine or law, the counsel
oh the professional adviser is to. be square
he Of course, BY the patients or the ellen
oh wishes. Do you :ell the gentlemen
md those professions what opinions they m,
aw give you, when you GO to consult then
ha, Were you so unwise as 10 do so, wor
,ou they be so much more unwise as TO pr
Dor titu,e their professions by making vo
no wishes the rule of their Counsel Mel
pill err will so prostitute mine. Ii you WI
'ent more taithfulness in counsels PERTAIN
owl. TO the body than to the soul, consult OIL
Use counsel. Though you do not wish. J
that yet may want my Services as your pas'
g at least I'LL may have been the means
iced your learning lesson-oh, how hard
-ilh the men of this generation TO learn 1t
The mighty as Mammon. the God OF this q
me. is, he is vet not almighty that, pov
cred full as money IS, there are some thl
Of which money cannot do. That 1t car
the muzz!e your pulpit, | have good h
that that you have already learned and
for you vet learn from me that il cannot
err place its occupant BY merely wishing
here awav,-howeve Improbable my I'M
free try may hitherto have been TO your
r;can oious interes 81 cannot think that
r. in Iabors with you, will have been altoG
nron- er in VAIN, in the Lord.
! M, But. Gentlemen, this vote discover
r;oht only some misconceptlon on your
Is as to the object of the Christian MIMI
N he it shows also great mlsappfehei
inle o both of my rights and OF your own
neo. ers. You seem not to have learned,
nd re- have forgotten. that there are two p'
he in TO the contract between you and my
10 the and that, in the eye of the law. these
ill ties are equal; that If you have II
have so. also, have THAI if am under
ase in cations to YOU, so also are you TO
,untry and that you can no more dissolve I
no / Ilatlon based upon this contract,
depen- my consent tnan eon'u eNle. "
fallen it or constitute 1t wilhoo' yuu' ;I !;
or the from the act OF Goa, winch s'aIi ~
orts of all the contracts ana all the 'e'a 's;
Iunica- life, there are out TWO ways ~ VI.
to de- contract between US can oe SCI aS'ue
lgth as ogreemem. 81 Pe''ses. anu ~ r.,
4 now, lao. II, in neither of these two
ion of is set aside, It must stanu 40 IL Il
to sus. neither of these ways is attempted
rticuIar vote before me; and, as it is equally
ont the sanction of law, and IN dero
minary of my rig hts. L trust 'ha, ! o .na,o,
zion. | red If trtat 1t as altogether nuS