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

great difficulty, ia your case, IS that you
b.ve glazed yourselves in false position. !
Nv This. YOUR last step, you have lost
Ground. You are farther from your OBJ |
Iect than you were last fall counseled
Won then to take me before mutual coun-
ell, pledging myself to abide Its result. 1t
was the only thing that could help you
then and now, fear, not even that can
help you. But go, by all means, to coun-
sci learned in the law. It is, indeed, very
possible that this advice will not avail you.
Bn il will be something for you to learn
from him. that while you hold your present
position, there 10 no advice that can. 1t
IL quite possible that his services will be
as little in harmony with you r wishes as
mine have been; for believe that the
laws Of man, upon this point. agree with
those Of God and, very possibly. your le-
gal adviser may tell you that he can no
more benz the law to your wishes, than
can the gospel. This. however. in his
case, as in mine. will result, not from any
unwillingness. on bis part, 70 please the
men who pay him for his professional ser
vices; but form the singular infelicity OF
the case that you lay before him.
Do not, my brethren. be surprised, if
your legal adviser should tell you that
your minister haslalready counseled you as
a faithful friend; and if he should say,
gentleman, you have taken wrong
ground: you cannot stand upon it in
court Of law; and you cannot go forward
In your present course without sure defeat,
coupled with no little modification. 1t
will not be agreeable to you, know, but
the best counsel that can give you is to
take back your last step and till you can
make on. something against your minister
that you will be willing to carry before an
Ecclesiastical council. sit down peaceably,
either 10 your own church or in some
other; and, wherever you sit. believe that
the preacher as truly consults your inter-
ests, ia his counsels, as do in NINE"
And now, my brethren, as this NAV
possibly be the last counsel that, as your
minister, / may ever have an opportunity
70 give you, those of you especially, who
have been most active in disquieting the
sheep OF this christian fold, by your perse-
cutiOn ofiis shepherd. Indulge me, / pray
you, in one word more Of counsel. The
time il coming when you will thank me
for It; thank me the more heartily, the
more promptly you follow it. Desist--I
counsel you to desist from that part of
your business which has been the cause of
all this unhappy controversy the cause Of
your troubles, and of my trials and triumph
for shall be triumphant. at last. Desist
from the business that, through the rover-
~ OF many, has made you rich that has
pun you into your palaces by driving them
through novels and prisons down into the
gates ofthe grave. Abandon the business
that is kindling the fires of hatred upon
your own hearth stones. & pouring poison
into the veins of your children,-yea, and
OF your children's children, and sending
the shrek of deliriun through their cham.
bers tho business that is now scourgino
our good land as pestilence and war have
never scouraged it nay, the business. in
prosecuting which you are, even now
carrying curse TO all the continents oil
the world, and making our country a
stencil in the nostriIs of the nations.
counse. you to stay your hands from this
work OF destruction, and wash them Of
this great lniquity. as becomes the disciples
OF Him who came not to destroy mems
lives, but 10 save them. AS his disciples, |
counsel you no longer to absent yourselves
from your wonted place of worship, and
10 return to your allegiance to your church
and to God. Say to your minister, Well
done, good and faithful servant! you have
faithfully done the work that you were or
dained 10 do. You have neither spared
us nor feared us. You have even wound
ed Us; but faithful are the wounds of a
friend. We commend you for your work,
and charge you to go on with it. that we
maymeet together, in the presence of God. !
This is the course. my christian breth.
rem, which it will be for your peace to
iake;--and not more for your peace, than
for your honor and profit; for thus will
you become more rich unto God. The
age OF many of your number, to which
you allude, in the paper before me, ough,
TO admonish you that. though you ma1
take this course now, the day is not dis.
tant when you may not.
Gentlemen, in your proceedings against
me, you have appealed to that in which
your strength lies ;--your numbers, and
your wealth. My strength is in neither
Of these. Il Is in the righteousness Of my
cause. IL 10 in the protection assured te
righteous cause by the laws of Chris
tan state. II is IN the judgments of GOOD
men, IN regard to my faiihfulness as {
minister OF Christ. 1t is in the decision
that will be pronounced upon this case b,
coming times. and by the Judge Of al
the earth On these l rely. TO all thes
appeal Your Pastor and true friend.
JOHN PIERPONT.
Hoston, 23d March, ls40
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