Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-10-28
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY,, OCTOBER IS. Is4o=


]" CORES ondence'p to the "spiritual uni
.ty " existing in The hearts and souls OF
Christians. Not the least.
Aud eaEnot conceive Of the least gain
from such proceeding, bet should APP
prehend loss 10 Christianity, ia proper
ton as you bring into nearer contact
things so entirely inimieal There Ger
talnly can be no objection to general meet.
lngs, Tor specific purposes, ia which all
Christians shall unite. 1t is highlv de-
slrable that thete should be such. They
will tend to enlarge The COMMON ground.
BY doing away prejudice and srctarianistn
Such is the tendefcy already apparent
from be meetings in which all bave emit
ed* against the sins of slavery and intesn-
perance. There is E.ahilestIv an increas-
ing disposition for ua;on meetings to pro-
mote the general Objects Of pure Chris
tianitv, by the use cf saca means as ex-
hortation, prayer and preaching, The
more of ali these, conducted in the spirit
of the G&spel, the better. | 60 flrther--
if it be going frrther-and say, the more
union the better. Bat let it be un;on--
not confusion. II understand my broth
er, he would have Bapeists, Presbyteri-.
ans, Methodista, Quaiers, and others, all
abandon their present separate organiza-
tons and congregations, ard come togeth
er in one common. assemblage, for the
promotion of the interests Of religion, al
though they be compelled by their differ
ent views of truth and duty, to be, in prln-
ciple and in practice, BaEtists, Presbye-
rians, Methodisss and Qaakers, still. lean
not see or imagine the benefit Of such an
arrangement l can see nothing in it but
a name--and that not at all descriptive OF
the nature or character of the thing on
which it would be written To write
union on such heterogeneous mass of
discordant, conflicting elements and ma
terials, would be to write order On Bed
lam or understanding on Babel.
Perhaps my brother will say he would
have such put away their peculiar views
and practices. Then he must first con-
vince each of their several errors. In
such work l will join him If he will
convince me that there is any baptism
short of immersons will abandon the es-
sentialism of immersion. And he shall
have the Telegraph to DO it 10, if he
choose. Until he undertakes to convince
me on this point, he will not be so unrea-
sonable as to require me to abandon my
present views. And | claim The same
thing from him for other denominations,
that do for my own. Let him FIRST con-
vince them.
The work before Us, then, my brother,
is, to @nste men ia the TRUTH, This is
a glorious work--a work worthy to en-
oloy our MODEST powers. =, The first step,
as | view it, to be taken in such work
is, to urge differentiation. This we
are to take to ourselves, and to urge upon
each other and upon all around US. And
then, with mutual good will, universal be-
neyolence, and Christian fidelity, we are
to examine each other, and all around US
And just as fast and as fsr as the Truth i:
found and embraced, there will Of course
be genuine union--and 70 faster or far
Their.
! am happy to have my bro:her's con
fience in nay heart. ! am not among
those who rather have faults imputed t,
their hsarts than to their heads. No-"c
4 Let the heart be right, and then whateve
wrong may find way into the head Wi
h be pardonable Ga this point trust 20
4 and | agree. 1t was with such a vie'
! that said what did. in the mater where
, in YOU think wFonged you. 1t was nt
my intention to impute the lcas' faui:
i your heart only thought that certaI
: lexpressed views of yours would lead Ut
e avoidably to certain conclusions and #
d suhs. "
T | will close my present remarks b
e asking whether you would have the PR
posed Union Church have any a0flts
/ creed and if yon would, what that cree
I should be!
T = Until the late sectarian " new-organzatiol