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

IN THIS cnurcn WHho VI Inc !
so mays, Az are regular worshlppers b
here--leaving, OF the proprietors actually
in the church, a plurality OF
l6 against the votes.
Of the ten absentee proprie,ors, voting
in the affirmative, are engaged IN the
traffic in spirituous liquors, and these 3
cast l9 votes against me: showing that
the foreign force brought, by that particu- {
lar interest, to bear upon my pulpit was
seven votes more than he whole plurality
by which those measures were carried.
Of The Al persons voting in the affirm
alive, at least 10 are, or have been con-
cerned directly in the traffic in ardent
spirits; while of the so voting in the
negative, can find but two that have ev-
er been thus concerned; and now there is
not one that is.
Again of the 6s votes cast against
me. SO We're cast by these 10 dealers.
And, once more While bear it IN
mind that the proceedings against me a,
your annual meeting in 1888 were the
handiwork of proprietor, large dealer
in spiriluous liquors, who, for the last SIX
or eight years his been neither worship
per in the church, nor even an inhabllant
of the city; That at your annual meeting
in 1882 they were introduced BY large
dist:ller, who, for sill longer period, has
been an absentee, and a proprietor in an
other church and that at the first adj
ljourned meeting, last fall, they were intro
duced by proprietor, a large dealer also,
who is, or at least, ill within the last
months has been a worshipper with us:
while | bear all this in mind, | learn
from the analysis ust mentioned, that
young mana son of the proprietor last
. spoken of, himself also concerned IN the
same traffic as his father, never propri-
etor in the church till within the last
four months and even now worshipper
o with his family in another rch,-comes
5 up to the proprietors' special meeting IN
IL March, 1840. introduces 10 the meeting
e the preamble and votes now under notice
o produces the title deeds of eleven pews
il and casts eleven ballots, TO show that he
e no longer wishes nv services as pastor
: of this society!
= What language does all this speak Il
o the present and to the future? Is all lhl
4 continuous pressure of particular inter
1T est altogether accidental !? Is this concen
J. tration of monetary forces. from within
Is and from without the church, upon al
v humble friend and advocate of the Ten
perance cause, altogether without a volc
Or considering, especially, the interest b
p which these forces are applied TO tn
10 question, What is the cause of action i
OF this case2' Do your ballots give an ans
ne wer that your Preamble does not2 Al
at you willing TO leave the age that sha
lot come when we are in our graves, to dra'
| lis own differences from these facts2 Doe
iii the testimony Of your own balot-box p'
ne your case just where it will be for yoI
af- honor TO leave it2 Does your own shoS
We ING make your case too bad2 | ask 20
| then, gentlemen to go with me before {
re- Ecclesiastical Council, and make it bette
en-, Your vote that IL first in order, thoue
d | second in importance, is this
DiH Voted, that the Resolution passed
as the 1lth November last, whereby I
ing Rev. John Pierpont felt himself author
ave ed 10 resume the pulpit of Hollis Str
hat Meeting house, be, and the same is, be
ter by rescinded.'
our This vote, also, like the one that / ha
less Just considered, shall regard and treat
YOU a nulitv; and for this reason.
iese If, as have already SHOWN. you can
ives by YOUR own act, without my concurrel
hev or consent, dissolve the relation betw'
n of us, directly, and in form; so neither {
hey you, by your own act, dissolve It mar
ly but in effect, by SO restricting and ne
ring inc me up in the discharge OF the du
s as of that relation as TO make 1t imposslb
,insl or even uncomfortable for me TO discha
MON them faithfully and to your own profit
blish St. Paul tells US that 1t is expected {
o as steward that he be found faithful
/ not f,itAfuIness implies freedom, where
4 hab stewardship is of moral character.
cub the duties are of moral nature. w
5 de- the stewardship continues, my oblIgat
~ Is remain; and your powers are limited
the lines that define them.
that. By resembling the Resolution TO wi
, old this vote refers, you give me to unders
ented that the Pulpit of Hollis Street meet
You house is no longer free; and that |
it is not, therefore, enter it again, In acc
WHY ance with nv determination 10 stand
but, free pulpit or in none. But l., In
YOU would give you to understand that, III
niqu- ter some further steps are taken 10
these premises than have yet been taken,-
gives it is for yourselves. gentlemen, to
hire. whether any further shall be taken,
these any, what snail commune 10 DC
ques- the pulpit, as nave zone lot ~,
, from twenty one years Ana 'niS sna.
opting not because | have cnangea my uele'
.Ioa GOD
your but because nave chanseu my We
,alIots, your competency TO conlroi, or II
mittee least degree to limit or restrict, the
hem dom of your pulpit, so long as it is