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

Clerk-lhat the controversy between US :
is again opened, which had hoped was d
closed forever. Ii is painful to me to be
thus forced into collision with body SO {
large and SO heavy as yourselves; SO
large as you are in numbers, and so heavy
as you are by reason of your wealth.
love peace-my own peace. and the peace
of the church-as much as you do, or
car; and, SO long as that can be preserv-
ed, without sacrifice of duty or princi-
pie, there is little else that | would not
sacrifice to preserve it. there were any
hope that my prayer would be heard, |
would pray you, even now, to let me
alone; to move on quietly, each of you in
his own sphere Of duty, and let me do so
in mine. Ii it were possible. and as much
as lielh in me, would live peaceably with
all men. But
charge to keep have;
! My calling to fulfil,
| To serve, in Christ the present age,
| To do my Masters will.
| AT duty's post stand,
And on his strength rely,
J Assured, I my trust betray,
| 1 shah, fOrsaken die.
! Much as love peace, hope that |
may ever love right and duty more and,
il these cannot be maintained without an
other struggle, must grid myself for it !;
fervtnlly praying God that it may be
short one.
| would remark, then, while standing
on the Threshold of this controversy, and
with view Of meeting suggestion that,
: understand, has been thrown out by
4 e IL - bau
5 against me-viz. that, | am striving, IN
t this case. merely to retain my place and
5 It's perquisites, that, had | consulted my
t love of peace or of gain, alone, the pulpit
: of your church would, very probably,
S have been vacated by It's present lncum-
:, bent before now for, there are those
e both of my people and of my brethren IL
i. the ministry. who know that, a year anc
half ago, prepared a letter TO you. ten
d dering a resignation of my office, which
ID | proposed to send you, in reply TO tn
N votes passed at your meeting on the lO:l
y September, 1888, rather than conten
Sc against the force and the spirit that say
'n arraved against Mccullough, at thu
time should have gone out from 20
We into dark world, with no field of labo
st- in sight upon which could enter, and n
lis staff to support me for the rest of my pl
o. grimage, but-one that has never ber
ct, under its weight--my faith 10 the prov
Ir dence of God. But, on further advis
tie, ment and consideration, | Withheld tn
he letter, and it is still lying 10 my DESK
ch And for the same reasons that influence
I'M. ne then, as we'll as for others, | have, VII
ich in the last four months spoken OF IN u
- Preamble TO the votes now before n
ner promptly declined even berg consider
- as candidate for the Presidency oil
University in one of our sister States, I
fol. salary of which is much larger than Il
of,he Pastor of Hollis Street Society
| considered then, as | now consider
: of that, in this unpleasant controversy, tn
was is great principle involved-lhe fr
,en. dom-the independence Of the Amerlt
.Av. pulpit. The question is-whether,
this country, where The pulpit is not pr
we're ped up by Bishops staff, and does
lean upon a throne, It can stand apf'
the upon the basis of the peoPls's hearts.
vor. pliant pulpit the only one that can
ICED sustained upon the voluntary PrInc'p
zinc Will the hearts and the hands OF the
# at. ole uphold pulpit that exposes ana
real. Dukes sin, when that sin happens to b
, re. favor with the monetary power among
/ re- people themselves? llhink they vii
h. think that to great extent they
d on done this. Ours will be "A leading Gas
the settling the question whether this cou
% re- must have plant pulpit or none
etinc would that the defence OF the lnde
" re. dence OF The pulpit, in this case, had |;
into stronger hands than 1t has; Tor
. SER cause and the times demand the etfoi
tor of the strongest. But. in my confnu
tons TO you, last tall, | endeavored t
Dan fend it with such measure OF streng
n w. God had given me; and, | do not
Crane, propose to go again into discusslo
attend the general principle, but merely to
to the tain il in It's application to our partl
{ they case.
may also be allowed the prelim
it was remark that, in this communicate
. Pier wish to be understood as addressir
It chos- legal and not the actual body of the
: meet prietors of Hollis Street Church.
actual body consists of the propriett
lree be the major part Of them. The legal
mt the consists of the individuals-or. as n
J before the case, the individual-who may
declared the major part of the pews. In the
be one al body of The proprietors. there wo
8, nays a vote to every man. La the legal
is a vote TO every pew. This. as l