Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-09-02

What shall l say Of the more aqed
who perhaps have devoted the salb,,h
for forty FIVE or fifty years, who therefore
have charged TO them, deductng 5 years
for infancy and childhood, 1890 sabba,hs
Where will such stand at the judgment
seat of Christ2
Allowing that the profane man has
been guilty OF but utterlng ten oaths
day--thls, in single year, amounts to
5'o5O-in ten years TO $4,000, and in
twenty to $4,000 which they have dared
TO lmprecate his worth. What renders
this sin so enormous is, The fact that these
oaths must be looked upon as so many
prayers, either for their own damna,ion,
or The damnation of others. Such NAV
be assured that these petitions SO far as
they relate to themselves, unless averted
oy timely repentance, will be speedily
answered in their endless ruin.
All this time every uurenewed sinner
has resisted the means of grace, and all
The strivings OF the Holy Spirit. O, the
fearful account yo~ a0iH haze to render IN
The judgment Of The great day.
Fo~rthly. All the time in which YOU
have advocated or cherished in your own
bosoms false notions in regard TO the fun
damenIal principles of our holy religion,
Is time thrown away.
Under this head shall instance only
that of Universalism. would affection
ately enquire Of those who have embraced
this sentiment or who feel any way in
eIIned to embrace it, if they believe this
IS the sentiment an intelligent stranger
would deduce from our Bible on reading
it for The first time2 We will suppose he
opens TO the 25th Of Matt, and 10 com.
mence al the 3Ist verse. Now is it mo-
obvious that any unprejudiced, impartial,
intelligent reader of his Bible, on perus-
ing such texts would come TO the conclus.
ION that the miseres of the wicked and
the joys Of the righteous are alike unend,
Ing IN their duration! Then why do YOU
come to so different a conclusion as 10 the
wicked, especially as you admit the
joys Of the righteous to be unending2
Sag aohy?
Again l would enquire of those who
favor this sentiment of what essential ben.
efI they suppose it to be to the truly p-
Gus, though true? Will they not in that
case be equally happy with the advocates
of the doctrine themselves Certainly,
say you. We will suppose it to be false.
What will then become o. the impenitent
who have ventured their immortal all on
this dortrine2 Their endless destruction
is inevitable. Then what does the voice
of wisdom dictate, where there is nothing
to lose on the one hand, though true, bul
on the other everything, if false? ap-
peal to those who have their reason in
exercise, 10 jud ge. "But as for me and
my house we will serve the Lord"
Once more. Is the moral tendency OF
universalism such as to recommend il to
the fellowship, either of parents or chill
dren, TO the youth or 10 the more advanc.
ed in age2 What is the moral character
of a large majority of its most Jealous ad
Vocates! d. they not devote the Sab.
| bath 10 living in sin, and strenuously OBJ
pose experimental and practical piety p
Nay more-do not many of them hold
up to open ridicule the most sacred things
Can such religion DE the religion of the
Bib!e2 Is it possible that God has en-.
! forced a religion on his creatures, the OBJ
vious tendency of which is 10 make men
corrupt, vile and proaigate? 1t canno. be
that God Of infexible justice and unsul.
lied purity is the author Of such a rel
gion. This was not the religion of the
Apostles; neither is it the religion of The
scriptures, which declare in language IL
| plain to be misunderstood, that such char
aclers have no inheritance in the kingdom
of God.
The immoral tendency Of the doctrine
the Rev. Messrs. Smith of Conn, ant
Whitaker of New York city have re
Gently assigned as the prime reason 0
their being led to see their error, which
resulted in their remuneration of the sys