Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-04-21

church. Il may be affirmed. irnpairs nell
.ther the soundncss OF its faith nor the IN
.teqrity Of It's character.f good intentions,
II nav be maintained, may conver slave
boldiso into Christian virtue !f SO that
one NAV be onder sacred obligations to vi
olate the inalieneble rights # his fellow
menI And TO injure them at the most vi
tai points for their special benefit Such
poison may have injected the very, heart
ofshechurch; and qnickened and silength-
ensd d deadly hostility to the cause of no.
ly Freedom may have made it NUS.
ance offensive to Heaven and Earth
Yet in any effort for its Improvement and
usefulness, you must not fix its eye upon
the mortal sins. il refuses to repent Or
General confessions, it may, in general
way be exhorted to make. Thus all Of
tense will be avoided. The tide of excite
ment NAV flow on. The church may be
increased, while its old, fondled sins may
be piously retained. The stream runs on
smoolhly. And the painful necessity Of
Ilaboring to bring a pfo-slavery church to
Repentance by preaching abolition lectures
lis cunningly avoided y
i Now for what purpose was the mission
| Of the son of God undertaken! And why
was he called Jesas? The object of his
4 mission and the occasion of his name we
have in the aim, He vigorously held--in
1.-THE purpose He lovingly cherished, o
"saviug His people from their sins. p
The Heaven-appointed, Heaven honored
means of grace, which in the cause OF hu
man salvation are to DO employed, look
OF course in the same direction. A con
version, which leaves men at variance
/. with the fundamental principles of a SOUND
morality, leaves them unsaved. A defect
i've morality is the natural offspring of
corrupt Christianity If the former is de
fective at fundament points, the latter i
radically false and fatally corrupt VIVA
must we say of system of morality
which in the very presence of slavehold
| I ing, connives al its enormities and eveI
J affects ignorance of its deadly tendencies
} Which gives its countenance to the wors
, form, under which respect Of persons an
contempt for the poor ever haunted thi
r specter-ridden world? Are men save
from their sins, who make no scruple {
: living in them; who ingeniously excus
/ or stout!y defend them2 Who curl thei
/. lips or gnash theil teeth upon every one
: who dares honestly attempt to carry OF
the principles of the Gospel to their mos
! natural and significant applications =
!. When meeting is held to countenanc
r and strengthen such a Christianity i:
!. held 70 countenance and strengthen in
!. guilty. An effort is made to convert brea
d to poison ito make the means Of saliva
: ton a lure to despair.
T." The relation may still exist, salca fde ct sal,
eccLesi0-- without violating the Christian faith
the church."-Prof. Stuarfs Reply to DR.. FISK
IS The doctrine of good intenlions--the old Jes
), itical dogma asserting thar the end justifes Il
: means is of wide Notwithstanding and sane
: flying the whole field where transgression of the
vine Law shows its face and splits out its venom.
l. And you would have me commence a prOtraC
,f ed meeting by delivering course ossaboliion lie
= tures!" TO be sure / wonld, II pro-slaye
n church is to be brought to repentance.
sr To be continued