Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-04-28

Mt only the church, but
the world, would learn to Distinguish De- n
tween the precious and the vile, between K
him that serve,n the Lord and MIN that
serveth him not. |
Such revivals of religion would be "as O
the morning of Hadad-rimmon in the val, O
lev of Megiddon. And the land should
:. mourn, every family apart. and their t
wives apart" They would be Ike the t
Confessions of Josiah and the people OF
Israel when they named particularly the
sins of which they repented. and when
they abandoned. They would be like the
confessions of Ezra and the penItent con-
crecation Of those who put away their
strange wives. III
Were not these revivas of religion? Ii
not, on what pages Of the sacred volume
are revvaIs of religion recorded But
10 these we have alread y referred as to
Bible examples of moral retormatIons
And where else in the Bible, If not here.
are reformations Of public morals record
ed?
Examine TOO, the revivais recorded IN
the New Testament Were they not re-
formations of moraIs2 And did those
earlv revivals, at the day Of Pentecost,
and at other times and places, when there
were copious outpourlngs OF the HOLY
S irit-did these revivais leave their con-
verts to be broken off from their SINS by
other and distinct reforma'ory measures,
70 b., adopted alterwards2 No! And
,rhu did they not? Because Peter aud
his brethren understood how to preach
revival sermons that were worth some
thinp-lhat truly convicted their hearers
Of their sins-yesl their ooc~ sins-not
r the sins of Adam-the sins they had
i themselves committed-not "sln IN the ao-
= s.ract I" Mark how they pointed the
T. murlprers of Jesus to his CHASTITY wounds,
il and charged them with the bloody deed
V This was no empty abs1raction--no sem
h tiuental romance! The murderers felt
II Their guilt, and cried out for mercy, with
Y out waiting TO be invited to the ANXIOUS
RI spat,* before they could get sense OF their
l. sins! WHY should not the drunkard-
d maker. the enslaver, aud their abeuerS
$. the Pharaohs Of this oppressive nation
,e with their annually mustered hosts, Wht
1e sustain them at the polls-the " sovereign
ne ppopIe" and their chosen "representa
% lives )" and "agens," who do their bic
nd ding, be pointed with equal p|a'nness
es the fresh wounds and clo.ted gore OF the'
Il. murdered victims? Surely, If this Wer
TO- done. as it should be, by our revival min
he isters, their preaching would have emph
ro- sis ard meaning. aud We might be e
TO couraged to pray in faith for the omnIP
CT ten; Helper, who, wien he is come, w
m reurove the world of sin, of Righteousness
ith and Of Judgment 1t is an Old rema'
en- Of a revival minister that when the spl
convinees men of sin, it is always co
rs? vction of specific si"s-tne parlcu'
les, deed done, the time when, and the P'a
our where, rises fresh into view, as 1t WIZ
aud the day Of Judgment. Why should r
of the preaching of the gospel to sinners
, in with this we'll known feature OF t
vish Holy Spirits operations, and thus be p
de- motive of it? Why is the word preach
nat at ali, if not that it may become the swe
cap. Of the Spirit?
pre- II say nothing against the use of sepa'
en- seats for inqurers when Teces>ary or convene
lirn 0n|y insist that personal applications OF apl
I,ra p.iate truth and not mere outward arrAngeme
constitute the revival measures OF the Bible
r Is
', CHRISTIANS DIssIMlLAR.-We N
- "a. 40 not expect that all parsons will see
v,v truths of religion with equal dlSt'nctn
snI y or feel an equal degree OF JOY. on De
,,s. first brought from darkness into u
u.s., marvellous light. While some pass
I w. moment from the deepest anguish, TO
~ most rapturous emotions of Joy and g
tudp, others are introduced so gradu
into the kingdom. that they are ha
able to tell when they entered it.
subject may be illustrated by the Jife
Cos views and emotions which would be
that cited in three blind persons, of whom
oouId should BE- restored to sight at mdnI
every another at dawn, and the third amldst
Earth, sn,rndors of the neridian sun. The
truth although his sight might be as pertt
ltaIed restored as that Of the others, would
y'on' doubt, for some time, whether any chS
Bible had been effected in him, and tren
us OF lest the faint outlines oflhe objects are
I'd re- him. which be so indistinctty dlscov'
vI"a'S should prove to be the creations Of
d the own fancy. The second, although
d. anh might, at first, feel almost assured Of
meas chance which had been wrought IN
Ill be would We, experience gradually inc
US, be ;or confidence and hope, as the
[Oh, briqh,4ned around him; while the
r that nno, whose SURPRISED and daZzIed y
len on Irrst a, once the refuIgence OF mid
men vo,ld he TRANSPORTED, bewiIdPred, an'
every most overwhelmed, with the excess
to do surprise, and JOY, and gratitode'-P"
them
4-~- THE SERENADE.
1t such p.o,, The German of Ludwig INLAND.