Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-12-01

be called a spade, or a hoe always hoe, OF
a sheet always sheet. ! But aspade should
sometimes be called piece of iron, with
handle, TO dig ditch with-a hoe, piece
of iron, with handle, TO weed corn and
dig potatoes with and sheet, piece Of
atee-linenn! This mode Of talking shows
refinement Of taste, besides being exceed
inelg convenient! But brother Thomas |
could not be Observation-Disclosures OBJ
seryalion were taken Of The part Of chap
Ter which he read in the morning, the whole
chap,er which he read in the afternoon,
either of bis discourses, or his prayers. |
appeal TO all his observing hearers-and if
they did not understand him shall be un-
der the necessity Of appealing to himself, if
| have misapprehended him. Unless | bad
great obliquity Of vision, his mind was
deeply absorbed in the matter-his thoughts
troubled him. Now let il be distinctly un-
derslood that am not finding fault with
his noticing our meetings in his pulpit.
was perfectly proper that be should, do
not undertake 10 say how acise or prudent
/ it was for him to do il. But il was proper
and right, provided what be said had eeen
l in accordance with sound doetIiae. Public
doings are public property. !, was just as
proper and right for him 10 take the proceed
ings Of our meetings into his pulpit as II IS
for me to take bis discourses into nay paper.
And il is just as proper and right for me to
take his discourses INFO my paper as II was
for him to take the proceedings of our meet
ings into his pulpit. All the difference there
can be is, in the mode Of Treatment. He
chose not to call names, choose to call
them. II is my choice to use unequiVocaf
language, the import and bearing Of which,.
snobodY can doubt. For this, have some
times been charged with being PERSONAL
Ny own view is, that there is no more OF
personality in speaking Of persons & things
by their right names: than in communicating
The same ideas 10 regard to them by insin-
uation. With these p1eliminaries, | shall
now proceed to brief notice of such parts
Of brother Thomas diseourses as were man
ifestly intended TO bear on The doings Of
our meetings.
His text in the morning was taken from
a part Of the I'd verse Of the 9Th chapter OF
: Ephesians =" And walk in love-" He read
= such part of the chapter as answered his
Y purpose. After alluding TO H. C. Wright's
r objection TO dividing up love, he went on to
: discriminate between the love of benero-
}, lence-soey pishing, as be styled it, and
0 1.-THE love Of delight. The former might be
$ extended to the man of vicious ha5its-the
: latter is confined to the good. He believed
n this same distinction existed in the Divine
:. mind. The quere at once arose in my own
: mind to know how much, comparatively
f this distinction was worth-aud how his
! hearers were 10 be bene6ued by laying stress
r upon il. If the love Of delight, as he call:
o it, stands in any manner or degree IN con
o ftrast with the love Of beneyolenee, it per
o tains only to SELF and therefore needs az
: stimulating in selfish beings. On the eshe
: hand, il appears to me there IS no DANCE
e that the love of beneVolenee can be toe
highly cultivated. But brother Thoma:
. thought it was compatible with restraint
,. that is, if understood him, with resistance
: of erit. How much restraint, or resistance
of evil, he had not settled in his mind! h
;, meant TO examine. But he was going Il
lake time for IL! ! shall be curious ant
- inquisitiye to know how long a religion
;, teacher, who is forty years old, has had
n collegiate and theological course, and ha
\ been teaching the public six or seven years
4 yet needs, TO settle 10 his own mind one @
the first and greatest principles Of Chris
,r tianity! feel happy and rejoice ,ha. he
IN unsettled-lhat is, that he is not in wors
,s than an unsettled state on this fundamenta
IS point. There is yet hope in his case. Mos
to certainly he is entitled to just as much tim
is 10 ge, his heart in state 10 forgire as cal
IS be allowed TO the sinners to whom h
!. breaches to get their hearts 10 state TO b
n forgirenL God grant him all needed 2rac
j! in the trying struggle! 10 the mean time
II he will allow me 10 invite him 10 20 wit
r. me to the Great Teacher, and li$ten TO sue
b. instructive words as the following: Low
10 your enemies.n FOR if ye love them while
Sc love you, what reward have ye? do not eve
m the publcans the same 2" "Fergive us OF
3. debts, as we forgive our debtors" eff y
d. forgive not nen their trespasses, neither wi
he lyour Father forgive your lTespasses.n "R,
Jet sist not evil-n "Father forgive then"-
i'm Now just as much restraint may be use,
10 as Is counaiihle with these laws md iaa.I