Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-04-14
UNION OF THE CHURCH.

A certain class of persons are necessarily
crying, "union! you will disturb the union
of the church % as il peace and harmony
were the cal pha and the omega" Of their
creed-union, at whatever expense, espe-
cially among protesting christians. No
matter how widely the church differ in SEN
timent, or how unjust and heaven-d daring
may be the practices of portion of this
body at every token of excitement, sud-
denly and loud the cry Of these comprom-
isers breaks upo1 the ear" Take care! you'll
divide the 'churchw At these startling
words, mighty host stand breathless with
fear, and anon take up the echo and ring it
over the land!
What are the elements which compose
the Baptist Church of America, and where
in are their feelings similar? In some
things, they almost unanimously agree, such
as the divinity of Chrlst-the perseverance
of the saints-baptism, &C.; in others they
differ heaven-wlde, as in relation TO human
rights, temperance, &c. One portion be-
lieves men have a right to buy and sell
men, as they would cattle, and rob them of
their daily earnings because their fathers
did; the other does not. One, that men
have right to manufacture AMI vend poison
10 kill men; the other, that il is a crime to
do SO. One, that they are perfectly justified
in taking the Bible away from class of
heather, if they only send it to another :;
The other believes that in the eye of God,
The soul is not respected on account Of the
beauty of its earthly tenement Now ii
must be seen that such heterogeneous ele-
nents can not be formed into compound
by any chemistry of nature or OF art, any
more than iron and clay The least shock
| would SILVER the mass TO atoms.
1t seems that extraordinary efforts have
been put forth of late, to prevent the antci-
pated disruption OF the Missionary Society
at the approaching Triennial Convention.
This Society has heretofore acted in con
| cert, and the "price of blood" has been
| thrown into the same box with that Of the
products Of honest labor; and they might
| have continued to have acted thus for ages.
had not IL portion of the church protested
against the wickedness ofrobbing the heath
en- al home, to evangeliZe the heathen abroad
What has been the effec Of such protesla
tons? For ten long years, men have been
pouring the living Goals of truth" upon
! the eonsciences of christian Shareholders
with faithfulness and zeal unparalleled
:. Voices have come from foreign lands. pro-
testing against receiving money that has
been wrung from the poor, by ,ortures thai
would have disgraced the reign of NERO
The press and the pulpit and the living
voice and The holy mandates of the King oil
kings, have all spoken in vain Southern
| churches still cling TO the accused system,
that fills the land with groanings, as with
| the grasp of death! With bowels warming
over the dying heather abroad, they have
scarcely uttered note of rebuke agains,
laws: that consign to eternal heathenisu, a
sixth part of our whole population at home
And then because their brethren demonstrate
with them, with earnestness and zeal, they
threaten disunion, and ask that their accus-
ers be thrust from the christian church,