Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-10-20
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
Christian Investigator.
NATURE AND DISTINGUISHING FEATURES CHRISTIAN
MoRALs.-Concluded.


REFORMATION MoRALs.-Concluded.
Prayer Dependence Divine Aid.
On these vitality important topics, not enlarge
Suffice it to say that solid and permanent moral
reformation be effected forgetulness of God, with
out deep of dependence the Divine aid Most
manifesy, if the divine will great moral law of
furnish the only standard and model of REFORM
if 1eormatory effort consist chiefly in the procama-
ton and exempfcaon of that law, if its high and holy
claims to be increasingly urged, without compromise
this work is to be still pursued amid all the opposing
complaints of denunciaton and prescription if meas
ures expedents instruments to be employed except
those that in accordance with the divine will re-
pentance humiliation and confession to constitute the
common atmosphere of the reformers reformed if works
meet for repentance must be insisted the ndispensa
BILE qualification of all who would be recognized coad
TUTORS In the effort if constant wachulness vigilance and
sobriety opposition evty of department. conversation
and to be expected of Christian reformers
if all this pertains to the work of thorough reformation
of morals, and the removal of national snshen, of
cessy there is pressing occasion that those who would be
useful in promoting such work, should be- emlnenty and
emphacally, of prayer. How else they walk
with God sympahize with his purposes, enter into his
plans become cowo.kers with him. comprehend the scope
of his requirements, and undersandngly urge the claims
of his law Without the aids which their Creator alone
bestow, and which prayer only secure how can
they stand fast themselves, in the integrity eff their
pu pose amid the of commotion, and the Turing
bats of temptaton which will everywhere cluster in their
pathway? And amid the stupidity, the apathy the self
shness the passions the appettes the deeprooed habits
of ransgesson the peudlces the decepVeness the IN
stability the folly and the unfahfuness, which they wit
in every direction and which they welded by the
confederaed wealth and power and learning and leading
influences of the nation both in the chulch and the state
in opposition their reormatory efforts, what rational
hopes reoers entertain that they shall ever succeed
unless they grappe themselves by faith and prayer to the
divine throne? Unless they identify themselves and their
efforts with the divine purposes of redeemng mercy to ou
errng race? Unless they conde IN the PROMISES and
study the predictions and watch the unfolding prov
dences which reveal the worshiper and retorne
the pregnant signs of the times, and show him when and
n how and where, and with what weapons, to strike tht
blows that are to tell upon the worlds destiny?
What blank atheism is involved in the implication tina
10 the world or the nation the church be renovated
" without divine aid and without prayer And how lt
short of such an mpous and absurd assumption do hos
make who tell that the platform" of great mora
reformation must be broad enough accommodate o.
h. terms OF 1raterna coninunloh' the a1ee anu 'he
il tian and that both alike be welcomed as eloH