Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-12-08

,.;o.hls. n men cannot help SHINING,
Their ,hev are not guilty in attempting to
eerve two masters. III they can, then Il
cannot Be q dangerous doctrine 10 preach
and he Is a rebel against the gosernmenl
Of Col who advocates an opposite doctrine.
No mater how many who pretend TO keep
the royal law perfectly, break il 10 their
walk and conversation. and are either
hypocriies or selfdeceivers that law
should be proclaimed as essential TO The
recovery Of mankind from their fallen
condition, snd no violation OF il. by those
who profess 10 observe it. can make 1t nu-
ea,orv. What though the American peo-
ME. while they declare il 10 be a self-evi-
dent truth thai all men are created equal,
hold in unmitigaled lhraldom one-sixth
portion Of their number2 Is that thereby
proved 10 be a lie7 Is it no longer TO be
asserted in the presence Of tyrarny p
Christianity has been dishoDored and be-
isayed by millions who have assumed the
christian profession but is it henceforth
to be abjured on that account2
The attempt OF Pres. Beecher to asso-
ciate non-resistants with deists and atheists
is not merely absurd-not merely unfortu-
uale- not merely censurable-but it is
fagranta assault upon the character ofJesus,
who suffered for US, leaving US an exam
pie that we should follow his steps
Non-resistance is based upon the teach
ings, examples and spirit of Christ.
Christ is its pattern. its theme, its hope,its
rejoicing, its advocate and protector, its
author and 6nisher. its Alpha and One
ga. Itsubmits to every ordinance of man,
for the Lords sake;' overcomes evil
with good; conquers by long-suff-ring,
kindness and charity feeds and clothes
its enemies; sheds no blood; destroys no
lives; loves impartially the whole human
race; is valiant and invincible. though
defenceless; and fully believes the Savior
when he declares" Every one that hath
forsalxen houses, or brethren, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife. or children. or
lands, for my names sake, shall receive an
hundred fold. and shall inherit everlasting
life.'s
Now is this the doctrine, the practice,
the life of dcism, atheism, or pantheism
Where there is one deist, atheist, or pan.
theist, who processes TO believe in non-re-
sistance. are there not thousands who
scout j. as wild. fanaiical and dangerous 2
Is mol every chiefiain, every soldier, every
ruffiln, every cut-.hroat, every mobocrat,
and every villaiQ, in all countries and
throughout the world, rampant agains, il .
Try the principle where you will, and
test il as you may--the result will be uni.
versally the same. Just as certainly as
drunkards and drunka I'd makers, univer-
sally, hate the doctrine OF total abstinence
las shareholders and slave-traders hate
the doctrine Of immediate abolition-as
sdulters and whoremongers hate the doc
trine Of purity so do warriors and bloody.
minded men hale the doctrine Of non-re-
sistahce. They hate il with a perfect ha-
tired. They can as soon take Goals of fire
into their bosom, and not be burned, as tc
receive il, in their present state of mind
IBIS could not be universal truth, if the
doctrine were not ofheaven; for the worl
loves its own, and what is evil in its OBJ
ject or tendency does not disturb the re
pose. nor excite the venom of the ungodly
In whose company, then, is Pres. Beech
er found, in his attack upon the sacred
cause ofnon-resistance
II appears that the subject Of his dis.
course was. The Last Times or the ent
ofihe world ard, in order suitably to at
feet the minds oflhose who listened TO him
and TO prepare them for the speedy com
ing Of the Son of Man, ian event, by tn,
way, which we believe ,ranspired eig hteer
hundred years ago. he warns them to be
ware Of those who abiure all stations o
worldly trust and prefermenl who insis
that christians cannot WELD carnal weap
ons for the destruction of their enemies
who, when smitten on the one cheek. lur
= The other also to the smter; and who ar
willing 10 die for their foes, as did Jesu
for bic, rather than TO imprison, main, o
destroy them!
The manly position which Presider
Beecher assumed. in the anti-slaver
cause, when Lovejoy was hunted like
partridge upon the mountains, served I
raise him 10 our estimation. We regrt
TO find him where he is on the ron-resis
ance question. Had he been non-resis
on, at the time Alton was ruled by mobo
cratic violence, he might perhaps hav
saved the life Of the lamented Lovejoy, b
intoxicating the duty Of christian iorbear
ance upon his mind. For time, indeed
Lovejoy acted the part of non-resistan
in the most perilous emergencies; an
during all that time, las appears from hi
Memoirs his soul was sustained BY hig
and sublime trust in God. not hair of bi
head was injured, the mouths ofthe hung
~ lions that sought to devour him wer
stepped. and he triumphed over the pow
crs ct darkness, II was not till he forsoo
tins course, and resorted 10 carnal weapon
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