Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-05-05

he way IN this cause seem 70 pc more ih-
ficate and obstinate than any which has
preceded il, aud This will continue to be
he case as the reforms approach nearer
he great and grant Reform that is TO
comprehend allotherreforms. Tradition
and superstition hold their iron rods over
Inc world and the nations bow down be-
fore Them. Besides the difficulties aris-
ing from ignorance and error and the
!. perils among false brethren = are the
thousand and one Inconsistencies which
meet you on every side. They always
stand like hungry ghosts and howl like
ghastly harpies along the path ofthe Re-
former. Sometimes you are too good
and sometimes you are 'stoo bad some
times your doctrines will do for Milleni-
UNI and sometimes they are " lnt1del "
- acobinicaP' and 6 AtheisticaF rs some
times they are onIy fit "to preach IN heav-
en- and sometimes they are only tit !" to
promulgste in Pandcmonium. Some
times you are "a gluttonous man ant a
wine bibber,'' and sometimes behold
he comes neither eating nor drinking. -
The shout is g Hosanna' to day; and cru
city him. tomorrow.
! But all this you knew before it came to
pass and therefore feel as ifno new thing
had happened unto you. "lf they have
called the master Of the house Beelzebub,
how much more they OF his household
but it is enough for the disciple that he
be as his Lord Be not afraid of their
terror neither be troubled.
If the land was thrown into commissions
by the teachings ofthe meek and the low
ly-whose only crime was love to man,
and whose worst act was 10 heal their
sick and raise their dead and tell them
about God, themselves, and Heaven
surely in this corrupt age we must not be
surprised that the nation is in great COM
motion, for it shall come to pass saith the
1 Lord of hosts yet once it is little while
and [ will shake the heavens and the earth
and the sea and the dry land, and | will
shake all nations and the "DEsIRE OF ALL
NATIONS shall come. So you will not
be afrighted though you see tumults arise
and the upheaving of earth break in cav
ems wide, yaWning all around you
mems hearts failing them for fear and for
looking alter those things which shall
come upon them. The nations shall
tremble and the earth herself shall be
moved. She shall reel to and fro as she
( staggers through the heavens with the
blood of murdered millions dripping from
her sides.
] "For behold! the day cometh when. all shall be
i fame; .'-@- <a
/ When Zion the sackcloth shall cover thy name
When thy bark, DER the pillows of death shall b
| driven; ~. t. i s
| When thy tree by the lightnings from earth shall
be riven--
IT'S the day long foretold tits the judgment begun.
| Christianity, is Christ without The
body. 1t is the duty of every christian
then to be like Christie live in such &
manner that if all the world would live a:
he does, His will would be stdone on earth
as it is in heaven 1t is their duty to fol
low his example and particularly in tina
| of Non Resistance. This is specifically
pointed out. "When he ives reviled he
i reviled not again, when he suffered h'
threatened not, but committed himself Il
him who judgeth righteously, learing a
an example that zoe should folloao hs
steps 1t is their duty to promulgate tn
principles drought to light" by him
, till man shall be redeemed from sin an,
arrive TO the fuilness of perfect ones il
Christ-til there shall be some Twin,
christs on the earth. And | am sure
any one feature of teaching was more pre-
minent than another it was that taught b
Non Resistants that his !" weapons .wer
not carnal but spiritual" That they wer
to call no man MASTER on earth for on
was their master even God" Just stri
christianity Of her moral power, put
: war-club in one hand and ba.tle-axe i
the other--Just take the King of III
daughter of Zion who came meek and Low
ly sitting upon an ass colt; mount bin