Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-12-29

cts are light and treacherous persons: her
priests have polluted the sanctuary, they
hare done violence to the lava = 4
When jeremiah, the prophet of the~Lord,
prophesed the. Lords bidding, who were at
the head Of the riot that went about 10 kill
him2 The popular clergy. And when
he had spoken in his defence, and the peo-
pie, in their greater clemency, had cleared
him, who still insisted on his being killed ?
The popular clergy, When the Savior
appeared on earth, who met him at the
Threshold, opposed and prosecuted him
throughout his whole earthly career, aud
finally procured his crucifxion? The pop
ular clergy, Who were the most malig-
nant and cruel opposers of his early follow
ers, during the unpopularity of this heavenly
enterprise? The popular clergy. When
church and state became united under Pom
rifex Maximus Constantine, and the church
thus became corrupted, who were always
the foremost opponents of reform? The
popular clergy. Who have caused the
shedding of the blood of the martyrs in all
ages2 The popular clergy. Who kindled
| up outrage and violence against Luther and
his noble eoadjutors? The popular clergy.
Who made Europe intolerable to our Puri-
tan folefathers? The popular clergy
When these prosecuted ones had found an
ytum and established themselves, who of
their own numbers turned prosecutors and
caused the hanging Of the Quakers, the
whipping Of the Baptists, and the Danish
ment Of Roger Williams? The popular
clergy. Who have been the most formida-
BILE opponents Of the Temperance enterprise
step by step, up to the present hour?s The
popular clergy. Who have been the great
est hndrances to the cause of emancipation?
The popular clergy. Who have opposed
and hindered the work Of Moral Reform
who laid murderous hands on Mcdowell,
and crushed him out of existence? The
popular clergy. Who have banded them
selves together, in the spirit of the pit.
against the heaven originated doctrine that
we are to "resist not evil?" The popular
clergy. Who lead the van to keep woman's
nights trampled in the dust? The popular
clergy.
1t is to be allowed that Unpopular cler-
gv, from time 10 time, as different refor-
nations here enumerated have advanced,
have more. or less of them, fallen in with
this, that, and the other measure, as it
has become popular. For instance the
Temperance cause. But which step in this
glorious reformation has not in it's turn
been opposed by the popular clergy I?
What one step have they ever devised and
carried forward 10 advance of the people !?
The Doctors of Divinity of the land large
numbers of them, are yet wine bibbers, or
defenders Of wine bibbing The Protest
ant church, clamorous as they arc against
the Catholics, had become So Inactive in
this phiIanthroPic and christian enterprise.
that the Lord has chosen a Catholic
priest, and taken drunkaFds out of the
ditch, and made them leaders nthis great
work Hawkins, the lecturer from
among the reformed, when he was at
Rutland, recently, stated in his address, as
| have been told. that The most formidable
hindrance they met was from the pulpit!
The Congregational church in Brandon
has ,rumselling establishment ip j,
Some members of that church, it is true
are clamorous against the rutAselIing es--
Adjustments In, town. owned and carried
on ont of the church. Among these is
Deacon Barzillai Davenport, father-in-law
OF VIM. NJ. Field, who is member of the
church with him, and carries on The traf-
6c! And why should not such men be
clamorous against the traffic, as Carried
on out Of the church,! Why should not
the church have the monopoly of this
bus:ness?! Are not church members pre-
eminentIy qualified for carrying on this
business right?t! What RICH, have non
professors, and noncompliance men TO
run competition against the church, in
such matter?!! Two weeks ago, a
preamble and resolution were introduced
into the meeting of the Brandon Temper
ance Society, setting forth, in Substance,
that the condition of things in the church
is alleged to be in the way Of the progress
of the Temperance cause, and suggesting