Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-11-03

bringing out the parallel. I ask them,
then, whether, in connection with his mon
ey they would receive the adulterer him
self too? To talk about the money, shor.
of the adulterer wih it-saying that the
money is not hurt by the criminality of
the holder and contributor of it's to leave
the legs of the lame unequal. The unso-
phisticated truth is, the shareholders do
not barely hand over the fruits of unre-
Quilted toll, the price of humaa bodies and
the Sayior's image, and retire. The ques-
ton is not merely, would we, as managers
of the missionary funds, receive $1,000 in
to the treasury, if ii were accompanied
with the statement that it had been obtain.
ed by the sale of fathers, mothers and
children, scattered to the four win1s of
heaven under the auctioneer's hammer?
The aohole question is, can we receive the
money and the contributors acith 1t, into
christian fellowship and cooperation in
the use Of me ans for the conversion Of the
scorLd to a pure christianity? Any ques-
ton or illustration which only reaches TO
the money which is The fruit of adultery
or robbery, does no. meet the case. In
the case as it is, the aduiterers and rob-
bers are themselves received with their
money, into christian union, communion
and fellowship, on equal footing as CO.
workers in the christian enterprise.
Who does not know that they claim and
obtain their full share, and more, Of infu-
ence and power in the general Conven.
t!on2 Away, then, with the sophistry
that presents only half OF the case. If
the relation" be so exceedingly slight"
as represented, why all this cIamor and
uproar against severing h2 The simple
truth is, the missionary enterprise stands
in the heads and hearts of all its support
ers as a religious "a christian work.
Those who join in il come together on a
common platform. as equal protesting
christians, banded together for the CONVEX
sion of men to the christianity they pro.
fess. And such christianity as is admit.
ted to full and equal standing and patti
cipation there! Il is a manstealing,
woman-whipping, ntellect-darkeLing,
soul-killing christianity 1t destroys the
souls of men at home TO &c. money to save
the souls of men abroad Where else
can so rank and vile hypocrisy be found
in the conduct of men? One of the mis-
sionaries now in the employment of the
Board, for outstanding men in Asia,
was educated and fitted for the work, by
heathenizang men in the United States
His father, Georgia STAKEHOLDER, edu-
Gated him on the avaiIs of slavery. And
what can be looked for as the offspring of
such christianity2 Can it be expected
to beget better than its own image and
likeness2 Can slaveholding ehristiani.
ty be expected to produce anything more
or less than a slaveholding christianity ?
Must not corrupt causes necessarily pro-
duce corrupt effects?
This brings me to the examination of
other illustrations, bro't by brother Thresher
and others Of our opponents. Brother
Thresher wished to know if an atheist
might not be member of an Anti Slavery
society. Others have asked if infdels might
not be members of Temperance societies.
The sophistry Of these illustrations is a
shade more subtle, than Of the one before
examined. But it can be easily exposed
and set aside. The atheist can not be
member and co. worker in the Anti Slavery
society if he be a Shareholder - because
slaVeholding is antagonistic to Anti Slavery
The in6del can not be member and CO.
worker in the Temperance society if he be
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS drunkenness is antag-
onlstic TO Temperance. So no incorrigible
sinner, whether be be man-thief or a
horse1hief, an adulterer or robber, can be
member and co-wolker in christian as
sociation-because these practices are an
tagonistie to christianity. While Anti
Slavery wars against slavery alone, and
Temperance against intemperance alone,
Christianity wars against all sin. How,
then, can they who cherish sins that involve
PRACTICAL violation of all the molly COM
mands, and will not repent Of them nor
forsake them, be members and co-workers