Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-11-10

.hefts, and persisting in them. would be
received 10 cooperation in the missionary
What then becomes Of the con-
Of those who admit TO such CO
operation the stealers of the image OF God
aud of the Lord Jesus Christ, with inc
fruits Of their ungodliness7
Another of E. Thresher's arguments
against reform was, that our New York
brethren, at their late Convention did not
take such step! Vermont is the wrong
place for such an argument. B. Sears used
the same az gument. With aoutlng contu-
meiy he enquired, "who is this Conven-
ton 2" He was answered and informed
that il was composed Of the hard-handed
Baptis,s of Vermont, TO whom all the rest
of the Bap,isls in the world look for good
example, and who are not afraid to set such
an example for all other Baptists to follow
who will not shrink from any responsible
! ity which duty requires Of them-who con-
suit their own consciences and the require
ments of their Savior, and cannot be driven
by contempt or drawn by fattery from duty
thus ascertained. When would the world
be converted if all were to wait for others ?
How did John the Baptist and Jesus Christ
do2 What if they had waited for exam
ples2 What if Martin Luther, and Carey,
and Fuller, and Judson, and Brainerd, and
those who have gone forward in our Tenn
perance, Anti-Slavety, Moral Reform and
Peace reformatioHs had all waited for 9Th
ers2 II was ,ae wrong argument, and il
the wrong place.
! Again:-E. Thresher said it would dt
/ Dide the Baptists. B. Sears used The same
{ argument. If separation from sin will di
vide the Baptists they ought to be divided
$ We throw the responsibility of such divis
: ion where it belongs. Let those who clin
: to sin see to it. If our brethren choose t
r go with slavery rather than with US, we ca
# not help it. Our Savior set Us an exampl
in this matter of division. But this poi1
l. was sufficiently discussed in the Addres
e published by the Convention. There is n
= need of pursuing it further here.
: Again :-E. Thresher said it would ser
- ously affect our Baptist churches. An
v finally be said it would cast suspicion Q
Is the Board and weaken them. He did no
m that recollect, tell how it would seriousl
G affect the churches, Otherwise than by divi.
Sc ing them. This has already been sufficient
3 noticed. We place the cause of all II
II mischief on the other side. We confer
.. that the accountability rests on the sinner
a their supporters, and those who hold the
yh in christian fellowship in their inpeniten'
he and ineorrigibfeness.
n As for casting suspicion on the Board, Il
argument is Of piece with the others. "
a. must not separate ourselves from sin al
sinners, because it will cast suspicion
"a, those 10ho are determined to hold come
it tion Nth them! They cannot spare o
IL aid and influence in clicking the suspicio
e. connection five withdraw it will be U
We covering the iniquity Of the cooperation
an We cannot help it. 1t is nakedness tn
we canno; longer aid in clothing. Let
appear, we say, before all Israel and the 81
And let the iniquiry and shamefulness
. put away. "He that covereth his sins sh'
not prosper" Whose causeth the rig
teous to go astray in an evil way, he sh
, fall himself into his own pit"
4. believe l am now through with .
:, Thresher's arguments, except his urgi
:, continually the "di6fcutties" that would
M in our way. What precisely he meant
ion difficulties" he did not we'll define.
tho spoke, to be sure, Of the lime it took I
ia Board to get train Of things in operate
e;r And it appeared to me all the while that
cir had in his mind the expenses of the n
of chinery. This, for some reason or anoth
em he did not say, however. have some fa'
md 10 communicate on this point, before {
mo through, that may make some ears TO ting
Tho Ito be continued.)
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