Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-05-12

that Baptists are unwilling to have free
discussion on great moral and religious
question: Know you to whom you are
refusing to open your doors2 1t is to
thousands of your own Baptist brethren.
Four hundred Baptist ministers signed
the call that brought together the Baptist
Antl-Slavery Convention. in the city OF
New York last spring, among them a
number Of the most popular ministers in
our denomination. These are the men
you prescribe by closing your doors
against abolitonists. Suppose our amia-
bic brother Galusha, who is becoming
gray in the service of Jesus Christ, should
come 10 Cincinnati, and The anti-slaveryi
society of this city should invite him 10
deliver an address on this great question
of mans right to make slave Of man;
BY your vote you have already said he
shall not do it in your meeting house.
Oh! brethren, brethren, brethreal know
not how 10 express my feelings On this
point, so as to speak the plain and honest
truth, and yet not offend you. But [ do
not wish to offend know you think you
are doing God service 10 refusing vour
meeting house to aboiitionists; but, nv
brethren, it is because you have kept your
selves ignorant of what abolitionists are
saying, and writing, and doing it is be-
cause you allow yourselves TO be deluded
by what their self-interested enemies say
of them, and it is by fixing your eye upon
some abolitionists who, like some members
Of churches, are no honor 10 the society,
that you close your doors against anti
slavery meetings. But some OF you have
said it is not because you are opposed to
aboIitionsts, but because you are afraid it
will excite public Indignation. My breth-
rem, did YOU learn in the school of Christ
10 succumb to public opinion? Oh! you
can make the public love you dearly, if
you will only allow yourselves to be gov
erued by the opinion and the will OF the
multitude But, brethren, would rather
the house be torn down over my head than
Weld one jot or one title to a vitlated and
vicious public sentiment-and let me tell
you, as when Sampson fell he slew more
Philistines than he did in his life time, so
when our meeting house shall be torn
down for its support of the truth, we may
expect such an ingathering into our Zion
as we have never yet experienced: But
some again have said, we ought to respect
the feelings of our soulhren brethren, aud
| say so toe. But remember if you love
your brethren, you must use the means TO
deliver them from their vices and their
errors. Tell me not you love me, when
you are too respectful to warn me of my
sins. But remember also you have thou
sands and tens of thousands of your south
ern Baptist brethren in bonds, and YOU
on ght to feel as bound with them. Their
skin is black, it is true, but 10 say the
least they ale no less the brethren of the
Lord Jesus Christ than their masters are.
And will you respect the master and for,
get the slave?
But, nv brethren, let me now tell a
more pungent truth than l have yet told
some of you, at least, feel a prejudice
against your colored brother, and this, il
| you will search your hearts, you will fine
! is one great cause of your closing your
doors against anti-sIayery meetings My
brethren, you do not know your own
prejudices, and their influence upon your
conduct, but depend upon it you have {
feeling in your hearts about your colored
brethren, because they have been held Sc
low, that smothers and quenches the more
benevolent feelings of the spiritual chris
tan and the humble disciple of Jesus.
And no ", my brelhren, in conclusion
let me say that whilst [ feel deeply for tn
/ prosperity of this church, and whilst
feel all the affection of a brother blaZin!
up in my soul. nevertheless must, IN
der a sense of high obligation.to my God
decline to serve you as pastor, unless Vo
will first meet and pass the resolution t
open your doors TO meetings in behalf G
your poor oppressed brethren in bonds.
Fl And [ call upon you, my dear brethren
as you love God, as you love Jesus, {
pass this resolution. Be not in wrat
with me as the Jews were with Jesus, bu
50 consider any words as you will wis
YOU had done, when you aud the poo
slave shall both apply for admittance int
the same heaven, redeemed by the sam
blood. call upon you to do it by tn
love of Jesus. And in behalf of thre
millions of your enslaved brethren, ca
; upon YOU to do it; and methinks thos
; who for want Of the Bible have gone
) the bottomIess pit, are warning you to d
4, it and thew who once were slaves, bt
, are now saints in glory. are bending owe
the battlemen;s of heaven and begin
f you TO do it. Oh! do it, brethren, an
God will defend and help you"
0 @.. From the Golden Rule.
FALSE DELICACY, ~.
: In view ofthe great evil, licenliousnes