Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-06-15

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execrable despotism, = and the more iexecra-
bic from the high professions Of its support
ers. The church that does such things is
not the church of Christ - il is the syna-
gogue of satan. There must be radical
reform-an entire revolution. Not d bloody
one - but one that will be more efectual,
wrought out and brought in 'aby the power
of truth and Ioye-by Christian faiihfulness
-aby pureness, by knowledge, by long
suffering, by kindness, BY the Holy Ghost,
byloye nnfeigned, by the word of truth, by
the power of God, by the armer Of right
eousness on the right hand and on the left.n
The work will never be accomplished by
such efforts as this writer has here made, in
the article | am now reviewing, or rather
using. Never. After all the astonishing
confessions previously made, he says, /" 4
make not these remarks in the spirit OF
complaining. (D IPRRTEND NOT HERE EVEN
TO SAY WHAT is RIGHT OR WHAT IS WRONG" W
Shame on him! Not even complaint to
utter! Nota finger TO indicate the right, or
eyecrate the wrong! He has only made
the shame of his own nakedness to appear.
The abundant exposure and confession ne
has made of the enormous sinfulness Of the
church all around him, only heighteus and
bfackens his own infamy, in view OF the
stand he here takes. The tremendous,
crushing responsibilities which he has shown
to rest on the church, he has by this final
act brought down with fearful violence on
his own head. Deluded, dementaled man
| For tn . TIE legraph.
The Investigation of the Claims and Va
Iidity of Human Governments.
[coNTIEUED.
w. Human and Divine Government
contgGsted.
! The dire antagonism of human govern
ment to the divine, is shown by the fol
lowing contrast Divine government is
founded in benecolence - human govern
. ment is based on seLfsbgess the former
] moral, the latter toreetut: the former is
one Of absolute certainty the latter one O
sheer experiment; the former is eternal
the latter temporal; the former rules mems
bodies, through theirsocls; the latter rules
their souls through their bodies; the one
/ commands us to love our neighbor as our
| self--to seek not our own the othe1
lcommands MS to hate our neighbor, ant
to seek our own interest, in opposition tc
the universe; the one says. thou shall
not kill;' the othe. you shall kill or bt
killed. The one enjoins US to love oul
enemies, and to feed them; the other kill.
us for loving and feeding enemies;f ths
one teaches submission to injuries, the
I other reven ge; the first instructs to over
come evil with good, the secondto over
come evil with evil; the first says, re
venge mott the second you shall revenge
the first bids 10 beat swords into plough
!. shares; the second TO beat plough.share
into swords; the first forbids US to learl
[ war; the second commands US to study il
and imprisons US if we will not.
! We can not do better than to extrac
the following from H. G. Wright's trac
on Man Killing, 10 illustration of the spir
lit bv which the laws Of God and those Q
man are regulated. The spirit of-lov'
supplies the wants of enemies the spiri
of man-killing strips them of all things
the former heals. the latter wounds; th,
one is even beneflting the other injuring
1.-THE one is wholly confding, the othe
wholly suspicious; the one mild and gen
/ tie, the other ferocious and savage ]. th,
one intent on the good of others. the othe
on its own good the one concealing ar.
extenuating injuries received, the othe
blazoning and exaggerating them; tn
one patiently enduring all things, th,
], other full Of wrath and fury at injury AM
insult; the one easy to be entreated, tn
other inexorable: the one ever ready /,
suffer, the ether 10 infic. suffering; III
one ever forward 70 die, the other TO kill
-. an-killing makes deadly wea2
ons, love beats them up: the former col
lects armies. the latter disbands them; III
r one builds forts. the other destroys them
J the one builds armed ships, the other dis
/ mantles them; the one erects gibbets, th
! other takes Them down; the one com
: mands men 10 learn war, the other forbid