Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-02-02

Dor 10 promote, christian fellowship. while
we exclude something common 10 christ
ianIty, is as perfectly vain as TO attempt 10
plow the wind The thing can never be
brought about But | have something
else to heave up. while we remain on the
spot. My Baptist brethren are always
insisting upon j! that while they exclude
others. they really intend no unkindness
THAT the excluded brethren OF other per-
suasions are beloved in The Lord. They
say that Metbod;sts and others take it in
wrong part, that they are he'd back
that they, the Baptists, can draw them to
the heart in loving embrace, though they
don't lei them Come to the table. Ii it be
so. pray explain one thing to me. You
will cut of, as have twice before noticed,
your members. simply for communion
with these brethren, which you say you
SO Embrace Now want to ask, do you
intendtocontinue christian fellowship with
these cut off persons. Church fellowship
know you have done with. Do rou
answer in the negative2 Do you say we
are SO offended with these individuals for
having brought vows, thai we can no
more extend christian than wecan church
fellowship 10 them2 Well. nv brother,
want 10 say to you that Think you have
rather queer way of manifestiug your
christian fellowship to me. You treat as
wicked person one whose only offence
is eating and drinking with me in remem-
brance Of our own Savior. Now my
brother if the tables were turned and you
in my place, how would such a manifest
alton Of christian friendship sit on your
mind , You will call me brother, and
} profess fellowship towards me as christ
ian, yet you will knock down-if | may
so speak-one OF your members, If he on
" eats with me as SUCH All he intends
by communing at my Lords table is, 10
express little christian fellowship tow
ard me, aud this you say you are willing
10 do in all places but one alone; but il
he ventures TO do it in that one, away
goes his life, so far as you have power to
;. kill him BY spiritual anathema. This
| truly looks odd enough. 1t seems like
loving and hating with one and the same
! breath. And Think it must SO appear Il
The minds Of all the standers-by, whether
!. good angels or evil spirits. In sobel
n truth, to profess christian fellowship tow
" ard one, while we refuse to fellowship
II him in something that is common Il
If christianity, is. really imposition, thougl
e through the blindness produced by GU
is evil training we may not realize it SO II
a be. 1t shows how strangely men vii
II act when warped by a sectorian education
4 | will in this place Stale, that my wife
n mother who, nearly forty Yeas sine,
c Joined the Baptist church in this town
v was accommodated from it for no o,he
Is reason. as my father-in-law informed me
n few days since, but her partaking wi.
E. the Con- rega,ional Church and others al
i sembled 10 great or protracted meeting
re- suppose she then had the feeling {
IS christian fellowship operating powerful
Y, upon Der mind and how could she !
l.: blamed for yielding to lis holy and loyin
90 impulse2 Ater this, she went 10 ht
II own Church and partook there. An
e, the Deacon ofthat church was EXCLUDES
ves as he now lhinks-but if this latter pa
ii be mistake the truth can be got at--ft
e. letting bel. eat al the Baptist table aft
ut she had been at another one. What 0
at act! And may not be justified In e
IN claiming. wha, will not sectarianisms dc
We And would not the spirit and the Prlnt
or ple which holds to such work carry pc
as Die to prosecute unto. death, if the Ugh.
" the times would tolerate il? know n
nd Why not. And feel it duty 10 say
ily one word that this refusing the non-II
mersed-then such as have been immel
" ed. if these sai with lhose-then the G
list ting off their own members who ma
re-lthus eaten-and lastly in dealing VI