Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-03-02
Durham there are two families which
own farms estimated to be worth $500.
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2, 1872
opular Religious Leaders and Reform

BRANDON, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2, ls42.
Popular Religious Leaders and Reform.
Increase of our Churches at the South.
According to the Religious Herald, not !
less than 5000 persons have been added |
to the Baptist churches in Virginia BY
baptism during the past year. In the
States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana, not less than 900O In
the latter State the number of Baptists
have been more than doubled. In Vir-
ginia two new churches have been consti
tuted, seven new brick meeting houses
built, many Sabbath schools established.
and several promising young men sent
forth into the ministry. The same paper
states that in the South & West are contain
ed more thar one-haIt the Baptist members
IN the United States, and three-6fihs of
the additions by baptism during the past
year were in those States.-Ch. Watch.
From the foregoing statements, it would
appear that the current religion of the
country and of the times fourishes best
under slayeholding auspices! Are not
these facts worthy of serious considera-
ton! Is it not time 10 pause and apply
tests p These churches which flourish so
abundaptly, and to which such additions
have been made, are full of oppression,
robbery and manstealing. Now suppose
that instead of being full of the enormous
and complicated villainies which make up
American Slavery, they were full Of sheep
stealing & horse-steaEng. What religious
paper at the North would risk its reputa,
ton on giving intelligence of the religious
prosperity and enlargement of churches
crowded full of these impenitent SINNERS
accompanying the intelligence with no
rebuke of the damning sins? Now by
as much as a man is better than horse
or sheep, by so much are stealers Of
men more criminal before God than steal,
ers of horses and sheep. And yet the
christian Waterman" trumpets the
religious prosperity of churches of men,
stealers, without in connection Herewith
sounding one note of alarm in the ears OF
the sinners. The more the people trus
such sOGtehmen, the more they delude, anc
I blind, and deafen themselves, and do vic
:. lence to humanity and Christianity. "Be
3 not deceived. God is not Knocked" with
impunity.
Henceforth there is 10 be agitation unit
there is publication. "Wherefore let hin
l. that thinketh he standeth take heed les
D he fall" There is to be sitting unit
= there be a separation of the "preciou
q from the vile" One of the first question
to be settled is, 10 know whether thos
g who commit such sins as American slave
u ry involves, and continue in them, impen
n itent and incorrigible,- are, on any pre-
i texts, to be recognized as Christians. A
l. this point great battle is to be fought
q The issue is making up. The hosts ar
e marshaIling. Let those who come to thi
Y conflict remember that it is more import
If ant to know what and where the truth is
than to know what and wherethe mum
ii bers are. The result will show whethe
d the religion now called Christian is to b
o purified and be worthy of Him who's
K name it assumes, so that it will be 9Th
r power of God unto salvation TO every on
10 tha. believeth "-.or be cloak for tn
7e blacklist crimes that darken the world an
lie destroy souls: whether the church cal
Sc ing itself by the name Of the living Go
shall be holy place, where God sha
to delight to dwell, or "become the habits
to ton Of devils, and the hold of every for
u spirit, and a cage of every unclean an
i. hateful bird" The sooner this question
n settled, the better. Let US, then, to tn
conflict. ." -
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