Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-06-01

all this. not because God loved to have it
because his rebel creatures loved
TO have it so, and in their assimilation 10
devils uould have it so. Such has been
the patience and long suffering the Gre
ator, and such the folly and wickedness of
bis creatures. Heis no more reconcited
to mans violence towards his brother now,
than he was the moment when the first
fratricide lifted up murderous hand over
his. own mothers son. He never will be
reconciled TO it. He hates and abhors it
always did, and always will. He new
er had but one mind about t-and never
will have any other. He always viewed
It TO be monstrous assumption and tyran.
ny, that men should set up their own wills;
over the wills of their brethren. He has
suffered it to be, because he could not
create intelligent beings, capable ofaction
and enjoyment, without leaving them free
to act on their own responsibility. They
have thus acted. And having chosen the
wrong. and done violence 10 the Divine
will, they have been suffered to 60 on 10
their folly and madness, and take the
consequences.
This is the vengeance God repays,
so far as it pertains to the present life, in
the use of human governments. He suf:
fers his violent creatures to exercise their
violence towards each other, to their mu-
'ual harm, Furnishing and being punished,
doing violence and suffering violence.
TO say that God loves to have it so, is to
mpeach his goodness. All the murder
and butchery that has depopulated the
earth and filled the pit of woe, has come
from mems assumption Of authority over
their fellow men. And just as long and
as far as this unnatural, monstrous as
sumption is adhered to. just so long and
so far will the kingdom and reign of the
Prince of Peace be prevented. And now
shall the followers of Christ help carry on
this war against the prevalence of his
kingdom2 Can they? Can we be at
the same time the followers of Christ and
the supporters Of the greatest,the principal
hindrance to his peaceful reign? Impos-
sible. Christ said-"no man can serve
two masters" he that is not with me is
against me-" Christ's kingdom is king
dom Of peace. Human government is
based on violence-thc war declaring
power lies at the foundation Of the whole
of it. Ohm the same soldier serve in these
two opposing, contending armies q
Can Christ's followers use carnal wea o.
ons and slaughter their fellow beings
whom they are commanded to forgive and
love? If they can not If the precepts
and examples of their Divine Master and
Lord, and the practices of his early fol-
lowers forbid their taking vengeance with
their own hands, how can they employ a
Nero, Caligula, slaveholdiog Presi-
dent, or the President of a slavehoding
government, to take vengeance for them ?
| Can they help these wicked men to carry
out theif ambitious and murGerous plans
It they can not - if Christians can not
help murderous individuals and murder
Gus compacs in carrying on the violent
proceedings of government, can they any
better join together among themselves,
make murderous weapon, put it in the
hands Of one of their own number. and
direct it to be used in taking vengeance
on those they are commanded to forgive
and love? If individual Christians NAV
not take vengeance, beg to be shown
how community of Christians NAV take
vengeance! Ii there could have been
any lustihable occasion for the eommunit~
OF Christians at Rome taking vengeance.
1t would have been found in the persecu-
tons of The murderous Nero against them.
Does brother Bronson believe that Paul
designed to instruct this community OF
Christians to take vengeance. as COM
munlty, on this wicked monarch for his
outrages on them2 Is there any evidence
that they thus understood his teachings
Or can it be believed that they were to
aid the bloody persecutor in carrying on
his prosecutions against themselves This