Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-03-16

employing them as preachers of the gospel
to the heather! With the same consistency
ne might, as Temperance man say that
rum-drinking "is an immortality of so ia
grant nature that when it is persisted in
.E'@ any attempt TO preserve Temper
ance fellowship will be vain, without an
entire revolution of sentiment; and yet
hold on upon cooperation with rum drink
ers, in the use of Temperance measures,
for the conversion Of the world abroad to
Temperance !! 1t would not do to be sure,
TO hold them in Temperance fellowship,
and employ them as Temperance lecturers,
In Vermont. But after they have been dis
fellowshipped they may be co-operated with,
and employed as preachers Of Temperance
to the savage tribes, and the Incorporate
world at large although they be habitual
drunkards all the while they are thus asso-
ciated with and employed. And what sort
Of Temperance, pray tell, must that be
which drunk0rds preach? Of the same
stamp with the Christianity which anchris-
tianized men preach.
His undertaking 10 place together on one
common platform, the. Missionary enter
prize, for the conversion Of men to Chris
tidnity, the Temperance enterprise, for the
conversion Of men to Temperance, the Anti
Slavery enterprise, for the conversion of
men TO Anti, SLAVERY, &c. &C., and throw
! ing away all moral character as a test of
membership and fellowship for any Of Them
is, at the best, miserable fallacy, into which
he has fallen for the want.of lhimble full
of DETERMINATIONS" ! deny, altogether,
The correctness and truth Of his position
which sets aside moral character as Test.
Every one Of these societies make moral
character, IN regard to the respective en-
terprizes in a0hich they are engaged, a
test Of membership, fellowship, and CO.
! operation. Temperance Societies require
their members not to drink, or give their
influence for drinking. In this whole thing
they must be strictly moral. Anti-Slavery
Societies require their members not to be
slave holders, or TO give their influence for
sla We holding. In this thing those, too, must
be strictly moral. The Missionary Society,
for the conversion of men 10 Christianity,
requires its members and co,labolers not to
be violaters of Christianity or TO give theil
influence therefor. The Baptist Triennial
Convention will not take into their sessions,
place upon their Board, or send out as miss
lonaries, drunkards, blasphemers, atheists
or highway robbers. Why? Because they
arc not Christians. The work Of this Con
ven,ion, professedly, is; TO convert men &c
Christianity; and unehristian men are moi
the ones to be employed in this work. any
more than rum-drinkers are to be employed
in converting men TO Temperance, or whore
. mongers in converting men 10 chastity. /
f is not meeting this view, not touching the
truth in the case, to say that these societies
do not confne the reception Of funds to ac-
, tual members of their associations. The
shareholders not their money only - are
) received as equal co-laborers and preacher:
of Christianity. .,......... e.. ...- ~..
Now the true difference between TIT
j missionary society and the other societie.
f; named, as to their tess, is this The 9th
er societies occupy each their iulitet
: ground for their specific work-whiI
Christianity covers the whole ground
;. Each Of these applies its own tests only
, while Christianity applies them all. A
Il tests of membership, fellowship and COOP
,r GRAFTON, Temperance societies only as
Z whether man is temperate and gives hi
l. influence Tor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
d societies only ask whether a man is a
81 abofitionist and gives his Influence 70
5, freedom while Christianity asks bot
re of these questions, and all others pertai,
ing 10 good moral character. So. that
:, Christian missionary society, for the cor
y version Of men to the religion Of Jest
. Christ can with no more propriety have
5, man thief in It than 1t can horsethIet {
S. duelist. And what is more, that SocIt
IS IT,, or Convention, as such, do net DO tt
OF one thing any more than the other. T
ny Trienntal Conremtion do not come toget
IS err on any such principles as brother Ht
- ealtRas laid doom. Ii is not acknowled
ed there thai large portion Of that bo
80 are guilty of " fragrant immoralties"
re that they are " robbers and menstealer:
ID, as brother Hascall has pronounced them