Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-28


Benz. w. Dyer was the first individual whom
1 heard advance The principle. And while !
was investigating il learned of the pub
LEGATION of the Non Resistant, in Boston, /
read the first number and few others. In
Sept. 1889, attended the first annual meet
ing of the N. E. Nom Resistance Society,
in Boston, in company with N. w. Bixby.
was much delighted and interested in the
meeting. / admired The meek and Christ
like spirit manifested By those who advo-
Gated that principle. After short visit in
Connecticut, ! returned home. At first Il
was opposed TO it. Ii shocked my prejudices. /
| thought of many objections - brought up |
the 18th of Romans, and many other things
My mind was severely exercised for long
time upon The subject. looked at it--lho't
of consequences, till, at last, my mind be-
came settled. and established that the priR-
ciLle of Non-Ressiance was doctrine of
Christianity, and that TO reject it was to
reject the teachings and example of Christ.
As soon, therefore, as became convinced
that it was an essential principle of The Cos
| pei of Christ, began, as matter Of duty,
Ito publish il as preached in different plac-.
es, without consultation, or asking ledre of
any nlaE, whether or not, it was best for me
10 preach, what TO me appeared tobea the
truth of God. This, as subsequent proceed
ings will show, constitute 40 iaconsiderable
part Of my heresy and errors.
In the early part Of the year 1889, my
mind become exercised on the subject OF
christian unioa. 1t was not by hearing any
body preach, lecture or talk, nor by reading
any book or paper, that my mind was lead
10 the examination of this subject. But it
was the occurrence Of facts On certain
occasion which gave rise TO reflection on
) This subject. 10 1889, in the month Of July,
/, CT think it was | attended meeting in this
place on the Sabbath. al which lime we had
a communion season, when invited all
church members in regular standing in any
i evangelical denomination, to parlake witt
$ US in celebrating the sufferings and death O
our common Lord, (Which invitation was il
agreement with the usages and practices 0
} the e. w. Baptist denemina ion.) 1 ther
: saw and felt, as never did before, ih'
utter inconsistency Of such a course. Eel
: conscience smilten, as soon as had uttereI
= the invitation. saw only part, who,
!" believe, had an equal right TO attend tostha
s ordinance invited to The cable. 1t struc
: me forcibly that something was wrong. :
= What the wrong was, or qrhere it was,
! was not then able to determine. From tina
i time, began to think and TO examine 70
y. myself knew that one of two things wa
y certdin-that either the church was wron
D, in its principles and practice in refusing I
IS commune with those whom they acknow
IN edged were christians, or else those 1oiN
"a out the church were wrong in neglecting I
join il. To ascertain where this wrong wa
- or rather what the truth was, went to th
s. Bible, (not 10 men, TO learn q0ho organize
re, the first church, and lrhen it was, aud whe,
it was, and hoU it was oreanized-to see
ID there had not errors erept into and mingle
et- with the present mode Of organizing, an
% into the arrangements Of the association
I'M called churches. The examination resulte
ny in the full belief that the Apostles new
ar organized churches ir any manner simil
10 the present mode, practised by any Sc
us or denomination in Christendom The Ter
in organized, established, or planted, appli,
his, in reference to churches, is moi once four
ed in the New Testament. II then appear,
he plain to my mind that that which constilut,
no an individual christian, necessarily co
be s;italed him member Of Christ's churc
On Ia the days of the Apostles, il appears th
,ly when an individual was converted, spilit
he ally regenerated, be became, necessarily, o.
he Of the members Of Chris,'s body. The Lo
Id added to the church-whom Not hyp
ers critics, but such as should De sGred. Who
tx church, Not the Baptist, not the lNetho
NY ist, not the CoRgregdtiondiist, &c. &C., b
Of The church of God. How were they adde.
ak Not by profession-no, by water baptism
Of not by lerter-not roted in by mdjorities
, but by spiritual regenerdtion-by putin
Ter, on Christ In the New Testament, :
ra- read Of no Christians that were not mel
md bers of the church, as is the case in the
w. days. and why2 Because christians as nj
md orally become members Of Christ's kingdo
Ted Church } by the new birth, as children
avs come citizens OF this world by natural bir
lis See Acts ii: 41-47; v: IA; ri: 81, "a. I
see The first ddy Of Dec. 1889, (Sunday,)
cry preached in this place, and gave my vie
rse. on the subject of christian union, for !
and first lime, publicly; at which time we b
did, communion season. and invited all CHI
l. r IL L n r. L.. l.