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

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ly taken start here. Reformed drunkards
have come forward to carry it on. The
people are moved by hearing their affecting
experience. Rum-seilers, ministers and
churches are brought TO the test. The use
of the drunkards' drinks at weddings and
the communion is being discussed. They
are presenting the pledge to all church mem
bers, and reporting the names of all who
refuse to sign. A capital move.
Last evening we had meeting in the
Baptis. house. Two resolutions-one touch
| ing tipping houses = the other, tippling-
churches. The former was to this effect
That dealers in Intoxicating drinks, as a
beverage, are arorse than drunkdrds. The
latter was as follows:
! Whereas, ut is impossible to make any
social custom disreputable while it is re-
garded as christian; and whereas that is
generally regarded as christian which is
| tolerated by the church, therefore
Resotued, That the church which re-
ceives into christian fellowship those who
traffic in intoxicating drinks or use them as
| beverage. can not be the salt of the earth
and the light Of the world" s 2ss7
| The object of the resolution, as explained
at the meeting is, to assert that no church
that receives to membership dealers in in
1toxicating drinks, or those who use them as
a beverage, can be church of Christ
| There are three social organizations here
protesting to be churches of Christ. e.
Baptist, Methodist and Christian. There
are three clergYmen-Messrs.K imball, Crane
and Field.
Would you believe it2 Rum drinkers
are in all these churches members in good
standing-and these ministers break bread
TO them at the communion. 1t is known
generally that there are tipplers, or rum
drinkers, in all these churches. Yet their
ministers vote that no church that receives
such can be church of Christ They do
well. Let God be true. tho every church
is liar. 81 .15# .s#zls .zta 81 j.. @asea
But what is the meaning of this yote2
4 BY il, the ministers assert that neither the
4 Baptist, Methodist or Christian church, in
! East Bethel, is church of Christ-for each
Of them do receive rum drinkers to their
communion. Instead of being churches of
Christ, they are tipping churches-because
they countenance and sustain tlppling, by
receiving rumsdrinkers to their christian
fellowship. -
Let me warn the people of Eas. Bethel,
that, according to the vote of the clergy
fnen-Messrs. Kimball, Crane and Field
neither of the church organizations in this
n place is church of Christ. Is it not 9
n libel on Christianity, to join or continue il
: a tipyling, or rum drinking church as ;
y church of Christi BY SO doing, do yo'
!, not say that tipping may be christian
virtue2 Can any church that countenance
and sustains tipplers & tippling taverns an.
shops be church Of Christ? All mus
answer, NO. -.s...
I Dear Brother Can you ask a Reformed
{ drunkard to join church that uses a0in
J at the communion2 | should not dare to
r for fear the taste of it would rouse tn
e slumbering demon in him, (the drunkard'
. Appetite and cast him into drunkard'
grave and drunkard's eternity. How ca
ministers and deacons dare hold the bottl
to their neighbours mouths" and give a0in
" at the communion TO the reformed drunkart
= when they know swine is naocker," an
a steals away the reason, the conscience an
" heart, and that one swallow of il may prov
It. his ruin and bring Gesolation and woe to
Is broken-heart wife and children?s
v would say, that Elder Field, the minis
Id Ter of Me,hodism, declared last eVenin!
: that if there were any rum drinkers in b
church, he should be ready 10 deal vii
: them whenever they should be arraigned
De due form. hope the friends Of temperan'
~ in that church will see to il and have 9
no the tipplers in it forthwith arraigned in d
lg form. Il. =. WRIGHT.
We East Bethel, Jan. 19, 1912.
=. P.S. | must say that Messrs. Kinda
= Crane and Field took high and consiste
GO ground last evening. commend them
no their straightforward course in Temperate
So Let them now carry out their resoiotic
nd and forthwith arraign and cut off all the
: !, tippling members who will not repent al
due admoniiion. and as a total d6sfsne'
-. man shall have no more occasion to
u1- buLe their churches. b. G. W