Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-06-07
er have before spoken. The volume
consists OF "a duodecimo pages.
MORE SUPERSTITION,


doub. who read their periodicals. Even
those who have not professedly embraced
it, are beginning to show a reverence for
bread and wine which cannot long be dis
,inct from the idolalrous regard Of The
! Romanist. The following from the Ban
ner Of the Cross viii! exempllfy these
views: = Baptist Adrocate. J..
| Il observe in the rubric, concluding
The Order. for the administration of the
! Lords Supper" that, if any of the con-
secrated bread and wine remain after The
communion, it shall not be carried out OF
the Church; but the minister and other
commitments shall, Immediately after the
blessing. reverently eat and drink the
same" The object of this communica-
lion is TO elicit an expression OF your
opinion upon practice which has hereto
lore fallen under my observation, but to
! which my attention has been Immediately
directed, by brother COMMUNICATE. The
practice to which aIIude, is the seeming
lily thong htless acquiescence of the minis
ter, in suffering the holy mysteries"
which remain after all have communed,
to be passed or handed from one commun.
acant to another, all standing IN The
aastes, ana about TO retire from the sane
tuary, and, under these circumstances,
consumed would respectfully ask il
this is 10 reverentlv eat and drink the
same :" and whether, when. +" any OF the
consecTated bread and wine remain after
the communion" these holy mysteries"
ought not to be delivered from the hands
OF the Minister Of The Lord into The hands
OF each and every commitment thus re-
naming or present, "all devoutlv kneeI-
ing " Your attention 10 this unauthor-
Ized and lrreVerent practice, is, with def
erence, requested 5y ..."....s
LIBER RITUALS"
Monday IN Easter sceek.
should like 10 see the Editor of the
Advocate. or any other stickler for the
ordinances Of the church, undertake 10
show the difference between the "rever-
ence FOR bread and wine' among Episco.
palians, Puseyites, or even Catholics, and
the "reverence for bread and wine"
among those who call themselves bv diff.
ferent names, and yet adhere to the use of
bread and wine, administered and receiy-
ed as religious ceremony The whole
difference would be found 10 consist in
mere matter Of idle words-of empty
sounds. Do not Baptists. Presbyteriaus,
Methodists, and others, require TIE use
of bread and wine, under the pains and
penalties Of accommodation Do they
not anathematize as heretics and infdels
as many as dare think and say thev have
no veneralion for the use which anv Of
the churches make of bread and wine -
And what do Episcop alians or Catholics
do more2 Let those who cry out, .'more
superstition" examine and see how much
less superstition attaches 10 themselves in
the same things. .=-.:...
The Pedobap'isrs have always revi!ed
the Baptists as being supers,itiousIv az
taehed to immersion. But the former
have shown themselves to have o.,te as
much veneratlon for the performance of
the ceremony as the latter, by administer.
ing 1t to unconscious babes. Now he.
lleve in often washing the body with pure
walter, and eating Wholesome bread as Of.
ten and as much as is needed. But |
choose not to pay priest any more for
making MOCK performance in connection
with either. AS for wine, | believe j,
beeels lust and genders deprav,v, and
and should not be touched, tasted OF
handled BY those who would be regensra
led and become pure and innocent
These views, pertaining TO bread anc
vine, l aPprehend, will not be NOR,
shocking to Catholics and Episcupaiaos
than 20 Baptists, Methods and Presbyte
rlans-and pertaining to baptism, no
more offensive to Baptists than 10 Pedo
baptists. Which then of these can &C
euse The other of superstition? Tn,
hight OF truth is spreading. Hencefortf
more value is TO be placed on well doins
tor humanity, and less on idolatrous per
formances.
MODERN LAWN town in Mich
gan the people have assembled and re
quested the conslables to resign the
ONCE, and creditors TO take the property o
their debtors at the appraismen. of tw,
persons appointed, one BY each party
Some OF the constabIes have complied an,
received the thanks of the people.