Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-10

tenn are perceived, understood and expo.
ed by the conservative orthodox. All th
peculiarities Of the Miller system they d.
clare to be blind and binding fanaticisu
But what are the peculiarites of his sy.
TEN! Small things indeed, compared wit
those things in which there is perfect ider
tity between him and themselves. Tn
great system of violence to mind and soul
by which the people are required and con
strained to take upon trust whatever is die
lated 10 them by their religious guides an'
teachers, is not his, but theirs. The pro
fame and i:npious assumption, coz popuI
est voz Dei-the voice of the people is th'
voice of Gods everywhere the Ian
guage of the priesthood and the church, a.
it pertains 10 themselves. They deal ir
dogmas and mysteries. Their system j;
made up of things to be believed, not to be
known-to be receiued, not to be examined
William Miller is no more assuming, die
tatorial, or inlolerant, than the orthodox
religion in which he has been educated
has made him 10 be. That religion is the
perfection of assumption, dictation, and in
tolerance. 1t mathematics, as heretcs
and infdels, all who call in question its
infallibiIity, or presume to progress be-
yond lis creeds, faiths and formuaries.-
Those who dare 10 ask for reason or for
proof, it denounces as unbelievers, and un-
belief Of its dogmas it modestIy makes to
be damning crime. In these respects l
have never seen anything, or heard ofany-
thing, in Milerism or Mormonism, out of
character, as parts and parcels Of the sys-
,em--notwi,hstanding the New " rk Bap-
list Advocate has the following character
istic paragraphs in regard to them:
Mormons.-Th hundred Mormons
arrived at New Orleans from Liverpool
on the 18th of March. All the fools are
not from our side of the water" Baptist
AdrOeate Of April h. =.....
"Progress of Millsrism. This fanati-
cisn. as i, is dying away IN New-York
and its vicinity, is said to be travelling
Baptist Advocate Of Ap. Is.
This same paper, not far from the same
time, if my memory be correct very char
itably sets me down as deranged,* on ac-
count of what ii probably considers to be
my detection from orthodoxy.
NOu put some things together. This
Baptist organ and oracle calls Mormonites
and Millerl,es fools and faHaties. The
same thing is done, by the leaders of the
sects, through the press and the pulpit,al
around. At the same time, the churches
are everywhere throwing wide open their
doors and making use of Mllerism as an
instrumentality for filing up their ranks.
They do not all make direct use of it.
The hypocrisy would be loo glazing, al
ter all their profession of hostility. But
close observation will detect nearly all OF
them doing one thing or another 10 avail
themselves ofthe benefits the excitement
Many have employed the Miller preachers
for the express purpose Of Obtaining add
ii G.
tracted meetings, and such whirlwnd o.
animal excitement and mental dissipation,
in the shape of what are called revivas OF
have never been before in this
And MiIIerism has been used
by the priesthood and the church, as an in
sirument to effect it. Those who have
not had Miller preaching direct y-either
because they could not get it, or because
they dursl not so glaring'y contradict be-
fore the people their professions Of repug-
nance to it-have availed themselves of the
wake, and made use of more indirect and
less apparent means-on the principle that
the means are sanctifed by The end The
building up of the church is necessary
work therefore any means accessory to
accomplish it are UNSUITABLE. In THEN
preaching and their praying, they have
cunningly used language calculated to in
crease the excitement in that class of minds
which could be thus affected. And no.
where, so far as my knowledge extends,
has MiIlersm in candidates been the easl
barrierto reception to church membership.
Church meetings have been multiplied to
keep up discipline in the ranks and to
gather in the proseIytes gained TO ortho-