Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-31

law, between earth and heaven, because, a.
il is said, he is not fit for either, betrays ;
sorry, mawkish sense of justice, and a NOR
bid taste in keeping the commandments O
God. But, my dear brother, | could no
consent that the guilty shall go unpublished
And If your non-resistance carries you thu.
far, must crave leave to tarry behind.
have moi so learned Christ, who came no
10 destroy but TO fulfil the law. Till heav
en- and earth pass, one jot or one title shat
in no wise pass from the law, Till all be full
filled. The law was our .schoolmaster-
made not after the law Of carnal command
ment, but after the power Of an endless life
Righteousness is of the law Love is the
fulfilling of The law. delight in the law Of
God. Without the law sin is dead
Wherefore. my brethren, ye also are be.
come dead to the law, by the body Of Christ
! find then a law that when would do good
evil is present with me. Do We then make
void the law through faith? God forbid
yea, we eStaDllSn the law. IT,:
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee
rest: yea, he shall give thee delight 10 thy
SOUL My son, despise not the Christening
| of The Lord neither be weary of his correc-
| ton: For whom the Lord loVelh he cor
! recteth, even as father the son in whom
he deligheth. Perhaps, you may say, all
this consent to; but vindiclye justice is
quite another affair. Admitted. And, my
brother, this leave 10 God. How We are
Tree agents, and yet entirely at his mercy
for life and breath and every thong t-abso-
lutely dependent for all that we are or hope
10 be-and yet free, accountable and moral
agents is more than can tell. Still, that
such is the fact, we all do certainly know.
Ia this connection, will refer 10 the pun
ishment inflicted on the sons Of Eli. Now
Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons
did unto all Israel. And he said unto them,
Why do ye such things for hear of your
evil dealings by all this people. Nay, my
sons for il is no good report thar hear:
ye make the Lords people to transgress. II
one man sin against another, the judge shall
Judge him: but if man sin against The
Lord, who shall intreat for him2 Nolwith-
standing, they hearken not unto the voice OF
their father, because the Lord would slay
them. Wherefore the Lord God of Israel
saith, | said indeed that thy house, and the
house Of thy father, should walk before me
forever: but now the Lord saith, Be il far
from me; for them that honor me | will
honor, and they that despise me shall be
lightly esteemed. Behold, The days come
that will cut off thine arm, and the arm Of
thy fathers house, and there shall not be an
old man in thine house. And the Lord said
10 Samuel, Behold, will do thing in Is
rael, at which both The ears of every one
that hearelh it shall Jingle. In that day |
will perform against Eli all things which
have spoken concerning his house: when
begin, will make an end. For have told
him, thai will judge his house forever, for
The iniquty which he knoweth; because his
sons made themselves vile and he restrained
them not. And therefore have sworn unto
the house of Eli, that the iniquly of Ellis
house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor
Offering forever. ...."...:. ..... ~
In carrying oul these threatened judg-
ments, there was great individual suffering
and distress. There were probably as
many revolving scenes, as when Saul hew-
ed the Amalekiies in pieces"- or when
Moses bulchered the Midiantcs.n Yet
you say "that God has had special and
particular hand in these transactions, | am
constrained TO say that | believe no such
thing" But you do not doubt the history
The facts you do not dispute. And the
Philistines fought; and Israel was smit,en,
and they fled every man iuto his tent and
there was very great slaughter; for there
fell of Israel thirty thousand foot-men.
And the ark Of God was taken; and the
Two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were
slain.
Now, Sir, you believe, with probably as
good assurance, fors i've the freedom, as Gid
Jonah and Samuel in The cases mentioned !:
II the people OF This land do mol repent and
turn 10 the Lord and cry nightly, like the
Ninevies. unto God, and turn every one
from his evil way, and from the violence
that is 10 their hands, that millions of blacks
brute beasts = men, who have lost the
moral image Of their Maker, dicirlined 10
ferociiy, and tortured 10 madness under the
accumulation OF smoihered wrongs, will in
lime be let loose, hardened as they may be
against moral restraint and The fear of God