Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-04

% be allowed IN this generation, seeing
| That the Divine Idea is more manifest TO
This generation, as whole, than TO former
generations. And therefore Isay honor
. them for doing that which in all good
conscience they thouoh ut to be right, even
though their measures conf1icted With the
eternal law OF right. In ages TO come the
measures OF Non Resistant Reformers TO
say nothing of other reformers. will be
found to be nearly as much at.yariance
and Ia opposition 70 the Divine idea OF
Right, as be says were those Of our fore.
fathers. Friend Dyer admits al | assert,
! when he says, physical force has been
used hero;ea2Iy" To act heroicalIyis TO
act God-like. If we can act more hero
lcalv and adopt better measures lei US do
so. As TO brute violence, it IS only the
ultimate of great wrongs far back OF thai;
fand law Of mans nature impels him to
use the highest force he knows-aad it's
gh, for the brute to use the highest force
/ be knows. We all have a means of de-
! tense, according TO the state which we are
in. The highest and The truest is lore TO
all. If we are imbruied or imbrute our
seIyes, brute force will be our highest
means of defense, and the best we can use
in tina: state. .....-...
| 1t takes more than thousand truths TO.
make the whole and all of truth. | only
affirm of what l see tbs moment. The
next moHlen: may possibly see more
: that may seemzto contradict all Inow say.
-: Your friend, 1s. :-.
Il 4 J0sBFu 4. WuITMARsE. "
r. Bos on, Dec. Fl, 1912. =".,..= -. ..
! 49,. REMARKS.
, The phrase, "reforElers should be con-
; sislent,' was placed IS a caption, over bro.
Dyer's article, by myself: l. is liberty
$ | sometimes use, when correspondents
, furnish no heads for their picces-as above,
, ':repies from brother Whitmarsh." My
F object simply is,:to call attention to the
piece, by some appropriate head, or1ndex.
In connection with this explanation,
6 will take the liberty to drop word furth.
er-lnasmuch as am acquainted with the
: parties, and know that they are not Jealous
:, Of interference-tha controversy, for the
g sake Of controversy, is not The thing with
/ them, but the truth. ~. y ~.
;, Icannot agree with brother Whitmarsh
} that 'io act heroically is TO act God like, >
l. necessarily. Heroic acts have as offer
been deviI-Iike as God-iike Alexander
5 and Buonaparte were among the creates
J. heroes the world ever saw. Great Brit
e ain is one of the most heroic Kingdoms
= now in existence. But who will say. the
y general acts OF either Of these have beer
~ God like =? IL. r.-" s.... H.
= Friend Murray In reply 10 my que
'ei rv-vou say vonr brother thinks "Mrs
Child knows a thing or two as we'll as
ID Mr. Whitmarsh." This [ never though
" OF disputino; for never doubted but hel
h general. knowledge was greater thar
~ mine But then the absordity ofteachine
h, that decaYed tooth may be made to 2r0a
- again bv the use Of charcoal, Or an
~ thing =! 1t is little too much for the
Is credulitv Of the most superstltious ant
S ignorant This was The point TO which
5. wished 10 draw your attention - not t
N making odious and unjust comparisons
- H.. Your friend,
Is 49,. JosEFH A. WHITMARsH.
e. The word from my brother TO me or
,e the subject, wassthrcwn out by myself II
al the possession OF the utmost good feeling
d, and with a design to its appearing 10 goo;
rs humor. Il was not intended to. institute
re any "odioas or unjust comparison. Th'
a storyscfthe restoration Of The decayed tootl
was 100 much for my own credu!ity.
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