Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-04-05

dation and death, both here and there, and
everywhere. Ii is time for community 10
be agitated, to be convulsed on this subject. |
Let it be known and realized that the lust !
of the flesh, unna turally stimulated and en-
ragged BY violations of the laws Of our being,
and gta,ifed 10 the increase and continuance
Of the violation, is chief foundation stone
in the great superstructure of sin 10 be de-
molished ii one OF the deepest pits that
depraved beings have ever dug for them
selyes-is the gordian knot, to be united or
cut, before the fields Of felicity can be en-
tered. Il is encouraging TO find physicians
calling attention to the subject. Il will be
seen that the medical faculty are extensively
recommending the new work, and manifest
ing conviction Of necessity that something
be done. To wait for the popular clergy is
vain thing. They will start as fast as
their reputation requires or will allow, and
! no faster. II is TO be feared the physicians
will prescribe wrong remedies. Medicine
often enhance it. Unnatural stimulsnts and
and irritanls in food and drink are principal!
causes OF the evil. They kindle up fires
| which are famed tehames by numerous and
various circumstances. The people must
become Psychologists and philosophers
must learn the laws o. their being, and then
obey them. Phey must know what their
mouths and stomachs are made for and
what things are made for their mouths and
stomachs. The idea that all has got TO be
ealen which can not be otherwise disposed
of, must be exploded* And the connection
| between what is eaten and how it is eaten,
and what is fell and thought and done, must
fiom observation and experience, what they
/ never will and never can learn from pulorts
and books. And whoever will take TO OBJ
serving and making experiments for them
selves, will very. soon find that by many
things which they have put into their mouths
and stomachs they have depraVed their pas
sions and kindled the fires of hell within
them. The lewdness Of the world is not
confined TO the young, or the unmarried
/ Licensed ewdness is not confined 10 broth
els. To great extent, the marriage state
is entered from impure and unholy motives.
The bIessedness Of purity and self denial is
little known. Whatever preaching we have
had from the pulpit on the subject has been
out miserable abslractness and abslruseness.
Nothing has been made practical or obvious.
The thing said has been separated from
nylhing TO be done. The latter has been
left 10 obscurity and conceament. And
perhaps nothing has pot il out of sight more
than the superintendent and false display OF
the former. There has been too much labor
TO cure and too little TO preuenL We nave
had false teaching. The fault has been
attributed 10 nature, and thus the response
billy has most impiously and blasphemous-
Iy been thrown upon the God Of nature. /,
is time for US 10 know better what We have
been about, and what belongs 10 our peace
and welfare. The preaching we have hal
: has kept US everlastingly sick, for the SAX,
of everIastingly curing rs and getting th,
, pay. Mankind have got to learn that they
are self deprdued, and that of course they
: must be se!fyedeemed. Sin is practical
voluntary violation Of the laws of our being
: Redemption from sin is practical, voun
;, tary returning from the ranscression. an,
yielding Of obedience TO those laws. o.,
great reason why so lltle is done effecrua.l,
" is, transgressors are not made to feel rhei
! responsibility by being shown what thei
lransgressions consist in and what is 10 b
done 10 get out Of them. The teaching VI
:. have had has thrown all The responsibility
: upon the Lord and the devil Between b
two. mankind have been left without rno'iv
> 10 reformation. True, there has been enoug
preaching against sin, in all conscience
= Bun what has it amounted 10, and what ha
. il consisted Of? The mischief has bee
attributed principally to nature and 10 sa'ar
Then The work of redemption, we have bee
lold must all come from God. And wha
: is there left for man to do, pray tell? Loo
: at il. Man sins because he is impelled I
= it by nature and The devil. And he has n
way TO get out of it, bot TO be taken out b
" the Lord. What then has be TO do abor
it2 What but 10 leave the matter to b
: settled between the Lord and the devi2
is only folly for him TO give himself an
that will be entered here. know il wi
be said that men have been exhorled
repentance. Ii is true they have been. B,