Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-04-26

along win me-ll tney Will clog themselves |
with creeds, and lock themselves up in pris-
on houses OF darkness, degradation and
death-I cannot help il.
He thinks if had staid where ! was al
the time, or as l should say at the point,
which be mentions,* l should "have had !
thousands TO assist me before now, and the |
objeG would in time have been accomplish
ed" What object? Why the r.form of
the church. Permit me- TO say have high
er object, viz: the universal diffusion Of
| Truth. If this will not reform the church,
it may go unrefOrmed. A church that will
not be- reformed by the preaching Of truth,
will not be reformed with anything, and
may as well be left to its own destruction
first as last. Any institution that will not
bear the truth, is an institution that the
world is the worse for and the sooner it is
oul oil il The better. A church that binders
free inquiry and full investigation is
smolhering nightmare on the people. If
they can be So electrified with truth as 10
lion for them. Otherwise they are gone
people.
Aud what are brother Peck's voluntary
concessions, as to the character Of this
church he would have reformed? He con-
fesses that the very best parts of il are but
children of wha. he himself styles the moth
er Of harlots2 He undertakes to make an
exception" in favor of his own denomina-
lion. But he spoils that before he gets
through. He better not have undertaken it..
II cannot be made TO appear. To under
dertake to show which sect has the most or
the least Of idoatry, hypocrisy and blasphe-
my in il, is task from which should pray
10 be delivered. | beseech brother Peck TO
open his eyes upon the truth contained In
, his own concessions. And before he again
l commences censuring my course, let him
show, if he will, or if he can, that | have
devialed from fidelity to truth, humanity,
and the salvation of the world from sin
This, il will be seen, he has not attempted
10 do. He has not made single effort to
convict me Of infdelity 10 truth, or to God
1t is my infdeIiry TO the church that dis
tresses him. Thus he sets up the old harlot,
as he himself has called her, and her daugh h.
: .ers, above God and all else besides.
think il time for the brother TO restrain his
lust, divorce himself from the harlot, anc
known better what he is ABOUT.
He quotes from the Ency clopedia o
Religious knowledge the statement tina
"innumerable volumes have been written IN
!, der the title Of church history but after al
we know but little of the real church o
Christ for many hundred years. We hav,
/. very ample accounts of the anti christian
d church, that false pretender, in unhallowet
!, alliance with the kings of the earth ant
6 drunken with the blood Of the saints" &c
). And what, ask, is the present church a
o large, but the same "false pretender, in IN
n hallowed alliance with the kings of th,
J. earth, and drunk with the blood of th,
saints 2" The profession of Christianity
?. BY which the. existing church would ideni
= fy itself with peace, purity and holiness, is al
e false pretension and foul hypocrisy. 1t i
!, but the continuance of the same church tina
has been drunk with blood ever since i
10 drove out the sons Of peace into the will
= derness. II has the same spirit and diSpo
;, slion now it ever had. 1t carries on il
despotic work by brute force wherever
can create sentiment that will sustain it
II is now imprisoning men in New Eng
y land, for exercising freedom Of speech.
g would just as soon hang and shoot men 70
:" doing The same thing, if it had the power
1t has done il in New-Eng land aad woul
:" do il again, if it could Sufficiently darke
the minds of the people. It's works ar
works Of darkness, and cannot be so WEI
done in the light. Whatever it can do t
~ prevent the general diffusion Of light amon
~ the people, ii will do, just as it always ha
I" done. II arms itself with swords and bay
Oe onets. Church members are among th
most enthusiastic and bloody minded Of III
military host. There is nothing that mad
Nc dens aud infuriates the priesthood and III
- church like The dissemination Of the tru
- principles of peace. l, is tue they make
profession of friendliness TO peaces An
who has mott They must make the pro
tession Of course, because they have stole
The name of Him VINO was yled The Primo
! of Peace. But talk TO them OF non resls
, ance of evil, as He taught il, and requlr
them to practice il as He pracliced il, an
their hypocrisy will show itself at once
They will gnash on you with their teell