Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-26
For tie Vermont Telegraph.
A second Advent Meeting.

In many paris oil the country, Tor The purpose
Of convincing an unbelevng world that the
end of all things is al hand.' Curiosity led
me 10 spend day among them, al meeting
they have been holding in beautiful grove
Of lvcu> trees, in the vicinity of w iliams-
burah, l.. I. arrived on the ground about
O'CLOCK, h,t Thursday morning, and was
somewhat disappointed to iud but -four tents
and the same number OF brethren, who were
gathered around furnace iuhalng The de.
licou, perfume arising from piece OF de-
funcl swine, winch one Of the brethren was
their repas,, entered the tent, took seal,
aud soon ound myself in conversation with
an old gentlemen. We were speaking oil the
rauuuaiy OF iheir views with regard 10 tie
de.tru,rion Of tae world. They spoke % the
stars lalhng from heaven. asked one how
mrny ,lars he supposed it would take Of the
sz.ofJupiter Or S rlurn 10 destroy this earth.
U,,on any asking this question, be turued up
Oh III, heel, and with a, oJh he's an lnG
dell" dared tlf followed 10y his brethren,
leaving the 'inliler in undslurbeI possess
ia Of ne tent. Simple as was this Incl.
dent. il brought forciblV TO mind the truth
thai hi, was the inhJeity' that the church
and CLERGY feared the inideliy question
askinr. Once open TO investigation and N
o,ir, .theirsysten.s otter aud fall. A about
10 o'clock, meeting for prayer aud exhorIa,
a.. m IA, A which
attended by men, 26 women, aud about a
z.n children. The meeting was com
menced by singing hymn, OF which re-
menber bltthe following verse:
ave shall shout above the ere, bye and bye
when he comes;
We shall shout above the FIRE. when he comes.
CRohUs.
lis good enough its good enough
long Ia s1rsut hosunna;
liz good enough, its good enough,
log to shout hosauaa."
The brethren slroye nightly in prayer and
exhorration. bat me, with rather poor success.
The only hopeful case Of conversion which
saw was that Of litAc girl apparently
about years of age, who naturally enough
was frightened at the howlns which hlltd
the ten, y around whom a gfouP were pray
in, c,r and warning her 10 repent ava hee
from eternal perdition. noted Few ex.
tracts from some OF the prayers, not as expo
sirons OF Mllersm, bur OF The great ROOT,
Superstition, Of which Mllerisnl Is a leSlll'
mate branch. Onc brother prayed, let IN
belief be driven TO It's native he'll" THIS I
s,ereolyped PRAYER. Il is the substance Of
every creel which ha, been invented to curse
the human fa.lily, ever since the foundation
of The world. "Believe as we tell you TO be
leve,n says the priest, "and you shall oe say
ed: believe not and you shall be damned
Another said, May the Walls OF e'erha
wrath. O Col, be poured upon them ina
knoto rot thee.n This is copy lrom th'
PRAYER Of ,ae Inspired Psala,ist, who prayed
"Pour out thy wrath, J9-Gld, upoa the heath
en- who kao1o not Thee" leave II wiz
your repders TO judge whether u seems J =
for God 10 pour wrath upon those whom y
has not seen iii TO favor with kaowieag
Of hi nselt Bat to rejura: at the close q
the prayer meeting lecture was delIvefe
10 the open air. upon certain chapters IN Rev
elllion, bv which The speakers proved I'll
END this year. The back Of the speaker
stand was enLellished by two charts covere
wi h representations ofmany beasts oil wac
Ndtardl History gives no account, an
whose bones have never vet been ioun
among the mounds Of the East or West
Among these were several rows Of & gure
from which learned that 1870 added TO SO;
plus As, amounted 10 1913, the prophet
year for The consumaiion vi all earthly thing
The principal part OF the sermon CON si,le
of,hreatening denunciatlons upon the ungo
ly, Ne, all who do not believe in the i
suuc'on Of our planet this year. Ia The q
tern"o'', George Slorrs, formerly an ellicie
laborer IN The Anti Slavery eau az, took q
stand Tor The purpose OF expounding the VI
ions Of Daniel lie showed plainly enou:
that The beasts seen 10 the vision corre
ponded 10 certain empires and kiradom
but how ridiculous the idea Of a man
sound Judgement and good sense Sttempli
TO prove so great an eveLI as he desIrucli
Of world, not upon principles Of scient
reasoning, but by the obscure tradition 0
arelm, Of a man named Daniel who Ii,
sSme thousands Of years ago, and seitl
81 questions which may arise with reg,