Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-04-12


the benevolence with which his heart al
WAYS overHows towards the needy, like the
good Samaritan, with his own beast took
me on TO Passumpsic. Brother Clement
has numbered his three score years and ten.
Aud yet venture to say he learns faster
now than he has at any former period OF
his life. presume he would say he has
learned more in ten years past, II not IN hVe,
than in all his life besides. This he has
accomplished by first learning to be free
or by engaging in the work Of freeing him
self from the shackes which false educa-
lion had imposed upon him. He now ddres
! to think, in obedience to the promptings OF
philanthropy and benevolence = whereas
formerly he was under the dominion OF
system of selishness, tyranny and mysll-
cism that suslains itself and its fabricators
and preservers by Garkning minds and de-
PRAYING souIs-b excluding knowledge and
shutting up in ignorance. He was educated
in the school of seclarianism. He has spent
large part of long life as devotee TO
binding, benumbing, besotling. dissipating,
degrading, hypocriical, heartless theology.
The way be is now breaking the chains and
swapping the letters should be lesson to
young and old. | rather be an Amos Glenn
ent than John Quincy Adams. The lat
ter, with all his talents and attanments,
with all his reputation and renown, is a
miserable slave 10 the despolic power Of
public sentiment, cringing sycophant at
saying that he is not the freest man in Con-
gress, or The most Independent politician
living. But with all his comparative free
dom and independence, he dares not be a
man and obey the laars # the Hriag God
Driten IN his oDn mind. He voluntarily
allows himself to be gagged and governed
by man, in violation of reason and justice
II the voice of humanity at any time grows
imperative, and he feels impelled TO plead
the cause Of his outraged nature, he mu,ters
with block between his teeth, in The shape
r Of a rote Of majority, which he dares moi
eject. Amos Clement is infinitely above
such covering seryiIity. He is not afraid
10 be free, and TO be true to the cause OF
freedom. :~s
I. Pass umpsic.
? Here found my beloved brother, John
: Orvis, free, faithful and unfaltering as ever.
= The priesthood are barking here; but they
make no attempts at biting, being conscious
probably that their teeth are failing, if they
> have any left. They preach and parade
/, stouIly in our absence; but have not the
the people. We occupied the Baptist House
The work OF reform is established at.Pas
sumpsic, and can not be prevailed agains
or withstood. Srctarianism has had It's DAY
: there. The people Of that place are event
: ually TO be freed from lis power and domn
! I ion. Our home was with brother Jonathan
Lawrence, who stands proof against cerica
cunning and assault. From this place
was taken on TO my next appointment By
n brother Orvis, who kindly went out Of hi
!. way for my accommodation. As we passed
on south towards Stevens Village W,
called and took dinner with Bartholomew
: Somers, native Of Scotland = man ad
9 vanced in years-intelligent, free from sec
tartan letters, and a thorough practical ie
former in the important matter of diet. He
does not live TO eat, as too many do bu
e eats 10 live, and thus doing enjoys lfe.-
- Among all the cheated and befooled follow
, ers after happiness, none more sadly impos
= upon themselves than those who seek en-
y joyment from examining their mouths an
stomachs'with unnatural stmulants-unles
it be those who undertake 20 feed and satisl
- mind with an animal religion. The tw
- go very much together. The one is q
unphilosophical as the other. Both are a
- bad experience and fact as they are ba
- philosophy. All who have made exper
ments for the purpose of ascertainiag Ii
- facts in the case, know that the only trr
- enjoyment 10 connection with taking foe
comes from the most simple and natur
use of the most simple and natural article
- of nourishmenr. That those who give then
selves up TO unnatural cups and dish,
destroy harmony and happiness in the
systems, by forcing the-machinery out
N order with violent, unnatural and unadaptt
applications. They may talk about livi,
faster. But they mistake show for accor
!, - plishment noise.for intelligence - bus,
: for efficiency violent, cratic darling abol
- for advancement. The material religi,
=. that the world is so much filled up with
=. part of :he same unnatural, unphilosop
~ ical, false proceeding. Il requires The mi