Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-17

E1Sdl0S, OF iiVIOR ENdOOl OF OanueQTlm OIL
Rabbis; no sin or perverseness Of the
finite will. As the result of this virgin
purity Of soul and perfect obedience, The
light Of God shone down into the very
deeps Of his soul, bringing all Of the God.
head which flesh can receive. He would
have Us do the same; worship with no h.
ing between Us and God; act, think, feel,
live, in perfect obedience 10 Him; and We
never are Christians as he was the Christ,
unIil we worship, as Jesus did, with no
mediator, with nothing between Us and
the Father Of all. lie felt that God 5
word was ia him that he was one with
God. He lcld what he saw--the Truth I;
he lived what he felt-a life Of Love-
The truth he brought to light must have
been always the same before The eyes Of
aIl-seeing God, nineteen centuries before
Christ or nineteen centuries after him.
A life supported b. the principle and
quickened by the sentiment Of religion, it
true to both, is always The same thing in
Nazareth or New England. Now that
divine man received these truths from
God was illumined more clearly by
"lhe light that lighteneth every man" !;
combined and involved all the truths OF
Religion and Morality in his doctrine, and
made them manifest 10 his life. Then his
words and example passed into the world,
and can no more perish than the Stars be
wiped out of the sky. The truths he
taught his doctrines respecting man and
God ; the relation between man and man,
and man and God, with the duties that
grow out Of that relation, are always the
same, and can never change till man
ceases to be man. and creation vanishes in.
TO nothing. No; forms and opinions
change and perish; but the Word Of God
cannot fail. The form Religion takes. the
doctrines wherewith she is girded, can
never be the same IN any two centuries or
two men, for since the sum of religious
doctrines is both the result and the meas
ure of mans total growth in wisdom,
virtue, ahd piety, and since men will al
ways differ in these respects, so religious
doctrines arG forms will! always differ,
always be transient, as Christianity goes
forth and scatters the seed she bears in
her hand. But the Christianity holy men
feel IN the heart-lhe Christ that is born
within US. is always the same thing to
each soul that feels it. This differs only
in degree and not 10 kind, from age 10
age and man TO man thereis something
in Christianity which no sect from the
"Ebionites" to the slater day saints"
ever entirely overlooked. This is that
common Christianity, which burns in the
hearts Of pious men.
Real Christianity gives men new life.
1t is the growth aud perfect action of the
Holy Spirit God puts into the sons of men
Il makes Us oulgrow any firm, or any
system Of doctrines we have devised, and
approach still closer to The truth. IL
would lead US to take what help we can
find. Il would make the Bible our serv-
ant, not our master. Itwould teach us to
profit by the wisdom and piety Of David
and Solomon; but not TO sin their sins,
nor bow 10 their idols. Ii would make
US revere the holy words spoken by
"god.y men of DID," but revere sill more
the word of God spoken through con-
science. reason, aud faith, as the hottest Of
all. Il would rot make Christ the despo
of the soul, but the brother of all men,
Il would not tell US, that even he had ex
hausled the fitness OF God, so that He
could create none greater, for with him
call things are possible" and neither Oc
Testament or New Testament ever hints
that creation exhausts the creator. Still
less would it tell US, the wisdom, The piety
the love, the manly excellence Of Jesus
was the result of miraculous agency alone
but, that it was won, like the excellenceo
humble men, by faithful obedience to Hin
who gave his Son such ample heritage
Il would point TO him as our brother, wh'
went before, like the good shepherd, 4
charm us with the music OF his words
and with the beauty Of his life 10 tempt U
up the sleeps Of moral toll, within the gat
OF Heaven. Il would have US make tn
kingdom Of God on earth, and enter NOR
ftingly the kingdom on high. II woul'
lead as to form Christ in the heart, Of
which Paul laid such stress. and work on
our salvation by this For il is not s
much BY the Christ who lived so blame
less and teau.iful eighteen centuries age
that we are saved directly, but by To
Christ we form in our hearts and live on
in our daily life. that we save ourselves
God working with Us. both to will and I
do.
Compare the simpleness Of Christianity
as Chris, sets it forth on the Mount, wit
what Is sometimes taught and accepted !
that honored name; and what differ
eace. One is OF God one is Of man.
There is something in Christianity whic
sects have not reached something th,
will no, be won. we fear, by theologic,
balilessor the quarrels Of pious men /; sti
we may rejoice TIA, Christ is preached
any way. The Christianity Of sects. I
the pulpit. Of society. is ephemeral-
transitory Hy. Il will pass off and be fo
cot. Some new forms will take its plac