Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-06-28
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REGENER ATOR.

TIE
REGENER ATOR.
1t will be its design to be devoted, as it
has been the design of The Telegraph since
il came under my control, TO the promotion
of the highest interests Of the human race.
II will labor for the regeneration of mankind.
Not any miraculous or mysterious change
that after all leaves its subjects bound in de-
pravily and enslaved TO lust. Not a relig-
ion to be put on during one day and put of
during six-to be written in books, carried
in our pockets, bought and sold for gain, US
ed as trade and profession, worn on spe-
cial occasions as a badge to be seen Of men
-elevating the few over the manipulating
grievous Yokes on the necks Of the people,
and rods Of iron in the hands Of those whom
i. lifts up and makes 10 be spiritual despots
covering itself in darkness, taking away
the key Of knowledge from its deyotees, and
forbidding them TO invade its mysteries
armipg itself with brute force, and making
its conquests with powder and steel-im-
prisoning and otherwise Furnishing those
whose arguments it cannot meet-joining
itself to the military power for defense against
the encroachnen:s of thought and speech
and sacrificing manhood and humanity on
the ever smoking altar of tradition. No.
1t will labor for renewal Of real life; for the
deliverance of mankind from sin, disease and
suffering; for restoration to native innocence;
for return to ODE dience TO the lawsof our be-
ing. Less account will be made ofwhat is &c
! be believed than Of what is TO be done; Of what
| is 10 be subscribed TO as formula, than o.
what is 10 be exhibited in every day conduct
Less inquiry will be made 10 know what
has been commanded, than TO know what is
| right-less to know what has been said and
written, than TO know what is true. Less
| importance will be attached 10 specializing
about the past and the future, than &c
knowing about the present. Present being
right and doing right will be advocated, no
only for the present, but as the best prepar
alton for whatever is future. The human
family is in an unnatural and disorganlze'
state. Ii has been in this state so extensive
ly and so great length of time, that human
nature has come 10 be considered depraved
Hence a religion founded on the view tina
nature, In man, the noblest part OF God
works known TO man, is corrupt And
!, beings could be corrupt naturally, of cours
they would be corrupt necessarily. In agree
> menl with such a conclusion this religio
!, has proceeded. The practical result is, III
) casting of the responsibility upon the Goo
j. Being or the Bad Being, or both, The la
ter is made TO have incomparablY the grea
!. er success. in the strife which the theor
y sets up between the two in their manage
= ment Of the affairs of men, NOTWITHSTANDING
all wisdom, oil goodness, aud all power al
attributed to the former. Between the tw
W the Thing left for man to do is, 10 keep on,
er sinner and sufferer. This system max
10 no provision for the present redemption
~ man from a sinful state. On the contrary
td tproyides for his continuance therein.
:" gives probation. Il hatters and frighte
about heaven and hell,as future consequeu
= es. And when il can no longer keep
D, teniion in this direction it turns TO the pa
y, Thus it fails 10 save from present sinnir
Iy. and Of course from present suffering, for I
as two cannot be separated. The regenerati
'Ie il talks about, begins and ends in talk a
NJ noise. II is mysterious, Undesirable,
% comprehensive nonentity. Il does not p
- duce moral renovation. II does not ma
md men honest or humane. II does not RENT
,k- oppression, slaughter or lust. Its devot
hes are intolerant and proscrip,ive, cruel and
ID pacious. Their hands are full Of violen
lly Their feet wade in blood. Destruction 4
~ misery are in their ways. The way
"a peace they have not known. To attemp
ali shift the responsibility from the system
4 n the men who carry il on, and say that
on system is not to be blamed, but The bad n
oil in it, does not meet the case. This is o