Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-05
THE
REGENER ATOR.

IL will be It's design TO be devoted, as ~
has been the design Of the Telegraph since
il came under my control, 10 the promotion
of the highest interests Of the human race
Ii will labor for the regeneration oil mankind.
Not any miraculous or mysterious change
that after all leaves its subjects bound In de-
praviiy and ensaved TO lust. Not a relig-
ION 10 be put on during one day AID put OIL
during six-to be written in books, carried
in our pockets, bought and sold for gain, US
ed as a trade, and profession, worn on spe-
cial occasions as badge to be seen OF men
-eleyating the few over the many-putting
grievous yokes on the neeks oil the people,
and rods of iron in the hands ofthose whom
j. lifts up and makes TO be spiritual despots
covering itself in darkness, taking away
the KEY Of knowledge from its devotees, and
forbidding them to invade its mysteries
armiug itself with brute force, and making
its conquests with powder and steel-lm-
prisoning and otherwise Furnishing those
whose Arguments it cannot meet-Joinlng
itselfto the military powerfor deienseagalnsl
The encroachmen;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
deliyerance Of mankind from sin, disease and
suffering; for restoration to native innocence;
for return 10 obedience TO the lawsof our be-
ino. Less account will be made ofwhatls 10
he believed than Of what is TO be done; OF what
Is 10 be subscribed to as a formula, than oil
what IS TO be exhibited in every day conduct.
Less inquiry will be made TO know what
has been commanded, than TO know what is
rioht-less to know what has been SAID ana
written. than to know what is true. Less
importance will be attached to specializing
about the past and the future, than 70
Knowing about the present. Present being
right and doing right will be advocated, not
only for the present, but as the best prepar-
alton for whatever is future. The human
family is in an unnatural and disorganlzed
state. II has been in this state so extensive
" and so great length oftime, that human
nature has come 10 be considered depraved.
Hence religion founded on the. view that
nature, in man, the nobest part OF Gods
works known to man, is corrupt And II
beings could be corrupt naturally, of course
they would be corrupt necessarily. In agree
ment with such a conclusion this religion
has proceeded. The practical results, the
casting of the responsibility upon the Good
Being or the Bad Being, or both. The lat
ter is made TO have incomparablY the great
er success. in the strife which the theory
sets up between the two in their manage
ment of the affairs Of men, Notwithstanding
all wisdom, oil goodness, aud all power are
attributed TO the former. Between the two,
the thing left for man TO do is, TO keep on, a
sinner and sufferer. This system makes
no provision for the present redemption oil
man from a sinful state. On the contrary II
provides for his continuance therein. 1t
gives probation. II Aatters and frightens
about heaven and he'll, as future consequence
es. And when il can no longer keep at
tention in this direction il turns to the past.
Thus it fails to save from present SHINING,
and of course from present suffering, for the
two cannot be separated. The regeneration
it talks about, begins and ends in talk and
noise. 1t is mysterious, indescribable, in
comprehensive nonenti,y. II does not pro-
duce moral renovation. II does not make
men honest or humane. II does notremove
oppression, slaughter or lust Its devotees
are intolerant and proscriplive, cruel and ra-
pacious. Their hands are full Of violence,
Their feet wade in blood. Destruction and
misery are in their ways. The way oi
peace they have not known. To attempt to
shift the responsibility from the system tc
the men who carry it on, and say that the
system is not to be blamed, but the bad men
in il, does not meet the case. This is only
an involuntary concession to the truth Of the
charge that the system is not in itself reform
atory and regeneraiive-thati it has no rem
edy equal TO the disease, or adapted TO it
II is a sufficient condemnation Of the sys
tenn thar with all the favor il has gained
and all the success il boasts Of, il produces
no better results. The truth is, the respon
sibility lies between the men and the sys
TENS Of their own making. Casting it oil
upon the Lord and the Devil will never dc
The difficulty commences and is carrie
along in violence done by man to the law
Of nature, Of which he is a component par
These laws transgressed are not mere arb
trary words Of command, spoken from III
mouth or written in book-but the rel;
lions existing between, each individual b,
ing and all the surrounding universe. A