Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-11

and five hundred, and sixteen thousand
persons j even Of the children OF lsraeis
half Moses took one portion of City, both
of man and OF beast, and gave them unto
the Levites, which kept the charge OF the
tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord COM
manded Moses.
And The officers which were overthrow
sands of the host. the CAPTAINS ofthousands'
aud captains Of hundreds. Came near unto
Moses: And they said unto Moses. Thy
servants have taken The sum of the men
of war which are under our Charge and
there lacketh not one man OF us. we
have therefore brought an oblation tor the
Lord, what every man hath gotten, OF Jew
els of gold, CHAINS, and bracelets, rings,
earrings, and tablets, 10 make an atone.
ment for our souls before the Lord And
Moses and Eieazar the priest took the
! gold of them, even all wrought Jewels
And all the gold of the offering that they
offered unto the Lord, of the captains OF.
thousands, and of the captains OF hundreds,
was sixteen thousand seven huncred and
/ fifty shekeIs. For the men Ct war had
taken spoil, every man for himselE) And
Moses and EIeazar the priest took the
gold oflhe captains Of thousands, and OF
hundreds, and brought it into the taber-
nacle Of the congregation, Tor memorial
! for the children Of Israel before the Lord.
Without stopping here to comment up
on the chapter, beg the reader to be as
much as possible Invested of the infuen-
ces of education that are calculated .opre-
vent candid inquiry after truth & right
eousnsss, and ponder well the horrid
facts it relates. 1t is only one instance of
many in which the Lord is made to en-
ploy one part of his family to plunder and
massacre another part.
| All will agree that Jesus Christ taught
the contrary doctrine-that he taught not
only love to neighbors, but love and for
eiveness even to enemies shall not
stop here to argue the case, by way of
undertaking to prove that it is the highest
possible impeachment Of the unchanged
b.eness Of God, to suppose he would teach
! by Moses so perfectly contrary 10 what he
taught by Christ-saying nothing about
the impeachment of his impartial good
ness. to believe he would SO employ one
part Of his family against another part
am disposed to leave readers here to their
own reflections for time = exhorting
, them in the mean time not to stop think
log for themselves, nor be dissuaded from
|, investigation. ~. Il"
To pass on then. The revival of vio-
} lence began with Constantine, in the be-
ginning ofthe third century. In coming
forward with the sword for the defense
and propagation of religion, he made the
same claims to immediate teaching from
5 God in the matter, which Moses had made
) before him Moses moved the people
: with the Nominations of Sinai-C1nstan-
: Tine by his flaming cross in the
: heavens. Moses showed bis tables o.
stone-Ct nstanline, his labarum. Both
. made the EoIdto be a man of war, lead
), ing his favoriles among his children on ia
! victory over their enemies among their
!, brethren. Ill: ".:. ..~.. -.
e + The next leader in holy wars, which !
b shall mention, was Peter the Hermit, the
J. author of the crusades ofthe eleventh cen.
fury. He laid he same claim, that hi;
predecessors in like works had, TO aid anc
: direction from on high. He made him
e selfto be one of the Lords captains K
o lead forth the hosts he could induce Il
: follow him, in an exterminating wa
4 ngains: the infde's in possession Of th'
Of holy land. He IS supposed to have vast
all ed half million of lives in the first o
:, these enterprises, led on by himself per
il sonally. .=#-...
r. Let US now come down TO the DAYS O
81 modern witchcraf. The leaders agains
= witches were among the mos: Jealous 0
- all 2retenders to Divine direction. Witch
$. cry they made to come up from beneath
ie And opposition to it they brought dow,
= from above. | have not the means ia i'm
:, mediate reach for furnishing any parlicu
Id lars as to the extent of the slaughter ant
I'd desola!ion resulting from this deiusor
p But it was terrible. As la.e and as EN-
= nent man as Mathew Hale aided o
of this awful work in his official capaeit,
lg AM the learned and pious Baxter pro
le nounced the disbeiever ia witchcraf to b
nj an obdosa;e .saddGce. Why should
d. not have so viewed it. Moses law ,whic