Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-06-27
CORRESPONDENCE.
DANvnLr, June II, 6 O'Clock, P. M.

occupied in receiving reports from the different
associations Of Vermont, and from foreign bodies
The report of Rev. Mr.. Dwight, delegate from
Maine, was in many respects encouraging. I'm
like this State, his report showed an increase of
some five or six thousand members to the Congre-
gatonal church of Maine. Temperance, Educa-
ton, SC. &c., he represented prospering, but of
the slave he said nothing. The interest of the peo-
pie of Maine in the heather abroad was most
cheeringly described but of their care for the worse
than heather at home, the Rev. Delegate said
nothing. The abolition pulse of Maine throbbed
not in his breast. Ofthe reports from the associ-
ntions of this State, although they entered very
considerably into detail, noticing the adverse and
the prosperous even Of the prayer meeting, the
card party, the maternal meeting and merry max
ing, the ride and the dance. Still no mention was
made ofthe slave, save with one exception, and
that was to the unihought Of credit Of the Monpe-
ler association and Rev John Gridpy its Register
1t was officially announced that the ''cause Of
Temperance aud the slave had friends in that AS
ISOLATION" Put another stone under your arms.
OF the state of religion, reports were of one
voice and one heart-gloom, darkness, DEATH !
No increase in the whole number for ten years
past, and the past year too, decided falling off
1t was often noticed that the "fast" appointed last
year in especial reference to this fact, passed
away without any manifestation of Gods spirit.
Report after report, said ''God hides his face. -
"GOd is displeased." "God is angry" "God
turns G,cay from his people," As mourned with
the congregation and inquired "Why is it Lord
The spirit of the Lord passed by and fear came
upon me, and trembling that made all my bones
shake" and heard voice saying, "\Vhen you
spread forth your hands, will hide my eyes from
you, and when you make many prayers | will not
hear, your hands are full of blood. Behold is not
this the fast that have chosen, to loose the heavy
burdens and to let the oppressed 90 free and that
ye break every yoke' To open Thy mouth for The
dumb, and that thou bring the poor that are cast
out to thy house and that thou hide not MyseIf from
Thy otCn .feSh"
wash you, make you clean, put away the evil
ofyour doings from before mine eyes, cease TO do
evil, learn to do WE'LL seek judgment, relieve the
oppressed, judge the futheress, plead for the wild
ow Then shall thy light break forth as the morn.
ing and thy health shall spring forth speedily, and
thy righteousness shall go before thee, & the glory
of the Lord shall be thy rear ward
At 10 O'Clock, Rev.. DIR. Janeway Of Phadel-
phia, delegate from the Presbyterian General As
sembly Gold school) that 'bulwark' of slavery
which, in the name and in behalf of God, declared
slavery no sin and slaveholdng no dsciplinable
offence, This very delegate, sIavery's especial
messenger, Rev. DR.. Janeway, is the Lion of the
day. He preached most eloquent and interest
ing discourse last evening from tho 4sth Psalm.
The sermon was prophetic, but its application was
hidden from him who uttered it and fear from
the mass to whom it was addressed His descrip-
tons of Gods providence in rcscuing his people
from apostate churches in different periods of the
world, was Of awful interest. At the destruc-
ton of Jerusalem, before Titus was permitted to
lay siege TO it, voice was heard in the sighings OF
the breeze "come forth my people" The church
heard it and fled to the mountains. Afterward
when the church became corrupt and God said
"come out of her my people that ye be not partak-
ers of her plaques" the Waldenses and the Pied
montese heard it, aud fed to the mountains. Rome
apostatzed, and again God saved his people by
the hand of Luther. Continued the peaker:
"Tte Church of England and the Church of Scot
und may sink into the same valley Of darkness,
but God will save his people," fthe Church of
America he spoke as of the "Church of the Living
God"
But as he attempted to apply the consultations of
his subject and of the eternal truths he had utter
ed to the American church, and especially that
portion there represented, it seemed TO me that
the fountain of his fervor became suddenly dried
up His flashing eye and expressive countenance
were vacant. His tongue wagged heavily, and
his thoughts seemed elsewhere Whether it was
that his audience became suddenly changed into
ghastly throng Of slavery's victims dragged along
by the old slavedriver himself, clad with horns and
hoofs and wagging tail, holding up the &c Cncin-
, natl Resolutions as his commission, or whether
the vacant glare of his eye was fixed on those
burning words, now flashing up with suphurous
light, then seaming out in scorpion whips, and
thongs, and chains, then bursting into a thousand
torpedoes of torture, brands thumb screws
Bowie knives and gags or whether it was his
ear that drew away his thoughts, as he listen
ed to the wall just then borne up on southern
breeze, the wall of Christian wives and hus-
bands and means Of maidens and young men, and
Shrieks of children, as new commissioned by infer
nal christianity, the WORK of, death went on: or
whether it was the burning eye OfHim who sis on
high, that turned his beauty into ashes and bis ell
Oquence into gall, your deponent saith not,
18th, 7 o'clock.
Have just returned from the morning prayer
meeting. There has been much of the " Feast Of
reason and the flow of SOUL" thus far in this con-
vention. Thrilling eIOquence and inspiring music
beget sympathy often on such occasions, nistalS.
en- for dio'ne influence. But the prayer meeting