Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-06-13


than all they had done for three or four years. lest
their members should 60 off to the Wesleyans.-
Let as many more go and do likewise in both cases,
it would have five times the influence the others
had, on the principle that while one clases thou
sand, two put len thousand to flight.
If any should say the Shareholders are far off,
and there are more here to trouble us; answer,
they are SO near that they one tCith you in the
same church, and perhaps some live in the north,
and own slaves in the south; and if not, how many
miles off must they live in the same church to
have no connection with you If you were eating
in large dish with others, and they should let
serpents, and other filthy creatures cree into their
side of the dish would you stay and eat out of the
other side. lfa southern church member should
steal baby's frock, he would be turned out of
the church headlong but let him steal baby,
frCck and all, and they call him good brother,
and will give him certificate as an acceptable
member; and he may come to the north, and must
have his name put on the class paper, or church
book, in full church fellowship with aboilionsts,
who FaEnot avoid the connection without either
leaving the church or violating their own rules by
refusing to receive the certificate. Unto the wick
ed God saith, what hast thou to do TO declare my
statutes, e. e. to preach) or that thou should take
my covenant in thy mouth, Il. e. join the church,
seeing thou latest instruction, (anti slavery in
sruction especially and easiest my words behind
thee, (such as Let the oppressed go free.) When
thou sawcst thief (perhaps a nlanstealer) then
thou consentedst with him, q. o. if you allow of
man stealing in the church) and hadst been par
takers with udulterers. Are not the slaves conf
PEELED to be Ndulterers, though they be in the
same church with yoursef?] Thou sittest and
speakest against thy brother; thou slanderesl thine
own mothers son. See Ps. so: 1910. Do not
churches and church members do this to their COL
ored brethren, and some even rob them, whip the
sisters and sell their children Can such extor-
TONERS inherit the kingdom OF God. The covet-
Gus are idolaters and cannot enter there. How
then can we remain in church fellowship with
such persons, or with such churches as allow such
members in their pale' Where is the slavehold-
ing church that is laboring to reform or expel
them3 Where9 Neither the Episcopal Presby-
teran Baptist, or Episcopal Melhodists have be-
gun to do it. If they have, let it be shown In
Enosburgh Quarterly conference Of the M. f.
church think slavery to be great moral evil, and
sin; but in my extensive travels they esteem it a
greater evil, or sin, to attempt to do it away
They resolved, too, that the General Conference
will do all it can, consistently with the good of the
whole church, in expelling this evil but they have
not yet done single thing towards it, unless it il
done by having slaveholding bishop by thei
sanction-an Advance backwards, in a way they
have never done before. How can they do any
thing really against slavery, while dependent OF
the slave power for numbers and strength. If tht
Enosburgh brethren wish to do MI they can to ex
tirpate slavery let them first free themselves tron
all church connection with it, They are mistaken
in supposing that their church relation imposes NJ
obligation upon them to fellowship shareholders o
their apologsts, for if Shareholders come to tn
north (say into Enosburgh) they are bound, by h
= discipline they have sworn to sustain, to trea
them in all respects as Methodsts-as fellow
with themselves; and this is FELLOWSHIP p-churcl
fellowshp-the most valuable fellowship. Slave
holders and their apologsts not only must be treat
gu us o'e""e"' pu' 10 "'"''e'S; III 'hey '"dhS VI
laws that govern ab0tonists in the church. N
law can be passed without their consent. Here
great fellowship in high places Do mol thos
who cooperate irih them hold some FELLOWSHIP
with those unfruitful works of darkness. b.
y suppose We that these Methodists are sinners Q
bove all the other proslavery sects' tell 20
nay, bur except yo repent ye shall likewise perist
. Come ont from them my people. B. SHAW.
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