Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-14
InfideIs,

1t has become quite common, recently, for men
in high places to call those men infdels who, like
Pres Green, aud few other kindred spirits, wor-
ship living God, and not mere abstraction, who
see in every human being II God-created form and
a God-gven sou who acknowledge every man,
white or black, as brother, and in his face sees
the reflection Of himself men who dare to reduce
their helefin the GOdhead TO practice, and oppose
the popular sins of the day with brave and cour-
agPous heart,-who see in every human soul the
reflection of Deity, and a representative of Jesus
Christ. These The men which some Of our
good divines presume even to call nfdels, because
they will not bow to the popular will ard sacri-
fee principle, God and humanity for time-serv-
ing expediency, and turn traitors to that Saviour
who has redeemed them, by refusing to plead the
cause of his own representative in the form of Il
slave, the least ofhis brethren.
That man is the inidel who breaches or be-
lieves, in dead Sayiour-who requires profess
sions instead of practice, and love to Him and ha-
tired towards his brother. He is the practical in
| fdel who believes in an abstract God, away in the
distance, no body knows where, and it matters buI
little whether his commands are obeyed or not
as he but little about the actions of his chill
dren if they make loud professions of attachment
to his cause and manifest great reverence for his
Sabbath, while they set at nought his authority in
almost every other respect, trample on the rights
OF the poor and worship God of their own max
RI ing. There is more infdslity in the world than
most are aware Of There are many, even in tbs
church, ard we fear some among the professed
ministers of the gospel, whose influence is faI
more destructive to the cause of benevolence and
piety, and more dishonorable to God, than the
open infdel and the acknowledged atheist. Ye
these are among the men who express so muct
sorrow that Garrison and others ofsimilar princ
Piles have taken infdel ground. It's the influence
iofthess very men that has driven them where they
are. They have attempted to prove that the Bi
be sanctions slavery, and that God has given tC
! the white man the right to hold property in man
that God has nothing to do with part of our &C
tons, especially in political affairs, and Christians
have license from Jehovah to serve Satan po
icaly during the week, provided they will put OIL
long face and serve God faithfully on the Sab
n DatU; tHat reglOn CONSISTS III COIu uSScHL W
# church creed, and is not to be carried into pract
cal life, and has nothing to do with loving OH
= neighbor as ourselves. Such doctrines az thes
r are enough to make nation of nfdels, and sucl
, God as this the heather, even, may well despis
and reject, and yet the number is not small VIII
. advocate these worse than atheist principles
II But the man who dares to stand up and relut
$ these hereses and advocate the doctrine that CO.
. requires us to love our neighbor as well as him
. self, and where love is wanting towards our bro
Their, there can be no true love to God that pur
religion enters every avenue of the soul and has
controlling influence over every acIieu-that IN
d Christian ought to carry his religion with him
d and serve God as faithfully at the ballot-box Il
t else where-Ihat we have no right to cOmpromis
with sin or sacrifice principle for an uncertai
T. good; he is the man, forsoolh, who is called an in
/ fiIel, disorganzer, and disturbor Of the peace
J., May God increase their number hundred fold
It for these are the men who, under Him, will be tn
renovators of the church, tho Savours of thei
= country, and the desroyers Of infdelity in tn
y land.