Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-25
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1 .ssG For the Greeh Mountain Freeman.
q Organic Sins,

--E aHrH1O ARNAAV OAAP'
NfessRs EpIr8Rs Mr.. Scott says, "They who did
mot follow after holiness, could not possess the genu-
Inc hope of the gospel-that he who committed or
~practiced sin, transgressed the law, or violated and d.
rectly opposed the authority and requirements of the
moral law. Thus it was taken for granted, that the
holy law of God was the rule of conduct to all his true
servants; and that none of them, wilfully and habltual-
ly did anything contrary to it" Note | John, 34
If slaveholding be a sin-a practical violation OF the
law of God, then those who h~abitually live in the prac-
tice of this sin are the servants of sin, and daily trans
s-ea- tho L~ls- 1aw Of God for sin is the trapSg"AsSiea
Of the law,-and he that transgresseth in one point is
guilty of violating the whole law. He is the servant
of sin, not of Christ. For he that committeth sin is the
servant of sin. John s: 81. And whosoever is born of
God doth not commit sin: 1 John, 3:9. Such men are
not born of God, but are of the devil l John, 3; g.
All unrighteousness is sin. Slaveholding is UPRIGHT
eousness. Shareholders are then unrighteous, wicked
men, who live in the daily violation of Gods holy law.
This is the rule; and all the proslavery logic on earth
cannot change it. There may possibly be an excep-
ton to this, as well as to other general rules: but ex-
ceptions are not the rule; and they should always be
decided upon their own individual merits. How, then,
can good men, who regard the word of God, admit that
southern slavery is a sinful inSttDdiOn-big with every
crime and then take into the church of God those who
daily live in the practice of this sin, and uphold this
system of %iniquity? Do they mean to pollute and
shame the church of God?-to make her a den of
thieyes?-the scorn of infdels?-the patroness of sins
of the deepest dye? Then are your christian mission
..;,z L,;1J;.u 49, ,1,uoLo1J;u~ ,l,robo, o~,onr l.ootl,
en- tribes; allowing one christian to hold as his slave
his christian brother, for whom Christ died and prac-
tically saying that slaveholding, i'll the view of the
christian world, is no sin. Heather and iufdels, of all
descriptions, are looking o%n--deyis laugh in their in
most hearts, while angels weep on their burning
throne, and the poor of the flock, who trust in the Lord,
are COMPOUNDED. But hush! the Jesuitee are abroad in
the land. True, the missionaries have let Satan into
some of their churches, and find him a very pleasant
4~eighbor, and he must remain there but something
must be done to conceal his cloven foot. Well, here
is the very thing; Organic Sins. These belong to
the community, and you may call them by all toe hard
names you please; but the Individuals who form the
community, and commit the sins, are quite innocent,
and may be very good christians, and some of the best
members in our churches. Satan is transformed into
an angel of light, and grave divines agree that this
abused angel is not to be condemned for the
organic sins of he'll, but may remain in the missionary
churches, and help the missionary work, provided he
keeps his ugly foot out of sight. So they wrap it up.
With such d%uplicity I have no fellowship, and wonder
not that the Holy Spirit should withdraw from such as
semblies.
One question for Organic D. DIS. When God visit
ed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for their organic
sins, what became of the corrupt individuals who had
helped to accumulate that mass of organic sins which
sent them to hell?
AGerman prince was also a Bishop, and notorious
for his profanity. Being reproved for his p%rofane Ian
language; he said he did not swear as a bishop, but as
a prince. The reply was, "What will become of the
bishop when the devil gets the prince"
AN OLD NAN.