Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-03-26
Peace Department.



REVEREND GENTLEMEN lie that dweleth
n love, dwelleth in God, and God in him -
This is the great constitutional fact Of Christian
Iy. And God is one, and he is love and all
Who dwell in him, must dwell together in unity,
hough locally divided by seas and oceans As
ether the length nor breadth of the universe
or height, nor depth, nor principalties, nor
lowers, nor things present, nor things to come,
an intersect or dilute the unity of the God Of
owe, so neither of these things, non all of them,
AN separate true Christians from the love of God
Which is in Christ Jesus, or interrupt or weaken
he unity of that divine connection. For the
carts of all fruit-bearng Christians on earth are
RATED into the heart of Christ, and they are
rethren by ties, by ligaments Of unity, unknown
any relations of mere human consanguinity
Fow in view of this Jlood relation to Christ of
brotherhood of closer intimacies than those
bat fraternize the angels about the Throne on
|gh, let me call your attention to a moral phe-
|omenon now eliminating in the commercial
Eorld, as harbinger-star Of great apocalypse
/ he two great Anglo-Saxon nations, evidently
|esigned, by the very elements of their Charac-
and position, to evangeIize and upIif the
imam race, have appeared to be on the eve Of
ar, a calamity which would be felt to the
-thest habtation on the globe Foreseeing
E ruin in which such fratricidaI war would
S voye the wealth Of selcintelcst, the existence
Commerce and the whole network Of social
ations and pecuniay ohinities which long
lrs of International trade have thrown around
two nations, the merchants of Great Britain
We addressed the merchants of America, APP
ealing to the highest principles in the religion
the Ledger, to induce them to use all the in
uence they can exert on their Government to
vert the dine calamity of war In their earnest
nd graphic exposition of the evils of war and
he blessings of peace, they say, not exactly in
he language of the Bible, but in that of COM
nercial edition Of the same Revelation, " God
mess is great gain;" Peace, universal Peace,
S universal Prosperity; the pccuniarg benefits
If having the Kingdom Of God and his right
,ousness established throughout the world, rem
Ter obedience imperative and lucrative " Now,
hen, Just notice the wisdom of the children of
his world in their generation They have in
acknowledged that all the interest
Which absorb their attention, depend upon the
,x;ent and prevalence of " the fruits of the
Spirit righteousness and peace that the Led
5er, The Bible of Commerce, is gospel of peace,
md, as if a commercial duplicate of the Cos
,el Of Jesus Christ, lifts up its Balance Sheet
lgTinst all war, onjoinng upon all true disciples
If M2mmon to live in peace and unity with all
ncn. In other words, they are trying to ecan-
5clize the world with the Lcdgcr, instead of the
Bible; to christanize the race iRgpySclv or for
all these other things" that follow inevitably
n the train of Christianity. Now, when there
$ imminent danger that the Kingdom Of God
md his righteousness will be oycthrown in the
hearts of men by war between the two nations,
hese merchants, these m0crse Christians, run
'ut in The thoroughiares Of the agitated people,
md, with Ephesian zeal, cry, Great is Christi
nifty great is Christianity !" With their Led
yers in their hands, full of the pecuniary records
IF Goodness, they shout, L" Peace on earth, and
OOt uttb ~ HCN. GCC WIN Mlldl ldllll IllGY
'esort to the principles of their commercial
morality to do just what the submest doctrines
If Jesus Christ were designed to do in lraterniz-
ng mankind See them at work, endeavoring
o tie the two great Anglo-Saxon nations to-
gether with the tow strings, the cotton yarn, of
Commerce as if they we're the strongest bonds
,f union that could connect hearts divided by
sea!
Ministers of the Gospel of Christ, will you
suffer the sublime religion you teach to be out
.un in benefcence by the religious code of Nam
non? Will you permit the Day Book of the
merchant to out-speak the New Testament OF
he Son Of God, in denouncing war, and pro-
claiming the blessings of peace2 Shall these
citizens and artizans of Ephesus drown the voice
If the children Of the Most High by their shout
ngs of " Great is Christianity Grcat is
Christianity! Circuit is Peace" Will you,