Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-01-01

God has never given US! How accused WIS that ava
rice which said, How much will you give me ana
will deliver him unto ~you?-and they covenanted with
him for thirty pieces of silver. But now the trade Is
greatly improved. Jesus Christ, in his representatives
in the person Of his members, embracing the ehuFs
man, with his Judgment, will, and aftectlons-the ell
tire man, composed of a human nature and an lmno'-
tai soul, is the greatest object Of traffic and sPecula-
ton which mortals can engage in; and the more OF the
atmosphere Of heaven they can inhale, the more Of me
divine image they bear, the more Of the spirit oil ChlS'
they possess, the better demand, and the better price
tbov command in market. This is what ! call selling
the Holy Ghost and then talk boutconmuning WIZ
Shareholders and their a~pologists. No, my dear broth
or, never, never, while life andbreath remains;-rather
than belong to a p~roslavery church, or commune with
shareholders, or those who can commune with them, or
their abettors, | would live alone an exile in banish-
ment while I live on earth. | have come to a full and
firm conclusion, God being my helper and keeper,
never viii 6~galbbeiong t0a ohllcn, o, asac a!lon, on
convention, or missionary society, or any other society,
be it tract, or bible, or whatever, where its members
are unwilling to manifest an uncompromising hostility
against IC Oil VI SluFGlJ' l ISCl' / uLANf hrAS 'AA
ever, the importance of approving myself to God, and
r happy if then my Lord approve, though all besides
condemn. But I am sure fought not cannot-com-
mune with what I know God hates. How then can l
do this great wickednes3 and sin against God?-Does
God require that his people to separate themselves
from all evil, and shun event the appearance Of evil, that
he may receive them, that he may dwell with them and
walk with thom-that he may consecrate them a holy
a temple to himself-that the Lord Almighty may be a
Father to them and own them for sons and daughters
and has q voice from heaven been heard to say, Come
) out from her, 0 my people, and separate yourselves
from this accursed society, that ye may not be partak-
ers with her in her sins and share in her plaques
And what we're her sins? as recorded in Rev. Is: II,
10. Wlat forms the climax Of crime in their Infamous
traffic in the very souls and bodies Of men which were
: by them sacrificed to their ayarice and treachery,-a
sin, the very thought of which stngs with distress a
system Of tyranny-a system murderous in its nature,
tendencies and actual results system of robbery the
n most aggravated; robbing man of all his rights, person.
al, civil, domestic and religious; his rights, c%orporeal
and intellectual; his rights, temporal, spiritual and eter-
5 naE and, too, it is robbing God Of the souls he has
made, that they might crafty Him and serve Him, and
, for whom Christ died. No wonder God should say,
d (and never let this solemn thought be forgotten Come
out, 0 my people, and be separate. That charge, my
dear brother, ! hive dared to regard; and whether it be
;, right to obey God rather than man, Judge we. We are
often told that we are injuring ourselves, for churches
i and ministers should never go ahead Of popular public
opinion. 0 shame! shame! Just as though an ungod-
ly world must take the lead in the great work of moral
reform. Btu this 5 the principle that churches and
ministers, at tue present day, act out and as it is, I
y would sooner trust the advancement Of the anti slavery
cause with the world than with the church; and l am
I looking for slaveholding States to become anti slavery,
before we can convert our northern p~goslavery people
to the sentiments Of abolitionism.
\ Yours, &c, J. w. SAWYER.