Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-02-05
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The Gospel Of To-day is the Gospel Of
the Millennium,

JAO
The Gospel is a book Of prlnciples-of great oper
ative Interchangeable principles. Men condemn 1t, be
cause thew do not understand it; even Christians ma
be fairly charged with treating it with no small degre
of disregard, because in their wordliness, they hav
neglected to estimate its heights and depths II hea
ven could be brought down to earth-lf Europe ant
America and all other continents and parts OF TIT
world could at the present moment, be peopled witt
angels and with seraphc natures,-the Gospel, Just
it stands, would be sufficient to guide and govern
them. The blessed companies of the heavenly world
unlike the children of men, would ask no higher ant
better CODE But regard it as allowable, unde
any assignable circumstances, for angel to retaat
upon an angel for seraph to exercise hostility upol
seraph, for one of these holy beings to hold IN ms
own hands the right of eXtinguishing the life OF an
other? What sort of heaven would that be- which
should be characterized by the admission of such g
principle? And we may ask, further, what sort OF Q
millennium will that be- which shalt be characterized
either practically or Theoretically in the way ??
When men are fully restored to the favor of God
whether in heaven or earth, is there to be one code
one set of governmental prnesPles for them, and an
other for other holy beings? Certainly not In al
the great matters of right and duty the law Of seraph
is the law of angels, and the law of ali els is the law
of men. If it is utterly and absolutely inconsistent
with our conceptions Of the heavenly world that the
power of life and death should be taken from in,
have the right to extinguish each others existence, il
l. equally difficult to conceive of such right in the
Ill 'm And if it will not be right for the mer
nf the ,n;Ienu,'' to exercise the power of life and
o. So tue nuar zach other is not right for them
We have the same code of COVE" leLC no" WHICH We
shall have then; we have the New IoI'a'e"I no" ;
and we shall have it Them and not only that w 'iig
understand it better and love it more Notnlhg wa
be added to it, nothing will be taken from IT, II
does not now consider human life nvioab', u he'Fi
will if it does not now prescribe all wars among the
human Species it never will; the right OF taking hui
man life if it exists now under the Christian cOde will
exist as legal and authorized characteristic (paintu
and even horrible the thought is) of the pure
blessed, and angelic state Of the millennium. On the
suppositon, therefore, that life will be nVoube in the
millennium and that it will not be considered right for
one man to put another to death for any possible rea-
son, argue that it is not right now. And this form
of reasoning is applicable to any other analogous case
whatever If will not be hight to steal in the mllen
num- it is not right TO steal now if it will not be
right to be Incorporate in the millennium, is not
right to be Incorporate now; if it will not be right to
hold slaves in the millennium, it is not right to hold
slaves now; if it will not be right to take life and
ry on war in the millennium is not right to take life
and carry on now. The principles which will be
acknowledged as authoritative in the millennium, are
the very principles which are prescribed and arc bind
ing upon us, at the present moment No change in
principles is required, but merely change in practice
If the practice of men should tomorrow be contormed
to the principles which the finger Of God has written
on the pages of the New Testament, then tomorrow
would behold the millennium.
We delight to linger upon this subject There Is a
charm In the milleHnal name. "Scrlbentl manum IN
iicit ct quambct festinantem in morar cogit."-
The wing of poetry flags under this great conception
Sometimes see it under the type Of wilderness
newly clothed with bud ard blossom; sometimes we
it under the type of city descending from heay
en- prepared as bride adorned for her husband :
sometimes we behold it as great temple, arising out
OF the earth, and capiclous enough to contain all n7-
tons. This temple is not built OF earthly materials,
that wrl perish with the using, but is supported on inn
mutable columns Every great moral and religious
principle is pillar in the millennial temple, The
principle of total abstinence from all Intoxicating H.
quors is pillar; it suddenly arase fair and beauti
id, and even nov IS c1vooCtd with some rays of mil
lennial glory the doctrine that all save-hoding is
sin is another pillar, standing firm, awfully grand and
immovable; the doctrine of the absolute involabity
of human life is another; this is in state of prepare
ton, but 1t will soon ascend, and stand brightly and
malestlcoy in its place. and thus principle after prn
clple will be established, column after column will be
erected till the spiritual house of the Lord shall be
established in the tops Of the mountains and shall eX-
pand upon the eye of the behoder far beautiful
than the Parthenon. And what then will be wanting
Only that the nations in the language of prophecy
shall flow into it only that the people should occupy
it, and rejoice in it and this is millennal glory. Blu
unless you have firm, unchangeable immutabe prnci
pies it will be like certain house, that built up
on the sand " and the rain descended and the flood
came and the winds blew, and beat upon that house
and it fell, and great the fall of it"--ProE Up
ham.