Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-11-01
For the Freeman.
An UqsNklxen Speech, at a Con-
.t@rEnC0 of Churches.

AFAOG % OAu4 C00ns
The Windhm County Conference of Church.
es, held their; annual meeting at Newfane, on
the 18th Of Sept lS49, and continued in session
two days. it being the Anniversary Of their be.
,neyolent institutions. Sabbath Schools, the Bi.
Bile cause, Sacred Music, Education, the Tract
cause, Home and Foreign Missions, were sever
ally reported on, and eloquent and feeling ad,
dresses made by ministers Of the County, OF
agents Of the several societies from abroad -
The woes and wants of all the world appeared
to be cared for, and their necessities urged. But
| the poor slave in our own land! He was as
though he had not been mot even limited at
passed by on he other side without even looking
at him. a, 4'.
While the Bible cause WINS under discussion
a Rev. brothet introduced and forcibly sustained
all excellent resolution. When he took his seat
delegate from the Church in Jamaica, suppos.
ing that bis Church might be heard throagh he
delegate In i" Conference of Churches" rOst
and asked permission for few minutes to speal
to the same resolution; but he was promptly pu
down, There was no time to hear him. There
fore he has vIitten out the remarks substantially
as he wished 10 have spoken them, hoping 10 b.
heard through the press.
Ma. MODERATOR:-
desire to second the resolution offered
lby the Rev. bother, who has just taken his seal
The sentiment approve it is in the follOwin
words -
Resolved That the Bible uniolds the Divin
remedy for althose evils, temporal and Spiritua
which curse our world and hence the work {
circulating ihas the highest claims upon tn
christian phiInihroPist.
He says, The Bible is the foundation o
which the Tact and Missionary Societies res
with The othgbenevOlent institutions of the day
But whon' take survey of our OWE favore
land, Ibeho'Qmiions grOaning under all thos
evils, teThpoAl and spiritual, which curse OF
world" dest@,q Of a knowledge of tho Divin
remedy unfCldd IN the Bible. AIN led an1
iously to enquire, have the sympathies, the pray
ers, and the 4 brts of protesting christians bee
extended to hem, as the Bible dictates? L.
facts answer
The Ameikin Tract Society, prints and pull
fishes daily thousands of volumes of boun
books, and h tens Of thousands of smaller pull
LEGATIONS, consisting of fourteen hundred aud Fl
weight diffetn kinds, and sends them, broaC
cast, over th world. Yet all this vast amour
of publication contains not single page in re
, erence to the monster evil, which is spreading i
whitening, Bill hting influence, temporal and spi
, itual, over the length and breadth of the lan
Let them bG st, if they will, Of having recei
ed five thols Band dollars, from Alabama, al
seven thousand dollars from Tennessee, in oil
year, into the Treasury of the present Societ
) 1t brings to mind the wedge of gold. The Mi
f sionaries of the American Board among the !
, dams, and d the Home Missionary Society
D the Southern States, preach slaveholding &C
, pei that 5their preaching and private Int
1. course is without any reference to "the sum
r all villaniesS Nay more 1t is baptized in
q the .MissioDehnrcaes as though consistent wi
- christian chaseter! And more still The Mi
~ sion schoospre labored for, and waited on
s slaves, hiNI IF their masters by the Mission
: rles thereE iastilling into their young min
: the idea thaiit is good to be waited on by slave
: and raisinghem up for future, christian slaV
holders.
q No open, frank, and decided condemnation
a their Missi0nry's course, can, to this day,
II obtained firm the Boards which sustain the
MANY have become so dissatisfied with the
q Societies, nh their Missionaries, that they ha
J. withdrawn ipm their support, and have orga
y lied the Aueican Missionary Association.
takes anti avery ground in its efforts for
: evangelical b of the world; its Missionari
e are locate, Haw-Mend in Africa, the ISla
d - 5-,uuiVs paud~ich Islands, Canada, the we
IN srn, and s@th western States, &c.; the VIII
!, numbering hty-fvc; its funds are multiply
u and its friends increasing.
ca To conchde my brief remarks, have
rs as watchmau on the walls, or as private chr
he tisns, so brought out, and so applied the divi
81 remedy, unbded in the Bible to the evil
Savcholding that it will be said of US, III
I'd have done what they could P Or will be sa
IT. that we have been SO anxious to circulate t
lie Bible in foreign lands, that our brethren in
ly own land who have fallen among thieves, ha
r been passed by on the other side
IN TIMO. G0ODALE.
"a "a Jamaica, n.
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" ELom the London Times.