Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-06-27


lows without saying anything OF their duties
tiat VIII turn the heather from doatry, from Tor
hlcatlon, and incest from inlantlclde and can't
oallsn, and The whole retlnue OF denominations
"nlch we name heathenism, without one word
SAID except about the literal Christ cruclied,
which the Journal says must be preached wheth-
er men will hear or forbear. 1t mnst be preach
Gu IN It's purity and power, whoever may be Of
tended. 1t is not mans message but Gods, and
must be delivered faithfully. The Sabbath is
emInentIy the time and the pulpit the place for
this solemn act
There must be gospel of doctrine, of abb
s'ract ruth; but byno means a gospel OF doc
'rlne that dlsturbs men from practical sins! and
we almost believe Lowell to have stolen his dog
gerel from the Journal,
I'm willing man should 90 toPable strong
Agln wrong in the abstract; for that kind OF
Is always unpopular and never gets pllled,
because 1t Is a crime no one ever committed"
Ii the excellent editor of the Journal Of Com
MERGE were doomed to become member OF our
congregation, we don't know how we could rec
egnlze our sense Of duty with his notions Of the
gospel, unless he would consent to take his hat
ana slip out into the entry while we were dis
crsslng his real sins, and come back in time to
near our opinion of total depravlty and the doc
time OF original sim
The christian church and her ministry are
supposed to have no special rea'ons for liking
Mr.. Garrison In his zeal for the abolition Of
slavery, he has denied her every attribute Of
christianity. The Journal of Commerce, in its
zeal against abolition, has denied 10 the church
ana her ministers nearly every right of christian
ity.
Mr.. Garrison denies any man the right to call
himself christian who will not make christianity
serve primarily and chiefly to the destruction OF
slavery.
The journal of Commerce, with an ultraisn
not one whit less denies that praying for Il
slave, and urging the guilt of slavery in the
pulpit, is christian duty--and with a severity
not less reprehensible than Mr.. William Lloyd
Garrison's
Garrison declares that if christianity will not
Iiberate the slave, then the church should be
abandoned.
The journal of Commerce declares that if
men do preach and pray for the slave, it j., a
lust cause of complaint by their congregations,
and il persisted IN Of reputation Both the
Journal of Commerce and Mr.. Garrison are rev
outlonlss. Mr.. Garrison is revolutionary for
freedom. and the Journal Of Commerce for SIa-
very. The I.iberator and the journal OF Com
merce stand upon common ground-only they
have come to 1t from entirely opposite dWec.
tons.
Because some men are mad for freedom, is that
reason why others should go mad for oppres-
the. whole
North and Northern church for the sake of lib
ertY, does the Journal Of Com nerco need to at
tack the whole north and the church, and the
body of its ministers on behalf OF slavery for II
SAYS:
owe hope our friends Of The Independent
Will not consider these remarks as intended eX
clusNely for themselves. They are intended
Tor the whole body of the clergy of all denom
nations"
Now. we would not willingly become foo
on either side. But if fatality compelled US t.
choose the madness of either extreme, would a
soon DE Garrison as Journal of Commerce -
we mad rather commit ruinous absurdties inAam
ed by the love of liberty, than to commit tn,
same absurdites utterly frigid to humanity am
on fire for slavery,
We now re affirm our personal doctrine of tn,
pulpit:
The gospel is system of truths designed Il
be the worlds medicine. It has no jntrinsj,
value as system Its end and its valGe are il
its power to slmulate the soul, to develop its fac
uItics, to purify It's emotions, tocleanse its evils
and TO lead forth the whole man into u vIrtuou.
and holy life.
The Pulpit is, therefore, the Dspensatory o
Society. The minister, a physician. Preach
Ing, d prescription Of medical truths for hear
evils. Thcle is not an evil which aiiilcs lite
nor temptation proceeding from any course o
life, which the pulpit should not study. Til,
sources of right conduct, the hindrances, the su
ductons OF business, the lures of pleasure tn
influences of public life, the maXims of societ,
its customs, its domestic, commercial and public
institutions in short, whatever directly or indi
rectly molds the human character is to be stud
led by the minister, and It's benefit or its DANCE
made known from the pulpit.
In this work it is to deal first and most faith
fully with the evils Of its own age, its ow
country, its own city its own congregation
Wherever men 60, the pulpit Is TO follow theI
with its true light. Whatever inyades its prov
lnce-that province is Right Humanity, Purit
be 1t f'shlon, commerch, Politics, they AZ
ieariessly to be met and grasped, and measure
by the word of God.
mot only cay the pulpit thus explore life, BIT
IL must, or else prove bankrupt to fidelity. 1t
not TO follow to camp; but in spiritual things t
Iead the people. 1t is not to wait ill foes al
S ,, oeiore 1t RAISE its spear; Eor 60 asking
o'tlcaI caOaIs what it may say, nor crlge to 81
PeICllious men Of Commerce; but occupy ise
"''Il tIlls twin thought how to please God an
benefit man.
therefore, against every line of the coward
ethcs ofthe Journal of Commerce we solemn
protest, and declare a minister made TO its pa
tern, filter to be sent to the pyramids and tomb
oi Egypt to preach to old world mummles, tina
10 oe living man of God among living mel
Io''ng them but never fearing them! God b
thanked that in every age hitherto such pulpit
nave Oeen found, the ally of suffering virtue, tn
champion OF the oppressed. And IT in this da!
u'ter Tue notable examples of heroic men in he
roic ages, when life itself often paid for fidelity
Tue pulpit is 10 be mined and slapped by nsr
cere friends and insidous enemies or learn to mi
'he sordld prudence otbusiness with the sonorou
ana tllrlce heroic cuunseIs Of Christ, then, y N
sou' DC not thou ,uund consplrng with TIL
'eagoe OF nlquity that so when in that angus
!'ay OF retribution, God shall deal punishmcr
!" Ih.amlhg measure to all hreling and cowar
ministers ministers, thou shalt not go down. under doubI
."! 'hn,nders, lower than miscreant Sodom
thrice polluted Gomorrob
we close our article by asking OF the JournI
n OH commerce on parting favor Will it pleas
T. l. Whether American slavery, as it is estat
llshed by law in the southern states, Is right me
ally or politically?
c .; WIN it please state distinctly wheth'
Cn'lS, ana his apostles approved, or in any wa
gave gave ,''elr assent to the justice or rectqde
S sSo system OF slavery exists in the Unite
.; Wilt state distinctly whether the systcl
., slavery existing by law in the United State
n rs matter which concerns the people of tn
N Norln and whether Christian men have an
e Tristan duty to perform with reference to tn
4. will it point to the authorities and tn
, ,acls on which it declared the North to hay
KEPT 81, slaves as long as the system was profta6I
ana tnen sold Them to the South? =.
ana ask the public 10 notice what rephe