The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-30

attention to our own Church, which has had
a development here, all circumstances taken
into the account, unprecedent in ecclesiasti.
cal history ; but prosperity has not been con-
fined to any one branch of the Church, but
various denominations with great success have
united in their efforts to do good, and our
Government has looked with favor upon the
Christian labors of all denominations and re-.
oiced in their success.
The Christian efforts in this country havo
been peculiarly missionary. We established
Christian missions among the savage tribes
found here, without a knowledge OF Cod
Millions have come to us from benightod por-
lions Of the world where they have been bur
dencd with oppression and fettered with pow
erty and ignorance, and VIC have met them
with a Bible in our hands, which we have Of
fered them without money and without price.
We have given them remunerative labor and
pleasant homes. Some who have thus come
to us have returned to their native land, to
carry back with them the influence of our i'll
stitutions, and above all, the blessings of our
common Christianity.
Our nation now exists in the vigor OF its
youth. We are but just prepared to do
good and enter upon our great mission, fer
which God has evidently called, aud to
great extract prepared us. The vast Empire
of China is now being attracted to our shores,
and her coming here, we doubt not, has some
thing to do with her future history and final
redemption from the hight Of Paganisn.--
The art of printing is just reaching state
of perfection, to enable US to multiply BIZ
blcs for q trifling expense, to supply the world,
and the introduction OF steam power to facil'
itate the commerce of nations, and the won-
derful power of the magnetic telegraph arc
bringing the ends Of the earth within speak
ing distance, and atfording immense facilities
for doing good. Aud are we to suppose that
at such period in our national history, and
the history of the world, our Government is
to be destroyed? Can any one conclude that
the designs Of Providence in our existence
have been fulfilled?
May we not see another design in the pres
ent disturbances that imperil cur existence,
and shake the fabric of our free institutions
There has long been a drain upon our Mt
tional strength, and deep stain upon our
reputation. We have professed to love free
dom, and yet cherished Slavery. We have
been sending missionaries abroad, to carry
an open Bible and the light of the Gospel to
the heathcn of other lands, but we have
made it crime to instruct and educate mill" !
ions Of heather in our own country. Slave
ry has been the source of national discord
and political strife at home, and great dis
count on all our efforts to do good abroad. 1t
has been standing libel upon cur professed
love Of liberty and Christianity. If we mis-
take Dot the indication of these times, God
designs to save us from this relic of barbar-
ism and tranmel to our successful efforts to
vnjicatc our own principals and thereby en-
hancc our strength for the fulillment Of our
mission among the nations of the earth.
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE.--Thc Washington
Of the Philadelphia Press thus
writes -" A most interesting and eloquent
episode occurred on Sunday, May 18th, at
Trinity Church. The rector, Rev. Dr.. But.
ler. began his sermon with the admonition
that the discourse he was about to deliver had +;
been preached by himself here twelve years
ago, and he should repeat it gerbatjm. 1t
was q lucid aud effective argument to prove
that the popular idea of government among
us is held in too loose and secular estima- !
ton. while the fact is, that, however care, !
lessly we may regard it, as merely contract
with ministerial agents, and however made.
quate our respect for law and constituted au- Q
thorities, it is Divine institution. The pc, I
roration was very powerful. Said tic rever-
end gentleman, Twelve years ago, after 4;