The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-09
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is before the church of God viz, the SUD.
preston Of the Satanic rebellion and the sal.
vation Of the race.
but you do cooperate with the church,
Yes, and yet say by your example its exist
ence is needless, and your example tells, espe.
clalIy upon these children. You work in the
Sunday school, and work faithfully. The ad-
vice you give is excellent. But when the
pastor approached James f. the other day,
and urged npon him the necessity of a reiii.
glous lite and of the open confession of Christ,
he replied, " mean to be good man, but l
need not join the church. My teacher, Mr..
b. is good man, if there is one in town, and
he lives out of the church, and if he can, 50
can l." You know that with his ardent tenn
permanent he cannot, and how much your in.
huence daes to keep him where OF must fall
into sin, you may imagine. He is not the
only one Of your class who speaks similar
words.
You can retire from tie Sunday school.
80 you can, but will that help your cnse ?
Will succumbing into positive uselcssness i'm
prove your moral status?
Don't see what good 1t wiN do qou.-
Strange. You teach your pupils to admire
and vcnerate the transccndent purity and wis.
dom of Jesus. Yet he instituted his church,
purchased it with his blood watches over it,
loves it, and yet you don't see what good it
will do you. Angels of God,' priucipalities
and powers in heavenly places, come to it to
study the manifold wisdom of God, and by
the church that greatly diversified wisdom is
manifested, and yet you can't see what good
1t will doyou. Within it are the holy sacra-
mcnts instituted by Christ. OF the Eucha-
rist he says, Do this in remembrance of me-
You will not-while you live as you are, you
cannot-obey that mandate. Within it are
socia helps. Standing within it you would
feel that you we're consistent and upon the
right platform. What good will it do you to
do right? What harm must it do you to do
wrong? Obedience is better than sacri-
fce"
THE church rs not united and harmonious.
That is pity but it may be cured if more
men of strong, robust character and vigorous
plety were in it, However, your excuse at
this point won't bear testing. You are an ar
dent partisan, yet no man knows better than
yourself what irreconcilable teuds exist with
IN your party camp. There are divisions as
to men and measures, and yet you stand by
the party. There are serions divisions in our
army, yet you uphold it. Men cannot see
alike on all subjects and you do not expect
them to, except in the church, where your OBJ
lection seems to imply you look for the COM
plcte abnegation Of personal independence.
If you found it, you would reject it with dis.
dain
Can't a man be q Christian and Hve out of
the church? That, friend B., may be stated
thus What is to hinder a man from being
like Christ, whilc neglecting the church Christ
has solemnly instituted, having purchased it
with his own blood Why cant man be a
good Christian, and yet neglect the very ordi.
nances Christ established =? What is to hin.
der man from being capital Christian
while he trains with the m asses who will not
have Christ to reign over them Why can't
a man be Christian and yet refuse to bear
the cross, to endure the shame, and to suffer
with the people OF God ?
1t won't do. You must be one thing or the
other. Neutrality is treason. He that is
not with Christ is against him.
But the air grows chilly, we must not
longer sit In the falling dew. We will 60 in
and have our evening worship. We will
sing, to old Boylston, the fast three stanzrs
of the 237th hymn:
" l love thy kingdom, Lord
The house of thine abode-
The church our blest Redeemer saved
With his precious blood.
g. love thy church, God
Her walls before thee stand,
Dear as the apple of thine eye,
And craven on thy hand.
For her my tears shall fall;
Forshersmy prayers ascend
To her my and tolls be given,
Till tolls and shall end"