Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-06-19

agitating this great question. and ior one
: am not sorry that it is SO.
Many Object to our belief thinking
that we do not believe the Bible, but
that is not so. We do not believe the
Bible as many teach it, and We should
not be true to our convictions of right did
VIC claim to do so. We are come cutters
from every denomination in the world,
and We do not spend much time talking
about our articles of faith, for we have
learned that there is no uniformity some
having ten and others ten times that
number, a very unimportant matter, as
are also many other things upon which
time and talent are foolishly spent. One
great question with us is: Whence came
the Scriptures? and in discussing that
we are brought to another. which is: IT
men were inspired eighteen hundred
years ago, is that principle suppressed or
lost to the world. or-is it still extant ?
Having had satisfactory evidence that
it is not lost, bat that all may become
recipients of this great gift of God to man
it is not strange that we area happy peo-
pic and that we look upon lie
"Andfee that sin and error
. Are dimly understood,
And that which man calls evil
Is undeveloped good"
We believe that this great doctrine of
charity and love for our onemies is clearly
taught in the Billie, and until this Is be.
Iieved and practiced we can know but
little of true religion. 10 love our neigh
Dor and hate our enemy might have been
good logic in the days Of Moses. when the
law demanded an eye for an eye, &c. but
not in this nineteenth century when every.
thing teaches US differently.
We also believe that the Bible teaches
that tho spirit Of man uudergoes no change
at death, but can and does return to NOR
tails as did Moses and Elias at the trans.
fguration Of Christ, which can be found
in the seventeenth chapter of Mathew
In the last chapter of Revelation John
was about to fall down and worship the
angel who had been Showing him tho tree
and river of life, when The angel replies:
See that thou do it not, for am thy
fellow servant and of them which keep
the sayings of this book worship God"
The Bible IL rcplere with such NANTES
atcns, and they arc corroberatcd BY
hose Of tho prescut time and we believe
hem. We also believe that Christ said
hat ale that bcliovcth on me, the works
hat do yc shall do also, and greater
works shall ye do because | 60 to the
Now, we believe this and have
ny amount of testimony That it is done.
nd yet we are called uubelievefs. This
o some is a bitter pill which is unpleas
mt to the feelings and rather hard to
wallow, but is not without its use, for il i,
auses every man thus accused to study =
imself. by which study his mind is
trepgthened and his understanding en- :
lrged. We believe with Burns that
$50 muckle are the cares of men, s
That truth at times is hard to ken,
And Error to her grousome den,
So dark and eerie,
Wilcs those who have no hearts to mend c.
Poor wanderers weary. n
Alack (! how many luckloss wight d
Has gone agey in Errors night
Not that he had less love for right
Than countless thers.
But that he lacked the keener sight 81
OF his guild briihers. II
But he who knows our greatest needs, CT
hecks little how man counts his beads; a,
For Righteousness IS not in creeds
Or solemn faces, Vi
But rather lies in kindly deeds
And Christian graces. dc
Then never fear purpose leal,
heal to think, heart to feel
For human woe and human veal j
No other one
Your sacred birthright e'er can steal th
To Heaven aboon. is
With loving kindness will lie wait ah
Till all the prodigsls fate
Return Gnto their fair estate.
With blessings mony Va
Nor will he shut the gouden gate %.
Of Heaven on ony.' W