The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-11-14

your c0nfederatcs, have so often visited
Middlebury to sustain and propagate
Don't you know that it was the business
of that lofty genius, and holy apostle st
Paul, to teach, and spread, and establish
in human hearts, these very elements and
principles and liberty, to which you refer,
aud that he was withstood in his efforts,
by the Spiritualists of his day? Surely
you have read history enough to know
that. If not, will you, and all others of
your ilk, take up the Bible and read Acts
8: 9-24; 13: Al; 1G 1G-1S, and so
become better acquainted with your pred
ecessors of the same black art, and Cod
opposing character?
But, perhaps, there will be no neces-
sity of this. For surely such defender
Of the faith given to the Spirtists as you
are, must be perfectly at home in your
knowledge of those renowned champions
of your faith, old james and Jambres,
who, Paul tells us, revisited Moses in his
attempts to emancipate the slaves Of
Egypt, and of course, you will feel much
obliged to me in mentioning those illus
trious Spiritists, both on their own ac-
count, and also, and especially, because
they resisted man, who enacted q
statute against all of your class, to wit :
"Thou shalt not suffer witch to live"
(Ex. % 1S.)
But Paul himself, though a man of
abounding charity, refers to these old,
hoary, Moses-resisting reprobates, to give
u description Of their followers in our
own day and times. Ever learning, end
never able to come to knowledge Of the
truth. So do these, also resist the truth {:
men Of corrupt minds reprobate concern
ing the faith" q Tim. 8 : rs. Rath-
er hard language that for generous,
and catholic-spirited Apostle. But, as it
is the "men'-Spiritists he thus denounces
you will not take to heart.
But some of them, it appears, escaped
the bloody code, for little later we read
Of very remarkable medium, that
amiabc lady Of Endor, who, Samuel
coming up, at the instance of jehovah
power. in order to rcbuke the wicked
Saul, was almost annihilatcd with fright
Poor old witch almost alone in the
land where Spiritists were slaughtered
without mercy, she needed some Spiri,
} convention in her ncighborhood to com.
fort and assure her.
Thus we see from these instances tha
Spiritists as Mch, have been nuisance
in the past, whatever they may be, a
; such, in the present They were il
. Moses way as an aboitionist, in Egypt
and as civil ruler in Israel, and it
PauI's way, as Christian teacher an(
apostle, later down and were predicted
to be in the way Of truth in our OWL
} day; which prediction, every one, ex
, eept their deluded selves, knows to b,
most exactly fulfilling. Thus do | ALLOW
r venerable antiquity to this ism o
yours, madam an antiquity as old as sin
and if to-day, it appears in any bette
= visage than it did in the days ofits great
grcat-grand fathers James and Jambrcs
g and Of its ilustrious great-grand-mother
l the old witch of indor, or of its great
: uncles, Simon Magus and Elymas, anc
e its great aunt the street walker of Phil
t lipi, who withstood Paul and his co
= laborers, If, say. it wears moro comel
r garments now than then, and appears
t little Chrstianized, it is because it has
! true to its real father the devil, stole
y some of the outward virtues of Christian
r ty, the better to serve him with, in dc
c luding and decciving mankind.
Il \ GU think, do you, Mrs. Slocum, tha
v Christianity stood in the way of "Ml
v Garrison AS the friend Of the oppressed
3 Don't yon know, that no where in tn
. wide earth, has slavery, or caste bee
Z abolished, save where the power of Chri:
:. tian ideas have penetrated society
y Everywhere in all the boasted republic.
y to say nothing Of the despotisms of an
g tiquity, dominant race ruled by dcs
IS potic force subugated races and in all
s a person of your knowledge must know
c that the religion of the realms was Spiril
n ualism-your own faith, and the god
If they worshlppcd the very lying spirit
: "derHs" or demons, Paul calls then
It you worship to-day And not till Spirit
d ualism and the demon gods of Spiritua
y ism were driven out of the nations, an
? the worship Of that God, who frs
y through Moses, set the oppressed Q
= liberty in Egypt, aud gave Mr.. Garriso
y his first lesson in emanc: patton, did slave
h ry. and caste, and Tyranny, and panpel
e ism, and war. did these dire evils NEE
'e confronting aad eonquering powe
! Never, | say, till faith in Jesus Chris
n till the great cardinal truth and conditio
: Of salvation was preached, believed an
1t practiccd-"IIc that believeth shall
1T saved, did the nations begin to tur
from their loathsomo Spiritism, and
l. put away the denominations it inspire
'r the human heart to practice.
l. But you don't believe that men ar
$ saved by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
u. OF course you don't,-for you are ant
1t Christ in your ideas. sou: opponen
y believe" you say, "that men are saved b
~ faith" Yes, they do believe it, and NOR
they ha0c it too. You "believe. "-wh
At thought sou hated "creeds" s"-and hel
W you are Il creed-maker in the very artic
'c and with the very pen with which ye
ol wrote them down-you "believe that vi,
u aud crimes of every name are festerir
OF in the vitals of society, more from tn
: cause than from any other, that is, b
y cause "men are taught that, though vic
C. ed to the extent of crime, even unto Il
70 eleventh hour, they may, through fai
III in another's merits, pass into Heave
to white as he who has lived morally a
TX his days" And yet don't you know tn
t. this "iaith in the me rits of another"
IN which you sneer, is the very basis of tn
'g Christianity, of which Lecky, in his HI
tory of Rationalism," and he no Chri
~ tian,-says: lit hes been the main sour
ol of the moral development of Europe
I'd There is, indeed" he further says, "not
O. ing more wonderful in the history of I