The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-09
The Fast Day SANDER.
MANonEsrER, W., May 8.

DutCOT AUtCuHU UtOOG - HutlCcu lct-
ter in the Herald of May 2, in which some
person over the significant initials 81.
A." has dipped his pen in lime water and
attempted to whitewash the occurrence
that took place during our fast day service.
lie occupies great deal of space in de-
scribng the interest manifested in our late
gospel meetings-the labor and ill-health |
of our pastor, not emitting the part taken |
by the "former PASTOR" and stating or
prophecying the resulting good
To all this VIC make no issue. We wish
q, being friends and advocates of whatever
is good, and supporters of all measures
tending to good results. l. is against evil
we make war. In SO doing we oppose
every policy whose natural result and gen.
eral tendency is public evil.
When this Herald writer approaches
"the root of the matter" he vents himself
as follows:
Our meeting on the day Of the late pub
lie fast was particularly interesting. In
stead of a sermon, rs usual on such occa-
sions, topics were selected both of personal
and public concern for consideration, ex-
hortation and prayer. The duty of inter-
cesson in behalf of tho stste rulers and
people gave the key note TO the meeting.
This would naturally bring up the moral
and spiritual condition of the nation. The
necessity of revivals and their wonderful
prevalence and power were duly noted.
The danger to be apprehended from the
approaching centennial celebration and
the license to it might give to Sabbath
breaking, intemperance and other evils, to-
gether with the importance, in the present
crisis, of putting good, true and faithful
men in nomination for public office, natu-
rally camc up for discussion and prayer at
the throne of the heavenly grace.
Now we have had the "key note of the
meeting" given US, together with the
"topics" selected for consideration and
prayer. In all sincerity, we ask your
readers, ono and all, be they Jew or Cen
| tile, high church or low church, If, accord
ing to this writer's own statement, there
was any proper occasion or justification
for a speaker in that meeting to rise in his
place aud blurt out substantially
was at the depot yesterday, and there
saw u man drunk. The individual was a
good looking man, a prsminent politician,
one VIC had been called on TO vote for, and
one whom christians did vote for ?
The propriety of this act is what We de
nounce, The policy Of such a course is
what we battle and oppose. All persons
except, perhaps, ~. A." must readily see
that if such proceedings are tolerated, re
ligious meetings would very soon be di
verified from their legitimate purpose, ant
become jargons Of dispute and recrimina
ton rivaling pandcmonium Itself.
His concluding paragraph is as follows
"Having had the experience of nearl,
fifty years in fast day meetings, | hav,
seldom, if ever, attended one more appro
priate or more more interesting and salts
factory than this TO which | now refer
and If 10 any instance an unpleasant lrltl
or illustration came to the surface, we ar
quite sure there was no SANDER, either il
the pulpit or in the pews."
From the language he employs we ma
fairly infer that he fully iu,tiGes the pre-
ceedines of the last fast day in our church
While he does not deny the language O
sentiment imputed TO the speaker, he
pleased to refer to the Objectionable re
marks of that speaker as an "uppeasan
"truth" coming to the surface. What
Which we, in our former letter, pre-
nounced base falsehood, and again asser
the same in this. The original elandere
still refusing to identify his pretended vic
Tim, BY bis rcticence, pleads guilty to tn
charge we make. And if ~. A." picks u
the glove and justifies both the Islander anc
the slanderer, why does not he ''come t
the surface and relieve the public mind b.
giving the name of the individual seel
drunk?
His justification goes farther. lie tell
US that this meeting was to him 'particu
larly interesting" that he "seldom, if ever
attended one more appropriate, or NOR
interesting and satisfactory" Now w
submit, if it is not a far and rational inter
probation of this language, that he endorse
and justifies the propIiety of taking the oc
casion of public divine worship to proclaim
the personal errors and misgivings of citi
Zens, and leaving results to take care O.
themselves. IT the matters proclaimed arr
true, he justifies them by their truth, ever
il it is an unpleasant truth" IL false h,
justifies taking the same opportunity Il
traduce and malaga character, because i
makes the meeting TO him so very "appro
pirate, interesting and satisfactory.
Those best acquainted with ~. A." anC
his propensities are by no means surprised
at his course If experience had not beer
TO him mute teacher, he would have beer
the last person to have assumed the stand.
point he has taken. His own position is 6
forcible illustration Of the evil we con-
denim. For it was by pursuing course
quite kindred to that of which we com.
plain, that now necessitates him to use the
terms, ''former pastor"
Now Mr. Editor, our vision is SO short
our intellec. so obtuse-that we cannot
discover why Islander is not as base, a
fslsehood just as far removed from truth
why it does not wear the same sable color,
whether pronounced from pulpit or from
pew-whether re-aflirmed and jusiifrl By
-. A." or originally uttered by A. }
VIII some one versed IN moral philCs.,-
ply ''come to the surface" and point our
the distinction. VINDRX.