Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-07-19
Dunghill to Diamond.

Bishop a. G. a. Hall, 1t is said, was
one of the signers of the anti-imperalists
Fourth of July disgraceful promulgation.
It will be remembered that he also ad-
yocates licensing the liquor traffic. Do
you ask who is Bishop A. c. A. Hall?
He's an Englshman-a fresh importa-
ticn-brought over by the Episcopalians.
lie puts on a night gown when he reads
his prayers and robes himself when he
rreaches a sermon. Doubtless a man
might be very good and an Englishman
and Episcopalian; he might think he was
doing the proper thing in wearing a night
gown in public but the line must be
drawn when he, protesting to be a follower
Of Christ, wants the state to enter into
partnership with the liquor seller and
writes himself down a copperhead or a
fool.
Bishop A. c. A. Hall had better go
back to England. Americans who have
the best interests of their state and
country at heart have no use for him
OF any of his ilk.-[Londonderry Sitter.
If 1T is proper to do a thing on a week
day, 1t is proper TO do 1t on a Sunday"
Thus saith Minot j. Savage, a Christian
minister yet so-called, a leader and teach
er of the people Think what this means!
1t is the deliberate annihilation of the
Christian Sabbath. 1t means the carry
ing on of all business and labor on sun
day. 1t means forbidding a day of rest
10 humanity 1t means the extinction
absolutely, of the Lords day with ali
1t implies. No man in the Christian era
living or dead, ever did or tried to do
the harm and bring about the misery
and woe that this man essays in his re-
marx. Such creature is unfit to asso-
2iate with Heron or Dowie. He is both
damnable and terrible AS much as food
Is necessary to the physical man. so is
a day of physical rest to the spiritual
man, In which he may and should turn
his mind away from the world for brief
time and consider things of eternal conse-
quence. A proper appreciation and use
of Sunday is all that stands between a
people and anarchy, atheism aid NJ. j.
Savage.
Vermont newspapers have thrown
bouquets promiscuously of late in COM
menting upon the high general excel
lence of the publications of the state,
but 1t is time to pray for federation af-
ter reading the two screeds above.
Rev. NJ. j. Savage and Bishop Hall
need no defence. Both men have lived
too highly and nobly and have done too
much to elevate humanity to have
their motives questioned. Bishop Hall
simply believes that prohibition is not
the best way to regulate the LIQUOR
traffic, and has the courage and the
honesty to say so. He is sincere in his
advocacy of temperance and right liv-
ing, and because one does not agree
with him in regard to a single law is
poor reason for making a scurrilous
attack on him. Mr.. Savage holds some
views that may be called radical. but be-
cause one does not subscribe to them
is not reason for condemning him
as "damnable and terrible" 1t might
be said that the words the Messen-
ger quotes are different from those
published by any of the New York
papers when the sermon which
aroused so much comment was deliv-
cred. If the Messenger had read the
whole or large part of the sermon
it would have seen that Mr.. Savage
advised setting a part of Sunday for
communion with God, and then using
the rest of the day for recreation
walking, sailing, driving, playing golf
or anything that will make one better
physically. When Sitter John and
Jack Harris stand as moral critics and
directors of such men as Bishop Hall
and Rev NJ. ]. Savage one is moved to
exclaim in the words of Blaine: Dung
hill to diamond"