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Dec. 7,1342.Alexander did-*or bid died in a duel* as •» an authority for-our new assertions. Ifj Ilenry Clny might bare done, er maf T* do. Who in chat case would have bad thi [ responsibility of placing John Tyler in the I chair of state? Does the responsibility rest [ on those who vacate the chair, or on those who JiU it? Who selected John Tyler, in j preference Co all others to fill it the 4.ord I. or the people7 If it be the Lord’s work, I why so much faultfinding about it? 1 believe I tbst they who attribute it to the Lord are I the ooes who find the moat fault.For the Telegraph. OX ORDINANCEI.To the Editqr of the Vermont Teiegragh: Sir,—Mfy another mind make a few I suggestions on a subject which appears to I interest’taitny of your readers, viz: that pi I Ordinances? Not (bat,I wish to enter iifto I the discussion of the perpetuity or rational-Jhy of them -r but merely to express a tho’t (or two that occur lo me by the way, on 9 controversy in your land in which there is nominally Rtf an established form of religion, Ibrts arc made, both by the ftafcand •sthood, to havd^ll its habitants trained In its disciplines a*l forms. In Turkey, artary, Arabia and the wuuntain districts i the Mongols, the Mosque and the Min-the bell, the bath and ejaculations to Allah, am essential* in the estimation of |faithfij| worshippers of the one God and toirifet ifchferophet. Artd here in the far H, the followers of the Christ pro Amp-(ngrto relinquish very greatly the external ■wrra*, are carafol to inculcate upon their Vf»prioz a veneration for the steeple sod lie vestry room, the priest, the sermon, the f»ok, and the dsy. One section of the re-L'ious dgnomir.a ions holds seven sacra-hents as aaposi important part of Christian iiscipline, if not as essential to salvation; ivhiie the majority curtail the number down | two. The Jttltef in these cerehiotms is o early iq^ilfcSriuio the tutnJs ui childieo -and they grow up with examples of the veneration for forms ao constantly before n ir eye?, that, unless Divinity has *in It [ecutiarly vivid manner, unfolded tuHf in |iem at some moment of their lifOl, down r fheir gtaves Will they go unquestivuiug Jte fatib of their forefathers.Deeper than merely circurosunml refi-| however, there is ever alloat in-the Ionian soul making itself more and more klearly recognized and appreciated, a life to i lived — a sanctity to bejngeoerated — * love to be incarnated, wmch all religions lecoguiz- as the spiritual substance to which utward forms are clearly related, and of Lhich they s'and as perpetual testimony to he eye of the body. To this spirit or rcal-whauver it be, the ceremonialist is isUDtly driven back, whenever the forms • uudtr disculsion. ifew maintain that [ere is any efficacy in baptism “ per se,” V aliUoOgh aome rigid church of England bn do sStt aver their belief its baptismal 'generation; and plead authority of the kiok^for their beltel; yet most admit that i outward washing is only a si^n of that lhich lakes place iji the Ionian soul, w hen ■vinity odftesAipon it like a flood Qf rutcl-■gence, illuminating, enliveniog, anti «qbV‘ pi Atbefpirit ever pre-historically asserted baptism aftd the supper of the Lord, and preeminently at in the Catholic Church recognised the sacrament of marriage, why will it oot—why does it not re-announce its own requirements? We will ask no book, no history, no church, no record, whether we shall be baptized; but appealing simply to the revealing Spirit, ask for its revelations upon all points, and submit thereto with reverential awe.In my own heart—in your’s also, perhaps —and it is possible in all—the spirit enjoins baptism — the Lord’s supper and the sacred ordinance of marriage. But in wlyu way, bow often, and by whom^rformed ? Must I call in a priest -or a jt^acon to lave my frame iu the wa^ry foci— will, my recognition of the sacred element in 111 food be a vain phantasy, unless a priest be present to repeat a cqjraiu or an arbitrary form of words? And will heaven retire indignantand refuse the sanction of its approbatfi^Sy unless the gown and the updifted hands are present at my marriage to authorize a benediction ? Spirit of Holiness, Purity, Fraternity 1 in all theqp acts ttrou shall be my judge, and ihjr approval shall be my only warrant.— Every morn will I re now my baptisms, assured that eleanliaess is not only next akin to godliness, but its significant type. In obedience to 'ha.sacred instinct, by thee ingeoerated, shall my outward life be con-formed in cbasteoe^a o tbejtinward. Each lime that 1 seat myself al the festive table will 1 bear in memory the requirements of s chaste and chastening spirit. No blood shall stain my delicate repast — no. flesh be In humed in me as a sepulchre, to perish there, and corrupt niybody with the permeations of its fetW odors; I will drink of the pure stream as the fairest emblem of divine intelligence — I Will swallow the nutritive wheat grain as|he best symbol of sustaining vigor, and if it be necessary that I make my whole act emblematic, and drink the sanctified fluid as the most significant type of love* my imbibitions shall neither be the blood of bulls nor of goals, but of the pendant gTape anc^of the luscious apple. The spirit stands at the door of the heart and knocks, and if any man opens unto bim he enters and sups with him, not once-a moothoroncqaweek, in jpublic, but perpetually in tbe privacy of fepte. The eternal spiritwill-be present with us, “sup with whenever in simplicity, temperance and bloodless delicacy we woo him to our table.I do not perceive, moreover, how marrjage is to be made “ holy matrimony ” through the efficacy of priestly benediction. The spirit’s oracle in my heart upon this point is that the Messing can only be proven in the purity of the cftsgsiog. Generation is sanctioned and bleliPP^heuever a pair, conscious of their fi leljtyto thJ’spirit, unite in marriage as a means of furnishing the materials of a living templb in which the spirit shall dwell all powerful and alllov-Tliank llekvcp, then, that is in all trihk=HS a perpetual reference Id the mystic which is engendered of God within (c Man, as a motive Will, a ctarifielt;M*iel-t’oce, a supernal Life — sod which* miss-jtns its recipients at all times, in all pieces, i re-announce its eternal, onhorn verities, (trough certain symbols, ra®*l of which, if nil, have the same relbiton to the cor-inreal wants^s the spirit has to the wants | soul. Tbe spirit we say is of all time.I is omnipresent. It is that whiMkdhnctious 1 our sacred acts -— which qualifies us for t deeds of virtue. But i»^ eensible pres k»cc is in ill esses according to the c00*^ In the sincere seul it reveals us elf » sincerity — In the pure soul, as purity, in |e divine soul, as divinity, la cqjgeption Id in birth, if the psrents be regenerated ; their essential natures, it fittds room for most intense prolific energy. In the ucaiioo, If ^etSicber breathe around bim atmoeplvre of love and. virttft, again lbs the spinTfeap forth in the ehifd’s heart, ke a babe id the processes'of parturition. ®d when he arrives at manhood and bis icultfes blossom forth in In varying forms, to does the spirit irradiate them with its beauties, nnd so iatoaaie all the vital j that tbe central feelings of even the »t dull shall acknowledge the spim’oBeyond these thoughts, Sir, 1 have nothing more to say against the forms, at present. Some will alledge that the externa? is to be retained ns a memorial against “the coming of the Lord.” Let it I owever be iggested that the Lord’s coming is eternal fact, and wherever a soql has yielded its obedience to the spirit, there the Lord bat already proclaimed fife advent. Let our practices be significant ofMhe in-ptesent God, and Hot mere typic allusions to an ill-defined hope of future glory.I am, Sir,Yours, in the all preseat,Henry G. Wright.Voluble Communications.Three communications in the present number of the Telegraph, viz; tbe two from our English brethren, and the poetry — are worth the price of the volume. I shall venture lo give the.name of tbe writer ot the poetry. It is the brother Jkleott, whom I found at Concord* Maas, at the house of his brakef#* Our brethren from England, as 1 said on the first page, arc in advance of the times. Let those who are not prepared to^eeeive their views and sentiments, not reject them hastily— but look at them again and again. “ Bo not JpigetTul to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” H. • - - -• - - ,-iMauks be to Heaven, then, again,-that Jfto is snd* must ever be so constant a ref-Ittnce to the spirit — and that pot as n fad ¥ history, but of personal cunscioasuess in «■« .. Ibe Mon of iMi woiW ao we j har^neM 0, beart-|arn.that the Holy One has assumed lo lelf some fair form of incarnation^ and jstobltshed the proofs of its glory. ’Tit no (able — that of the divine conception of p Plato, Hercules and Chrisl were ihp isults of pure-marriages, saocti^ied and vty'Divinity. They werepot ‘boro j ski’; and tbeir lives wers greet. - God-lanctioned unions nre to bk'— end births Ihtll be nil divine. \ prophesy.' Who does Lot, ihst bns a faithful intuition of spirit—a Locsciousneta of its in-operation^ Avoid-Jpgal Murdering.—-Are any thiftUng for tbe blood of a brother man ? Let such read the production ol Lydia Alaria Child’s i -I pen, iu conoeciion wills the killing of1 f fcolt. If this does not euro them, they may Consider themselves abandoned toi a sacred, and to as a tttw-bora fact—whyil5e8 the Editor of the Vermont^ Telegraph think that the article be fcopied from the Anti-Slavery Standard, on the teeth, tsthe physiological truth it purports to Hi? allh Journal.Health1 had not read the article, until my attention was calfedwo it bv Ibis quest^a from jjrot||yr Whilmarsb. it is not often tltat I do not know what is published in the Telegraph. But I am sometimes on*!IIUU8UC« wt r si vwiu - - - 9--■religion that as a history — affirming W »der tfcfe necessity of employing my brother, D. S. fturray, who it foreman in myhall we ask for words and records of tho’tg office, and does my proef reading in* my
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