Recollections of Windsor Prison;: Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious ReflectionReynolds, John, of Vermont
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Recollections of Windsor Prison;: Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection
Reynolds, John, of Vermont
Vermont State Prison
I have now finished the account which I promised to give of the
author's connexion with the M. P. C. in B.; but it may not be out of
place to mention here what treatment he met with from some other
ministers. Passing along the street in the city, he met, one day, the
Rev. E. W. a clergyman of the Episcopal Methodist Church. This man
addressed him in a very abrupt, rude, uncivil, ungentlemanly, and
unchristian speech, of which the following is a literal extract. "You
ought never to have been allowed to preach, and if I had the power you
never should, nor any one like you. You may be a good christian and
get to heaven, but a man who has fallen under the censure of mankind
ought never to be elevated to the ministry." Surely the man who should
dare to use such language to a fellow mortal, ought to be very pure
himself. I wish the Rev. E. W. to remember this treatment which he
gave to his fellow man, and be very careful not to fall under "the
censure of mankind." And before he prepares to abuse and insult
another man, let him take a little precaution, lest in judging others
he should condemn himself. It is a very common fault of our nature,
from which even the Rev. E. W. was not exempted, to magnify specks on
the character of others into blots, and consider blots on our own as
only specks.
About this time the author had commenced a series of publications in a
certain _Religious Periodical_; but his _name_ giving offence, he was
desired by the Editor to substitute a _fictitious_, for his _real_
signature, as his productions could no longer appear in his paper
unless he did. This he said was the decision of the Committee of the
paper, most of whom were _clergymen_. They had nothing against his
writing for the paper, if he would suppress his name, but it would not
comport with their views of propriety, to admit him to an equal
privilege with themselves. The author from that time, withdrew his
contributions from the columns of that periodical.
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