Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-10-23
Worthy Particular Notice.
Fran tie f7,entosj True .fa,isan.
TIE SERMONIZER.
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EVERY MN IF Bsyasf5 will readily con.
feis the truth OF my text; aud yet not one
in an hundred perhaps is governed byit
You are in great want of a pair of fhoe'--
your Shoemaker meafures you for them--he
Wi! have them done iuch day. for certain
you call AMI fend, aid fen1 and call, and have
eooi luck if as much as thickness of fole
leather Is not worn CUT in running for them
before you get th.m--whie you are fu1ering
in ysur health, aud endangeriug your life, by
tranp'irg about in leaky fhoe..
The Tailor meaiarcs you for fuit of cloath,
while you have put eff getting them as long
asyou could do without, and are now in grea,
hurry for them-he is liberal in prom:fes, for
promifes colt nothing-but violation of the
truth You are furely to have them on fe,
day.-yon fryour heart upon ihem-they are
not done, but will be ,omorrow-and may be
the fame ito,y repeated till it is as thread bare
A'your old eloaths, and your many diiappoint-
men's devour more than hafyour pleafures in
your new ones.
You takea piece to the Weavers--you or
your children are almoit fuffering for il. at
ihall be done in few days." A few week,
elapfe-fome,imes months, and even years, be.
fore you get your piece wove-and if /, is no,
injured by mice or moths, you have to thank
their forbearance for IT,
The Miller promifs you your grill, the ne1,
morning. Morning comes, and not a grain of
iisground. Several days roll round your corn
10 'f'll in the bag. And not unfrequentIy re.
Inaing there till your hungry belly, ache make.
ysu roar loud enough to frighten /, into the
hopper.
You want your grafs cut, your harveR in,
your grain 'hreihed out-you engage a per!on
TO afhit you-you may depend upon /, he will
, not diiAppoint you; but if your hay and har.
welt rot on the Geld, or he rats deyour your
gran, before your labourer arrives, you NAV
ooniole yourfelf with the reflection ,ba,
you are not the FRI per!on tina, has been fer.
we'd 70.
"a Is not merely thefe descriptions of perlon,
who forget to remember tina, punemaity is
the life OIL utineis : the fame forgetfulnefs in.
fells all elafies of mankind.
The employer is often as far from punetuali,y
As the employed
Have not you my readers, many of you, fuf.
fered your Tailor, your Shoemaker, your
Weaver, or other workmen, TO call again and
again before you paid them their juft dues -
Is net this kind of robberyf Beddes robbing
them OF their money foe fesfon. you rob
them of their time in coming or nding for !,
land !" time is noney"-If 'the labourer is
worthy of ais hire ough, i, no, to be paid
him when hi, abour is iinifhed
You Mr.. - the Sermonizer will not
call names, bur Won know who he mean,) have
owed your Doetor great while. He perhaps
fived you from fpesdy coaignment to the
houfe appointed for all livng'-ana now YOU
requlte his isryice, by refsiing to pay his hon.
eft demand lngra,,;ude is the vilef of vices
for all others there naay be iome apology
for this none.
You Mr.. -, have long bill due a,
Mr.. - itore. PunStuality is, in fpe.
cial degree, the life of without mon.
ey he can get no goods-S without il he had
better fell none Yet you deiain his money
from him, and perhaps lay i, out for objects
not half 70 jun or honorable. sirs, thefe things
ought not to be 70.
The parton, among other good men, feels,
frequently too feniibly feels, your want of
punetuaity. In this free country, no one is
obliged TO fublcribe to The fupport of any Min
liter, 70 much more ough, you to be punetual
in paying the fmali pittance which you have
promifed the man of God While he is
toiling to furniih food for your immortal fouls,
iurely you niou'd provide him with iuitenance
for his mortal body-whie he is feeking to
make your death bed eafy, you cannot refufe
your aid to render his life comfortable
member who has iaid, f" the labourer is worthy
of his hire"
Perhaps it may not be amif. to remember
the Printer in ny diicourfe He is in very
Difficult, and diagreeable Gua,ien, He truils
every body, he knows not who---his money is
ieattered every where, he hardly knows where
ioiook for it, His paper, his ink, his prefles end
histypes, his labonr and his living, all mutt
puncfualiy he paid for.--You Mr. -, aud
MIR. -, and Mr., ------, and Mr. -------
aud an hundred others that could name, ha We
taken MIR - paper great whi'e-you.
and your wives ard your children, and your
neighbors, have been amuied and Informed
aud hope improved hy tit you ms Que