Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-04-18


the whole man under its ascendancy,
and to subordinate all his movements,
nor does it hold the place which right
fully belongs to it till it be vested with
a presiding authority over the entire
system of human affairs and therefore
it is that the preacher is not bringing
down Christianity; he is only sending
il abroad over the field of its legitimate
operation, when he goes with it to your
contingencies, and there rebukes eve
ry selfish inclination that would carry
you ever so little within the limits of
fraudulency. When he enters into your
chambers of agency, and there detects
the character of falsehood, which turks
under all the plausibility of your multi
piled and excessive charges when he
repairs to the crowded market-place,
and pronounces of every bargain, over
which truth, in all the strictness of Qua
kerism, has not presided, that it is faint
| ed with moral evil when he looks in
to your shops, and, in listening to the
contest of argument between him who
magnifes his article, and him who pre-
tends to undervalue it, he calls it the
contest of avarice broken loose from
the restraints of integrity. He is not,
by all this, vulgarizing religion, or Civ
ing it the hue and character Of earthli-
ness. He is only asserting the might
and the universally of its sole pre-em-
inence over man. And therefore it is
that, if possible to solemnize his hear
ers to the practice of simplicity and
| godly sincerity in his dealings, he would
try to make the odiousness of sin stand
visibly out on every shade and modiica-
ton of dishonesty and to assure them
that if there be place in our world,
where the subtle evasion, and the dex-
ferrous imposition, and the sly but gain
full concealment, and the report which
misleads an inquirer, and the gloss which
tempts the unwary purchaser, are not
only concurrently practised in the walks
of merchandise, but, when not carried
forward to the glare and the literality of
falsehood, are beheld with general con-
nivance; if there be place where the
sense of morality has thus fallen, and all
the nicer delicacies of conscience are o.
verborne in the keen and ambitious III
valry of men hasting to be rich, and
wholly given over to the idolatrous SER
vice of this world-then that is the
place, the smoke of whose iniquity rises
before Him who sitteth on the throne,
in tide of the deepest and most revolt
ing abominalicn.
From the farmers Weekly Museum.1
L. IS foul zUeather, so that we cannot
stand Titbou.n
Then. We Duny insects, who SILVER at
a breeze, it presents an admirable OPP
portunity to remain advantageously
within.
One of the early British poets has
aptly characterized the present humid
month by the epithet sspongy.' 1t is
certainly an anfavourable season to the
restless and the rover The coxcomb
breads being surprized in the shower,
the invalid trembles lest he wet his feet,
and the fine lady shudders lest she spoil
silk shoe, OF mar muslin robe.
But, though men are not yet permit
ted to bask under serene skies, or to
walk through the clean street OF the
dry pasture, they need not fancy April
November, and hang or drown them
selves. If the ways be dank and the
roads mire, like those Milton describes,
still the carpet and the freside may be
kept clean; and he who Can frolick with
his children on the first, or read or chat
at the other, may abate the desire of be-
ing abroad, and be abundantly good-hu-
incurred at home.N
Among the many miseries with which
the splenetick and the lazy imagine
themselves tormented, the wo of lone
illness and drizzling day is not the
least. Cards, pipes, gaping, snoring, are
all Intellectual to cure the malady which
bad weather creates / am persuaded
it was under cloudy atmosphere that
the muse of Pope marked the vacant
face and researches fate of Paridel.
| $ Thee too, my Paridel, she saw thee there,
Stretched on the rack Of a TOO easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties Of idleness.'
But nothing is more irksome than such
slavery to the seasons and it behoves
man to strenuously burst such shameful
chains. Are we to intermA duty because
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