The Litchfield County post., 1829-01-22

ted number of weeks since, upon the subject ofthe whales swallowing that rec reant prophet of old-J Jonah. "Deacon Dominic" handles his present subject e. qually we'll, and cannot better employ him self than in delivering sermons like the one above spoken of and the following.
 From the Savannah Mercury.l
 A SHORT SERMON.
 From he desk of Grey Dominic tke
 Deacon.
 'NOw when Delilah had shaved Sampson. his strength departed from him."
 You all doubtless remember, my readers, the fate of the strong champion of Israel. whose history is recorded in the Bible, and have read the wonderful account of his miraC ulaus deeds; how heAslew thousand saaen. with the jaw bone of an ass and on heinz shut up within the walls of Gaza one night by the PhIlis'inrs. how he went of. in the morn ing, with the gates of the city on his shOnl- ders. Yon have read how he burst the strong chords of his enemies, as though they had been flax touched with the fire, and have per ceived that nothing was able to withstand his force, till in an evil hour, he suff cred himself TO BE SHAVED; when To HIS STRENGTH IM- MEDIATELY DEPARTED FROM HIM.
 Many people who have read thls wonderful history, have been much puzzled to cOmpre bend the reason, why the mere SHAVING of Sampson, should, in so miraculous a nanner have deprived him of all his boastrd strength and have foOlishly concluded, from the mere connexion of facts, that Sampson's great strength lay entirely in his whiskers; and have supposed therefore, that the loss of the one was necessarily the loss of the other. Per sons thus reasoning. are distinguished by the great care which they take of these appenda- ges. But need not inform my hearers. that such have wholly mistaken the matter. It was not the loss 1.-the whiskers, which proved the misfortune of Sampson, so much as the mere act of GETTING SHAVED. man may cut off his whlskers as often as he pleases, without losing any ofhis muscular or moral activity. But let the same individual once GET SHAVED. and a very visible alteration is speedily discovered.
 Let Us behold, for instance, the man of bu- siness he walks through the exchange in an erect posture; he mods to this man, and he turns his back upon that his eye is full of fire, and his step betOkeneth vigor and activi ty. He moves among the crowd, and the multitude give way before him But discount day apprOaches-he GETS sHAvED-and To his strength departe,h from him. Instead of the erect and lofty bearing which he so lately exhibited, his whole demeanor is now cover ing and spiritless the muscles of his face shrink, and his cOuntenance becOmeth Cada- verous: his chin sinks down upon his bosom his step is no longer light and elastic, but slow and sneakng.
 Let US look again upon the gay and fantas- tic dandy we behold him stiff in buckram, and resplendant in ruffles. He is the hero of the bali room, and the cOnqucrer at Urdina- res. He walks abroad in the blaze of his own finerv, and he basks in the sunshine Ofbeauty. But the bill of the draper cometh upon him HE GETS sHAvED-and To what is he? Not merely his strength. but his ruffles depart from him. He no longer dazzIes amidst the assemblies of the fair, or joins in the song or the dauce he shrinks from the greetings of his old friends; he lodges the money lenders round corners, and he hides himself from the face ofthe cordwainer, the tailor and the deal CT in perfumes.
 But, reader, it is not him alone who gets SHAVED, that is thus sh0rn of his strength. There are many merely HALF SHAVED who are as powrrles as Sampson when he had pas sed under the hand of DeliIah. would re- mark, by way of improvement, that rszors iN the hands of the wicked, are dangerous tools but still, if a man has made up his mind TO GET SHAVED, he had better employ the barber, who only goes skin deep, than to submit to the operations of him who cuts through bone and muscle. and touches the inmost flores of the heart.