Litchfield enquirer., 1831-08-18

I go the right way to work--and SO it's easy to make an egg stand on one end when you have discovered the secret. But in all these things the great mass of men fail. some try to make a fortune too fast oth- CTS too sure-Gideon's plan was the last one ; he yentnred nothing; and won The catastrophe which was seen ap- preaching. soon after Gideon began the world, was slow irs coming but it came. His shop was in time deserted, and while his neighbors engrossed his business, he looked on with wonder !; but charged all the error on other heads than his own. The place, the times, the people were ut fault. In,the end he shut up the old es- ftabEishment, having just kept his head a. bove water ono dozen years-leaving the benefit ofshis example to those who have discernmcnt enough to profit by it. & 7t Religion IS Looe. = Religion is pure and
 like its author, lovely and loving. It nev-
 CT lessens our attachment for. one anoth-
 CT, chilling no affection, and drying up the
 springs of charity, and sympathy, and fine
 feeling, that feed the river of the milk of human kindness in the breast of man. The religion of Christ warns but never chills us. @
 The bosom where it resides feels an in- liuence and iMparts one too, which angels would recognize as kindred to what they inhale in their own Eden. Who can love the misantllrope, the poor curtailed animal, once man, but now less than the noble being who is stamped with the noble di- vino features, and born for social enioy- Mcnt.
 When the Great Christian Teacher was upon earth, his first lesson was love a love ofevery thing good, and high, and mo- bIe, aRd extended itself over World of in- telligence. Its first manifestations at the throne of God, and its last, were for man. This is the lession we are to learn, if we would be taught by it.
 While we exercise this principle, we cannot go astray. 1t is impossible. We shall stand on board place covered by the panoply of Jehovah. And instead of be- coming the slaves of superstition, or the tools of party, we shall reverence the im- age of true religion, find it where we will, in the palace or in the cottage, beaming from the face of the Indian, or shining on that of the African. Be the man of high or low degree, tugging at the oar, or gall- cd by the hand of slavery. religion is the same in all.
 As she goes forth clothed in the loving regalia of her order, innumerable bless ings attend her. The tears of the widow and orphan are wiped away. Over the turmoil of life she spreads her hands, still- ing the rude, rough surges of sorrow, and arching upon the mourner's eyes with the beautiful colors of peace. while around the world she scatters the bright ornaments of security and joy.
 Value Of Sabbath SchooI L;Lrar;es.--A little boy, seven years old, had been sitting long silent one evening, when he suddenly spoke, Mother, know one thing" |" What is that 2" said his mother. ss will never, while 1 live, drink n drop of spirits, or make bet, or buy alottery ticket" and his face flushed with earnestness as he spoke. "That is good resolution" said his mother 's but what made you think of it now ?''" Something Tread in my Sabbath school book,'' said he, !" and I shall never
 forget it."
 l
 Spirit of Christianity. We know that
 eyery thing is affected that is touched by
 the spirit of Christianity. It touches the
 heart of the proud man, and he becomes
 humble as little child it touches the heart tle sensnalist, and he becomes pure and heavenly; ittouches tho affections ol the covetous, and he becomes liberals, i. touches the heart of the revengeful, and he becomes forgiving and loving it touches the idols ofthe heathen, and they fall to the ground Ike Dagon before the ark of God i; it touches the atmosphere of idolatry, and the glare of superstition is dissolved it touches the fetters of the slave, and they fall off; it touches the ruthless dcspots of the earth, and they wiiher in its glance; it touches the hearts of savages. and they take their place among civilized men ]; it sends it's fruciifying showers on the barren wilderness, and it blossoms like the rose 1; it smiles upon the desert, and the inhabit- ants of the rock, the wandering bushmeD, sing for joy, and shout from the top oftheir mountains. s Muscalar Strength. Borellus was the l first who demonstrated that the force ex- erted within the body greatly exceeds the weight to be moved without, and that na- ture in facs employs an immense power to n.ova a smaIl sReighf Fl hae haen cal.