Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-04-13
BY REQUEST.

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 BY REeUEsr.]
 A SHORT SERMON.
 ''.fnd Mou shalt haue goats milk enough l for My food, .forhe food of thy houaehoid, and for Me maintenance ofMy .npaidens.- Prov. xxvi 27.
 From the days of Orgen, Gin the second century, to the present, it has been fashion able to scripturalize the scriptures, and, to teach men that they have meaning besides what is expressed. Many, to this day, think ] the scriptures have double sense-what is sa;d, and what is meant. A man who could find spiritual meaning to Sampson's bee hive, jaw-bone, and the tail of three hundred foxes, connected with fre-brands, could doubtless find spiritual meaning for our text. What could it be? we will suppose it to be | this:--
 | 1. The person addressed must mean a min l ister of modern times, to whom 1t is said, "And thou shalt have goats milk enough &c.
 | 3. His household and maidens must signify in the spiritual sense, his family and domes- tics.
 2. The goats must mean the non-elect, who are in the end to be ctcrnally miserable, after feeding the minister and family for life, ac- cording to Matt. XIV. Slc. | 4. The goats milk, in the spiritual sense of the text, which is represented as being abundant, must mean the generous and con- stant support, which these ministers, their children and servants, have received from the non elect, or such as arc declared to be of that number who do so well for their own CTS here, and who are to be treated so cruelty hereafter.
 We will allow that the three first positions | 1a., Il, t1, and proceed to prove the truth of the fourth enough." It is act,beyond all dispute, that those who are considered the uncopyerted, or non-eect, are generally depended oh for the support of such as have for years been consi- dered ministers of the gospel. The meeting houses are chiefly built with the money which belonged to such as are denomnated goats; and were it not for this part of the people, what poor condition the sheep would be in!
 It is curiosity to see the manner by which the goats milk is obtained.
 Money is wanted to make the parson life member of the Bible Society;-the goats must be milkcd, ,and soon the ladies produce the mo- ncy. pious young man presents himself, as one called into the ministry, but is not able to obt in an honorable aducation at Water- uiHe, Providence or Cambridge. Milk the
 
 dren are called up, and the help is strNhcd from them, and the picus young man has goats milk enough"
 Missionaries are needed among the heather in Vermont, D1aine, and Rhode island. The goats are mixed again, and the missionarics spread their fame in all directions. A bro- ther clergyman is dismissed ''because no man has hired him;" the goats arc milked, and he is on mission at twenty or fifty dollars per month.
 A mission is agreed on to Asia, and the goats are resortcd to, who support the funds for twenty four years; at last, all fails; and what next' MT Hard appears; and tells the own CTS of the goats, nothing can be done unless a college is built in Asia, and some of the na- tives made ministers. goats are called up, and ten thousand dollars are collccted,-- when this is done, they arc driven off to feed on the hills, until another milking time returns, when their empty pails are again presented, to be replenished from the same source. These milking vessels arc placed wher- ever the goats are likely to resort-as on the burean, on the merchants counter, in the lnuseum-for this purpose, to milk out the abundance of these mich kinc. They have drawn from the goats, money, hats shoes, stockings, shirts and gowns, sweetmeats, and ether luxuries, with Missionary Feids, corn, potatoes, cabbages, pumpkins, exc. cNc. All these have been done, in addition to striffiins for watch-seals, ,and the estate of old bachelors and maids, when death shall put an end to their wants
 According to modern pulpit doctrine, these poor goats arc to be rewarded for all their milk, (so good for the elect,) with portion with devils and damned souls, in eternal mise ry, where they shall sec the "pery elect, '' who were fed upon their milk, and by it nourished and prepared for glory everlasting. - -Uaive'- saiist Magazine.
 | The Leeds Mercury, in some remarks upon the A. merican Tariff, says-"When we find that there have been more wolIen, more cutlery, more cotton goods, and more hosery, exported from England to the United States of America during the last year, and more profits made by these exports, than during any former year, we may well make light of the Ia riff and not only argue but demonstrate, that such Is the expansive nature of the free trade system, that Nf