Litchfield enquirer., 1833-07-11

stantly all life, motion, fprn, and beauty will cease to exist, and it may be literally said, '-Chaos has come again.
 DEsULToRY.
 This world, says the Boston Conner cial Gazette, is curiously made up; and the diversity of character in it is unbonnded.- One man dies poor, and his death is uni- versally regretted as a public loss anoth- CT man dies worth three millions of dollars, and no que drops tear to his memory,-I his deai b is considered a public blessing, because his immense wealth is scattered in- 1 to the hands ol persons who, being neither 1 avaricious or unprincipled, may do much l good with it. So we go! The beggar aud 1 the sweep, as they walk their rounds wi,h hardly rags enough to shield their wretch ed limbs from the piercing winds of winter, whistle and sing merrily, as though want and misety were to them strangers; while the capitalist, who has at his command hun dreds of thousands of dollars, is compara- lively wretched in his feelings-imaginipg himsefa bankrupt, and depriving his fam fly of the common necessaries of life. So we go ]. It is queer world, and the people who inhabit it exhibit queer combination of virtue and vice, ofhappiness and misery, intelligence and ignorance, liberality and
 neaRness, fair dealing and fraud, temper ance and debaucbery, economy and extrav- agance, religion and nfdelity and yet no one can doubt that we arc all sent into the wosla a.- -ansmer wise purposes. Wnhont these striking contraries in the human char In would be one of insuferable dulness. 1t is well then to take the world as we find if. and not complain because it is not precise-
 y as we would like to have it.
 Worship.-Worship is the most enno- bling and purifying exercise of which the human soul is capable. By it the mind holds converse with its glorious Creator, pours out the offering of its gratitude 10 the Author of good, and unbosoms to its heavenly father its desires for assistance and acceptance in duty-for prosperity in business, succor in diversity, and shield in the hour of temptation. Public worship enlghtens public opinion, and imPresses a sense of religion on the community; and by bringing persons of different circum- stances in life to often meet together upon d perfect equality, it promotes mutual ac-1 quaintance and good will between them. No man therefore can either innocentIy, or pro6tably to himself or others, neglect this duty, who has the health and liberty to perform it. What we say, we feel.- And we bless God that there are so few people of influence among us who neglect this most pleasing and most sacred duty to the Ruler of heaven. to their children. and to human society.
 Without the genial influence and exam pie of public social worship. the benigDre- ligion announced by angels would soon give place to the widest superstition and fanaticisni, and our beautiful state Ofsocial order be supplanted by the miseries of so- cial anarchy Then would children be al- ienated from their parents, and the social virtues languish and die.-Messenger.
 Religion.-Nothing can supply its place; with it we have all things, and with- out it the whole world is nothing to us. No man in healthy state of mind requires an argument to be convinced of it's impor- tance. The difficulty is that we cannot persuade men, especially young men. to think of the subject. The cares of tie world occupy our thoughts. Ifyoung men would only pause in the chase after pleas urc, or worldly things, and reflect serious. Iy upon ihe matter, they would be convin- ced of the unspeakable importance of rslI- gious principles. The wilderness of life lies before them; full of difficulties and perils to the unguided soul; but we conf den,Iy enter upon it, if we only pray to God to direct us by the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. The former will prevent us from being dazzled by the sunshine of prosperity-the latter in the darkness of diversity, will shield US from active despair.-Christian Reg.
 A proud eye, an open purse. and a light wife breeds mischief to the first, misery to the second, and thorns to the third.