Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-04-28

self obliged to abstain from such diver
slons, occupations, and societies, as he can
not reasonably desire that God will bless
to him.-Ib
ETBRN{TY.-I take whatever | can con-
ceive most long and durable, heap i'm
aginaion on imag ination, conjecture on
conf First, consider these long
lives, which all wish, and few obtain
observe those old men, who live for
four or FIVE generations, and who alone
makethe history of an age, do more; l
turn to ancient chronicles, GO back TO
the patriarchal age; and consider life as
extending through thousand years; and
| say to myself, all this is not eternity-all
this is but point compared with eternity.
Having represented to myself real objects,
7 | form ideas of imaginary ones. 90
from our age to the time ofpublishing the
Gospel, from thence to the publication of
the Iaw-from the law to the f1ood--from
the food to the creation-I join this epoch
to the present time, and imagine Adam
still living Had Adam lived till now,
had he lived in misery, had he passed all
this time in fire on rack, what idea must
we form of his condition. At what price
would we agree to expose ourselves to
misery so great! What imperial glory
would appear glorious were it to be fol-
lowed by so much WOO Yet this is not
eternity all this is nothing compared with
eternity? go farther still. proceed
from Imagination to jmagination-from
one supposition to another | take the
greatest number of years that can be i'm
agined. | form of all these one fixed
number, and stay my imagination, After
this, suppose God to create world like
this which we inhabit; suppose him Gre
ating it by forming one atom after another,
and employing in the production of each
atom the time fixed in my calculation just
now mentioned. What numberless ages
would the creation ofsuch world, insuch
a manner, require? Then, suppose the
Creator to arraign these atoms, and to pur.
sue the same plan In arranging them as in
creating them. What numberIess ages
would such an arrangement require!-
Finally. suppose him to dissolve and an
initiate the whole, and observe the same
method in this dissolution, as he observed
in the creation and disposition Of the
whole. What an immense duration woulc
be consumed. Yet this is but spec com
pared to eternIty.-Sauri~.
Who are the authors OF all this mis-
chief?-I ask the farmer who sells hi:
. grain to the distiller-who grows thu
. grain for the manufacturer | ask thu
, distilIer, who by the fire forces the stat
of life to yield noxious and poisonou
, fuid2 | ask the seller of ardent spirit
e who deals out the poison daily and hour
| ly to the infatuated drunkard} | ask GU
= commissioners of excise-l ask our legis
lators and our magistrates ask thos
4 men of wealth and influence, who stan'
coldly and look on, and do not lend han'
to suppress those sinks of death and ruiz
/ and lastly, | ask that protested man c
S God, who kneels at the throne of grac
d and prays that his sins may be forgiven
and yet is daily ridiculing the temperate
, society, temperance men and temperate
D measures-I will ask these men who it
o that kindles, and fans, and perpetuates thi
e fame, that is rapidly consuming our fe]
y low-citizens! Who is it that rides on tn
0 whirlwind of death, and directs the stOrr
of desolatlon?-[EngIash paper.