Litchfield enquirer., 1836-09-08

enIidhOod are. Though | do moi profess
 :s.s0n' yet | always feel more at home
 Metnodlst meeting than in any other.f
 A"o yet do not know whether th;s .r;.a,
 so much from the force of nv earlv ';rorrsss s'onss as from that simplicity pecul;ar = your worship, and which is SO conven;aj Y
 my taste. I was riding through e ,he
 other day, and as came opposite p;ecs or woods ! heard the sound of singing. |
 immediately discovered there was camp
 meeting in the vicinity, and notwithstand
 ing my business was very urgent, could
 not resist my inclination to attend. So tied my beast to tree, and after waIkinc .
 mile came to the camp ground. The first
 object that. met my eye, was the presiding
 Elder. Brother c. appealing in most evangelical manner to the people, who were seated beneath the shading branches of the surrounding forest. How forcibiy it brought to my mind the Mount of Olives.
 ana considerably acquainted with MT. c. and though he takes no part in the political contest ofthe day. yet in feelings he and I have always coincided. (E1st.) l Enter Universalist. Lagyer How d'do Esq. Well, I at tended your meeting in the school-house the other evening. and was we'll edifed with the sermon. Your preachers, wheth- CT right or wrong. are certainly men of tal- ent. Mr. s. used most splendid imagery in his sermon, and his arguments, admit ting the premises, were certainly irresisti- bie. should have been pleased to have invited him home with me, but my wife was rather out of hes!!:.s:: ak: t that evening. can-
 not see tor my part, why people should be so Pre)udiced against your sentments.-- i They are certainly misrepresented. There IS one thing people say about your doc- 1 trine, which is true and that is, that it is extremely captivating ; and as for its inlu- ence. I can say that many of our best citi-. zens are Universalists. Let me see, be- lieve, Squire, that you have always been warm politician and on tho right side.-- Well, the approaching contest requires our unanimous exertions. (E1it.)
 Enter Quaker. 494 Lacyer. Thomas, how is thy health 2 am glad that thee has taken the trouble to call. si Qas0ker.-I do not trouble gentlemen of 1 thy profession very often; but have called this afternoon to pay some money to thee. As we friends do not believe in training men in the art of killing men sys-
 
 enjoyment of our principles and under people call it-the man who receives the communication money. F. Lavyer.-Y es, and wish ! could get off as cheap us you do; whereas it costs ne ten times the sum, besides eight or. ten days drilling every year. But what ren- dcrs the task more unpleasant, is the re l fecti0n that always arises whom see the banner flying, and hear the drums beating around me, that the object of all this prep aration is to train us in the art of destroy ing each other. And then I always think of the peaceable settlement of Pennsylva-
 mia by Penn. My grandfather was Qua ker, and have always admired their rlain- ness of dress, simplicity of language, and ] 4 pacific sentiments. In short, Thomas, l have often thought, that if we were all I Quakers, society would resemble the state of cur first parents in Eden. s x Quaker.--W shall never be all Qua-s kers, SO long as so many of us are hypo- critics, and so long as hypocrites have so much influence. filthy grandfather was a. Quaker, am sorry thee has so degenera- ted from thy ancestor, The scruples thee, profcsses about military duty, condemn thee for thee must be deluded by the dew l il to violate thy couscience at so great ex- pense. Thee speaks our language very |,flippantly, and adlsires our dress-t thy or dinary dialect, aud thy Fashionable blue
 coat, figured vest, and gaudy watch estab-s
 lishmenf, are inconiestible. proof of thy
 sincerity. Thee eBlogizes Penn--I have
 heard thec eulogize Napoleon as highly.---s have observed the duplicity thee uses for popularity. Thee reads a sermon for tho. Presbyterians in the morning when they have no preaching. Thee goes in the at- ternoon and leads singing for the Church men. In the evening thee goes fo the Universalist meeting. Thee admires the | immersion Of the Baptist, the camp meet l ings of the Methodist, and the plain dress and language of the Friend. ! will tell thee friend, thee strongly reminds me of my brown horse. once employed an honest | Irishman to labor for me. ! sent Patrick out in the morning to catch my brown horse. Now the brown horse ran in a pas- ture. in the middle of which was large square pond. Patrick was gone long time, and at length reformed with the beast, after having chassd him several times a. round the pond. We'll, Patrick said |, ' on which side of the pond did you find the horse2' Truth, said Patrick. and I found him on aN sides
 i IoArERs The word Iogter has become very inn- portant term in our vocabulary, and the Editor of the