Litchfield enquirer., 1837-06-01

trighted devotee, drawing at the same t;n,e ner mantle around her Expressive featnres ss ss thn .i.iu WlLh Il peg your pardon gentlemen for , tAc HIIStaKe have committed.S retired from the once. It was evident that the Iadv be;no a stranger III thls city, had intended to teII ner rosary at the Catholic chapel in Cham. bers st. opposite the Police, and had thme : WorshlPPed m the Temple of Mammon, in- ] stead of the true church.
 With what ease he writes 7 said a vyo,n,r
 lady as she laid down one of WasEinofon IF.
 ving's volumes. Straightway we made m
 our mind tkat the lady did not know what
 she was talking about. Had she said sHow
 easy It Is to read his works 2 we might have
 ssympathized with her amazingly. Then,
 finding that we could not make a satisfacto.
 ry reply without compromising our honesty,
 we we fell to making comparison in silence.
 fne n, steamboat glides majestically and grace
 luily through the waters, but it is no easy
 power that gives the water traveller her stea-
 ey ana rapid motion. It is true she is taste-
 specimens ot the sculptor's art. But descend
 with the engineer to his fiery domain. Swell
 ter there in the burning pit Sec the heated
 grease and listen to the bursting steam. See
 the tremendous power of fire and water con-
 Dlned, until the stralned and groaning boiler
 threatens to burst asunder and deluge the
 decks with the heated fluid. You will per
 ceive that Ease though mild and pleasant
 damsel, has confounded rough old father.-
 Little dreamed the admirer of Irving how
 much agonizing toll was required to beget
 that little case which she so much admired.- Yet she was not alone in her error. How
 many publisher thus lightly estimates the
 labor of his weary author! How many
 tradesman smiles at the triRing employment of
 the man of genius? We have been mad
 enough to cat an oyster supper when we have
 heard peasant draw an indvidious con1-
 parison between himself and the poor wight
 whose intellect supplies him with bread. T
 get my living by the sweat of my brow, said
 he. while you are trifing away your time
 with books and papers,
 Yes, see that pale and hungry being start
 led from his task to the sound of the midnight bell. See how his fingers grasp the pen con-
 vulsively,. as he fears his task will not be acc complished in time-a slave to men whose pockets are better lined than their pericrani- ums, and who mete out to him his starving pittance with the unwilling hand ofan upper } servant dealing cold pancakes to began See him place both hands upon his snapping : brain, as the fires of fancy dart from Apollo's mount upon his whitening soul. Yes, how
 easy he writes !-Eg1antine.
 Christianity aud Infdeliry.-' Contrast, , in point of mere benevolence, the lives and department of such an infidel as Rosseau , and such Christian as Doddrige; the one all pride and sel6shness, fury, caprice, rage, gross sensuaity-castng about ire-brands and deatI-proiessing no rule ofmorals but his feelings, abusing tho finest powers to
 tho dissemination, not merely of objections against Christianity, but of the most licen-
 tious and profligate principles; Doddrige all purity, picty, meekness, benevolence, and love, ardent in his good will to man, the friend and counsellor of tue sorrowful regular, calm, and vir,uous, living bn, for the common good, to which ho sacrificed . his health and even his life.
 '. Or contrast such a man as Volney with 2 Swartz. They both visit distant lands, 1 and they are active and indefaigable in 6 their pursuits, they acquire celebriiy-anl t communicate respectively q certain im- : pulse 10 their widened circles. But the l one jaundiced by in6deIi,y, tho sport of = passion and caprice, lost to all argument . and right feeling, comes home to difluse the r poison of unbelief, to be misery to him- d self, the plague and disturber of his coun- c try. The oiIer remains far from his na- t tive land 10 preach the peaceful doctrines '- of the gospel on the shores of India: he becomes tlle friend and brother of those !, whom he had never seeh and only heard U of as fellow creatures he difiuses blessings ;, for half century; he insures the regards i, of the heathen prince near whom he re- l. sides, he becomes the mediator between l. contending tribes and in,erestedness, meek d ness, which compel ali around to respect c and love him; he forms churches, he in-
 Structs children, he dispenses the seeds of
 charity and truth, be is the model of all the n virtues he cnjoins. do not stop to ask l. which is the benevolent individual. do s not stop to ask which is the result of this /, third step in our contrast. l see infdeIity 7. selfish, proud, rese n;ful, the enemy of tho i domestic affections, the contemner of fe- :: male innocence, without motive or effort for real, laborions, effective benefcence. I 3 see the Christian overfowing with love, s ready for every deed of mercy. with a heart fnIl of benevolence, a hand full of blessings. see it's eye beam with chari- ty; and read in its whole spirit, the dis tinctive impress of the religion which comes [ from heaven.'-Southern ChurchmGR.
 Mental Feccr.-Of the cause of disease
 anxiety of mind is one of the most frequent s and important. When we walk in the streets of large commercial towns, we can