Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-10-27
UNCLE BENJAMlN,s SERMON.
AMELIA.


Not many hours ago heard UNCLE BENJA-
MIN discussing this matter to his son, who was
complaining Of the pressure.
sRey upon it. Sammy said the old man, as
he leaned on his staff, with his grey locks How
ing in the breeze of May morning, 'murmur-
ing pays no bills. have been an observer any
time these fifty years, and never saw man
helped out Of hole by cursing his horses
Be as quiet as you can, for nothing will grow
under moving harrow, and discomfort har-
rows the mind. Matters are bad, acknow-
edge, but no ulcer is any the better for finger
ing. The more you groan the poorer you
grow.
sRepining at losses is only putting pepper in
to sore eye. Crops will fail in all soils, and
we may be thankful we have not famine
Besides, always took notice, that whenever
felt the rod pretty smartly, it was as much as
to say, 'here is something which you have
got to earn.' Sammy, don't forget that your
schooling is not over yet, though you have
wife and two childreu.'
'Ay,' cried Sammy, you may say that, and
mother in law and TWO apprentices into the
bargain; and | should like to know what poor
man can learn here, when the greatest schol-
airs and lawyers are at loggerheads, and can't
for their lives tell what has become of the hard
money!
Softly, Sammy, am older than you.
have not got these gray hairs and this crooked
back without some burdens. could tell you
stories of the days Of continental money when
my grandfather used to stuff a sukybox with
his bills To pay for yearng or wheat fan; and
when the Jersey women used thorns for pins,
and laid their teapots away in the garrett
You wish 10 know what you can learn! You
may learn these seven things:
'First-that you have saved too little, and
spent too much. never taught you to be a
miser, but have seen you giving your dollar
for a notion when you might have laid one
half for rainy day.
'Secondy-that you have gone too much
on credit. ] always told you credit was a
shadow; it shows that there is substance
behind, which casts the shadow; but a small
body may cast a greater shadow; and no
wise man will follow the shadow any further
than he can see the substance. You may now
learn, that you have followed the opinion and
fashion of others, until you have been decoyed
into bog.
'Thirdy-that you have been in too much
haste to become rich. Slow and easy wins the
race.
'Fourthly-that no course Of life can be de-
pended upon always prosperous. | am a
fraid the younger race of working men in A
merican have had a notion that nobody will go
to ruin on this side of the water. Providence
has greatly blessed us, but we have been pre-
sumptuous
'Fifthy-that you have not been thankful
enough to God, for his benefits in past times.
'Sixthly-that you may be thankful our lot
is not worse. We might have famine, or pes
thence, or war, or tyranny, or all together
'And lastly, TO end my sermon, you may
learn TO offer, with more understanding, the
prayer of your infancy, Give US this day our
daily bread.
The old man ceased, and Sammy put on his
apron, and told Dick to blow away at the
forge bellows.
The GAMBLER.-A SKETCH. The husband
of Emma was confirmed gambler, having lost
the sum of $4,000 bequeathed to him by an
indulgent father. His family were reduced to
the lowest ebb of poverty. Emily dearly low
ed her deuded husband ;--she had in early life
deprived herself of every qualification, to accu-
mulate little property in order that her hus-
band might be rendered comfortable in the eve
ming of his life. Unknown to him, she had de-
voted her time to the employment of her needle
for a neighboring friend thatshe might be able
to cothe and educate her children.
As she was sitting one evening around her
deserted hearth, rejecting on happier days for
ever fed, aud weeping at the Inconsistency of
man, the gambler entered.
1t was now the hour of midnight, and the
gambler had returned to his wretched home,
pennyle and under the influence of the lntoX-
icatng draueht He had staked his last dollar
upon the hazard of the die, and in aft of des-
pair he had drank Of the poisonous bowl.
Neither the tears OF the heart-broken wo-
man, the miseries of poverty nor the wrethed-
ness ofhome, could move the hard heart of the
gambler-vexed to see her weep, and madden
ed with the effects of liquor, he strikes her Ia
the floor with ruliian blow, and lays her sense
less at his feet
She had been to him kind and faithful wife,
she had labored for his support in sickness, she
had nursed him, and in sorrow, il was she that
consoled and comforted him. W.
Man may speak Of his trials and sorrows--
he may muImur at the unhappiness of his lot
his spirits may droop and his feelings become
agonized by the ills of life-but what are his
sufferings in comparison with those of woman!
She becomes wife and forsakes relatives ano
friends, for the husband Other love, and If h.
proves unkind, her happiness is wrecked--and
the residue of her life is clouded with sorrow
Jour. Com.
A CHILp's FuNERAL.--It is the most touch
ingoi sights, the burial of little creature
which SHUTS ITS eyes as soon as the glories O
eaTth opens 10 It's view, without having known
the parents whose teaiiul ewes are oe,;no =,
il; which has been beloved without lnv;nsa !; 1
return; WHOSE tongue is silenced before n ha
spoken; whose features stffen before thew bav
smiled. These falling buds will vel lind
stock on which they shall be grated: thes
flowers which close in the light Of morning wi
vet hnd some more genial haven to unfold then
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