Litchfield enquirer., 1838-08-09
THE TWO HOUSES.

THE TWO HOUSES.
 | once knew rich man who determin. ed to have very large and beautiful house built for himself. He bought lot of ground in a beautiful part of the city, and took great pains to have the house buiTt in tue best manner. There were many spacious rooms and wide halls. 1t was planned so as to be warm in winter and cool in summer. No expense was spared 10 have 1t as comfortable and complete a,r dwelling as could be made. No doubt. he locked forward to many years of enioy- ment in his new and elegant house.
 At the same time that this large house was preparing for himself and family, he had another built for them. And there was great difference between the two.- For the second house had but ono small room for the whole family, and that room was mostly under ground. It had, indeed, strong walls, and was built of marble, ba. it had no windows, and But one small door 1: and that was made of iron. You see the two houses inthe picture and what a cons , trast there is between the wide and lofty mansion, so bright and handsome, and the low building under the willow tree, which one would scarcely notice. Yes: these two houses were built for the sarne people. The one was for the living family; the other for the dead. For the low house under the tree is the vault into which their bod- ies are to be placed, as one after anolher shall be called away from life. ,#
 The vault was soon finished. and if was1 ready long before the large house. And into which of them do you think tho rich, owner himself went first to take up his abode Strange as it may seem. he isaa ready for the vault before the fine dwelling was ready for him; and many months be- fore the spacious rooms of the new house were fit to be inhabited, its builder was laid in the narrow, dark, and cold apart- nent, which he will not leave until the earth shall give up its dead at the last day. This is fact which ought to fix the att tention of the young. To you every thing in life seems bright, and happy, and prom ising great enjoymenfs and you forget its end, or imagine ii is too far off to be thought of 1he hsase ofthe liviag is solarge and beautiful, that it hides from your sight sAsa house cf the dead. But remember, that, like the man have been telling you of. you may have to lie down in the grave be- fore you have entered upon the pleasures of life which you arc expecting. If you will be wise. you will live and act in such manner as to be prepared both for life and death :; to enjoy tho oto, and not to fear the other. The Saviour has decIsr-' ed :-"" Whosoever liveth and belieye,h' in me, shall never die." This is true. in the most important sense possible. The true believer, whose sins are pardonedy and who is accepted in Christ, has . prom: ise of house which is not made with hands. but is' eternal !; not in this perish- ing woFtds but in the heavens :--and the passage from this life to that is not to die, in the sense the world speaks of death it is to fall asleep on earth, and awake with God.- Youtk's Fr;end. l Distinct;oH betUeen Poverty and Pau. perism.-E" It is of the utmost importance accurately to distinguish between poverty and pauperism for by confounding them poverty is dishonored. and paupsrism eoun- tenanced. Supply poverty with the means and it vahishes, but pauperism is the more confirmed. Poverty is soOnd empty vessel, but pauperism is not only empty but cracked. Poverty is natural appe-i tite' merely wanting food pauperism raI venous disease which no food can satisfy. Poverty strives to cure itself, pauperism' to contaminate others. Poverty often sti- n,ala;es to exeriion, pauperism always par- alyses. Poverty is sincere, pauperism is an arcl,-hypoeri,e. Poverty has naturally proud spirit. pauperism bass one, now cringing, now insoient. Poverty is silent and retiring, pauperism is clamorous and imporlunate; the one is grateful. the oth- CT tho reverse. There is much tRat is lovely in poverty. but padperism is alto- geiher hateful. lis delightful to relieve the one i; irksome to be taxed for tho oth- CT. Poverty has the blessing of heayen,' as well as those that relieve it pauperism. on the contrary, has nothing in common bHt is the reverse of the christian viriuss.---f The injunclions of the gospel are in favor of poverty, but wholly in opposition to the spirit of paupetism. and the merit of those individuals who thoughtlessly succor it., may be estimated accordingly"
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 The health of ME. Senator WALKER is such says the Louisville AdsertssF a to forbid the hOps has he wil1again rssGimS his seat inths SenGte9 si ,a
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