Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-08-31
SHORT PATENT sERMoN

SHORT PATENT SERMON.
AT the request ofthe editor. of the
Norwich Aurora | win preach, upon
TINS occasion from the following:
Young men'do your mothers know you're out?'
MY hearears-In my last discourse
showed up the falseness and vainness
nothlngness of the girls creation;and
now 1t Is nothing more than fair that l
should tickle The male portion of hu-
mainly under the short ribs with
straw OF reproof. The moral facul-
ties OF the girls are strung together
about as carelessly and loosely as a lot
oil dried apples--and those Of the men
are, Il anything, in much worse con-
dttion. Females, my friends, are al
ways governed by some little restraint.
through a natural respect for condition
regard for circumstances, or fear of
consequences; but it makes me feel
sore about the sympathetic organs to
say that most of our young men have
no such bride to their passions. The
only barrier in their way to downright
and expeditions destruction is, in
thousands Of instances, awant of loose
change sufficientto pay their passage,
without pledging their shirts and their
souls at the!pawn-shop ofSatln. They
break themselves art from their ma
ternal ancestors apron strings before
their wisdom teeth are beginning to
cut, and before they are old enough to
keep their noses and morals in state
of cleanliness. They steal away from
the parental door at late period Of
the evening, when they ought to be
slumbering upon the couch Of virtue,
and direct their footsteps into the po-
luted pathway Of vice, as instinctivelv
as a youngduck takes to a mud-pud-
die. They go from porter-house to
observation-disclosures TO the gambling
room-lrom the gambling room 10 the
Five points of iniquity-and then JUS
as strait to the devil as a chalk line
My dearly beloved young scoun
dre(s! The whip with which | Aos
YOU is one Of kindness and mercy: it
lash is braided with the silk of fraterna
love; and [ fay the body that the sou
may live, and bring forth better frui
for the future: but, | ask you-whil
you are thus burning some of the mos
, precious moments of life in the dung
hill of debauchery-while your char
f acters are beginning 10 stink in the nos
trlls of society, like a dead cat in tn
: gutter, do your mothers know that 20
: are out? Do they know that you al
: carrying on so extensively?-Do the
f know that you are caroused in the Sc
cred sanctuary ofNight, and sacrifc
: ing those choice gifts of heaven
E health and happiness-upon that alti
ofintemperance, whereburn the blue b
6 yes of alcohol, in the midstof Tartarea
;. gloom? Do they know how careles:
: ly you run upon the precipice tn
Q leads over the gulf of ilretrievabI
e ruin? No, | am assured of the contri
: ry. If they did, they would eith'
: swell up with grief, and burst the
d stays of existence, or evaporate in
e fit Of rage. A mother is made up
!. sensitiveness, affection, love, anxiet
ii kindness and solicitude; and if yC
# young man, wander from her present
1t at the hour Of temptation, when h
o guardianship is the most required, yC
J. ought to know and feel that you a
/ straying beyond the protecting POI
5, ers of an angel, whose hopes are lin
= ed with your welfare, and whose on
re concern is to see you as prospero
n and happy through life as your desir
M are ardent and aspiring.
" Young men-you should nev
n leave your mother to fish for yo
h. selves upon the dangerous waters
IT. the world till you learn by experen
s. how to swim, and keep your he
or above water when the tempestuo
m gales Of passion blow and upset yo
nq bark ofresolution. AT any rate, y
on always ought to let them know wh
te, your minds are made up to take
,s- short leave Of your ancestral HON
in and if they have any advice, warn
or instruction to give, let it sink il
raj the centre of your hearts, and vi
a. such harvest of righteous deeds
Ir none but mother could hope for,
nd nothing less than a saint could expt
m would that the floating mass Of corr
ion ton which encompasses me on ev
yes side in the shape OF juveniIily, W
Cd. made to pay some attention TO the
INF. terrogation OF my text. The news b
he those shavings of depravity,
,Tv darken their own souls by endeavC
d. ing TO enlighten mems minds, at
hat nv a piece, have mothers who XII
,or- very we'll that they are out-out at
Ter toes, out at the knees, out at the
rms junction Of tie trowsers' legs, on
oon the elbows, and out at the crown;
MIC vet they don't know how much
nm are in for it. They are in
n it, to a great extent, in all
nan is debasing. deplorable wicked,
ice and abominable; and if their
FIR theirs don't soon apply the
,nld Of wholesome admonition and inst
we're ton, they viii be SO far gone as nc