Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1841-02-04

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| sufficient intellect to resist the skeptic,s ar.
guments, shallow as they are a third. he
cause he considers it an easy way of getting
into notice a fourth, because VoItaire'g
Hume, Gibbons {" ct id genus, on1he,' were
skePtics, and he busters about with their
arguments, strutting and exclainaing, what
a dust we raise ~ s. %. .s-..l.- - -se
Men Of common sense who call them.
selves inhdels, are hypocrites; others who
assume the same character, are simply,
fools. The latter should. be pitied,, the for,
mer spurned. There are many hypocrites
in religion, but there are quite as MANY in
infidelity, and the latter become such from
most contemplate motive, j. e. they wish
to obtain notoriety-which they can obtain
by no other means. These are the men
that go about from house to house, shouting
into every car that they acknowledge mo-
God-these are, the men, who upon first
| introduction to stranger, impudentlY
trumpet their disbelief to him without being
questioned on the subject: and what but a.
desire to become notorious, could prompt
them to such behaviour, alike disgusting.
unrnannerly, unnecessary and low bred!
These are the men who revile and bias.
phemc against religion, and if a word Isl
said against their own IDEAS. cry out Intol-
GRANGE! Intolerance claiming the right
to shock and wound the feelings of others,
Which party is i'm reality the most intole-
rant IN Y, Cour:
No Medicine for Lose.--A certain lady
wat'..d on a physician, III great trouble
about her daughter. "What ails her e..
said the doctor. "Alas, doctor! cannot
tell; but she has lost her humer, her looks.
and her stomach; her strength consumes
nfau, 81
" Why do you not marry herl "Alas,
doctor! that we would faih do, and have
offered her as COED match as she could
ever expect, but she will not hear Of mar
rying." " Is there no other, do you think,
that she wortt be content to marry ~
:" All, doctor that 10 it that troubles us q
for there is yoang gentleman we doubt
not she loves, that her father and I can,
never consent to-" "Why, look yos,
madam" replies the doctor. gravely, (be-.
ing aMeng all his books in his closet,l
:" then the case is thiss your daughter
would marry ono man, and you would have
her marry another :: in all my books find
no remedy for such disease as this ~ .lt't
Winter Ecenings.-Tbe long, winter.
evenings just now setting in, present to tho
youth a favorable time RI ;nE,rn, ,I.;,,
minds by a devotion tn study, Oar va,,,r,
ate too apt to spend their evening howrs,
in idle conversation. or d;ssoln,e n,,rs,;,s
destructive 10 their moral enerpie, AMI
weakening to their vistucus principles.--
The mind Of man, like his body. reuuire.
his regular food. and i must be- snnnl;eA
r~; WI That which is good and wholesome. or
it will become d;;seaseS ana d;isu.. I'D for
usefulness. You,h =. ne snr;~., ga ~
life, in which !, 10 No essential ,o so.s ,Gs
seed of mensaf improye r,r M No & Il Cor tho
l,usba man to riant n he Womb resn !.
harvest. and should he careful IN SOW apo.S
seed thar no tares or noAious weeds das,rov
their labors. - =.
Time hangs heavy on their hands. ma.
nv have bus few or no books of n nroner
character sufficiently attractive ar intersst..
ing to keep then, from running abo"t town
and minelne with others similarly s;tuatea
rs themselves, or perhaps more loose -
their habits. Their evenings are snent
unprofitnbly. and often in profan;,v and IN
violation. Of moral order: eneenderiny,
,hose evil habits. and INDUCING in ,hose
prope nsitics which ever proves q barrier to-
high and honorable a,,ainments. the mind
becomes vi,iated. and wicked nrincinles 60
firmly 6xed. that Notwithstanding their
Judgments NAV condemn. vat thev have ma
fortitude TO eradicate them. ia render
themselves useful and resnect.ble in after
life, they must applv themselves win as.;.
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