Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-10-22

any thing calculated 10 excite the indigna-
ton, it is to hear people charging ''Provi-
dence" with troubles. accidents and afflic-
tons which result solely from their own
criminal carelessness. ut has pleased
Providence" saws one, ''to afllicl me Sery
sorely with the govt, or sciatica, or asthma.
or abdominal dIscomposure." Faugh !!
Providence had nothing to do with it. |,
was your own gluttony, foolish exposure.
abuse of physic, or some other natural
cause, which produced your uneasiness.
The only way in which Providence may
be supposed to have acted in the pre- misses,
is this The Deity has established GER
tain natural laws, which all who break
must atone for by their own sulferIngs.
If you practise eating and drinking to a
greater extent than nature requires, the
probability is that your excess will be
punished with an acute disease. For that
you may thank your own folly. If you
sleep in damp bed, it is likely yon will
have touch of the lumbago. Very well,
what else could have been expected The
least prudence would have foreseen and
avoided the mischief.
When locomotive runs over man and
amputales two or three Of his limbs, Provi-
dence is again supposed to be at fault.
YET Providence gave the man eyes, ears,
and the faculty of moving off the track.
| He did not choose TO avail himself of those
gifts. and so paid the penalty in couple
of arms and legs. That is all correct. ac.
cordlng to Gunter. and Providence stands
| acquitted. A ia, citizen is found defuncl
in bed, having retired in pelect health on
the preceding night. "Mysterious dis
! pensalion of Providence. says an obltua-
~ notice in the newspapers. 1t may be
mysterious prehaps To Messrs. Editors,
but the doctors might tell you that the Ia:
citizen ate too mnch supper and died very
naturally in fit of apoplexy. Providence
should be especially adhered for the es,ab>
lishment of tina. law under which the fat
citizen died. 1t is an exquisite cont.iv-
ancc TO keep gourmands from devouring
individually the victuals that would sup
port halt dozen families. If fat citizens
choose to stake their lives against ga good
hearty SUPPER as it is called, why, for
goodness sake let them play out the
game the value of the stakes may be
about equal, and we must observe that let
man be as fat as ne will, the place he
occupies in the world is easily filled up
| when he chooses to make himself absent.
Arop|e,ic fits, however, are not always
synonymous with '.the visitation of God"
they may be the effect Of turtle and
champagne.
In the days of Cotton Mather and his
brilliant contemporary lumnaries, when
ever person happened to be sick and the
doc .ors did not understand his complaint,
they pronounced it decided case of
witchcraft. This saved great deal of trou-
BILE in consulting medical treatises, &C.,
for the obvious remedy in such case was
to burn some old woman in the neighbour
hood. At present, when any thing un-
pleasant occurs which we do not under>
stand, or the causes Of which people are
too stupid or too indoent to search out,
the whole affair is referred to Providence,
when a little patient investigation would
show that human vice or folly is sufficient
10 account for the matter in question.
Providence, in most cases, works by gen
eral laws, which men may turn to their
advantage or disadvantage as they think
proper. Phil. Ledger.
Gan that /. man hath will he olive for