Litchfield enquirer., 1842-02-17

true original of the foregoing tale is now in ss"ne of the Middle States, laboriDg with un-
 gbounded success in the great cause to which SPro' idence has so signally called him.. A Too JEALOUS BY HALF.-IRrhe days of aoUr boyhood we remember an old Deacon Aof the church, in which our parents reared Sus, who being rather a worldly minded : 8man, was aStonshingly zealous in advan- Z cing the interests ot the church to which he
 was attached He was always present at private conferences, and at all public meetings, aud in truth, the congregation ialways listened with eager ears, to the ex-
 hortalions of the Deacon, and with infinite relish. We can look back at that time ] with real pleasure, ana will here say that we have sat many Sunday evening in the conference room of the old church, drink ling in his words, and thought we had rath' Ter listen to him than the Minister himself. But the Deacon, we are sorry 10 say, was la little proud of his faculty for exhortation, s land strange to say, he was suddenly inspir. < led with desire to preach on a Sunday Sbelore the assembled multitude" He sconsul,ed the Minister, who, willing ,o syrali(y him though he much doa5ted his success, granted his request, and it was an- snounced at the next meeting that Deacon - would hold forth to the aithful on 2 the following Sunday. The time soon came, the congregation assembled, much alarger on that day than was usual on ordi- \ nary occasions; the Deacon and the Min ister entered the doors, walked down the
 broad aisle of the church, and with solemn 3step ascended the pull pit. The prelimn- aries to the sermon in those times were somewhat different from the present; a chapter was read, a prayer was said, the
 choir sang one of the finest hymns, and
 then came the trying time for the new as-
 pirant. He arose, opened the Bible, 2found his text, and read it in an audible
 voice, and then closed the book to com
 mence. He first looked straight forward
 for moment but said nothing, then he burned to the left, and then to the right
 dnti then looked again to the centre then
 he took out his handkerchief and drew it
 across his face and cried a-hem! By this time the suspense of his expectant hearers
 had become painful, and all eyes were up- on the Deacon. At length his agony found reliefin words '' Brethren and sis- |ters," said he, if any of you think you can preach, just come ap here and try it !'' Cincinnati Messenger IHe Telescope and ths Microscope.-
 The following eloquent comparison of
 lhese two instruments is from the pen of |Dr. Chalmers :-' While the telescope en- |ables us to see system, in every star, the microscope unfolds world in every atom. The one inslructs US that this mighty globe. with the whole burden of its people and its countries, is but a grain of sand in the
 vast field of immensity-the other, that every atom may harbo: the tribes aud fam lies of a busy population. The one shows |us the insignifcance of the world we in- |labit-the other redeems it from all its in-
 significance, for it tells that in the leaves
 of every forest, in the flowers of every gar
 den, in the waters of every rivulet, there
 are worlds teeming with life, and number
 less as are the stars ofthe frmamont. The lone suggests to us, that above and beyond |all tha. is visible to man, there may be re- fgions of creation which sweep immeasura- |bly along, and carry the impress of the lAlmigh,y's hand to the rcmotest scenes of the universe-lhe other, that within and beneath all that minu:aHGss which the aid- ed eye of man has been able to explore, there may be a world of invisible beings; and that. could we draw aside tho mysteri- ous curtain which shrouds it from our sen- |ses, we might behold theatre of as many
 wonders as astronomy can unlold-a uni- verse within she compass of point, so
 small as to elude the powers of the micro scope, but here the Almighty Ruler of all things finds room for the exercise of his at tributes, where he can raise another me- chansm of worlds, and animate them all with the evidence of his glory.'