Louisville messenger. (Louisville, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1842-07-30
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A aImlr sERMON.

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Thtn afa 6lsa IDEAS N difaity, polite
autatl beauty 10 tho wodl. ta well 81,
rll idtAs bh hmatt all fstleeia. a
WNf tag atlorts j lifta htuse. n, rt
iHWafb n ene thor fBt vii rive Ne III.
Wet 70 hfge region N aIad. "Why
JDo'' geo wt8i gltges 2" sfgsa gentleman
Wa tidy wttb whom h. In walking. II
dislike the issiipg 81 tbem, - says tho IN.
d.. "Yuf SHOULD aeonibm yonpplf ~
urnP ''lWbyp "Beoauas your hand.
would bamuch more sol, nad beautiful -
Gfoo'cd-tbey pighI be- 10 some, but
here pre- different IDEAS of bosuty, false
and rue. LEI Us think little about
lutse sylt hands . a Certain amour, Of
physical exercise 10 necessary to secure
ihe begIth Of body aud mind. W there are
intellectual giauts found Are they found
10 tho families Of kings or mobiles No.
Thropts have been filled by idiots, and
monsters not frequently, Empty tides
have descended on empty heads, and the
nobiny aud gentry, taa rlch and ineGi !.
cion, afo often wei nigh mindless. Look
at eociety as il is at present. See our
men Of business, racked with ten thousand
cares, torn by ten Thousand fears, suffer
asng daily martyrdofn, with no time to
cuitlgale their intellectual powers-their
minds running to waste, their moral pow
ers.oiteu vitiated, and q noble soul degra~
ded even 10 traud-ane for what! Because
tdey must get, get, get. They have a
wife, perhaps, and hall dozen daughters,
win 6eaM.Jut soft hands, hanging uDon
their single arm. The wife cannot make
hone happy and desirable without SER
.vaOls, because It will spoil her SoG hands
II sickness enters the dwelling, (and
eWheIe healthful activity is waltn5 sick
ness IS frequent guest) The daughters
are lneihclept. The fathers heart is moi
cheered, his cares are not lighlened, nor
h!shearth made cheerful by his daughtes'
timely labor. Why! They must have
s9b hands. They may have Intellectual
, capacity, ability OF high order-but
without exefc!se--active physical exercise
these cannot be developed. study aud
labor mas! be combined, else there is lists
lessness and ennui; the mind sympathi-
ses with diseased body. There is often
perhaps alwa5s--a disease, a morbid |
development OF the animal propensnies,
and IN the words Of another, ''the heart
eats itself ou." This is never the case |
where there is mental culture, combined
with bodily labor. Listen 10 the lovely
Marblings OF Gcolia's bard. He seemed 1
indeed, Heaven Inspired. He was pea
sant laboTef.
Byron when he fshed, hunted, and box~
ed, two-thirds of his time, wfote glorious
poetry the other third. When he gave (
himself to idleness and gin, be wrote Don
Juan, aud other wretched Trash, disgrace
10 his land and himself. Franklin, our
owa Franklin, was hard working primer.
Whittier composed his finest poems On
his Shoemaker's bencA. Ii was said of (,
Mrs. Hemans, that she rocked the cradle
with one hand add wrote with the other.
HANNAH Moore was a practical woman.
Ii men wish 10 be chained to the oar for
life, to support useless lumber in mind h
aud body, in those women who hang dead
weights upon them, let them encourage
the growth Of S3ft lands, and they may
TEST assured that by next generation, soft Il
heads viii be added 10 the hands. do
not say Ihete may not be much mind,
were The body rightly exercised Pardon
the expression of these thoughts. If '
have ''handled the subject without gloves" Z
it is because il is my eoay. There is in
justice every where, and yet it is not !
intended. Men'are unjust to themselves, *
when they labor SO as to make life an in~ e
tolerable burden, merely to supply ariti-
ctal wants, and make those depending on /,
them helpless and sickly. They do not Z
wish to spend then own lives in misery !
or make those they love miserable, but 9
they do bQlh ); and they will continue to
do both, i is TO be feared, liIl great :
wrought--tlil Industry is enno- Z,
b'ed and made attractive and honorable. Z
SOD grant that the talseness that is on ev-
cry haRd may be upheayed from lis y
iopndatIons; that "old Thugs may pass
away and all things become new,'' e
JUVENIS. "