Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-07-14

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4 things however great or mean in 9th
ers' eyes. And a calm conservative
! power within them, the child of cheer
tul faith and humble hopes arms them
effectually against all that breathes the
! spirit Of malice toward their happiness.
Fixed thus in the quiet home OF free and
! joyous thought thought, joyful in its
own activity-the agents of the mind
are ever on the alert to range aboad
/ and gather irto the Storehonse of Life,
I all that is bright ard lovely. Unsur-
feited by sudden feasts; but seated ey-
er in the midst Of congenial plenty, the
j soul with continual self-evolution--
draws in, and assinilates to herself, by
her own unstimulated energy, all these
elements of life and joy and beauty
Thus the spirits plastic power, heay-
onward bent, gradually completes and
hafmonlzes, strengthens and CONSOLE
dates the wonderful and fearful struc-
ture Of the soul; and mellows and dee
pens her tones as she advances thro'
time, until III Paradise she stands before
her God, a vast redeemed, and living
organ. Before her eyes Eternity sits
down, and with rapid hand, summons
from her inmost pipes the mighty strains
ofpralse which echo loud thro' the COL
den temple of the New Jerusalem.
But the many, fascinated in youth
with the pleasures of exhiliarated fee
| ling, convert the body into little less
than steam locomotive; in which the
soul is to dash along the track Of time
with the swiftness Of an arrow. Des-
pising the things which lie about and
near her, as being common and unclean;
she deserts her native element, and
speeds from cline to cline to gather in
whatever breathes the air Of foreign
greatness, in order to kindle higher and
still higher the propelling passion-fres
Of this car. A prostituted imagination
is dispatched in every direction, like a
purveyor to provide exquisite delights
and powerful stimulants which shall
sharpen her blunted senses, provoke
her pampered appetites, and rouse her
deadened, over strained feelings to the
required pitch of intensity. The soul
sits down and devours these enormous
feast's in greedy haste, until her ener-
! gies are surfeited and absolutely refuse
to act. Raptured emotions, too big for
infant nature 10 rush in, in dizzying
whirls of novelty, whose tremendous
pulsations disjoint the mind and shake
the body, until it sinks, diseased and
swollen, broken down and dishonored in:
to a-premature grave.
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TERRIBLE RESULT FRoM INrox1-
cATloN.-We learn from the Mercan-
! tile Journal, that on Saturday last,
Rufus Cobb, of Holliston, a man OF
Incorporate habits, after having been
INDUCING freely in 'spirituous drinks
for day or TWO before, hired or bor-
..rowed a:horse and wagon, and proceed
ed to Milford. He then applied at one
of the taverns in the place for drink, but
the landlord, seeing his condition, very
properly refused him. tits believed,
however, that he obtained liquor at
some other place, as he was suisse
quently seen in his wagon, on his way
back to Holliston, in very drunken
condition. On the road hefsll out Of
his wagon, while the horse was going
along at rapid rate, and his feet being
entangled in the harness, he was drag
ged a distance of more than a quarter
Of mile, in consequence Of which, his
head and body became dreadfully lece-
rated; so much so, that this poor,
wretched inebriate died on Sunday al,
ternoon, We are told that he was a
man of respectable connections, about
forty or forty-fve years old, and has
left a wife and FIVE children to laInent
the terrible fate of the husband and fa-
Cambridge Magnolia; ga
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| A QUAKER ANswER.-" Martha,
does thee love me?" asked a Quaker
/ youth Of one al whose shrine his hearts
, hottest feelings have been offered mp
! "Why, Sethy' answered she, 1--WE
are commanded to love one another,
are we not2"
! Gay, Martha, but does thee regard
me with that feeling the world calls
lore o.
81 hardly know. what 10 tell thee,
Seth. have greatly feared that my
heart was an erring one. / have tried
to bestow my love on all but g1ay
have sometimes thought, perhaps, that
thee was getting rather more than thy
share"
| MICE as. SPEARMINT.-Mice have
j such an aversion to the common smear.