The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-04-21
MIs CELLANEOps
From he N. r Sunday Mercury.
Short Patent Sermon.


At the partlcular.Teques OF the editor OF
the Norwich Aurora, ! viii preach, upon
this occasion, from lhe following texts.
Z '.Fret not Thy gizzard."
My hearers-fortitude, patience, and per-
severence are the only team horses capable
Of draggingihe numbering car OF mans hopes
through The marsh Of misfortune. Fretting,
6inching, cutsing, or swearingscan no more
extficate one from difficulty than q silly
Esllad can release itself from the fisherman'
net by idle tapping and fioundeFin0. When
man finds himself ia the midst Of thorns
and briarssof trouble, the only way for him
IS 10 step cautiously and Zee his road through
them with the utmost care; but if he fret,
fusteE and buster, he is sure TO effect moth
ing more than lacerate his bosom and fare
! his trousers. When he peTceiVes that his
feelings are beginning 10 ferment, through
Irritation, he ought 10 keep a small air-hole
open 10 his heart, not only TO admit the pure
loxygin of reason, but also to allow the gas
lof excitement to escape by degrees else
he might burst his barrel Of forbearance,
land lose in moment some of the sweetest
and best Of life's cider.
My friends-when your cobweb fabrics oil
anticipation are swept away by the storm Of
Hin fortune, there is no more use in fretCIng
Eyour gizzards about il than there is in a
Fonng female victim Of seduction trying to
. stick the fragments Of virtue together with
the 4ears Of TepentanCe To fret and cfafe
about trifes,. like tender school boy when
FIRST initiated into the misegies of & flannel
lshirt, is as nunsensical as il is useless
Maintain your ground manfully against tbs
assaults of-petty ills, and in due time yol
will net heed them half as much as the buz;
Of an Oct0bef muSquito; .otherWise you ,Eil
probably learn BY experience that lhere i
!, such thing "a rubbing pimple Sill yol
produce an ulcer. Inshehourp Of adversely
for assistance call upon Fortitude-lhat boil,
? lnymph of the rock, whose dauntless. spiri
bears tha beating storm, and bitter wind
that howl around her-Whose breast brave
1.-The bursting waves, ana who hears the irea
( thunder with q sonl as mistaken as carpe
lin lawyers Office. Yes. my friends, il
stead Of freiing your gizzards when boz
ling cloud skirts the horizon Of your hope
You ought to have philosophy about ron 81
fcienl 70 know that, although The comm
shover-may wet your jackets, it renders II
eafih fruitful, and boanlifnlly contFibut.
10 your wants and necessities. Satan bin
solf, when lie was kicked out Of heaven iIi
the regions Of darkness and woe, was 4
much Of a man 70 whine and fret al his lat
He bore Il ike q hero, and consoIed hinse
Of with the reflection, that il were '.betiers
reiga in hell than serve Ia heaven.1 Exc
cise patience. and the ihick.misls DC misfc
tune that bedim your fulufe prospects v
disperse the sooner push ahead with pers
veranCe, unmindlul Of triHing annoyance
and eyery,bud IN your bosoms thar lhrei
q ems 10 disclose thistle. will bloom ros
+ bni this worrying and freiting when. cirrul
Ie stances clash with one Is fond desires, Is Il
rs, brushing beater against the nap--lhe mC
eai you attempt 20 smooihe Il she rougher
grows.
ny dear friends am almost induced
So believe that some people, Instead 81 bel
'py supplied With hearts have nothing bot 3
yards filed with 81. ind slaRsl They
pear q have jusi dIned unen pebbles q
iron filings, and aIs alWa lahofino unl
ne ialluehce 81 indissslion Netting 3.