Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-09-21

maternal virtue of the most affecting kind
Wilmington, N. G. Chronicle.
| NOT GUILTY. 4
The puhlsher.of the Philadelphia Tenn
perance Advocate had been charged with
( inconsistency in owning and leasing an es-
Establishment for the sale of intoxicating
drinks, and the enemies of the cause were
bruiiing it about as q means Of lessening the
influence OF one of the best Temperance pa
pers in the country. He was at length cali
ed upon by the President of distant tenn
perance society, to plead guilty or not
guilty to the charge. We wish that every
protested friend OF the cause in the country
could adopt the language of Mr.. Atkinson,
in relation to the same subject. Hear hear i!
"This deponent having been duly affirm
\ ed, doth dispose aud say, that he is not ow-
ner or part owner leaser, renter, occupier,
or in any wise interested in any hotel. tav-
ern, store, refectory, oystery, GROCERY. brew.
cry, distillery, druggery, or manufactory ;
or in"any ship, vessel place or thing, great
or small, wherein beer, ale, porter, cider,
wine, brandy, gin, spirits, punch, greg, sling,
mint iulep, cobbler, cocktail, fiscal agent,
Timber doodle, Tom and Jerry, Tip and Iy,
antifogmatic, or other vinous, malt, spiritu-
Gus, or alcoholic drink is made, concocted,
bought, sold or given, imported, received,
drank, tasted or smelled, either by himself
or others, in any shape or way that can be
devised, thought, suggested or conceived OF.
! Being therefore, free from the accursed thing
he doth Veto, Espunge, Repudiate, X-orcise,
and X-com municate oil such inventions OF the
father Of lies or his adherents."
The HOUSE, OF PRAYER.-TIow great is the
| .oo,o, oc God IN, prnviNinn the h0tlQpQ Of
PRAYER, where two or three may meet togeth-
or in his name, and find their gracious Lord
in the midst of them, saluting them, as in
the flesh, with his accustomed benediction,
Peace be unto you! What relief it Is TO
come into these hallowed walls, out of the
strife and turmoil of the world, and commit
our cause, and our hopes, and our fears, to
the care of God What comfort 70 leave
behind us, for brief interval, all the con-
nicting interests and entangle devices Of this
perishable life, and to raise our thoughts to
that happier time. when brother shall no
longer strive with brother; when men shall
all be of one mind in one house; when
none shall hunger and thirst, neither shall
the heat nor the sun snilc them by day, nor
the cold by night. e. ....-..
| What q miserable scene Of incessant
struggle and worldliness would this land be
without its Sabbath, and its house OF
drawer! Abused are these blessings by so
MANY, despised and trodden under foot and
desecrated, as are too often the holy things
| of this house, and of the Lords own day,
they vet shed light and religious cheer
fulness over the worlds scene, even in our
imperfect observance of the duties, which
those who value Christian privileges prize
as their bread of life, and the best susten-
ance of the soul. They are the salt Of our
land. They keep alive the fire of religious
feeling in the altar of the heart. They give
respite from earthly cares aud open
glimpse of heaven to our sight. They speak,
as it were, a perpetual protest against vice
and infidelity. They oppos" a temporary
check TO the foes of the soul, They remind
man that there is no peace or spiritual pros.
perity but through reconciliation with God,
and communion with God.-Dr. Summer.
MosT SINGULAR CiRcUMsTANcE.-Thek Rev.
Mr.. Burnham, minister of the Society now
worshjpping at The Odeon. called upon US
this morning and related the Following
strange story, which, had he not bean cler.
gyman, we could hardly have believed -
One evening last week, the Rev. gentleman's
wife was taken suddenly and seriously Ill,
when, during a violent tit OF vomiting, she
elected liue frog, about half grown y Nhe
frog hoped about half way across The room'
and then, with something like dramatic Dig
nifty, laid down ON his buck and expired =
| Mrs' Burnham suppOses that she took the
| fro0 into her stomach, in the tGdpoie state,
while drinking water in the night. as she had
heen in the habit Of 30 doing, and that It had
been in her stomach for some weeks. Mr..
Rurnham remarked TO Ms, that. although nc
was 40. much afIfigh,ed, yet he was conside-
rably surprised 10 sec sucha strange addition
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