Litchfield enquirer., 1844-12-12
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PREACHERS AND TAvERN-KEEPERS, on
SOUL-FEEDERS AND BODY-FEEDERS.
The duality of human nature lays the foundation
for two very important and reputable orders Of men:
sOul-ieeders and bOay-feeders Soul and body must
not only be kept together, but each must separate
ly have QnGnfss s of food convenient for it, that
neither be curtaied of its fair proportions. Their
union too must be on equal terms, the total man
becomes ungovernable and injurious.
In presence Of one Of those lynx eyed, keen Wis.,
aged, lanls, hungry looking men, who seem all the
while Sc calculating" and as unconscious of corpo-
reity as if they lived on faith and air, we instinc-
lively clench teeth, and double our fists in our
breeches pockets. Bonaparte was always afraid of
such fellows, and when he came across one in his
army, Il Scotsman usually,) he sent him off on
some desperate work against the enemy, for which
the wight showed as keen relish as his master
for the victory itself. .-
On the other hand, in presence Of " too solid
Aesh," whose rubicund visage tells of roast beef
and plum pudding, whose double chin enfolds
whole troop of jolly laughs, and whose expression,
(pardon the paradox) is spiritless, we as instinc
lively spread ourselves, and give loose to carnaity
Alas for order and justice, when these bodies take
the bench, or sit in council upon public business.
Rogues walk abroad in daylight, and lawyers are
in despair, lest, after furnishing the Court with
polished bayonet, it should charge the jury with
the butt end of the musket.
Alas for soul half-smothered in the gastric
Juice I, What can it do to head the rushing con-
fused end ever shifting fight OF passion and princi-
pie Of human will and truth eternal p Deliver
us from bodless souls, and soulless bodies in this
present world.
Honorcd be soul-feeders and body feeders CO.
workers in establishing two-fosd man in his integ
rity; in building him up, soul, clear, truthful and
active, and body, fair, furnishing and temperate:
the beautiful totality divinely named the lord of
Creation. {
But their claim to honor is not always made
good. Soulfeeders at times prove fahless to their
trust. Ausks and chaff they may feed out long,
and yet in charity be called weak men rather than
bad men-a hard case indeed for many Of them, if
this were otherwise. But when they knowingly
deal out error when finding that souls have itch
ing ears. and love smooth things to allay the
qualms Of conscience, soul-feeders deal out sophis
istries and lies, what charity forbids the name Of
hypocrites and impostors Of what avail with
honest men is the plea of these public deceivers,
that their patron souls lope error will have strong
decisions from some source or another that other
soul -fecders will furnish lies fer them if they do
not, and that to be restricted to the feeding of
souls with plain truth alone, would subject them
selves and families to poverty and trial A soul
feeder spunging livelihood from souls pershing
under his deceitful ministry The scorn of the
good in this world, and the curses Of the damned
in the next, his righteous wages!
We will not quarrel with the body feeder, though
his viands be somewhat scant and unsayory; that
| were to be too often in pet. lean larder does
not make him disreputable man. though an i'm
satisfactory one. But when body feeders, whose
Office tits to furnish food convenient, finding that
bodies love stong drink, that with depraved appe-
te they banker for the poisonous draught, delibe-
rately pander to this body killing taste. what claim
have they to higher honor than treacherous soul
! feeders: What more is there in their pitiful ex-
| cuse than in the soul-feeders plea that their
patron bodies love intoxicating drinks that other
dy-feeders will furnish them if they do not and
that ody-feeding will not yield living, unless
they keep barr body feeder making living
by dealing in liquid FIRE, the bane of health, and
cause Of frightful disease and intolerable anguish
to poor tempted bodies Can this be reputable
business The Bible says, I" drunkards shall not
| inherit the kingdom of God" What, then, we
ask, are the righteous wages of body feeders, who
deal in drunkard's stuff for gain We leave it for
body feeders to solve the problem.