Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1845-10-31
SHORT pATENT SERMONS.
BY DOW, ~.
Ny present discourse is drawn from this


Ny present discourse is drawn from this
text:
Ion love your country mother earth;
OF this j cannot doubt YOU
TIE soil is rich; but, from your birth.
Why carry 1t about you3
Ny hearers inwardly and outwardly you
are more or less filthy. The scurfupon your
hearts is tautlmount to tina; upon your head
and other portions of your skin. Some of
you appear az clean as a dog-licked platter
upon the outside, while within YOU are as
foul as an old musket. You once a week
at least, seem to take a great deal of pains to
nd yourselves of exterior dirt, bat care not a
straw for the moral mango that infects the
interior of the SOULS habitation.
But, my hearers, / regret to say, that no;
a few of you are as careless of the carnal as
of the spiritual portion. In fact, | have knowl-
edge of two or three members of my church
whose persons are so located with soil, that !
wonder weeds don't grow in the place of
whiskers, aud hop-vines fouish in lieu of
hair. Such men can never enjoy anything
more than a kind of counterfeit happiness in
this world; for ii is impossible to be happy
without first feeling comfortable, and how, |
ask, can a man feel comfortable with dirt e.
nough about him TO attract and support toads,
tumble-bsgs, muck worms, and ground mice?
No. these folks muai feel as uneasy all through
life, as i would feel in a bed suspected OF
feas and favored of chintzes. If they die
in their filth, they viii be filthy forever; but
instead of being allowed to bedaub the cost
~ furniture within the walls of salvation with
their slime, they will receive orders from the
rsmparts TO march downward TO the quick
step tune Of go to the devil and shake your
SELF
My friends-l like to see a man entertain
an ardent love for his country; bat his pat
notism shouldn't induce him to eat OF it
with. his poridge and potatoes; neither
should he have such an attachment to the
soil of his birth, as 20 take pride in carry
ing = eaFt-iosd of it into his ~neighbor's DOM
icil. Cleaulines is as necessary TO the
health Of the body az pure virtue is to the
welfare Of the mind, or soul, it you choose
90 call It, and he that ntglects it commits a
heinouS crime, inasmuch as he is a self
murderer by omission, = deficer, and a de-
nolisher OF the beautiful temple built fr
hiIn ny OmnipOsence, and which il were
the worst kind of sacriiege tor him to in
jure. fon are surrounded with eoRyenien-
ces for performing daily ablutions; and yet,
rather than spend a shilling, or take advan-
tage Of a few leisure minutes, You 20 about
NANCY, sickiy and dropping, relying in vain
upon pills and the wrong sort of piety, when
nothing under the canopy Of heaven is wan
ted but soap, cold water and a clean shirt,
TO make you feel as though you belonged
here.
My friends-not a little of our boosted
soil is borne hither on the back o! imigra-
ton; and considerable of it is carried to for
slgn shores by those who are TOO dirty and
lazy TO obtain a decent and permanent live
lihood any where, o. that a mighty Gangcs
rolled from pole to pole, and that all were
pessossed o. just enough rusty religion, coin
blned with sufficient superstition, 10 COMPEL
them to battle daily in its waters, for the
publication Of both body and soul! The
bapiismal rite was ordained for a duality of
purposes; and ] would recommend certain of
my congregation to turn Dapllsts, and suffer
the Wholesome horrors of INN e%rSlon, for the
sake OF having it said that they had been
washed, nj ieaot once In their lives. Ii YOU
ever expect 10 be saved, my friends, you
must commence in season to make Yourself
clean; Tor nothing uncleap can eater the
gates Of eternal happiness. ScOnr up your
morals, apply soap and sand to your scurf-
covered souls, and cleanse yonrselves thor
olghly, from the outward skin to the interi-
or of the heart. You must begin NOW; for
when Death calls for you. sou viii have no
time to wash your feet, cut youE toe nails,
and put on a clean garb Of holiness. lie
will take you as he finds you. though you
were never SO filthy. Take care that you
be not found more ht for the cellar kitchen
below than for the grand parlor above. which
is carpeted with righteousness and feStooned
with tho amararthime flowers Of eSdiess iuy