The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-06-06
VOL.V.-NO. 81.

ally prevents all that interchange Of kind
feeling which the performance Of good
Offices materially calls forth between the
glver and the receiver, and which Proyi.
dence has appointed TO be one of the mos.
efficient means of cullivaling the Christian
character. What an excitement to new
benefits is it to watch the happiness which
our gifts or our lahors have produced;
how cheap, and yet how precious, is felt
10 be the luxury Of doing good and on
the other hand, what gratiued, wha, kind
feeling, what desires to reciprocae the
benefit are excited. Each is lett in bet
ter stale towards God and toward man.
How different the effect produced when
a treasurer or committee Of distribution
bestows the same sum. The warm af-
fcctons are chilled, sympathy and graft
tude are paralyzed by such meditation.
Instead of generous confidence on ono
side, and grateful contentmen, on the 9th.
err, we have 4 rigid scrutiny to ascertain
how lille will accomplish the needed re-
lief. and as necessary consequence, an
cXaggeration Of necessities. Ii is felt on
both sides to be mere business ,ransac-
ton.
Another great error Of our charitable
system, is that which makes worthiness
in the object necessary condition of
benevoIencc. if the gifts Of God were
withheld in proportion TO our sins, low
comlortless would most of US be. lie
sends his rain upon evil and good alike.
and bestows his sunshine upon just and
unjust; but we make the sins of our dis
lresscd iellow-creatures prctext for
Withholding both sympathy and relief,
and plume ourselves upon the superior
virtue that, unlried by their temptations.
has avoided their crimes. Have the thief,
the prostitute and the drunkard, when
distress comes upon them, less claim on
our compassion in consequence Of their
vice ! Are they not rather dou6ly cn,-
lied 10 pity and relief they are so much
deluded as TO prefer evil TO good, and
wrong to right! The relief Of their boz
Oily wants will open for us a door Of COM
municaIon with their minds and souls,
more cliectual than any other which The
wit Of man can devise. In ihe time of
distress, the heart is most easily sofened
by right. most easily hardened by
wrong course Of conduct. The stern re-
proof and the cold moral lecture are here
more than ever out Of place. But, under
| these circumstances, lie who has the love
OF God in his heart, and who knows the
weakness as well as the strength of hu-
man nature, may most efectuaIIy preach
the gospel, the glad tidngs Of peace with
God and good will among men, and thus
gain at the same time 4 soul for heaven
and reformed fellow being for human
society. Christ chose to labor much
among drunkaIdS and haro's, publicans
and sinners lie. not Christians shrink
from following the example.
II Parlor Omament.-The wealth and
taste of Rogers, the poet, have long been
proverbial. A CORRESPONDENT Of the Bos-
ton Atlas thus notices an instance Of each,
observed during literary breakfast 10
which lie had been invited by the bank
er.bard
These articles were simply two pieces
Of paper, in good frames. One of them
was a Bank Of England note for one mil
lion pounds sterling, aud the other the
original receipt Of John Milton for five
pounds, (lhc sum he received for The CO.
pyrght OF Paradise Lost, from Simmonds.
the bookseller.) The bank note was ono
Of the only four which were ever struck
from a plate, which was afterwards des-
royed. The Rothschilds have one i'm.
preston; the late Mr. Coults had anolh-
cr; the Bank of England the third, and.
as have said, Mr.. Rogers decorates his
parlor with the remaining one. There il
hangs, within any ones rcach--a fortune
of many, but vaiueless TO all excepting its
owner. No one would think Of stealing
it, for it would be only as so much waste
paper. 1t never could be negotiated
without detection, and, were it destroyed
by fire, from It's peculiar character, no
loss would cnsue to Mr.. Rogers. At his
word, however, it might be transformed
| into golden shower.
, Receipt for Cooking Peas.-As green
peas will shortly be plenty in our mar