Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-11-05
From the New York Sunday Mercury.
Short Patent Sermon.

BY DOW JR.
By particular request, will preach, upon this
occasion, from the following text;
Then gently scan your brother man.
Still gentler sister woman
Though they may gang "a kennin wrang,"
To step aside is human.
| My hearers-Lt the pyhsic Of reformation op-
crate powerfully as il may, and cleanse the
human heart Gf its morbid, moral secre;ions till the
seeds of sin aud nalura: proneness, TO err left
behud. The genuine, religious, and piJus pills
administered by the clergy. tend greatly 10 purify
| the moral sys'en, and remove "a vast quantity Of
The rubbish that has been gradually accumulating
| il the bosom of mankind since our first parents
caught the grpes by eating too freely OF the ap-
pies of error: nevertheless there is occasion.
innocen; inclination to do wrong lurking beneath
our shirt bosoms and cn!seis-and neither Protes
tant nor Catholic calhariic wholly eradicate il
! no not even DR. Shermans Lozenges can have
the desired effect Ii sjusl as natural my friends
for your brother man to err, at times, as it is ol
coous to carouse in cOrDfield under the homes
| superstition that The God of Nature planted inl
their especial benefit: and you mus, know that you
are all equally guilty of petit. moral defalcaIous.
Ifihere be any difference it has for the most part
on The outside even as a white bean presents no
Therefore, would have you.dear hearers Judge
not too rashly of your brother in-blood. His sp.
parent depravity is an hereditary disease, brought
upon hun by the transgressons Of his ancestors ;
and you should administer To him the soothing
syrup of pity rather than apply the causc of con-
demnation. Remember, however, that you Your
selves. are afflicted with like loahsome disorder
and require to be scratched as well as he. Yes,
gently scan your brother man.as my text conjures.
While you look under his fannels, please look
over his unintentonal errors, and bring against
him no such accusation as the pot once preferred
against the kettle; for by so doirg you will only
exchange crock for crock--both become funda.
mentally besmeared--and neither of you better
than the best of backwards.
NV dear friends--Scan gentler still your sister
woman. She is delicate piece of goods. aud
should be handled with the clean fingers of care
and caution She 10 Hrure fraii perhaps, than ri'o
bearded sex, and far more pure SO long as she
treads the rosy paths of virtue, and turns no, aside
to gather those bitter sweet berries Of temptation
that grow upon the brambes of vice but as the
sweetest molasses makes the sourest vinegar, so
the loveest ofthe Amighty's works, lovely woman
becomes the most loathsome of objects when con-
animated by worldly corruption. Yes, my friends.
beautiful female, .faen from her high estate"
looks like tarred and lea,hered angel, wandering
homeless and unbefriended outside the gates of
Paradise, with no one to afforc sOlace or give
friendly admonilion. But we must overlook many
Of tho missteps of the misses of this mserably
made city, Gotham, aud cast the censure upon
The heads of those venal scamps who so richly de-
serves it. The truth is that female labor is so
poorly recompensed that thousands of Ewes fair
daughters are compelled to TOLL at a sacrifice Of
that best Of all blessings. health and happiness in
order 70 prevent dissolution Of coparnershlp be-
tween Soul aud Body. So long as they are o.
blged to 90 upon The root hog principle, is
il to be wondered that so many of them should,
through their actual ds,resses, jump from the fry
ing pan even into the fire Mott IS just as nat
oral for them 10 do it as for as fish leap from the
net and expire upon The beech.
The girls are beautiful little insects that delight
TO Ait from flower to flower 10 the bright
morning of existence. They contribute much to
man 5 happiness.
They can gather us honey from The poisonest
flower iha, grows in the worlds weedy garden
(be careful of their sings lhey pick up the scat
tered leaves of friendships, and weave them into
an unfaded wreath of love--hey lead US over ma
ny pleasant places and finally leave US basking
upon the sunny banks of heaven. If through hu-
man lraty, tney cnance 10 sup aSIue from tle
narrow path--pushed aside, by absolute necessity
and alured upon the other by dazzling temptation
Il pray you to draw them gently back, if posi-
BILE, by the sken cord of persuasion, rather than
kick them INTO the dark ravine Of ,nquty 10 perish
forever. Yes, keep the the doors of reformation
open TO them-invlte coax, and solicit them TO re-
turn to their forsaken homes TO bud and bloom "a
gain beneath the fostering friendship of vIrtuous
society, and in the warm light of legitimate love
but if they hear and heed moi, let them enter the
harem of the Prince of darkness, aud live aud la
ment for thousand years.
My hearers-->-if the men were all really holy
and righteous, ihe girls would be as pure as they
are pretty and if charity and mercy were only
mingled with the component parts ofihe male cre
alton, the flowers of female virtue might be made
to bloom, even when the cold winter Of adversely
sells around their carnal habitaiions, aud the chill
winds of want whistle through the cranpies Of
their dIapldaled hopes. The girls constitute the
glldiog of the animated world |; and be careful, my
dear friends, how you handle them with greasy