Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-06

advances, speaks kindly to him, tells him he
is yet a man-there is yet good work forhim
TO do-there is yet happiness In store for him,
If he will only accept his outstretched hand,
and place his seal upon. that Spirit OF Good
ness before him, whose home is in the hearts
of all who seek it. He looks a language UNI
utterable the fountain that for years has been
sealed up by vice and misery spurns control.
He grasps his hand, and calculates "Goi
bless yOu! You say | am yet a mani will
be one! Grid on my breast-plate, and let
me seek the work that is for me! see the
gulf that is before me- see ~ ! see IL -
o may the Good Spirit redeem me! May
yet live 10 serve my fellow man! Dark as
Erebus must be that character who would
hold out the g Enchanted Cup" TO lure me to
that precipice a sain.!" -
wish it were in the power OF man TO write
out the teachings each child receives, and
the circumstances that surround 1t during the
first years of its existence when that is done
we shall find a root to the moral canker that
surrounds us-and in vain may we expect to
complete the healing process until that root
is extracted. Until mothers seek faithfully
for a knowledge of the duties that devolve
upon them, and use that knowledge for the
happiness and well-being of their offspring,
in vain may this nation hope to free itself en-
treiy from the clanking chains OF %intemper-
ance and slavery. Some seem to think be-
ca Use they cannot see the immediate effects
of their lahors they will do nothing. In the
erection of a beautiful fabric can the man who
carries the mortar see the immediate effects
of his labors! No; but after a time he secs
the beautiful structure completed. He views
it with inexpressible delight, and exclaims
in the pride of his heart my hands have aid
ed in the erection of it,. Because the work
that is TO be commenced now, will have TO be
completed by the next generation, must we
remain inactive! Must we sit in the taber-
nacle Of worship with folded hands and long
faces, and think there is nothing for US to do; or
that the simple fact Of thinking will advance
the work ? May the Spirit of Goodness for
bId it! There is a work for every individu-
al of the universe, who has a heart to feel,
and a tongue to speak. The corruption of
the nation is resting upon the shoulders of ev-
cry individual of it.
Every atom or drop of stimulating food or
drink which we take has a tendency to in
fame the animal propensities, aud impover-
ish and render mac i've the intellectual and
moral faculties of man. And yet we hear
many exclaim-' nothing hub me-" Il
can eat and drink as much as | desire of any
thing, and it does not hurt me' They think
because it does not at once kill them with fe-
yer, cramp,.or something else, and because il
does not put out an eye or d~islocate a limb,
it does not hurt them. But my dear friends
you are mistaken. 1t does put out the eve of
the mind that you cannot see--petrifeS the
heart that you cannot feel--robs you ~ofpeace,
that priceless jewel, worth more than all the
mines of Golconda.
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Unless we begin notv to redeem our time.
the little children that run about the street
here, following in our footsteps, in a few short
years Will scarcely remember that we exist
ed. Oh! coild the departed spirits of those
we loved-who on the dying bed bequeaihed
US the last hopes they could utter here-could
they look down upon us from their bright a.
BODIES, how would they mourn in the depths
OF agony to behold some of us pursuing the
path we are-bartering our immortal souls for
paltry and ill-gotten lucre. | fear thousands
will not permit the right spirit to direct them,
till they feel that Kissing red-hol iron-those
vain regrets which will assail them at the
parting hour, that they have been a worse
than cypheI in this state Of being.
Repentance, though it come then in a gild-
ed carriage with a reverend to drive it, will
not carry them to that elysian spot, beyond the
ken Of mortal man, where he who has been
moving on INCREASINGLY with the light that
was given him, will be resting. | look up
on a heaven'and a hell, a good spirit and a
bad one, as merely relative terms. A heay-
en- being the presence of all happiness, a hell
must be the reverse of it--l true spirit beinC |
the cause of all happiness, a bad spirit mus.
be as cold to heat, merely a negative princi-
Pile. This Is a matter that may be consider
ed rather Irrelevant. Not altogether either.
for if we reflect a little we will naturally in
fer that the intemperate drinking man, when
he is to be seen reeling along the street i'm
AGNES himself to be in heaven. But alas !
when no gets sober and finds himself in the
gutter, he begins to conclude he has mista-
ken a hell for "A heaven. 1t may be too
that the incorporate eating man, when he
sits down to his evening meal, and is to be
seen examining his stomach with all sorts of
dishes, dead hog, cow, calf or sheep, las the
chance may be) and coffee, and pickles, and
slapJacks, and sauces of all kinds and quail
liles--l say 1t may be that he imagines him
sell IN heaven. But when he gets halt awake
In the night, and thinks that he sees a mon
ster with a red hot poker in his hand, trying
TO compel him to crawl through a bundle Of
bed-iicks, strapped up so tight that the small
est gnat could not find its way throuqh--
l say. when he finds himself in this condition
he Will begin to conclude that his heaven at
has ended in a hell. But | forgot
Persons 1t this stamp rarely admit that the
hundreds OF compound dishes that a woman
slaves herself to provide, have any d~eleteri-
GUS effect upon the mind or soul, Their stom-
ach is their God, and the stuff that fills it
their heaven. ca. ~ .lI-l -.
4 wonia sacrifice any or all of the mere
gTatllcatlOnS of self. if NV On doinn I conlJ