Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-11-17

has gwen definite constitution 10 every thing but
perhaps these too hard WORKS ali YOU to under
s-an All they mean by them IS th@t God has fitted
one thing for purpose and thing for an other
purpose, and tlat, II wouid prosper,-if we would
not ruin ourselves and every BODY else VIC mus. use
things as they intended 0 be used.
or example in our climate God has made ,ie whole
vegetable worl grow in the summer am! not IN the
winter Were we 10 plant SOW. expecting that corn
or wheat or fruit would grow during winters only.
we should gather hlryess and must soon perish by
starvation. Col has made fruits to ripcn early
others late that ov them one after anoth
er, tie whole year Ii all had heen made to ripen at
once, we should have saperaalnGaace time and
breath at another. Col has adapted the size of the
fruits to the tree plants which they grow Ii the
pumpkin the pine apple instead Of the and
chesnnt, to grow tall trees, you know that
ana cattle could SAFELY repo<e beneath branches laden
with such fra ana Sap?os. of yon have sculls
thick that you would be wiling stand under
the tree shaken.
Bya beautiful provision of n4arc, ice is made be
little lighter than is but, water: the change
takes place Just the before turned from
into re- The consequence *. the ice floats aud
makes beautiful you to sport upon. Were
the ice heavier than the water, BY small degree,
would sink, the il formed the layer
Of upon the SUFFICE would then freeze which
would also sink AMI by ana by, all ponds, rivers
iakcs would be frozen into solid mass Of ice which all
the heat Of twenty woall b. Sufficient
tlau Noa thu Of this wise ami wonderful provision,
:ie tex; time yoa - ont TO s.,@ts slide.
Wood aud coal made to be burned, IN keep your
school houses and your homes and iron made,
among many other things 10 b. used in taking Of
your fires that you Suppose had been made
soth would burn "a~i wood, could
FOR fro-ap2aratus for cooking utensils Suppose
the other han!, that wool and all other things winch,
We for fuel wonld burn better than iron. what
then SHOULD have 10 keep W fires
These things; but the different
animals were also all made particular uses, and o
live IN particular way; fishes made
the the bir.s tly in the and the
land animals made live upon the solid parts of
The earth there Ct ther foot an there their
Young Suppose these races shout try alter the
Engagements Of Providence; suppose the land birds and
the fishes should make agreement exchange abodes
that the iocks Of pigeons, for instance. which
yine the autumn, should eav~ the forests Of
and should seek their food thousand miles
while the fishes should shore, Hopping their
fms and seeking land passage to the Rocky Mountains,
Or suppose the quadruped-such the cattle the hare,
the foxes, and forthshoul take into their heads.
or hecIS-that they could tly and should ascend the
the highest rock hlufF or.-such of them could
should climb up to tops barns ami houses and
stecpes AMI fling ,Ies5 .ves the air expecting
equal the brls ia their 't; should you think that
such them left after the experiment,
would need very ski..u bone-sctter2 Thus you Sc
that al! kinds animals must the element
made for BY their Creator and do the things and
only the things. which He designs they should
Ill of YOU my dear children and friends, made
TO live certain way and to do certain things; there
other ways IN which! you cannot vc aud other things
which you do. You made to live in the
and to hreait. You made, like the fishes
TO live i'll the aud if by any misfortune You were
to sink beneath its surface, any force,
kept there, know: that Jon would PERISH by crown
ing in very few minutes. Neither you made
that you live in the fire. Many tools which you
could be made without fire; they have passed through
it, they melted it; that their nature; but
yours; and what male them better would destroy
your life The food you daily eat, prepared by the
fierce action Of fire: this is necessary order to fit it TO
YOUR use. YOU be subjected the hea
which this subjected for your sake, your life woul
be destroyed,-if you had many iives.every day
the wear. You like the BIRDS provided witt
wings, by which you fly from tree from house
to house hilltop lltop aud you TO bt
ooI-hardy ascend the top of house
hill, and attempt fly from them You would be take
up a nangied corpse Such things contrary to you
!, nature. They not the things you were made for.
But there many other things YOU not made 4
do which must You, by the terrible pains
puushnen,s that Will IN their train, never to %
made to lic steal, to profan
or obscene language incorporate quarre
with school to be unknd to brothers
disobedient parents teachers to SCOT o
mock a what IS holy and good. SAID you were no
made live the fires but it would be better that yo
should be fang hottest that KIN
ded yon should your tongues to false
hood ana perjury ana blaspheny- You can be happIe
with the flames coming ali around yon and scochtnt
Your flesh TO a cinder, YOU with rcniorzefa
conscience glowing and burning IA Your bosom SAT-
Won were not made o live the but you had bet
Yer tie mill stone your neck and plunge INTO tn
depths Of thousand miles from the nearest silor
or ~. nearest plank than begin OF cheating
5 and dcfrauding. ami taking property that you
!
said vou were made to fl hro' the air, but yo
! had better climb the top of the highest tree steep
and fling yourself abroad be dashed pieces upon Il
rocks below than TO take the name Of the great