The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-05-19
PATENT sERmON.--oy AvAuIcE.
Tezt-God made man, aud man made money.
God made bees aud bees made honey;


Tezt--God made man, and man made money.
God made bees aud bees made honey;
MY DEAR HgARERs:-If you were to
ask me for what purpose man was crea-
ted, | should say at once, he was created
to love, serve and obey his Maker, and
to do all the good he can, without direct
ly meddling with the business of others,
but generally speaking. he does not like
to believe this doctrine:
He'd rather believe that the chiefend Of man.
Isto keep whath he's got, and 10 get what he can.
| think my hearers, that man has made
money his chief end, whether he is de-
signed for it or not. Go where You will
among the nations of the earfh-among
the enlightened, civilized, half civilized,
savage, heather. barbarian, unitarian,
trinilanan, bibletarian, nothingarian, and
Money is the god bowed down to by all.
Yes, my friends, it is the general or uni
versal god for the whole world. There
is but one greater or more powerful, but
it makes me feel bad TO say, that this
greater One is most shamefully sighted
by the unhallowed attentions paid the
other-The dfferenceis, one is worship.
ped six days in the week-aye. may
say seven-whiIc the other is wor-
shipped only one day-and in thousands
of cases not even that. You may well
hang down your heads, ye proselites of
modern avarice, and blush for the shame
ful truths that fire off at you | shoot
no blank cartridges-mine are no paper
wads-but with the leadcn bullets of
conviction, mean To- pierce your under
standing chests, which alas, have been
converted into sub-treasnries for miserly.
worldly, gain-getting, hard currency
tho'ts. Supposng my hearers, that /
should in the superintendance of truth
and honesty, have the sUperhuous kind
ness to say that You were all worshippers
OF false gods, the same as are those pa
gan idolators of the East. who don't know
enough to move back when 100 near the
fire, supposing | should say this-what
might you do TO mel You might per-
haps, tar, and feather me-you might
ride me on rail. as averse as am to
that mode oftravelling-you might prose-
cute me to the fullest extent of the lynch
law. Therefore, | shan't say any such
thing. but will venture to say that be-
tween you and the ignorant heather,
there is practical likeness. They bow
down to log of wood piece of stone,
stuffed breeches, and you worship pieces
of gold, bits of silver. and scraps ofpaper.
How much better then are you Than
they! Not but a precious little, when
the moral and intellectual advantages
which you possess, are thrown into the
scale Of consideration. They poor things
are surrounded by the thickest darkness
teen to the pound candles of instinct cal
burn but sickly glare, but you, my dea
friends, are differently situated. Her,
you are placed in all ever blooming gar
den acknowledge. The sun of enligh
tenment shines down upon you from al
unclouded armament of peace; around
you on every side, flow streams of learn
ing, enriching the soil Of your inteIIects
and beautifying the howery wales of vir
tue, before you stand the two trees o
good and evil and you know which il
what as we'll as do. With all these ad
vantages, how is it possible that you "
children of avarice, can be content I,
wallow in the filthy mire of lucrel Bu
you will keep knawing at the root of a
$ evil, regardless ofthe poison that lurk
Z. therein, the effects of which are most aw
. full. 1t causes some 10 steal sheep, roI
I hen roosts, lie cheat and dssembIe-oth
: ers to put on the robe of pieiy, and go t.
church to pick pockets in prayer time
s others to squeeze poor mans sixpenc
in his clutches, till it squeals out for mcr
cy. So mote it be- Mercury.
YOI<ing and Marrying.