The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-04-28
Patent Serm0n---On Avar;ce,

III DoN JN.
Iert-''on made man, man made money
God made bees, bees made honey.

Wv" Houc oets, UctS mdue money.
MY DEAR HEARERS IF you were to ask
me for what purpose man was created,
should say at once, he was created to love,
serve and obey his Maker, and do all the
good he can, without directly meddling with
the business of Others; hut generally speak
ing, he does not like to believe this doctrine :
He'd rather believe that the chief end of man
Is to keep what he's got, and to get what
he eau.
think, my hearers, that mau has made
money his chief end, whether he is designed
for it or not. Go where you will among the
nations OF the earth-anong the enlighten-
ed, civilized, half civilized, savage, heather,
barbarian, Unitarian, trinitarian, bibletariar,,
nothlngarlan, and money is the god bowed
down to by all. Yes, my friends, il is the
general or universal god for the Whole world.
There is but one greater or more powerful (:
but 1t makes Inc feel bad to say, that this
greater One is most shamefully sighted by
The unhallowed attentions paid the other
The difference IS one is worshipped six DAYS
in the week-aye, may say seven-while
the other is worshipped only one day-and
III thousands OF cases not even that You
may well hang down your heads, We prose =
Iytes Of modern avarice, and blush at the
shameful truths that fire off at You! |
shoot no blank cartridges-mine are no pa.
per wads-but with the leaden bullets Of
conviction, mean 10 pierce your under
standings chests, which, alas have been
converted into sub-trea,liries for miserlv.
worldly, gain getting, hard currency tho'ts.
Supposng, my hearers, that should in the
superabundance of truth and honesty, have
the supertluous kindness to say that Won
were all worshippers Of false gods, the same
AS are those pagan idolaters of the East. who
don't know enough TO move back when too
near the fire; supposnc that should saw
thls--what might you do to me? You might,
perhaps, tarand feather me-you might ride
me on d rail, a. averse as am to that mode
oil travcing-you might prosecute me to the
fullest extent Of the lynch law. Therefore,
! shan't say any such thing; but I will ven.
tnre to say that between You and the igno-
rant heather, there is a practical likeness
They bow down 10 a log OF wood, a piece of
stone, pair of stuffed brooches; aud YOU
worship pieces of gold, bits of silver, and
scraps Of paper. How much better then are
you than they? Not but precious little,
when the moral and intellectual advantages
which you possess, are thrown into the scale
Of consideration. They, poor things. ar,
surrounded by the thicliest darkness of ic.
norance-so thick that their little sixteen-to.
the pound candles of instinct can burn but
sickly glare; but you. my dear friends, are
differently situated. Here you are placed in
an ever blooming garden of knowledge.
The sun of enlightenment shines down upop
you from ali uncloudcd armament OF peace ::
around you on every side, flow streams of
learning, enrichng the soil of your intelects.
and Identifying the ilowery wales of virtue !:
before you stand the two trees Of good and
evil, aud you know which is what as well
as do. With all these advantages. how is
1t possible that yOu, We children of avarce,
can be content to walow in the filthy mire
OF lncre? But you will keep gnawing at the
root oi al! evil, regardless Of tho poison tina,
Turks therein, the effects of which are most
awful. II causes some 10 steal sheep. rob
hei-roosts, lie, cheat and Observation-Disclosures
To put on the robe of piety, and 90 to church
to pick pockets in prayer time-others to
squeeze a poor mans sixpence in his clutch
eS, TIL i, squcals on, for mercy. So mote it
be.