Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-02-25

was 'HeIe d hloIe uHndpPy dPpIlcdtlon vi
Scripture. The venerable worthless referred
10, it is trde, wore their boards, but they wore
them whole and entire no razor was suffer-
ed TO carve out certain little plots and patches
in that %fanciful manner so much in vogue at
the present day.
Old Father Abraham would be startled out
Of his propriety could he arise and behold
those fantastic ~festoons all done in hair, which
give an expression Of countenance so gro
iesque and baboon-like to many men Of this
generation. But to advance in this melan-
choly subject, ] now refer to the occasion an
tecedent in point Of time to the incidents al
ready related, when Mrs. Pandevack com
PEELED he to change my eyes. On account
Of near-sightedness | had been obliged to
wear glasses from my boyhood. When in
the country a pair of common iron frames an
swered the purpose, and when | had lived a
year or two in the city | replaced them with
a light, airy steel pair, so beautiful indeed,
and giving so slight a pressure on the nose,
that a ten years use of them created an at
tachment TO them on my part equal to that of
a Dutch farmer for his wife. The time, how
ever, was fast approaching, when these faith
full old servants, which had clarified my vi
sion for many years of my weary pilgrimage,
Ntlt W Ut uloNdlutb, dlh III lNHh 'i''"
friendship that had grown up between them
and the nasal appendage which had SO long
been their prop and support was TO he sunder-
ed forever, and their place rulhlessly invaded
and occupied by strangers of greater glitter
and show, but of far less companionabIe and
comfortable qualities. 1t was one morning
just a week after my marriage, that my bride
observed,
do you know, Mr.. Pandevd, that those
eyes of yours, as You term your specs, are a
great eye-sore to Inc 7"
"Ahr' replied /, ''it's a pity you did not
discover that just two weeks ago, as you GER
tainly then had it in your power to have your
eyes effectually cured without danger OF a re-
lapse"
You always take what | say so serious
ly; but in truth you are the only gentleman
/ know, who, wearing glasses at all, uses
any but gold trimmed ones"
TO make a long story short, the many
soundings | had on the subject at length re-
suited in my nose being straddltd by Il pair
Of octagon glasses, in heavy gold monntlngs.
The metamorphose of my outward man was
now about completed from being a modest,
| plainly dressed individual, with loose trow-
sers, a bob-talled tight-bodied coat, a clean
face, and eyes looking through a pair of
unassuming steel bowed glasses, | had be-
come sacked, red whiskered, mustachiOd,
white eloved, caned, strapped at the end OF
pantaloons, and never allowed to look at any
thing or any body save through a golden me-
dunn.
The last item in the catalogue of g%rievan-
ces 10 which | shall allude in the present ar
ticle is one Of very grave and formidable I'M
port. Mrs. Pdndevack forced me 10 change
my religion! J.! As may have been inferred,
! an by birth and education a Congregations
alist! This was the religion of my fathers,
and the religion, in the faith Of which, ho-
ped to live and at last to die. Indeed, Mrs.
Pandevack herself was brought up a Presby-
terrain, but we had not been housekeeping a
twelve-month before she got the freak in her
head that Episcopacy was the sort of thing
for an aspiring family, and thereafter was an
incessant din kept up in my house concern
Ing the three orders of the ministry, exclusive
validity of ordination, and the apostolic sue
c~ession. | was myself surprised at the glib
ness and fluency with which Mrs. Pandevack
ratified over these terms, and a stranger to her
previous history would have imagined that
she had spent her life in making herself IA
miliar with Episcopacy, and had been APP
pointed its peculiar eulogist and defender
Paradoxical as it may seem, | embraced IL
piscopacy in order 10 get rid Of it, for as
long as | withheld my assent TO Mrs. Prs
propositions | was dosed and drugged to such
a degree with them that they haunted Inc in
my dreams.
In the vision Of the night a heavy leaden
mitre, pressing upon my brow, has walked
mo to a realizing sense of having a severe
headache. Without in any degree desiring
to reflect upon the venerable and highly re-
spectacle denomination in question, OF which
am now an unworthy member, ! must still
confess that my spouse and | cut a figure botf
rich and ridiculous in some few Of the inl,la'
tory processes. AS for myself, had beer
so accustomed all my life to stand up during
prayer time, that a number OF Sundays, wheE
) the minister had repeated, d" Let us pray" ii
the course OF reading the liturgy, l hav'
sprung to my legs in "a jitley, and have only
t skunk again to nv seat, all covered with con
fusion, when | perceived that the congrega
ton generally were disposing of their prayer
/ full heads upon the book-rests. My wifi
made several mistakes of an opposite charac
, ter. In her zeal to follow the letter of tn
, rubric during the prayers, she was apt, d
t those points where directions are given ;
. kneel, TO drop upon her marrow bones instar
q ter, and the stir created by my recalling he
: to a sense of the error has drawn upon us tn
!, eyes of the occupants of some fifty of the at
%jacent pews.
S On some occasions, not content with II
peating the responses, | have detected myse
in following the minister with an audlbI
voice in those parts of the service which al
: exclusively appointed for him. Sometime
Il on the performance Of an extra service, "
n have wandered into a \ wrong part OF the pray
book, and have made our responses so niue
IS at skies and sevens that our worthy past
g himself has found il difficult 10 repress
d smile at our awkwardness. But Mrs. Pa
y devack, to do her justice, is a woman of wo
N derful perseverance,, and in time we got e
N tirely pat on all these matters, and BEGAN
y distinguished as church folks of the mo
n punctillous character. In fact | am told tn
a our country friends don't stick to calling
downright Puseyites.