Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-10-17

friendship Of the voluntee - FOR Gen.
Iaylor, does not teach them that they
must send to the same mill attend the
same church, and vote the same ticket,
that he does.-Er. paper.
Dow in. has capital sermon for this
week, and we cannot resist the incina.
] ton to publish it. II is decidedly an i'm
provement upon any thing we have seen
from him la.ely,-he is coming back to his
original excellence. 4. 81 - .-
| We commend this sermon to our whie
friends who have been sadly puzzled late
~ to measure their own greatness. We
hope 1t may have salutary effect upon
the Billy Of the Telegraph, who in his
anxiety to measure the strength Of the
Wing vote in the State Of Maine, found
himself as much mistaken, as the short.
sighted mortal in the discourse, who sized
the pigs tail.
If Billy will read this sermon care.
fully, 1--WE doubt whether he ever hears
one,) he will discove: his own prototy pc
in one Of the living thing therein spoken
Olive refer to that same toad-fsh.
SHORT PATENT SERMONS.
New SERIEs-No. 4O7.
MY text, for today, is in these words
Man measures things monstrous, and measures
things small,
But some things arc not to be measured at all.
My hearers-a small and vet great
man once said, that if he were so tall as
10 pull the Suns hair, or 10 kiss the
Queen of Night, he would not be Judged
by his physical stature; for it was the
mind alone that made The man. We'll he
might not wish to be measured by the
length of his person in such case; for
who, upon the Lords footstool, could get
the number Of feet and inches in man
with his heels upon earth and his head
peering above the outskirts of our solar
system? And, as for measuring a mortal
by his mind, or rather, measuring the
mind Of a mortal, you might as we'll at
tempt 10 ascertain how many miles
thought is capable Of flying without stop
ping to rcst. How high are the wings
of imagination supposed to soar, upon an
average? What is the length and breadth
Of fancy's flight, generally speaking?
What is the depth of human iniquity :?
and how many gallons does it take 10 fill
the measures of ones country's glory?
These questions can be answered only by
the rule of three. The proposition may
stand thus: If time sometimes flies at the
rate oftwo hours in tifty-six minutes, how
many pounds of cotton batting will it take
to stuff lean and gaunt president to
make him fill a large chair with dignity,
grace and ability? If any of you, my
brethren, can answer this, it is more than
can do. There is one thing, however,
that can tell: that is, exactly, how many
pounds Of CANNON it takes TO stuff you,
on any occasion.
MY dear lricnds-as have no CANNON
to give you, and don't feel inclined 10
lamb you, you must be conten,ed with a
few spoonful Of sauce. You talk about
measuring every thing great and small!
You can't fathom your own selves, letting
alone others. A tailor, though, may take
your measure--but, unless you are good
looking, you can't take his: he is deepcr,
wider and taller than you think for.
While you are measuring him by the old
standard, that it takes nine like him to
make man, he is indirectly proving that
it requires but one Of his sort to undo a
man after lie is made. In some cases,
you can measure men by their measures,
not politicians, but pcddlers Of potatoes.
If the bottoms Of their half.bushels hap
pen to he found knocked up two inches,
an inch and hall, or an inch, you know
to within a fraction the extent Of their
owners honesty.
NY hearers-can you measure the
waters Of the ocean with clam she'll?
No. Neither can you ascertain the a.
mount of my love for you all by the drip
pings that you catch from week to week !;
but, if you dom, keep your moral faces
cleaner than you do, | shall use more
water and less soap upon you, to dead
certainty. You look we'll on Sunday
very clean, pretty and pious-but by the
next Saturday, you are so covered with
tne DUST ana dirt OF sin, that you want
rubbing with corn-cob before body
can tell the amount of remaining virtue
you may individually possess. The only
way can get the gauze Of your good
ness is by watching your daily deport-
ment. Alas! am constrained to exclaim:
Iekcl, meme upharsin! you have been
weighed in the balance, and found want.
ing" Yes, you are found wanting in a
thousand things. You prize honesty so
highly, that you keep it more for orna-
ment than for use--your piety is more
theoretical than practical; and you deal
by others just as though you expected
they we're about to skin you alive. You
take wrong measure-judge wrongly of
your fellow man; and you must expect
to have measured out to you again what
you have melted to others. Oh! this is a
false and deceiving world! There is no
way, as J can see, Of getting at its religi-