Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-09-06

She could not Dear the thought oil, bitter drugs
That siekened her soul. The house Of wanton
mirth
And revelry, tho mask, tho dance she loved,
And in their service soul and body spent
Mos, cheerfuliy A l,lle ADM "a lion,
Or true or false, no matter which, pleased her,
Ando'er the wreck of fortune lost, and health,
And peace and an eternity Of bli"
Lost, made her sweetly smile. She was coa-
vinccd
That God had made her greatly out oftaste;
And took much pains 10 make herself anew,
Bedaubed with paint, and hung with orna
ments
ofcurions selection, gaudy toy
A show unpaid for, paying 10 be seen!
AZ bogsar by the way, mos, humbly asking
The nlms Of public gaze, she went abroad
Folly admired and indication gave
OfEnyy cold Ciyli,y made bows
And smoothly faltered, Wisdom shock his
head,
And Laugt,nr shaped his lip into a smile
Sobriety did stare, Forethought grew pale.
And Modcsty hung down the bead and blush
ed
And Pity wept, as on the frothy surge
OF fashion tossed, she passed them by, like
sail
Before some deviIish blast, and got no time
10 thI7k, and mover thought, till on the rock
She DASHED, Of ruin, anguish, and despair.
The money that vii! be squanderel by this
Fancy Ball, as we said before, is no small
amount and has any ono reflected upon the
extent of suffering that might be relieved by
! its appropriation to laudable object Wealth
trned away, like talents abused, will ulti-
mately prove mans greatest curse +; in pro-
portion as we are endowed intellectually, shall
we be held accountable hereafter, and in a
like ratio, az We arc made stewards over
earthly possessions shall we be held answer
able for stinted charities, and the neglect Of
life's great commission, "a failure TO relieve
The suffering around Us, ard to alleviate the
misery which everywhere starcs US in the
face with silent but ehasily reproval.
Truth may be slow in her ultimate triumph,
and the sway Of Error may almost be co-ex-
tensive with the history of man on earth ; but
ere the close comes, the victory wiH be won,
and it will >, tho proudest tina! ever yet has
been achieved. If the angels wept when the
Prince of Darkness triumrhed in Eden, and
thus reigned oer the earth their JOY viii
be unm assured when his final downfall IS con-
summated.
If Fancy Balls must be had on Ordinary
seasons, we certainly think tha, this one should
have been dispensed with, this y :ar. The
Cholera has swept wildly over the land, the
white winged messenger OF death has gather
cred its victims from every quarter 10 such an
extent lha, the President deemed it advisable
TO recommend day to be set apart for the
purpose of suppIica,ing the Great God OF heav-
en- and earth to spare us from the further raw
ages of His desolaing wrath. A, we have
been so free from sickness | ere, ii really seems
to US like mcckirg at the mercy Of Heaven,
and sporting with the kindness OF Almighty
! God, thus 10 make ourselves ridiculous, by
trining away time and money, by lm'taiil
the folies and weaknesses of all the nations
| of the earih,-and for what Nobody under
heapcn can tell! Yet, ii is fashionable, ana
that /, enough Instead Of a glla-night, >
day Of anksgiving to Almighty God who
in mercy las spared this community from the
rayases of disease and death, would have been
far more appropriate aud becoming.
Il Alas for those who are so much absorbed in
! this Ball Poor things they are to be PIT
, led they deserve our commlserat!on raihe'
than our contempt. 1t is a weakness OF h J.
! man nature tha, leads them into al this dlss
/ patton they are maddened by prosperity, Of
graspng after position they hope TO reach
Like the maniac, they fancy themselves the
! admiration OF The world, and the terror o
those whom they consider beneath them. -
Strange inia,uation They ar not even ,h'
tournaments Of suciety-not even the gilde'
Itrapriu,s Of the great temple oi humanity -
7, is true that they form part Of It's throbblrI
pulse, out were they swept from society,
would not disturb the machinery OF nature, O
cause a single Huc,ua.ion in the grand econo
NV of Providence. They live, and move
and have their being, but they form the lens
important or valuable potion Of our race
Ii,heir preatnes. exist. only in their own val
imarlns,ions, and when they sink from ,h
iace of things created their exit viii be as qui'
q. the pebbles within the oceans bosom, an
VI lhe surfscc lelt as undis,urbed as that ms
y ~ expansive realm, when iis insIgnlhcar
nipples have waved into nolhingness.
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