Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-02-05
iSCELLANEOUS.
From the New York Observer.
H0! We BORROWERS!

AAe'S 10 oHois oeiiHoH LOT yOu,-~IoT AL
of you. Though you may often &c, hints,
it is not often that ye get whole sermon
directly addressed to yourselves. It shall
not weary you for length, and many are
interested that it may edjty you.
Hit be comfort to preacher to have
a great congregation, mine is that comfort,
Ye borrowers whata multitude And if
ii be comfort to belong to great class
OF the community, then have ye your COM
fort 10 belong to great class Of The COM
munay, then have ye your comfort, ye
borrowers. So having comfort apiece,
the preacher and the congregation, this
will suffice for a proper Introduction to my
discourse.
Beloved, have many things to UTTER
1 could make divers many grand divisions
of my subject, aud each reach sixteenthly,
or even farther, under every one of them;
besides having copious matter for improve
ment, with lots of subdivisions TO wind up
with, and still not exhaust the subject.
But | must waive all that, aud make
short work oft, and hasten to put you in
possession ofmy sermon-4"r the year is
Just begun, and must not get on much far.
Their ere this discourse reaches you.
Without further preface, pitch directly
into the plh and marrow of this discourse
which consists OF the exhortation, beloved,
that you would not leave borrowed arli-
Gle on your premises, but for the shortest
possible iime after these tidings reach your
ears.
You have no such! Blu, do not go al
such conclusion SO rapidly. Better beat
the bush awhile, and see il, you canno, star,
some new game. There is the library
Go shou, therein. eye exies, show your
selves, and will guide you hone.' You
might be startled by the number of veneer
able old men returning whence they came.
Aud there are gardening and farming
utensils. Proclaim liberty to the captives
then, and see whether spade would not
lead oat shovel, as 1ellow-rayeller
homeward. See if tall exile of a pitch
fork, taking the lead, would not have SIC
kle and scy.he fetching up the procession.
Aud do not know but the wardrobe
hath guests therein, that have better title
to be somewhere else.
And the pantry and the china-closet-
suffer the eAhortation, ye leminines-per-
haps there, even, there be strangers and
foreigners, if,hey have not been from home
too long to be called such, who ought to
be set safely and Immediately down upon
their own shores.
| will not specify farther, but beg you
10 blow the trumpe. all about your premises
and give every nook and corner to hear
the glad !ldings, so as TO give the expatr-
ated chance to set their faces towards
home once more.
Thus runneth my exhortation, ye bor-
rowers. Suffer now the motives to fall on
your ears, which call for your compliance.
!. 1t will light up smile upon many
an aspect ofwoe. II is not unlikely that
not few lenders. with sunny smile Of
June in the face, but with November in the
heart, parted With loved articles you SO
coarleously borrowed Of them. They gave
farewell glance, not doubling that they
had lent aud were literally to hope for no
thing again. Dsappoint them ye borrow
ers. Make it vivid upon their eyes, that
they had made grand mistake when in
their dependency they exclaimed, Alas
for it is borrowed" Siarile them with the
fact, that all their tears over their supposed
losses might have been kept in reserve a.
knowledge, have a fine chance to be
comfort Of This kind.
2. II will aid you in the borrowing bust
ness for the passing year. Some of you
feel just dependency on ,his subject
You lave borrowed and kept and kept and
borrowed, till j, seems the door must be-
by this time, well nigh closed. But has
ten beloved, tarsy not-pick up every thing
shat bath neighbours name upon ii, and
hasten it home. il You do not linger by
the way, you may arrive just in time to
save sentence of utter exclusion-jus, in
time to get such smile of favor as to com.
lon you in the hope that this year may be
as was the last in the matter Of borrowing,
and even more abundant.
| was about ending my discourse with
an improvement, as many ancient discourses
end-but il occurred to me, ye borrowers,
that that part Of the affair belongs solely
to yourselves and that ye may be greatly
blessed therein, are the las, ords of the