The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-05-31
Short Patent Sermon.
BY DOW, JR.
" Early to bed. and early to rise,
Makos a man healthy MOS. ltbv aud vviSa -


Makes man healthy, wealthy and wise"
My HEARERs-The text have chosen for
my present discourse is most beautifully
homeiy; hut it contains the clean kernels of
truth without husk or chaff. believe that
the God of Nature intended us to 20 TO roost
with the birds and chickens-not with them,
in one sense of the word, hut to retire for
the night at The same time they do. All the
brute creation close their peppers at the set
| ting sun, save such as see the best in the
dark, and whose deeds are evil: why should
man he AN exception, since be liz NOT an owl
nor Tat that sleeps through the day for the
want Of properly adapted optics? see no
reason under the planet Jupiter why you
should not go to bed when Evening enlpties
| it at the first blush Of morn. Even ten hours
sleep would do you no harm, after you get
used to it,; and know that most of you are
able to bear almost twice the quantity with
out grunt.
My friends--by turning in early, you Sc
cure health. The brain, the stomach, the
whole mental and physical system all cry
aloud for rest, after weary day of toll care,
and anxiety. You may think to appease
fretful Nature by attending places of amuse-
ment, balls and bar-rooms; but she is not to
be cheated in any such manner. She is not
to he pleased with toys nor tickled with
straws; nor is she to be deceived by the ST.
lent, smooth sliding hours. She knows the
time o. night like a journeyman oyster open
er, and whispers into the deaf ear, " Let's
go" But you heed her not. Very well:
on the morrow, after the sun has accom-
plished nearly one quarter of his diurnal
journey, you crawl out of bed languid, fee
bic aud feverish, no appetite for breakfast,
and hardly knowing your head from hor-
nets nest. You may follow this up for a
time, hut eventually the main pillar to the
temple of health gives way, and down falls
the beautiful edlfice, never to be rebuilt for
the want of proper foundation. YOU sac
rifice your health, you lose your wealth
You lose thai which is more to be priced than
all the gold of Ophir, California and North
California Jumped together. Your looks
,betray you late birds wherever you 90. ]
could tell you half mile off by moonlight,
ami look through pair of leather specta-
Icles.
NV dear friends-nOw look at the man
who has been in the habit for years of put
ting on hi, nightcap at an early hour. If he
lisr,'t actually loaded down with the crooks, %
Tor, in other words, the giittering dust that
jbuye,h every thing but ticket to heaven
and happiness upon earth, he is at least well
to do in the world With Z joyous heart,
and spirits ms light as the down of a thistle,
he goes forth TO greet young day. while the
dew globulets bespangie the pastures, fields
and neadows-whiIet the air is bamy, fresh
and vigorating-M lille the flowers are ex-
haling sweet fragrance in almost visible
abundance-whlle bees, bugs, and all other
insects are as busy as the Fourth of July
and while the feathered choristers are sing
ing spontaneous halleluja abs, as. though they
must do it or burst their gIZzardS. Look at
that man, the early riser The rose of
health blooms upon his cheek his eye
sparkles with the fire and glow of youth;
his step is as elastic rs though bis legs were
set on wire spiral springs, and his body com
posed of India rubber He is strong, too;
aye, stronger than last winters butter
stronger than an argument. He can out
Jump, out-walk, Out-run, and out-llve any
human that never leaves his bed-chamber
ill nine O'Clock, don't care where you bring
him from-wheher from hardy Greenland
or from the soft, sunny cline of The equa-
tor. He is infusble. He is not to e fried
in his own fat by the melting heat OF mid
summers sun; and he can bare his bosom
TO the bitter northern blast, with no more
sign of a shake or a shiver, than the Bunker
Hill Monument IN a snow storm.
Oh, you puny, sickly, safiron-skinned
slugsarls. tha; never see the sun rise! You
lose IA glorious sght--an exhibition that af-
fnrds more pure delight to both eye and soul
than all the shows ever presented To mortal
view, the Northern lights and the American
!. Museum not excepted can't paint the
picture. When ! think of it, discouraged
Fancy drops her pencil at once, says ITS no
use. Try to get up and take a peep for
yourselves, for once in your lives: then if
you think it a humbug, go tn bed and snooze
!. ill the day of judgement, for aught care.
But how do you feel while shaking your
feathers with the sun hard upon The merid
an' Rather stteaked, | imagine-anost
afraid to venture into the streets, Tor fear
your shadows should laugh at you. You
muster Up courage To sally out. Shocking
steamboat accident that. according to ac-
counts in the morning papers," says an ac-
quaintance whom you happen to meet
les What ac--oh-ah-yes-sEocking, very
shocking, indeed-good day." and on you
speed with most nervous rapdlty for fear
of being farther inrerrOgated about what
you ought to have known hours before
You morning sleepers! you know not that
you lose by your dribblets the very honey of
life, the quinlessence Of all that is bright,
lovely and joyful in existence! You do,
while others are alive, stirring about, secur-
ling health, accommodating wealth, happy and
tmerry as iarks, you lie as dead q SCI many
Hogs, intellectually decaying, morally rotting,
yand c0sporeally consuming. Arise ye! arise
lye!-shake off your slo,h, even as the lion
Eshakeih the dew from his name; 60 out and
behold the beauties Of the morn in all their
glory and magnificence, and become health
Ter, Weather, wiser and handsomer human
beings than you are. So mote it be.