Litchfield enquirer., 1849-08-09

BY REV. H. t. CHEEvER.
The mountains Of this glorious land,
Like conscious guardians seem 10 stand.
Vermont is State rich in milk, mar,
bic and then. No one can read its his
tory, or ride through it and observe its
geology, without learning this. If its
rocks are marble, its men and women,
while of a noble marble make, are far
from being marble hearted. The milk
of human Kindness flows as freely through
the veins of its hardy sons and daugh
tiers, as do the juices Of it's sugar maple,
or the full udders of its bright bay "cat-
tie on a thousand hills Its ministers,
many of them, have a good report, as
men" full Of the Holy Ghost and faith, "
sound in doctrine, and diligent in word
and deed. The missionaries and teach
ers it has furnished to the wide world,
are perhaps unsurpassed by any under
the sun.
While roaming lately through the clo>
ver-carpeted intervales of those glorious
Green Mountains, whose pointing
peaks ought to lift the soul to heaven,
we said to a companion, How enyiable
the life of good country pastor here.
with its facilities for study and self-im-
provement every way near enough by
railroad and telegraph to the central city's
heart, in order to feel its throb but not its
crowd; permanent families all around on
these hill-tops and vailles, whom he can
mould, and who, if they do not prize as
they ought all his labors, yet remem-
Der his sermons better from Sabbath to
Sabbath, and are more affected by all his
ministrations, and love him more, than
hearers generally do in the changing con-
gregations of the city. Rearing in those
old farm-houses, taking and giving les
sons at those fresides and in those dis
trict schools, and working the nhonumen-
tai marble in those quarries and shops,
are the young Marshes. and SHADES, and
Burrits, and Bclknaps, and Mary Lyons,
whose monuments shall be in the memo
ries of generations yet to come.
Those square, full foreheads, which
God is setting everywhere upon the youth
of that region, are yet TO supply the city
with its piety, intellect and energy, as in
decd the country always has done. And
the delightful work Of the minister ard
the schoolmAster is to give the mental
and moral bias TO those springing minds,
that are to be fostered and grow in nc
other way but by the pabulum Of know
ledge and impression furnished by the
magnetic mental contact of the living
educator, from Sabbath to Sabbath. and
day by day. 1t is q country like this.
and like dear New England generally,
that must continue to supply the men.
and the women too, for the city, the
church, and the world, to lead in its en-
terprise, its commerce, its literature, SCH
ence and Characterization. tits amid the
rocks and hills of New England that
there must still be engendered the intel.
lectuai light and lightning Of the land.
May God grant that the good Green
Mountain stock shall never run out. It
needed hearts Of oak and frames Of iron,
like the Ethan Aliens, and Carpenters,
to strike off into the endless forest from
the sea board States, and make their way
up here by marking trees. in order to
settle and subdue q rough, bat not un-
kindly soil. 1t was patrimony of hardy
virtues, as well as conquered nature
that they left to their numerous poster
ity.
We rambled the other day into farm.
house on the outlooking hilltop, near
Clarendon Springs, Of which the patri-
arch died two wears ago, ct 81, and the
mother is still living at 80. They lived
together sixty years, and reared to adult
age q family Of sixteen sons and daugh-
tiers, of whom fourteen are at present
living and multiplying in Vermont and
the West. Benjamin Carpenter, of Gull
ford, left 146 persons of lineal posterity.
Vermont ministers and teachers at this
day will have to be the more faithful in
the appliances of intellectual culture and
religion, in order TO make Up for the lack
Of bracing home education, and that
utsCIpIIuC W ttC etctu HCuOUt Va SOvOstNJ
and self-denial which was had by the
race now passing off the stage. There
Il, too, The uRfavcrable Influence OF the
foreign Irish population which the rail
roads that are in the process Of building
bring into the State. many Of whom viii
remain. A good looking. but boOsy
Irishnlan, in the stage from Whitehall,
with whom we expOstulated for his drink.
ing folly. said the only thing he did not
like Vermont for was that he had 10 20 10
whitehall. N. Y...for his grog. Thanks
10 the late law prohibiting is Sale. the 70.
vorabls working Of which one only has
70 stop at night at country tavern in
order 10 zoe. IL 10 an honor 70 bsall Hn-
thinking and working IN sach
q banner State, Cor Gods glory and the |
worlds good. a. we have reason TO believe
many 81 Is COED IAlnlsloa aroi man |
whom Carlyle calls the noble client nA.n,