Litchfield enquirer., 1850-10-10

BY HON. HORACE MANN.

AuIRCuCc VI WHICH Is w uhUSOI Ot PlONHS
ais rum. Health. longevity and virtue,
lepend on his resisting these temptations.
fhe Providence of God is no more re-
AponSible, because a man by improper in
Iulgence becomes subject to disease. han
tor the picking of his pockets. For IL
Young man to inju'e his health, is to
waste his pat,imony and destroy his CD
pacity for vlrtuous deeds.
Should a man love God, he will have
ten times the strength for the exercise OF
it, with a sound body. Not only the
amoaM but the quality of a mans labor
depends on mans health. Not only
lying lips, but dyspep'ic stomach is IN
Illumination to the Lord. The produc'
tons of the poet. the man of science. or
the orator, must be affected by his health.
The man who neglec;s to CONTROL his APP
pptites, is to himself what IL state Of baI>
barsm is to sCciety-the BRUSH part
predominates. He is to himself what
Nicholas is to hungary.
Men buy pains. and the purveyor and
market man bring home disease. Ou'
ancestors used to bury the suicide where
four roads met yet every gentleman aud
lady WHO Law The foundation Ut disease
with turtle soup and lobster salad, rs
really commit suicide as it they used
The rope or the pistol and We're the old
law revived, how many who are now
honoled with a resting place at Mt.
Auburn, would be found on the cross
roads +? Is it not amazing that man, ln>
vited to a repast worthy OF the gods.
should stop to feed on cabbage; or wnen
called to parlake OF the Cncean cup,
should stop To guzzle with the swine.
Ii young men imagine that the gratlh
cation OF appetite is inc great source OF
enjoyment, tney will find inns in the high
esL degree with industry and temperance.
The epicure, who seeks 1t IN ii dinner
which COSTS five dollars, will find less en-
joyment OF appetite than the laborer who
dimes ON smiling. Ii the devotee OF
appetite desires Its high qualification. he
must not send for beet tongues. but CLIMB
II mountain or swing an axe. Without
nealth there is no dellcacy that can pro-
woke an appetite. Whoever destroys his
health, turns the most delicate Vlands
into lprcac and aloes. The man that Is
physically wicked does not live out halt
his days, and he Is not halt alive while nc
does hive. However gracious God may
be to the heart, he never pardoIs The
stomach.
Let young man pursue course OF
temperance, soOlleLy, and industry, and
he may retain his vlgor I'LL thee-score
years and Zen, with MS cup oi ENJOY ment
Iull, and depart palnlcssly as the can
die bui rs out IN It's socket, So Will he eX-
pre-.
But look at the opposite. When !"
man suffers his appetite " control h'm'
he turns his dwelling into IL lazar house,
whether lie lives M u novel, clothed with
rags, or in the splendid mansion and
70, geous clothing vi The upper ten.
ask the young man then, w.o Is just
form ny his hablts vi Lille, VI just Begin
ming lo indulge those hablLual trains vi
thought ouL Vi which habits grow, to
look around him, and mark the exam
DIES whose fortune he would covet. VI
whose fale he would abnor. Even Us
we walk the streets we meet With EXIT
Dltions Of each extreme. Here behold
uatrlLrcn, viii Sc stock OF vlgor three
score years and ten seem hardly 70 have
impaired. Ills erect form, his nrm sLep
his elastic limbs and undimmed senSes
are So many certificates ot good conduct
or, rather. SO many jewels and orders OF
nobllity with wnIcn mature HAS nouored
nm for his tideliLy to her laws. HIS far
complexion SHOWS that his blood has
never been corrupted; his pu'e breath
that he has never yielded his digestive
apparatus tor u winners cess pool his
exact language and keen apprehension,
that his BRAN has never been drugged "
supplied y the poisons vi dlstlller VI TO-
b4cconIst. Enjoying his appetltes " The
highest, he mas preserved the power Vi
enjoying them. Despite the moral vi The
scnorl-Doy 5 stoiy, lie has eate. his cake
and still kept II. AS he drains The cuL
vi hte, there are no lees at the bottom
Ills organs wall reach the goal OF exist
ence together. PaInlessly as a candle
burns down, in the socket, 50 will he ex
pre-, and little Inauguration would con.
vert him into another Enoch, translated
t.oin earth 10 better world without the
sting Of death.
But look at an opposite extreme, where
an opposite history IS recorded. Wha'
wreck so shocking TO behold as the wreck
Vi dissolute man the vigor OF life ex,
nausted, and yet the first steps in an hon
orable career not yet taken IN himself II
lazar house of disease; but BY u heather
ISL custom OF society not buried! Rogues
nave mad the initial letter of their Title
burnt into the palms Of Lh.ir hands; even
for murder, Cam was only branded on
the forehead !; but over Tie whole person
at the debauchee or the inebriaGe the sig
natures Of intamy are written. How Ma
ture brands him with Stigma and aPPro'
| 4 A. Lbs. t.,SA A