The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-09-06

""'Ni "oih ueISeucallyI work CONSTANT
Iy, work with a viii The Christian
must work if he would build up the
Church the PhIahlhropist must work if
he would abolish the errors of Society
the Politicinh must work if he would
sustain and reform Government; the
Citizen must work if he would put into
operation the improvements which tend.
to increase the wealth and population Of
his section of country.
This thing of depending upon others
for that which you should do yourselves,
is radically wrong and will lead you into
countless errors, You may think. if you
sit idly by, that your happiness will be
promoted. your comforts increased and
the value of your property enhanced by
the enterprise aud energy of your neigh
bors; but even if it is the case, you gain
nothing by it, That which you see grow
ing around you in the course of years.
might have been effected in a few months
by your assistance, and you have conse-
quently lost all the happiness, comfort
aud prosperity Of years, which might have
been yours with little exertion.
llis very easy for a man laying claim
to due share of intelligence and expe-
rience, to say that this or that reform is
useless. this or that improvement value
less. 1t serves as an excuse for not doing
that which he ought to do.and his simple
minded neighbors may think him in ear
nest. Even in his own conscience he may
think himself freed from all obligations
to his fellow citizensj but it seems to US
that in this world there is a duty to be
pelformed, work TO be done. energy to
be expended and heart to feel, for the
welfare Of others as we'll as ourselves.-
If the Creator of this Universe had
not intended us for social and benevolent
creatures, he would not have made us
mutually dependent upon each other.
Good men with good hearts and good
intentions, may run into the opposite ex!
treme. In these days Of progress and
improvement, there are so many strange
notions in the world, that it require great
caution and prudence in the selection of
the work that ought to be done, and good
meu very frequently, anxious to perform
their whole dury to the present and the
future, fall into error. But their excuse is
good one AN error of the head is far
more excusaGle than an error of the
hear" "and we imagine that the record
ing Angel will let fall tear upon their
fault and blot it ou; forever"
: But to return. 1t is folly for one man
to wait upon another. Unless each one
' feels himself under obligations to move
ahead, there will be general stagnalion
of enterprise and reform. Let work
r but once be commenced, in any depart.
0 ment of life, we care not by how many,
9 there viii! soon be general understand
ing aud harmony between them. if they
: have the same object in view, and the
. end for which they are all striving will
u SOON be accomplished. But all must
: work 1t will not do for this man to say
: that | will do The talking. my neighbor
u eau do the labor. He will want to talk
: as we'll as yourself and will not feel will
! ing To toll while you are looking on
Pu: your shoulders together and thai
> which you could not do singly, will soor
Weld to your united exertion. But above
g all. do not Wait upon your neighbor tt
perform his own aud your duties to YOU
'p neighbor, your country, your fellow mar
h. and your Creator. By this policy, yol
may accumulate a little more of THU
y worlds goods, but your eternal welfare i
y in great danger And after the end o
'e all This selfish policy, you go down Il
III your grave without the respect or esteem
of your fellow men aud can carry moth
ia ing with You. 1t is all left behind, ant
an if you ale permitted to look back to tn
r. scenes Of your earthly toll, you will la
ny ment to see that wasted and squandered
he with which you might have accomplshe
a so much good This would not be
ed pleasant reflection.
ed Just at this time, if we are not great
ry in error, we need in this place union {
lat hands and hearts to keep pace with tn
in. progress of the age There are goo
in many things that need reforming, and
=. good many things that need improving
10 With all the natural advantages wit
'al which we have been endowed, it will b
I'D shame if we cannot so labor as to "prt
er. duce the greatest good to thegreatestnu nun
be ber."
lry GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD from N
We agara Falls to Detroit, is put under col
tract, aud will be commenced immed
ately on the section lying between Han
We iton and London. 4 meeting was hel
m. few days since. at the Clifton Hous
Nr;,,oro EalIs NJ ,vbich all The Direction