Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-10-05
MisrrlIanfnns. 8.
Dow Jr. ON California.

My HEARERS: / know very well what will
procure you bliss by the hogshead; it is that
wretched, filthy stuff-called money. That
is that keeps your souls in futter, and sets
iyou jumping like lot of chained monkeys at
the sight of string of fish. You think if you
only possessed a certain heap of lucre, you
would be off in lavender-make mouths at
care-say how are you to sorrow-laugh at
time and feel as happy as an oyster in June.
! o, yes, if you only had enough of the trash, i
would admit you might feel satisfied; and of
course contented but in such cases more re-
quires more, (according to Daboll and rum, J
the last more requires most, most wants more
yet; and so on to the end of eyerlasting-
There is no such thing as the end Of worldly
wishes for worldly riches. As well might the
SOW be supposed to get enough Of wollowing
in the mire, as for a mortal to be satisfied with
the rolling in the carrion of wealth. So false
are your ideas of the means to obtain happi-
ness that you would, if you could, coax angels
from the skies to rob them of the jewels in
their diadems hav MT the least doubt of it.
NY dear friends-I will tell you how to en-
10y as much bliss as heaven can afford to hu-
man Be contented with what you have, no
matter how poor it is, until you have an op-
portunitY to get something better. Be thank
full for every crumb that falls from the table
of Providence, and live in constant expectation
Of having the luck to pitch upon whole loaf
Have patience to put up with present troubles
and console yourselves with the idea that your
situations are paradises compared with others.
When you have enough TO eat to satisfy hun
ger-enough to drink to quench thirst-en-
ough to wear to keep you decent and comfort
able, Just enough of what is vulgarly called
tim to procure you a few luxuries, when you
owe no one, and no one owes you, not even a
grudge-then if you are not happy all the
gold in the universe can never make you So
A man much wiser than I, once said, give me
neither poverty nor riches and I look upon
him as one of the greatest philosophers the
world ever produced.
All he wanted was contented mind sufi-
cient bread and cheese and clean shirt Take
pattern after him. O. ye discontented mortals
who vainly imagine that bliss alone is to be
found in the palaces of wealth and opulence.
My heaFers-if you consider all creation too
poor to afford you single pennysworth of
true blessedness, you must pray TO be reeonci-
led to its poverty. Grease your prayers with
faith, and send them upi earnest, hot from
the souls oven. This manufacturing cold pc
titions with the lips, while the heart continually
cries CANNON, is of no more use than talking
Choctaw to Chinese.
Heaven understands no gibberish; it knows
only the pure, simple language of the spirit
the sonPs vernacular. So,when you pray do it
in as simple manner as possible, but with red
hot eanestness. and your souls will find rest
wherever you are-whether nibbling at
ernst in Poverty Hollow, or half starving in !
California, while endeavoring to transmogrify
a bag of gold dust into an Indian meal Pud-
ding.