Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-03-15
FREMONT sANDUSKY COUNTY. MARCH 15, 1851.
ain for months, but perhaps he will come

But how do you talk about months and
days when you have no such things?
4 will soon tell you about that We meas
ure time by the Yard -.
by the yard?
'Yes-we call that time which the most
perfect men among us take in walking yard
/ to be the sixtieth part of an hour. Those hours
We recon into days, and these days into years
To be sure, We are not very exact, because
some men walk SO much faster than others
but this in just as their legs happen TO be lont
lor Short
As the guide was proceeding, to the ex-
pressible Joy of all, the sun at once broke out
The light was so sudden that Hated at first
thought he must be struck with lightning. and
actually put his hands to his eyes to Sc if they
were safe. He then. clapped his hands over
his eyes till he could gradually bear the light
! There was splendor about the sun which he
had never seen before, and it was intoierably
| hot. The air seemed ike furnace
'Ah!' said the owner of the cattle, we must
now scorch for it! My poor wool-ox must die
at once! Bad luck, bad luck to us The sun
has Just come back much nearer than he was
before. But we hope he will happen to go
away again soon, and then happen to come
further off next tilne.'
The sun was now pouring down his heat
sointensely, that they were glad, to 60 into the
| house for shelter-a miserable looking place
indeed Hated could not but compare itwitf
his own beautiful cottage. Some timbers
we're rotten-for the tree was not, as it hap
pened the same thing in all parts Some of
the boards happened, to these were loose and
coming off They had to do the cooking out.
under the burning sun-7for when the smoke
once got into the house, there was no getting it
out, unless it happened to go, which was not
very often.
They invited Hated toeat On sitting down
at the table, he noticed that each one had a
different kind of food. and that no two could
eat out of the same dish. He was told thai
i it so happened, that the food which one could
Eeat was poison to another, and what was
agreeable to one was uauseating to another
Selecting the food which looked most inviting,
Hated attempted to eat. What was his sur
Iprise, when he found that his hands did not
happen to be under control of his will, and
instead ofcarrying the food to his mouth.
these active servants put:it into his left ear.
On examing, he found that it was so with all
the rest and by initiating the company, and
twisting his head round over his right shout
der, and placing his mouth where his ear was
he managed to eat In amazement he asked
how this happened .
''Ahl' said they, laughing at his Ignorance
of the word "we have no fixed laws here
l All is chance Sometimes we have one OF
more limbs for long time which are not un-
ider the control Of our will 1t is Just as il
happens So when we drink, we ind it al
ways true, that
ssSome shed il on their shoulder
Il 7fsr Some shed it on their thigh;
Andhe thatd not hit his mouth.
! / sure 10 hit his eye"
81 suppose that to be coffee, said Hafed
"and will thank you for cup"
Itwas handed him He had been troubled
with tooth ache for some hours, and how did
he quail, when on filing his mouth, he found
Iit was ice, in little pieces about as large as
pigeon shot.
"Do yon call ice water coffee here? said
Hafed, pressing his hand upon the cheek where
the tooth was now dancing with pain.
''That is Just as it happens. We pu
water over the fire, and sometimes it heats it
and sometimes it freezes it. How can it be
otherwise, when we have no fixed laws of any
kind! 1t all chance work"
Hated rose from the table in anguish o
Espirit He remembered the world who hac
lived, and all that was past He had desired
to live in world where there was no God
where all was governed by chance, so far al
there was anything that looked like govern
ment. Here he was,and here he must live. Ht
threw himself on a bed and recalled the pas
the beautiful world in which he had once
lved-his ingrattude--hs murmuring and
2 his blasphemy against the wisdom and good
; ness of God He wept like infancy. He
would have prayed, and even began a prayer
but then he recollected that there was no Got
Ihere-nothing to direct events-nothihg bu
chance. He shed many and bittertears of re
Ipentanee. At last he went himself asleep.
When Hated again awoke, he was sitting
under his palm tree, in his own beautiful gar
den Il was morning. At the appointed
moment the glorious sun rose up to the Eas
the fields here all right end upwards and GOV
cred with blossoms; the beautiful deer were
bounding in their gladness over the lawn, ant
: the songsters which, in plumage and sweet
| ness might have We'd with those that sung ii
Eden, were muttering their songs
Hated arose, recalling that ugly dream anc
then wept for JOY. Was he again in a worlt
where chance does not reign! He looked VI
ana lOe1 turned TO the lOOu FOi I1GdfeH elti(
earth, the God of laws and of order. He gave
glory to him. and confessed that hi
/ ways, to us unsearchable, are full of wisdom
He was new man. Tears indeed fell at th,
grave of his family: but now he lived to d.
good to men and make others happy. Ht
called young and worthy couple, distant re
latves of his, to fill his house. His home
Eagain smiled, and peace and contentmen
came back, and were his abiding guests.
Hated would never venture to affirm whether
this was dream or reality. On the whole
! he was inclined to think it real, and that there
is somewhere chance world-but he always
shook his head, and declared that so far from
wishing to live there, nothing gave him great
err cause of gratitude. as he knelt in daily
prayer, than the fact that he lived in a world
where God ruled-ruled by laws fixed, wist
and merciful
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