Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-30
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/ Short Patent Sermons.-No. 8.
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TEu.-How many are in knowledge rich,
2 h And yet in wisdom poor! :

% My HEAREas:-We, mortals, love to delye in the
mines of knowledge; but how few of us look for
the priceless pearls of wisdom! The waves of
time wash many valuable gem upon the moral
shore, that remains as unheeded as the commonest
pebble by its side. If man sought for wisdom more
and knowledge less, he would be happier crea-
tuIe than he is, and his prospects through life
would not so often bud roses and blossom thstleSs
las some other philosopher than himself has re-
marked. = '' 7-'~
There are many unwse characters in this woIld,
myrfriends, that seem TO delight in puIposely spoil
ing their own fporrdge Of peace and happiness.
There is your enyious man. He makes himself
miserable and has no appetite for the crumbs of
comfort, because others partake SO heartily of fes
rational enj joyments. He goes out of his way to
walk among nettess, brambles and thorns, because
others pursue asmooth and fiowery path; torments
himself, like porcupine, with bis own bristles, at
the sight of fortunate neighbor; lives as unenyied
as he enyies; and when he dies, he is Ike amere-
figure rubbed from the slate of existence; to be
membered no more. 90 9,i4 Il i9hG!n .L3dIieYoH
The miser, my friends, sits and watches his
money till he staryeS himself to death and leaves
posterity to fatten upon that which Impoverished
them. Having no charity to bestow upon himself,
he has to spare for others, and consequently
he has rather small sonl-so small thata million
like it could go through the eye of cambria needle
abreast without rubbing upon either sde-E ss;ius
The Jealous man gets up imaginary monsters to
fnghten himself with, pours gall into his connubial L
coffee and keeps his ttlepond of love for ever mud
dy by stirring up with the graphing iron of sus
picion. But the mean man, perhaps, is the un
wisest, ior he gives himself kicking to despite
neighbor.t He feels mean, too, as rooster in
thunder shower, for he knows that even decent
looking sheepstealer must ever regard him with ut
ter contempt. The proud man looks upon many
greater people than himself mere pgmies; but he
can't see that he falls in the estimation of sensible
observers just in proportion as he rises in his own
When his money forsakes him, he will feel himself
falling in reality, and, shall condescend 10
set him upon his carnal pillars again. The Sian
derer amuses himself by throwing mud upon repu-
tations that hitter than his own, at expense
of being everywhere looked upon as little better
than locomotive lying machine, that turns ou
| falsehood by steam and atthe rate Of two bushels
fper.minute. The highway robber and murderer is
either mad man or fool: for the sake of a few
paltry dollars and cents, he the risk of having
| his head poked through halter and sent, with u
| jerk, into an uncertain and fearful eternity.
Y But, my hearers, the most unfortunately indis-
cret mortal upon earth the hypochondriac. His
little sum of happiness consists in keeping himself
miserable, and every body around him. He makes
up choice assortment Of ideal complaints and
never takes greater comfort than when he thinks he
has persuaded people he has use for them all ii
once. He often grumbles for the want of SOME
thing to grumble at grumbles out long and tedious
existence, and cease only to growl when death
closes his mouth.
l My friends, that man possesses true wisdom who
bears up beneath a heavy load of disappointment
or afliction; who contributes to the welfare OF his
ellow-creatures, as far lies in his pocket and
| power; who sees nothing but what is beautiful in
nature, and who never finds faults with any of the
doings of Providence So mote itbe.a ad b!.5s5