Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-07-22


That love had arrows well knew,
Alas! find them poisoned, too!
Birds, vet in freedom, shun the net
Which love around your haunts hath set,
Or, crcled by his fatal fire,
Your hearts shall burn, your hopes expire,
Woman's affections are stronger than
mans; that is to say, all those tender emo
tions which emanate from the heart, such
ns benevolence, love, veneration, are more
largely developed in her than in man. Her
moral scnsihilities, therefore, are more sus-
ceptiblc to impressions from objects of
moral character. This is the reason why
large majority of church members are
women. For the same reason they take
deep interest in benevolent, moral. reform,
temperance and anti slavery societies. But
her misfortune is that her zeal in promoting
the interest and perpetuating the existence
of these institutions is not directed by an
enlightened Judgment. Men take the ad-
vantage of this weakness in women, and
through sinister motives to accomplish
their own selfish ends, urge them on in the
DISCHARGE or what thev are made to believe
their duties, and thereby bring down upon
their innocent heads the just contempt OF
IN enlightened people. Impressions made
upon her affections are more indellibe than
they are in man. She is con-tant, man is
inconstant. Her love is like the vine that
twines around the sturdy oak, its tendrils
embracing with still closer clasp rs it is
shoos by the storm. Her heart is n foun-
tain Of love, ever concealed behind the cur
tains of prudence. discretion and deceit :
innocent deceit, from which limpid streams
gently flow, o whose refreshing waters all
mankind may freely drins. To what's all we
compare it. Compare ii TO n bed Of roses,
agarden of flowers, perfuning the air with
their sweet odors to what you will, it is
bevond comparison, n priceless thing.
s'Yet even in laughter the heart is sorrow
ful, sand the end Of that mirtll is hcavi-
ness" What a sad picture $ here drawn
Of the 1earti In the back ground is long
catalogue of sighs suppressed, vows that
have been made under seal Of solemn oaths,
all broken. Hopes, fond hopes that have
been cherished in the yivacty of youth, all
llightei; the errins confdencs of an inno-
cent heart betrayed; thousand little schemes
which have promised happiness fleeing away
like shadows, disappointment and sorrow
written upon the whole; while in front of
all there IS face Ii, up with merrment and
laughter. Farther back st:ll you see wo-
man with Solemn traa ard m )urnful coun-
tcrancc. walking through grave yard,
bowed down with heavy burthfn, on which
thls mirth is haaviness." Nv dear girls,
this picture is drawn to The life, and is a
true representation Of II womans heart. In
;ho merrimcnt Of yonth You do not stop to
cnnsi cr That this merrIlnent must have an
end. that Won have characters TO establish.
tillt vnur ,lestinv. for veal or woe is to be
V'ntcrmined hv Yourselves, that YOUR virtue
must be .snaftfeI Us athing npon which no
value cin be fixed, forit has nn equivalent,
md If last can never be found, and that for
it there Is NJ slbssitnse, no subterfuge, no
counterfeit but what can be detected. There
fore yor hit about like butterflies in the
@h!asa sanshineof a abrighssummsr's morn
in@. love- ny a few, q lmrel by many, and
sought To he ensnarcl bv all. Love, which
is your whole existence, is the igais .Jafuus
that ever Lads ynn astray. Like the heath
en-, YOU love to have rim IS on your fingers,
bracelets On voar wrists, chains about your
necks. rings in your ears and feathers on
yonr heals. lou love ribbons, and silks,
and laces, anl everything else calculated to
ornament Your persons. You love to make
y display Of ali these things in your par
lors, on the streets, before brainless clerks
and GINNING merchants, on all public occa-
slnnS, and am sorry to say, in the sacred
temple of God, your final Judge You love
the fine arts, for they are congenial to your
natural tastes. You love small talk and all
sorts Of amusement of light, trifng and
silly character, which is neither food for
the mind or soul. You love ap-heads and
brainless asses, because they fatter you,
and tell you that you are, beautiful and
charming and angelic, divine impersoni-
,fcation of all that is excellent, when in
fact you know that they are lying all the
time; thatyou are flesh, bone and blood like
themselves, and but little better. All these
things you love because you think they COW
er and hide your faults from men, the Sc
curing of whose love is the hight of your
AMBITION. Here you make a sad mistake.
1t is true, some men of little worth, distor-
tel, vicious and shallow minds, through
these things may be led into deceptive ad-
miration Of your persons, for time, but
let you once be denuded of them and they
will soon find you real flesh and blood, es-
pecially if the three first months of mar
ried life has passed away. Then before
your friends aid acquaintances you may
show smiling face, but your heart will be
sorrowful, and the end of your mirth will
>be henviness. Men of sound judgment and
good sense value you for what you are
worth, and be assured if you are worth any
thing, they will continue to value and love.
They care not for your ornaments and
snowy apparel; by these they are not daz-
zled and bewildered; they look after your
good qualities; they look beyond smiling
face Of fautless mould, an elastic step,
manners genteel, and symmetrical figure,
down into the chambers of the mind and
deep recessess of the heart, in.search Of
glitSering gems Of thought ana sparkling
diamonds of pure affections. NV dear girls 7
it is a lamentable fact that such men as
thesea few in number in these last days,
but it yon would have their number in
creased pay strict attention to the conclu-I
ding remarks on this subject. .,,.a
REMARKS.
In my first and ssecond sermons, Ipoint-
"a out to You some OF the evils resulting
from alterations of the mind and affec-
tions, or in other words considered the term
heart Of the. text negatively, and showed
to what extent the heart sympathises with
other organs of the human system, and to
what extent they all may become diseased
from strong emotions Of themind. If you
wish to avoid these evils change your hab-
it's To make the mind sound so that it
can resist those influences calculated TO dis;
tract and distort it, you must contract such
habits as, will give you sound bodies. For
this purpose you must go to bed early and
rise early, and if, peradysnture, during the
night you dream OF swimming, riding hor-
ses or mules, a woman dressed in white, or