Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-08-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs FROM THE KNICK.
ERB0CKER.

Who does not remember with what intense de-
light he first heard OF peruscd the life and adven-
lures of little Cock Robin, or, advancing onward,
the deeds Of the Merry Archer of Sherwood?
Who can ever forget the scenes of enchantment
that first burst upon him from the wondering pages
Of The Arabian Nights; at times chilling his young
ie-blOod with terror, and then enhancing his inn
agination with some gorgeous sccneof magnihcencc
and grandeur? How careful, then, should we be
in childhood to keep under proper restraint this
most important faculty, not to crush its life out by
rudcly and cruelty forbdding its indulgence making
men and women of our children, hardening their
hearts and bunting their sympathies in advance.
but placing it under proper and iudicious training,
thnt it may cast the sunlight OF love over the life
path, and fill with genuine sympahics the young
and tender heart.
This is of little boy in Virginia: Long before
he had learned the alphabet, his parents had made
him familiar with the narrative portions of the
BIBLE which they were accustomed TO read to him.
One day he was permitted to have the old family
Bible to look mt the pctIirts; and coming to DAN
lEL in the Lions Dem he gazcd at it for few
minutes silently, then running to his mother book
in hand, he broke forth in an indignant tone =
| Mother, this Bible don't tell the truthp why,
my child, what makes you say so 2 Why. mother
did MT you read to me that when DANIEL was thrown
into the den, God shut the lions mouths ?-and sec
horc, they are wide opcnv The boy believed the
picture, which he could sec rather than the text
which he could not read
BY the way western preaching is in no way be-
hind western poetry. | listened to sermon few
Sundays ago which | would not repeat only that
such Ignorant Decorators of the desk may see how
they appear in the piIlory of type. The subject
missions, and the necessity Of supporting them
The ntonation and 'God-likc action can never be
irtatel but iot you down few sentences: But
hrctldri you can't git sinners 10 give to missions
allow it's impossiblc Before they'd Git to see
the duty ont, you must convert EN-. There are
many ways to do this. Do you git the pint? For
the sake Of argument, wen take ishin for instance
Iou take the idce? In some seasons you can 90
down 10 the shore and throw out your net and haul
'em in by shoals, hundreds and thousands. These
are our rcyiyas. Then, again, some slip through
the net In that case you take a hook and line
hero the preacher loaned over the pulpit as if
angling from boat, bait it nice, and sit down and
fish for 'em patiently and when you git the least
nibble, give right smart jerk. These are our
single conversions. But there are some bretherin
I you can't ketch ths-a-way. They won't 90 in the
! net; they won't touch the hook. These are the
lazy, fat old sinners, who lie in the cool places in
the brook and if ever they you a-comin' they'll
Just turn up their white Sides and slip off into deep
water. Now, when you find one of this sort, hooks
! is no account; nets ant. You've got to drop net
and hook, and our orator threw himself back in
the desk and struck the attitude of harpoonerl
grab the spear of wrath, and shout, Now, by the
grace of GoD, we're arter YEP