Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-02-26
InlOlence.

The idle are always exposed to temptation. La
Dor is the condition of health and happiness, of
purity and virtue Bishop Hall says: Put a
narrow-mouthed glass near to bee hive, and you
shall soon see how busily the lrGsps resort to it,
being drawn thither by the smell of that sweet Ii
quor wherewith it is bated, and how eargerly they
creep into the mouth Of it, and fall down suddenly
from that slippery steepness into the watery trap
from which they never more can rise Now there
are some of the bees, that never so much as look
that way, they pass directly to their hive without
any notice of such pleasing bait"
al threw a bauble to the sea-
A billow caught it hastily;
Another bilOw quickly came
Successfully the prize TO claim;
From wave to wave unchecked it passed
Till tossed upon the strand at last.
Thus glide into an unknown shore,
Those golden moments we deplore
Those moments which not thrown aWay
Might win for us eternal day.
There is no true nobility without labor. The
world would sink into barbarism without it. You
see the condition OF the Indians in our forest the
Africans in their kraals, and the dull stupid Asat
ics in their voluptuousness; what the condition of
mankind would be without labor God is ALWAYS
at work. My father works, and l work" said
the Savior. 10 cessesation, all activity and mo-
tion, which are the true conditions Of life Cease
lessly is God at work throughout his mighty dof
minions. At work in the vegetable kingdom the
animal, the mineral the moral
ain him We live move and have our being
The world might have been dispensed with, or the
universe at his bidding return to nothing or he
irht hav na1 ha susfa If ol
ture as to have met all our wants without daily
toll Our bread might have been placed upon our
tables by unseen hands, and we might have been
saved the trouble even of eating it. Houses suit
BILE for man might have been erected without the
sound of hammer, as noiselessly as crystalization
goes on in the labratory of the chemist or in the
hidden mines. And He who clothed the lilly of
the fields with garment more beautiful than Solo
mon in all his glory, might have arrayed too,
without the machinery which is now necessary TO
produce it. The richest tapestry might have been
woven of silks and gossamer, enriched with gold
and silver, and flashing with the jewelry of heaven,
to adorn our dwellings. Carpets more valuable
than ever tempted the feet of princes and couches
as soft as down, might have been constructed to
our hands, and spread to comfort, and the most
luxuriant banquets might have been provided for
US. But God does all this for the toad the viper,
and the sloth. He has furnished the earth as a
great palace for the benefit of the inferior tribes.
and without their care, he has enriched it with all
things necessary for their well being and comfort.
But the conditions upon which man enjoys the
good things Of this life and partakes of its lux
uries, is labor and toll, the sweat of his brow.
And this calls for, and deyeOpes his energy and
patience, his selfdenial and herosm
Every ider should hasten from his ignoble couch
to the fields of labor, either of the head or the
hands 1t is heavens great ordinance for human
Improvement and progress. Her ancient and
heraldic honors of the bony hand, the sunburnt
brow and stalwart frame are more to be priced
than the attenuatcd fingers, the blanched cheek,
which like the peach has never been crimsoned on
the side next the sun, and the Haunting robes oil
| imbecile idleness and vanity.