The weekly Placer herald., 1854-06-17
LOVE.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal
upon thine arm: for love is strong as death
jealousy is cruel as the grave; the Goals
thereof are Goals of fire, which hath a most
vehement fame.
Many waters cannot quench love; neither
can the floods drown it; if man would give
all the substance OF his house for love, 1t
would utterly be contemned.
Solomon's Song.
Mn Hearers: Your faithful Deacon is
again within your midst Not that he
has been absent from you in spirit, no;
bnt the duties of the circuit have rendered
it necessary to transport his mortal car
caSs to other fields of labor.
The ground in this vineyard has been
thoroughly stripped; yea, | have passed
down through the different layers-trom
AvarIce, Drunkenness. Vice, BeIzphnban
ism, Vanity and Self>hneSs, and having
cleared away the talingS, the bed rock
lies before me, and whatever you" Deacon
now produces you can bet your ribs is
pure gold. am now about to show you
choice ''nugget," the qua tiles OF which
| am acquainted with. 1t is the pur" ar
ticle and will assay in the hands of any
honest refiner, life Of peace and happi-
ness to the pair really think that Of
this article, when the work is property
carried on, one can pan out more true
blessings to the cradle than was ever
before known intend to present this
subject in the most lucid and compre hen
sive Style known to sermoniZers. | shall
first Introduce it in such general way
that very few of you will rompreh ehend my
and Tins at chain
attention. In the next place will class
ify, divide and subdivide until IT'S whit
tied down to the sharp end of nothing, and
seizing this with all the powers of ca
paciouS mind long schroled in the rules of
rhetoric, tear it into ten million ideal
nothlngs.
Whilst my hearers are thus under the
vague, speculative impressions that, "now
you see it and now you don't see it," !
shall by an ad cap-tandam stroke, seize
these countless particles of the subject,
infu>e into earh particle the rartied es-
sences of superlative gas, and by way Of
adding the cap-sheaf to this great dis
course pile them all up together, until
the astuniShed eyes of the audience be
hold mountain whose summit is radiant
with the eternal sunshine Of Gods love.
But my bearers, you are growing impa
tient. and wi at once proceed with my
subject.
Love, my christian friends, may be
presented under the following heads:
lSt, Love Abstractly;
2ndlv, Love Maternal, Paternal, Fra
ternal and Eternal;
Sdly; Love Patonic, Sardonic and Ma
sonic;
4thly, Love Sentimental and Spooney
Love;
5thly, Love Matrimonial;
6thly, Love of God.
In order to compredunct the anamugis
of the high fanutins relating to Love
abstrartly, you will recollect that the
subStratoneouS stratuatorem of the sub
ject, is composed of the refined quint-
essence of infiniteSsiinal conglomerated
particles of moral aninaculoren.
Now this principle of the stratuatOrem
forms the living spirit of the entire sub
ject, and by means of certain moral and
chemical affinities connects and holds
within the bonds of sentriould cnnglorn-
Grated ahsurdesities of the spincturated
Universe. My inte ligent hearers will
not need, | appiehend, a more elahorate
di>quisition upon this branch of the sub
ject, for with one master touch ] have
made it so plain that he who reads may
run, and at the same time given you one
of the most unique, original and lucid
descriptions ever before delivered from
the pulpit.
Love maternal is certainly proper and
quite common. Everyhndy has or once
had mother; and everybody'S mother is
sure to love every body, buy them sugar
puns ahd bake them sweet cakes to eat
during the holidays don't know that
there's anything extremely merItorious in
this, because the same attachment exists
among at animals for their off pring, and
now think ont it's very selfish feeling,
for everyhody'> mother is sure to think
everybody lit smarter and more de-
serving than anybody else, and ten to one
they d"n't puff up everyhody's vanity and
infinSe into the young mind SUI h unutter-
able nnn>en>e about their beauty, talents
or requirements aS fastens upon, the "dar
ling" such a chronic state of The big g.head
as lasts them through life. On the other
hand the child that could refuse the most
unremitting gratitude for such unceasing
owe is worse than beast. TO these |
would say, "Hearken unto thy father that
begat thee, and despise not thy mother
when she is old" And to the doating
mother say, lay on the gad, you've got
scripture TO back you. "Withhold not