Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-12-13

aflerw ards in the golden rule, and on the
crimson cross. 1t IS the highest STANDARD
OF earth. Let the merchant read when he
takes excessive prc6ts-the broker when he
refuses to give the value Of paper, or takes
exhorbitant interest-iIe gentleman who
fails to enrich himself at others cost-lhe
farmer who carries injured articles to the
market, or lets his cattle or his fowls destroy
his neighbors' felds-;he mechanic when
he makes his wares for sale and not for use
the professional man who "muliiplies his
calls to lengthen out his bills" who encour.
ages suits for good fees, or seeks the fleece
INSTEAD Of The fock !; and the people, too,
| when they refuse TO bear their portion oil
parish or public expenses. Let those learn
this higher law, aud be governed by it in
the dark as well as in the light, where NO
law reaches as well as where government,
reigns.
| BE MAN tn meeting the responsibilities
Of hIe, not in words, but in achievements
not IN promises, but practices at present.
Every man is not like Solomon, king (;
but every man has responsibilities as i'm
portant, perhaps. as kings once had. All
are kings now in some sense every citizen
servants-and in this pregnant aye when
mighty principles are being transferred to
| future eenrraiions, We need men, true men,
weil-read, stony and stable, capable of
| comPrehending the age and its responsible.
tiles not pretenders nor politicians, nor
gentlemen hut men of the true stuff and
stamina. We have done with words. plat
forms, resolutions we want principles,
character. deeds, that will not lie or die,
bu, that enbody themselves in wise. prudent
and energetic action. We want men whose
zeal has wisdom, who bow 10 no mandates
but those Of truth and principles-who can.
not be brihed nor bought with mountains Of
gold. God does not work ordinarily with
out men; when he gives US reformation
he gives us Luthe.-a revolution, a WASH
ington! 1t is men, next to the spirit Of God !,
that the world wants, and when we look
over this wide world, and witness the count
less evils that crush society and hinder
salvation, and ask why i, is so why, upon
this fair earth. man only is vlr-why yon-
der emblem of deity, that paints the fields,
and loads the earth with beauty and abund.
ance. has so long looked down upon such
scenes Of sorrow and woe as this world
presents, aud all this after the finishing
hand Of God has been upon it, and the
footsteps Of the Son Of God, marked by
blood, have been upon it, and the Spirit S
influence, more powerful than the agent that
moved the ocean or the forest, has breathed
upon 1.-THE answer comes back TO US,
" man has no. been himself" hut failed to
act his part upon the earth. The church
wants men more than members or numbers
and the world wants men more than
armies or governments education or systems
Of ethics, or formal christianity. 1t wants
men after Gods own heart. to pat life into
these, and to put these 10 the grea, use and
work of the earth.
BE- Man by preparing far the destiny
Of men. Man Is distinguished from the
brute in tina, he is immortal, and has reason
and conscience and freedom OF the spirit to
prepare him for the future. The present to
the future is what the line Of the shore is
to the vast ocean-a ci.angeless future
awaits US. The bid builds for itself nest,
aud thus makes provision for its little future;
the animal digs for itself hole, and pre-
pares granery for its future Wants. These
are true to instinct, they prepare for the
future--and shall man forget his immor-
,aijty!