The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-03-11

the ideal and ETHEREAL, | can now ~satrsir.
l CT read ill ] sm weary. can least
my VISION Oh these creations Of art aul
literature. can take my dill Of enjoy
ment thorough aud satisfy ing. | will do
what | please. | will be under the Co.
minion Of no man. | will be-"
"A robber !" sounded starllins!y and
s"lemnly through the gorgeous apartment.
The man started wildly tiom his seat, de-
manhing who dared make an accusation
50 Lenious.
a." said Time, standing before him
with solemn eve and measured voice. II
y II not yours To pass in ease, or to squau.
der IN pleasure. God sent me TO you for
a purpose. | am Your soui's garden
ground, aud # | Am left TO dssnln.,ou, Won
stea! from my BOSOM ali that would have
expanded IN Blossom and fruit. In rob.
blng me, you rob your own soul aud be.
come a cuiprit whom no ciemency can
pardon"
a." said Labor, moving before his pres
ence with le bearded drops of toll upon
hre brow 4; ain robhiug me you steal
strength from your own limbs, power
from your speech and iustre from your
eye. You rob repose Of its sweetness
and make of rest a torture. Dare to
deny me my rigLtful claim, and you doom
yourself To IA worse fate than the felon
coud"nned to a treaImi!l. | will harrass
YOU with vertigoes. apoplexi?s and govt.
| viii give YOU such diseases that YOU
shall go to vour bed with l~oalhing. You
have no r'gnt TO rob me, OF make me sit
inert az your bidding"
~" said Duty ; ''he would be n base
th'et who would presume 20 plumber
from my treasury. What ! when men
are diving for want Of help! women and
little children, perIsljng, even rs they gaze
from their ho,els OF mad up L" your pal.
ace windows rum and starvation hand
in hand, jecring ~ their own rage, and
shouting at their W bl,sphemy-thc
laws disregnrdeL-men placed III power
who allow The wicked to 20 unpuuisLed-
houses Of res.i'ence open at ever corner
-Nont young men gambling away honor
and reputatlou-lOuT daughters corrupted
al the very hearth stone, your sons
ruinoi."
''lloId," cried the would be sensualist,
ii was wrong, | will not rob Time, To- !
see that 10y So GoinI | should rob God.
| will not steal from Labor her better than
royai prcrugstivrs, but will learn To blend
with her exactlons, dse joys and blessings
Of an elegant leisure | will not steal
from Duiy, lest the blood o. tho lost be
required 1t my hands.
Thieves aud robters . ynu may I've rich
and beautiful, YOU may possess soft voices
shining eyes and ruby iIiS, you may have
ne rniree Of honorable assemblies. and
positions Of the highest power and widest
Influence bnt if you are stained with this
Immortality, what better are you for all
your at,auucnts
Ion idler standing on the hotel steps
yon ~!ebauchee. with fuuInesS covering INN
"a a garment-yon fashionable woman,
full OF inIquitv, though oulwardly SO love-
ly; yon drunkard with hleaied eye and
bio tied ip--yon lean, .iturerous SANDER
er. g"rgir.g his appetite on the
f,nciei wrongs or imperIsct,ous of others:
yon mother, neglcctIng the c~ounsels Of
Holy Wit, and contented with the bloom
seeing not whether her child is n weed or
a Hower-alI are robbers in the worst
scnse of the word.
In what "a guise will such appear in
ererpity. We are ASHAMED to hear it
sad, that any whom We have loved have
been in prison o. Jail for dishonorahle con.
duct. Let us take heed, then, for we
shall all lie arraigned before Gcd, and
our modification in that day will far ex-
cced any punishment that man can inhicl.
For moral thieves and robbers there is an
imprisonment, for the law of the Eternal,
not Of man, is despi,ed aud broken"
81. A. u.