Litchfield enquirer., 1857-08-27

] are not mended when lie finds the gentleman Of the house is not at home We fear tha,
 much grace has been lost at the front door, 1 In the midst of these luXuries of a first class house, We sometimes would look wistfuy out 0! the window, tempted to envy the uu. conscious happiness of our two-story neighbors They had no conrenaenceS, and were at peace 1 While we had all manner of conyeniences, that drove us up and down stairs ;-now to keep the flood out, and then to bring it in now to raise heat, then to keep off 6 conhagration, so that we were but little better of at home than are those iunoceutiy insane people who leave home every summer, and go into the country to take care of twenty trunks for two months. But the cruelest thing of al as We stood at the window, was the pious looks O.! passers by, who seemed to say with their eyes, " A man cannot expect much grace that lives
 in such fine house,
 It has certainly been a means of grace to Us Never such field for patience, such humbing of expectations and high looks. Ii
 it would not seem like trfling with serious sub jects, when asked how one might attain to perfection, we should advise him to buy first class house with modern improvements, aud live in it for year. If that did not fit him for translation, he might Well despair of any chance
 Ye who envy us, will you exchange with us :? Ne who laugh sarcasticalIy at ministerial lux ury, will you lend Us your sackcloth and take our conveniences? But those who do live in houses full of conveulences will, hencetorti, be our fast friends. They will say, What if he is aud AboI;tIonst, and We fro->Iayery? What If le Is radical, and We conservative? Tnt poor fellow lives in first cliss house, and is punished enough without our adding to his misfortune;
 Meanwhile, we practice the same charity. We rail no more at Fifth ayenne, and admire what sainty virtue enables so many to carry cheerful faces who live in houses with even ful for our happier lot Though we are worse off than people in two-story houses how much better are we placed than if We lived in Fifth avenue
 We bear our burden patiently, knowing that in the very moment of despair persons are at the very point of deycrauce. Who knows but he may have a fire as well as his neighbors ? One hour would suffice to set man free from all lis troubles, and permit him to walk the streets at liberty, unharnesscd by plumbers, carpenters, timers. glazierS, gas-fx- CTS, pet-ftters, bell hangers, and the whole tribe of bel-pucrs
 We are now living at peace. We are in plain two-story country house, without " con veniences." We are rccruiting Nothing gets out of order. We do not wake to hear water trirllling from bursted pipes; We have no chan delIer to fall down ; the gas never leaks we are not afraid to use our furniture our chairs have no linen clothes on the carpets are with out drugget. The children bless the country and country house, in which they are not al- ways scratching something, or hitting some thing with shoe, or button, or fnyer-nails And we already feel that a few weeks more will So far invigorate us that we shall be able to return for ten months life in MODERN HOUSE WITH CONFERENCES