Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-12-09
Afhnmksgiving sermon.

Boston Courier q number of Thanks,
givings ago, but is still as good as ever.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine
but q broker spirit drieth the bones.-Pro-
verbs xvii, %.
The words of the wise man deserve
especial regard, for this is an occasion
when it is good to be merry and wise.
There are three hundred and odd days
In the year besides this, when a man
may be melancholy without setting at
naught tho Governors proclamation;-
but onee in the year there is reason in
feeling comfortable, The wise nan is
assdredly right in prescribing his med
icine for unhappy mortals, sick of sin
and sea coal, the pinch in the money
market, and the palpitation in the price
Of breadstnffs. Ho, every one that
thirsteth for q relief from tho care that
cash is heir to; come ye to DR.. Solomon,
and take q little of his Balm of Gilead
in tho shape of = merry heart. 1t is
not 10 be "taken fasting" nor will it
make any person quake with fear, tho
when taken 1t may be we'll shaken-not
under the cork stopper ola wry face,
but through the liberal tunnel Of n
broad grin. A merry heart doeth good
Ikea medicine; and who does not wish
lao%do good 60 himself with such plea
sant kind of doctors stuff? Verify,
the faculty in old times were wiser in
their generation than many of the mo-
dern NJ. DIS.
There are three things under the sun
yen, four-which on a Thanksgiving
day are to be esehewed of men The
small soul of parsimony, and the grum-
bling bowels of covetousness, the bro
ken spirit Of thankless repining, and
the dry bones of cold unc~haritableness.
There is one of the right medicine in
these lungs, which deserve to be all
pounded in the same mortar and work
ed up into a blue pill of more infinite
sirnal i~ittlencss than any quantity yet
prescribed in q homeopathic formula.
But to-day we are hidden to be thank
full; aud whether we think of the bid
ding or not, it is to be hoped we can all
find cause to offer thanks.
To be thankful. this day is a duty
both enjoined upon US by the Execu-
tive authority and urged by our own
feelings of what is fit and becoming
Thankfulness implies content-content
indicates good humor-good humor is
eheerfulness-and whose has q cheerful
heart, has perforce a merry one. 1t is
therefore as clear as preaching, that
King Solomon and the Governor are
both of enc mind as to the proper way
Of keeping Thanksgiving, and where is
the son of man in this Commonwealth
who will undertake to controvert their
joint authority? IF there be any such
dry bone of a doubter among US, let
him suck the wooden spoon of perversi-
ty, gnaw the dry drumstiek of his own
dogmatism. and sit down in skeptical
saekscloth and ashes, till his more sem
sible and rebellious stomach banks for
dinner. Let him dine upon a dish of
doubts, and go to bed in the Cruel of
grumbling and groaning. But we hope
there is none such.
So let us all be reasonably thankful,
and not unreasonably may we also be of
q merry heart. Let those who are in
health be thankful for their good case,
and those who are out of health be
thankful that they are no worse. Let
those who are rich be thankful for their
wealth, and those who are poor find
Gauss for thankfulness in having so lit
tie to do with the root of all evil. Let
old folks be thankful for their wisdom
in knowing that young folks are fools,
and let young mes be even with them.
in thankfulness and good opinion, by
thinking the compliment back again.
Let the lean folks be thankful for their
spare ribs, and let fat folks be thankful
that they can laugh at the lean ones,
and grow fatter and fatter every day
Let him who is in debt be thankful that
he is not in limbo for it; and let him
who Is out of debt do the same, and call
at our house and let Us know what sort
Of feeling it is. Let those who are in
Office put up all the thanks they can
imagine that merit is at last rewarded;
aud lot those who are out of Office utter
thanks also that the country does not
insist upon their eating sour grapes
Let married folks be thankful for bless
ings both little and great; let old bach
elors aud old maids be thankful for the
privilege of kissing other folks babies,
and much good may it do them.
ma. We read of men of genius ; but
could VIC trace the source from whence
their genius emanated, we would find i,
to be the heart of woman! for in her
heart dwell, for the most part, the char
ity the yirtua. the moral soundness al