Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-02-26
HARP SERMON.

you've no doubt heern before, and | now APP
pear here TO cxpound the scripters and pint
out the narrcr way which leads from VAIN
' world To the streets of the new Juroosalem,
I and my text which shall choose for the oc-
casion is in the lods of the bible, somewhere
between the second Chronic ills and the last
chapter of Timothy Titus, and when you find
it, you will find it in these words
" And they shall gnaw a file, and fec unto
the mountains of llopzidam where the Lion
roaroth, and the wang-doodlc mourneth for
its first born
Now, my broethoring, as | have before told
you / am an uneddicated man, and know
nothing about grammar talk and collidge
hghalootin. but I'm plain unlarnt preach
g er Of the Gospi what's been foreordaincd, and
called to oxpound the scripters to a dyin
world, and prepare porverse generation for
the day Of wrath for they shall gnaw a
file, and fec unto the mountains of Hcpzi-
dam, where the Lion roarcth, and the wang
doodle mourneth for its first born"
My bcluv-ed brecthering, the text says
" they shall gnaw file IL don't say may,
but they shall And now there's morn one
kind of file.
There's the hand saw file. rat-tail file, SIM
gle file, double file, and profile but the kind
of file spoken of here isn't one Of them kind
neither because it is a figger of speech my
brocthcring, and means goin' it alone and
gcttin ukered; for, they shall gnaw file,
and fee unto the mountains Of llepzidam,
whore the Lion roareth, and the wang doodlc
mournoth for its first born
And now there be some here with fine close
on thar backs, brass rings on thar fingers and
lard on thar hor what goes it while they
are young and thar be brothers here what.
as long as thar consttushen and forty cont
! whiskcy last, goes it blind and thar be sis
tcrs here what, whom they get about sixteen
years old, cut thar tillcr ropes and goes It.
with a rush; but / say, my deer hrccthcring,
take care you don't find whom Gabriel plays
his last trump that you've an went it alone
and got ulorcd for " they shall gnaw file
and flee unto the mountains of lIcpzidam,
where the Lion roarcth and the wangdoodlc
mourncth for its first born.
And my brccthcring, there more dams
besides tcpzidam. Thars Rotterdam. Had
dam, Hamstcrdam. mll-dam, and don't-carc-
a-damn the last of which. my deer brccthcr-
ing is the worst of all and reminds me of a
Z circumstance wonct knew in the state Of IL
lcnoy There was a man what built mill on
the east fork of Augur Creek, and it was a
good mill and ground sight of grain, but the
J man what built it was a miserable sinner, and
= never civ ANYTHING to the church, and my
! brecthcring. one night thar came dreadful
3 storm of wind and rain. and the fountains of
; the great deep was broken up aud the waters
s rushed down and swept that man mill dam
i into kingdom come and 10 and behold, ia the
3 moniu. when me got up he found he was not
worth dunn. Now. my young brcethcrug,
when storms Of temptation oycrtakc yo. take
care You don't fall from grace and become
like that mans ni1l. for b. tbcv shall ,ra,y a
file. and flee unto the mountains of IIepzidam.
wbar the Lion roarotb. and the wanr-doodle
o. Vbor n,o Tinn ro,rotb and tbo ,yo,.,-
doodle moprpch for lis 6rst born This
mart of the text. INV broctborino. is anotbor
frrcr of speoch and i.'nt ia he taken MS II
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