American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-07-29
CITY OF LANCASTER:
ChuT sday Morning, July 40, 1853
sELF-DENIAL.'

A SKEEcf6T A SERMON BY HRNRr WARD BEEcuER.
A mans head is not unit. as owl phil.
osophers have taught hitherto. It is,
city a confederacy. commonwealth Of
faculties. First are what we call the ap
petites which take hold of the sensual life
Then there are the passions which make
he driving power, and without which at
man is good only as cammelIias are good.
that have no odor. Then there are the
moral powers which pertain to the spiritual
life; and then what we call the intellect.
which is the messenger and watchman for
all the other faculties, which look out, and
preceives, and analizes, the reports. In
body the eyes and ears and nearves are in
pairs; so the soul and faculties act in pairs,
but i: is by opposites. When AVERAGE is
reused, benevoleAce. rises to restrain it.
When fear is excited. hope comes assuags
anxiety. So the soul is not balanced and
quiescent. but continually rises and falls in
'unddlations, like waves ofthe sea. Every
faculty sends up its solicitations. but all
must be denied at the time but one. An
'analouge Of this can be found in the hu.
man body. All the senses can be exerci-
ssd in low forms at the same time; but in
their highest use, only one. i stand list
less iE summers afternoon. un3era tree
covered with 'hagrsnt blossoms, eating a
ibuncl of grapes which both feel and
taste. / see the peaceful laudscape-the
browsing heards--the distant mountains.
/ hear the chirping Of insects-the notes
Of birds--the falling Of waters, in the un-
paid philharmonic of'Dature. The flowers
send up their odor about me as If Gods
creation loved to do homage to his creature
iB1tsdddenly q companion exclaims:
'"Hark! Do you hear that distinct thun
der?' 81.
Or some audubon at my side, whoRnow
i cannot distinguish peculiar bird note
calls out; .,.,, !.
"There listen that is It'll That is it." =
Aud instantly landscape and flowers and
grapes are forgotten; could not tell
what frnit was eating. but all my atten.
ton is couoentrat. d upon the sense o.
hearing. ~, sr,tas,is as
Every man knows the truth OF this prin
'ciple when applied to the pursuits Of life
He who would be a scollar cannot be 6
traveller and circumuavigate the.globe. HI
who would gain his living from books
osunot devots himself also to pictures. NJ
one can possess the Highest skill both a
the anvil aud easel. Many people thinl
"self-denial begins when menjoiu the ,hurcl
but ,self>denial is not peculiar to Christian
ity. It was part Of Gods original ide'
in the creation Of man. 1t belongs to ey
rery choice among complex motives
Christianity only gives US the law ofyield
ing.
Most men make the basilar part Of thei
head despotic, and harmoniEe every thin,
downward, like fable Neputupe. who rule
In the ooze and mud at the bottom Of III
- sea-, "A few there are that make the to-
Of the head govern. and harmorfiHe ever
thing upward. = Their deity sits throne
on high Oymphus. not Jupiter but Jeho
/ yah. Many men vibrate between the two
and now are ruled by the superior and nov
by their inferior nature. They will hav
everything pure and yiEtuous aad noble
the family; they give play there to the
higher powers; but when they 90 to the
stores they say, Business is business, an
the family is the family" And concienc
s peeps and says - " Sts
"What is right?"
And, the man anewers-- Z
.,Back with youi What is eastomG ry?
Customrryl One might as well look
the middle Of Broadway FOR water.cress
aud DAISIES, and springipg grass, as look
the bard. dusty. fOot-beaten ways Of cus'o
to find out what truth isl Money alway
thinks what the devil tells it. and in Il
olink;. firing and round of gold. all ma
nanimities, and nobilities OF rectitude. !
question ofrighta aud wrong that 60 boyor
the yard-stick or the gallon measur, ha'
to yield to its control. E.' S's.E y
Mems passions are not always hawkiu
80 when the oald eagle is korged and lies
= sleep in his eyre, the squirls are out--t Il
spairows Ay atthe bottom Of the cliff III
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