The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1859-03-02
N U NJ B E r 3,
Uncle Benjamin's Sermon.


Correspondent Of the Boston Post fur
nishes the following. which he calls I'm
ce Benjamin's Sermou,' and which he
remarks, CONTAINS many wholesome
truths
UNCLE BENJAMIN's SERMoN.-Not
NANNY hours ago heard Uncle Benia-
mlu discussing this matter to his son, who
Was complaining Of pressure.
Key upon IT, sammy said the old
man, as lie leaned upon his staff, with
his gray locks flowing in the breeze Of
may morning; 'murmurIng pays no bills
have been an observer at times these
fifty years, and never SAW a.mau helped
out OF u hole by curslug his horses. BE
as quiet as you can, for nothing will grow
under moving barrow, and discomfort
harrows the mind. Matters are bad, j
acknow ledge, but no ulcer is any better
for lingering. The more you groan the
poorer YOU are.
Replnng at losses is only putting pep
per INTO sore eye. Crops will fail IN all
soils, and we may be thankful that we
have not II famine. Besides, | always
took notice that whenever | felt the rod
pretty smsrtly, 1t WAS as much as TO say,
Here Is sOmelhlng which YOU have got TO
learn Sammy, don't forget that your
schooling Is not over yet, though YOU
have wife aud two chdreu.'
Aye cried Sammy, you NAV say
that, and two apprentices III the bargain
! and J should like TO know what poor
man .earns here, when the greatest scbol.
ars and lawyers are at loggerhesds and
cant for their lives tell What has become
OF the hard money
Softly, Sammy, am older than you,
| have not got these hairs aud this crook.
ed back without some burdens. ] could
tell YOU stories Of the DAYS OF continental
money, when my grandfather used to
stuff "a suIky box with bills TO pay for a
! yearling, or a wheat fan, and when the
women used thOrns Tor pins, laid their tre-
| pots away III the garrst. You wish TO
know What you can learn You may
learn these seven lhngs.
't5rsI; that you have saved too little
and spent too much. never taught
you to be Il mlser, but have Seen you
give away your dollar Tor a 'uolhiug,
when YOU might have la'd oue.halt aside
Tor charity ana one half tor rainy day
Second {; tha, you have gone too much
r." ""~1''. a." sys inid YOU credit WAS
shadow :; there is n substance behind.
winch casts the shadow but a small
hody may cast Il layer shadow, aud no
wise man Will follow the shadow any fur.
ther than he can see the substance. You
may now learn that YOU have followed Q
shadow, and been decoyed into bog.
thirdly that you have gone into too
much haste TO he rich. Slow and easy
WINS the race.
Four!hly that no course OF life can be
depended upon as always prosperous.
am AFRAID Tie younger race OF working
men IN America have Il notion that no
Lody will 60 10 rum this sxIe Of the water.
Providence has greatly blessed US, and We
nave tecome presumptuous.
fltthIy; that YOU have not been thank
tuI enough 10 God for his benefits 10 pas.
/ times.
SrXthIy ; that you may be thankful our
lot Is not worse. We might have famine,
or pes,Ieuce, or wars, or tyranny, or all
together.
And lastly, to end nv sermon, you
may learn to offer with more uudetslan-
ding, the PRAYER Of your infancy, Give US
thIs day our daily bread
The old man ceased, and Sammy put
on his apron, and told Dick u blow
away OH the forge bellows.