Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-08-24

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T., j., to one one which happened cJudge Marshall
nf e. 2 VIRGINIA while travelling through the
Western portion of the "Ofd Dominion"
had I haep seated but few moments when
tha aau attorney % wound up with the following:
80 aYes gentlemen, the whole system of re-
lioion is one grand hunbug, and It's yota-
r;es are either n1onomaniacs, or poor delu-
ded beings. It isthepoor, unlearned, alone
who are the most numerous of its disciples.
Why is it, 1 ask, that the poor man is
more susceptible than the rich man to re-
lioious influence? One hundred poor men
become converts to the theory to ten
wealthy. Would you have proof? Look
around you. Why is it | askG what say
YOU straager, in answer to the interrogato-
ry 2" said the attorney, turning abruptly
to an elderly, rather distinguished looking
gentleman, who sat quietly smoking his
pipe in Ear corner Of the pom, and had
arrived at the Inn but an hour or two be-
fore me.
i "What's he reason you ask? Why
/ it is simply bcause the wealthy are too
much occupid with the business, the cares
and pleasureof life to give thought Of
religion. Thy wont take tiae to give the
: subject serins thought. One said that
he had yok Of oxen and that he wish
!; : ed II prove tenn, therefore he prayed to
! be excused; aother apiece of land, ETC.
TIE minds of he poor are not thus alb
sfbed with Il trash of the earth to the
kclusion Of th which is priceless. True,
God has cbose1 the weak and foolish to
St t1confoupd the Song and wise in many in
4 stances yet bseve me, tits not the illlit
E crate alone who ire so blessed of God as tc
e be fle recipientsSf his grace and mercies
~ Thy wisest men ke world has ever seei
- hae acknowledged his supremacy; ant
a i bced willing knee. Where is an unbe
- - her now, in this enlig ghtened country
ID we're the majesty and goodness and glor
III a weswly demonstrated, osS sss;s tS, -,
h. superstition, sygsta ssygstart ! ins "I h.s bee
an changed by the sase sass@ reliafs, ehsps sIicn 70
or anon reviled to be .as.ost : paradise
II IF The dark places Of the eSsrta have bee
ri lighted up, the dominion ohe devil hs
an been subyerted, and civilizaa5 by its il
air strumentality, now blooms Ore ferocit
a. once reigned, and the sound the gosp
If is now heard where scenes ere once el
to acted too dark and revolt for gent
cir ears, and nations, which we once ma
an. tied with human gore, andtained Wi
yed the blood of martyrs and off ocence, no
ro- wait in peace the glorious nner of Il
ere Cross. Beware, young M, how y
etv sneer at that which to secu for US S
an viour offered up his life as aRlling sac
the fee. Did I not know, yog man, th
it was through ignorance orI eur part th
aw. you thus revile, | would EXON to you
hev the language of Paul &c full of ST
IN tlety, and all mischief, tlop child of t
ties devil, thou enemy of all nghtcousne
oft wilt thou not cease to persrt the ZIG
low way Of the Lord 2"
f;na "Ha! ha! ha! inteEptsd the lawy
. iS ''had known that / lh walked up an
obt Methodist preacher, Ikould have tai
}se- time by the forelock, al run in time"
,me 81 am not Methdst preacher, sir
r of haven't that honor-th are a pious, |
. ful, and reverend claof people, who
,icb love and respect"
1ich "Who are you then insolently dem
f he ded the attorney. ~
inn "Sam Houston, sir, If Texas
he Had thunderboltanen in their m
ccn- there would not haveeen more cleo
Il r. motion in the crowdI In second the
the TO was surrounded, Id twenty welc
no. hands were extende. / made my
the ust tnen TO the dAqg room, ana
ertv looked back over my houldnr, I saw
pom i,''io Vi 90. i"',on '''oi She"A'"s "
, re- the opposite door.
the
our ALLEGED CURE FoREEkER AND A
l of The following, broughtfrom the Spa
'era- Main, and said to be aAunfailing cur
with fever and ague, is highly 1commende
,suc- an exchange: "Just befof9the chill c.
$ the on, have a pot of very sHhg coffee I
and keep it hot, and whenIhe first ch
felt, pour out about a pint nd squeez'
IT, Juice of couple Of lemon into it, a
" little sugar to make it patal le, dri1
'ks II off, 90 to bed and cover u warm.
asses trial of this often cures, whit two or
uote: trials never fails"
= y ~ Sometime past, paragraphs wei
ioay, ing the rounds of the papeTsfn relati