The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-05-06
From Mc Sanfrancisco Cote" Era.
SHORT PATENT SE RM0N.
By DOW, JR.

shall II IS morning, give you season.
:,lc discourse from these words
.Swcct spring love to sit and hear
Thy music echoed far and near
Aud OH ] love tn scent the gale |
That bears sweet oil IA from the vale.
Ny IIcarc,s: While v inter has spread his |
white mantle upon the w-made graves OF
thousands Of our lcllow-heing>, how lucky !
1t is that you and are memifully permit
ted to remain above ground. scrabble
about, and rejoice at the cheering dawn of
another spring? Ola Sol has just now en-
tered the Rams pasture and, as two are
putting their heads together. You may rest
assured that ways aud means are about
being contriveI to provide Dame Nature
with a new frork. and Il bonnet as flowerv
AS the field Of rhetoric, hushandcd hv
young rollegian affected by touch Of ''the
tender"
! Yes my brethren, a general renovation
Of the outward world is about to take place.
! All damages done by Boreas and his j"us.,
are soon TO he repaired; and in few days
will this big pile Of dirt, from which we
draw our suS,cnance. look rs fresh and as
green and fair as did Eden, when the first
ve,na sun called forth its emerald glories,
and Zephyr, the first born, scented his young
rinions with newly distilled perfume till
they smelt stronger than wounded skunk S
cabbage on dewey morning.
Verify, my brethren. as childhood is the
morning of liic-so the rising Of the sun is
the morning of the day-so is Spring the
morning Of the year. Being now awaken.
cd from the tlnrmancy of Winter, we feel a
renova'ing, renewing change in our systems,
without looking to outward aspects, as much
as we do the happy influences Of bright
morning after refrs!,ing nights sleep.
How peculiarly, unaccnun,ably different is
> the influence Of the mornings rising beams
from tue evenings declining rays? With
the first WI. have an iu,uitivc knowledge
that new day is being boru-you may
really recognize it even with your ewes
shut with the latter, we have n mvsterinl.
prescniment that day is about to die. Ev
cry heart blossom seems to be closing il:
bright prtals-an atmosphere Of sohcrncs'
gathers round the soul as the slnlows length
en along the land,cape-and all but obsccn,
might. birds" are adnonshed. with the in
noreht chickens, Of comfortable roost
. The electrical power Of sun in the cas-
upon both body and minl is by no mean
Z the same as that exerted by a sun in tn
a west. Isn't that astonishing to yon, y
5 lstess ailigators, who neither know nor car
IL anything about the quality Of sunshine, 3
:, long as you can get enough of it and hav
, II good log to lie upon! Well, so it is wit
4 the annual sun. When that interesting an
J. important holy is in certain part Of tn
heavens; in antumn ,its power to sustain vee
D citation, or calling it anew into life, is &
Il weak as goose manure! but when it returr
10 10 the same point II the Sping, on its hom
At ward journey from Capricorn, its reviyif
h. ing powers are felt and acknowledged h
Ie every plant, hng, insect and living creatur
g, Can you account for this, you mud grove
d. ing hypp"pottommusssssers? (how do &c
N spell all that p No, nor either, unless o.
y Sol, after distributing all his fertiIizr
L." powders at the North, is resupplied at Il
IN Antarctic upon his Annual visit.
," Now, my friends, this mysterious ren
d vatng influence Of the vernal sun you ar
or all this part Of creation are beginning to fe
Of AS al nature is springing anew into Ii
!" you experience rejnvcnesceuce-fee rs
as a new year were actually before you, a,
" that still brighter days are yet to core,
~ all their loveiness of bloom and fulness
he fruitage. SO wonderful are the reuewi
powers offspring upon everything that grow
don't see why You. my brethren, who la
tie hecome premaiurely bald, may not rcas,
st- ably hope for luxurant crop of hair to J
'er start from your caputs. Take off your wi
ur- We barren-polls-sponge your heads--sta
for couple Of hours each day in the spri
wi sunshine-aud if that don't coax the dov
ice perhaps, the Brother B"gg's Iarsute T
ny, courager may fetch it-with the assisiar
but ofa large quantity of faith and few dolls
I once spilled little Of the article in SO
m; bushes, and quite number Of ha
she sprang up. where not even 30 much a
lousy gray rabbit WAS ever seen hefoT
81 This is no pulpit puff, but gospel-truth, )
he wicked unbelievers. ..
ys; As yet, my brethren, we have spring
af'', its inripiency. We observe it's sympto
her sMl witnss. i!s semi'invisbIe msnif.statio
'ar but it will not BE- till when
''The Bull bnts down the barriers Of the yes
"F7 that we shall sea Madam Flora mar