The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1860-10-10
a HARD SHELL SERMON.
By The REV. sLrrAxaroN sLArnEa.

By The REV. sLfTHERToN sLATHER.
B'efhe'ing, Saints, and Sfnners-ah:-ll's
sum lime since yore beloved pastor has
sluns the Scripture at yore pore onsankli-
fed heds He's not been a wraslin with
Satin sonewar else tho No brethering =
1hars pastor fur every flock, and the
subscriber never mikes in with outside
fights. I've been irainin for The fall and
winter seaSon-a prepafin fur 10 give old
horns and spear tail another mill in this
hsar twenty four foot pulpit. I've been a
saiherin muscle an getlin my house in or
der, fur such fight yo never dreamed,
much less hunk of IA all yore born days
An ef don't split Old Sailn's huff up plum
10 his knee joints and put mp his shelters,
II won't be fur want of wind and bottom
that's so
Your parstor has been a rusty katin at
Newporl-ah, whar he drunk old port, and
al the While Slonntains-ah whar the din
ner mountains were black, and at the Sui
phur Springs-sh, whar the devil war to
pay. and ginerally collected all he wanted
and down thar at Cape Cod-ah, whar the
circulalin meelnm fish scales and lob
ster's eyes yes, bre,hering, thar's whar
I've bin. I've been a lookin al sin in all
its shapes. I've eat with it, drunk with it.
leafed with it. fit with it, but haint brot
any OF ii nome with me. Nary wunce.-
They couldn't spare morsel OF i, in them
places. {, war luxury
met Satin thar, but did'n. tech him -
1fs no jGce lackIin him in hot water
Never tackel an euermy on his own guano
hill Wait oniel you catch him away from
home. Keich Satin in The cold wether, and
It's as good as a hip-ho in a wrasie with
Jerseyman. Bul knowd, brethering, wun
fac knowd that the mint The old feller
got through coIIeciin his dues thar. he'd
make tracks. fur.yore neighborhood ! also
knowd that when I opened my fall season
hyer, Id hnd him ready for the fight, and
good menny OF you pore. misserbei SIN
ners and backsiiders reddy to go yore pile
on him. Bot you'll lose your money. a
PaIs,or who's. had lyme Jewlye and Or
gust ttoe train IN, and hez bin practisin
with the dum-belIs OF revelation, aud pun
chin his .naw5sys Tlter the san, bags of
Genesis, and goltin up his Nebbycudnez-
Ear giaerally, amt toe be putt down by
passel of onbelievin, bIacksIidin heethen-
sah No, not eff the parstor understands his /,
.consiiiusann, aad wears spiked brogans too
provide against slippin np on the b,lnnau-
ner rbines Of temptation which sin throws
in bis way-ah!
Yore parsior air home agin, ard rejices
10 think he is reeooperated externally, in
iernaliy, e:ernaliy. aud internally all over,
and kin alzo administer un:oe yo tho grace
of Jeremiah and whip you out'n ihe brod
rode with the oygad of irooih akordin TO J.
Scri2ture-ah An eff ketch 20 at any of
yors little arnadilloes, I'll put you through
a of moral kalomeI.on the apkshus !
bench siat'Il make youcry ippecayy. Yes
brelheriug. and III follow il up with dose
.oi Solomons Rhenberba an:i sIasLin over T
your heds with a buch OF Ecleze as sticks I
ah! Well, will
My tex on this occasion NAV be found in I
Revelation By Them that looks of It. Sareh T
and ye shall find. sez The holy Sans, pro- t
vidin you look long enough and sharp
,enopgk Ninth vers, .sAn he tuck him into
high mounting whar de Curriculum
iEoameih aud The vurrnm iieih not, > .ssJfn