Litchfield enquirer., 1861-12-19
SHORT SERMONS. BY LAYMAN.-No. EIGHT
ON THE GLUTTON.
Text" Whose God is his BeEy.'

ON THE GLUTTON.
 Text" Whose God is his BeNy."
 My OMN1voRoUs HEARERS Your preacher, after weeks respite from his exhausting labors, returns to his pulpit this keen frosty wintry morning, with a face smiling all over with the sunshine of peace and strengthened to admins ter to your hungry minds the solid and substan- tial food of the word, without which you would prove as lean and poor as the famous Kline which belonged to the first proprietor of the Pharaoh Bank.
 The subject which I have taken to hold up as a mirror unto your natures to-day, is peculiarly seasonable at this season of festiyity and stuff ing, tho in season and out of season you are, some of you, more or less suffers.
 In some of those interesting works you per used in your childhood and which were beaten into yol by the birchen rod you may have read ard remembered of a certain animal called in Natural History the "Glutton." A curiously c rnivorous animal an animal with capacious nav and a big round belly, bigger and rounder than Santa Claus an animal that climbs into the tops of the highest trees and there waits for his prey. which, when unlucky (for him) he chances to be passing by, wholly ignorant of the misfortune that is to befal him, the animal aforesaid pounces upon like bucket of wa ter, or a load of diversity, or shower of bad luck, Or thousand of brick, and cllnging to the luckless prey, sticking to him like a brother or a poor relation through thick and thin, sucks away his young blood and in short is shortly the death of him.
 A most offensive animal, with perfumery which renders assafntida and polecat ottar of roses in comparison an animal which eats and swells and swells and eats until it can cat no longer, and then lies torpid and stuffed and swol- len for three or four days together, and then climbs his tree like the Apostle Zaccheus 10, another speculation.
 l My hearers, whether certain big eaters of the human species were called after the short-legged round bellied, fish flesh and skin devouring an- nal have thus described to you, or vice versa I have no means at present of ascertaining, and in- deed it is matter but of the minutest impor. tance to know. This much we do know for cer. tain, that there are moro specimens than one who are like him all but the tail and pin feathers and whom the individual specimen in natural history would be hardly complimented by being lkened to in anything more than the name.
 There arc some men,-and 1 don't have to look many feet over my congregation to spot them--who dive down into butchers shop, like the aforesaid animal and bounce upon ten pounds of bulls beef like so much whipped sylia bub and carry it home for one dinner, or who sit down to table and devour six-pound tur- key whole, and sigh because two is too many for them or who carry gallon of oysters home and take them as cheerful little appetizer for sleep and then go to bed to dream of bigger things Such men will tell you of their thousand cares and troubles, how they enjoy poor health by day and bad dreams by night, and will sigh and groan and growl at life in general and eternity in particular from morning till night, and, unlike their prototype, are unhappy even while devour- ing
 Oh my hearers, what 8 miserable existence is that of gourmand and glutton,-who lives to eat, not eats to live, whose life, liberty and pur- suit of happiness, is his breakfast, and dinner, and supper, whose god is his belly. and whose belly is the death of him at the end. You re- member the case of Mir. Dives, rich, fat old gourmand, who lived several years ago, before you or was born, who lived and died glutton, and who went to place where they don't have any rain and where, though frying in his own fat, for years and years, he has never had any thing to eat, nor the first drop to drink. Such I regret to say, will be the fate of several see before me to- day, and that very speedily, not withstanding their works in this branch surpass their faith in another.
 Thanking you very heartily, my hearers, for the patience and doclity with which you have listened to this dissection of very disgusting topic, without casting further reflections upon you, but hoping you will live .abstemious, godly and frugal lives, I shall proceed to put on my overcoat, and step over to HemmingWay'sto to dis cuss few frugal oysters on the half shell. l Which is all at present.