Litchfield enquirer., 1861-11-21
For the Enquirer SHORT SERMONS. Au,1 Nn E,1r.,
TEXT" Cure Killed u Cu,,."
ON CARE.

IEXT-" Care Killed u Cu." l MY SYMPArIlzISG HEARERS !-The subject of my discourse to-day, and the discourse itself shall be short and sweet: You will easily de- duce the former from the text and you shall have the latter, its exordium, heads, application, re- marks and conclusion in short metre.
 Care killed Cat.' Head No. !. Beware of Care. If Care killed an animal of such extreme longevity as the feline race is supposed to pos sess, how soon must it wither up you, my poor, blind, one-souled fellow mortal!
 II. Tie Cat, my hearers, has nine lives. Ev- cry life has its tale, soft, easy, and gracefully flowing on and onward, till it is lost in an invis, ible point, Or narrowed, ss-grained or entire ! ly bobbed of and cur-tailed, like the barbers dog of Bro'l her Hood, who could not recognize his master, because cruelty robbed of his organ of recognition. Do not, then, my beloved, suf fer any such barberous preceding to materially clip your narrative of life, and bring you to such an abrupt and iagior;ous fris.
 III. Ihe Cat is naturally an smiab!e animal. In its Eitten-hood indeed 1t s remarked by chil- arcn to be playful and "a gay gambolier;" in is more mature mai iaenhood, it is considered by ancient T.bbie3 Nllo cherish it, to bc warm and aftetion&te, tenacious oi love, life every thing. | i; lively i% Sll its y;.urts, and ill it's acro;ls Jc :upatiol!s Tie Primer doth say, The Cat :!nts play, al.>. a;',r aay." 1t is lively, iji.sy, Iocite, cl.2y.,uI in lie but in dea,h ! T. |. T l,+i -lo., tod and u1.ialpy. And We are told, Of st least one o( its spec;os that Coe killed it.
 i ". IIie Cat is {. rulninaling ail;ui:!. How ever lively and i:siy ard playful cat may be, S ;iiotGl!!j;l observer may easily discover that it has ?va ir its ear, or thing CT two in its head too numerous to mention. Ancient Tab b;es and innocent children before alluded to, have often noted tlis, in tie look with which it often regards a "ln;cc' previous to manufac- turing it into a very dead rat-in the wisttul or spiteial way in which it regards the big dog or the little one in tie thoughtful introspeeton with which 1t egards himself or herself, and ru- inmates on its latter-eud when it cuddes around a bright hearth-fire these raw November nights, or sits purrng ia its mistress lap, purblHd to the bowling weather without; or gazes vacantly into the blazing hearth with but one thought, and finally, when melancholy marks her for its own, and 1t news its last melancholy vail, and then dissolves in vale of tears, We are told explicitly i Cure did d.
 Y. Finally, the Cat is retcent animal. With all its joys or sorrows, with its heyday of youth, or its sobriety and sedstcness of age-in its good spirits and bad spirits, in evil or good report when misery like full-grown rat, gnaws upon its vitals freezes its young blood, or snufrs its nine talop candles out one by one, it says never word. It mew-ses on it, perhaps but that is all or if it cat-a-waus, it is at the catastrophe of others, not is own. That catastrophe my hearers, is Cure.
 Rcnarks.-lst. A cats death-not its depar- ture-is always melancholy one. Its days may be long, its tale short, its beauty mddling, but its final end has not knot VIC can tie a hope to, after 1t Is lost. It goes forth, whithcr 10 man knoweth and returneth no more forever. It plurges into lonely wilderness, or diveth into i. deep pool, and there breathes its last sigh. IL heels up and is gone.
 Pick it up tenderly,
 Handle with care,
 Fashioned so slen0ery,
 Young and so fair''
 2d. The cats exit is sorrowful. We sorrow as those having comfort. We lament its de- mise all but de mice. But who shall know the carking care that finally cared for it, whom none did care for?
 3d. The memory of departed cat is fagrant some consider it fragrant, but we never could 7 conceive of any thing odorifrous about de- ceased cat. We hope We have feeling for the fe- line animal but it is feeling of relief, and yet we heave a sigh of no mean size whenever we reflect how like it was in its likes and dislikes, how like it is in its final catastrophe and cata- f comb, to the rest of the human species! Two Reflections will conclude the discourse. I lst.-We sec, my brethren, with tears in our l eyes, what care has done for the Cat that per isheth Let Us take warning by its example lest we perish likewise. Care IS the Corrodng Rust that rusts mans vitals out, and puts out his lights and brings death to the liver as quick if notquicker than any other earthly poison. We were Ll L not made for care. The world is wide and it is as jolly as it is wide if we have only mind to } enjoy it. In our youth and in our manhood and e womanbood in our play and in our work we have . no business with care and care should have nc - business with us It is as idle to give up to the blues and ennui as it is to stick our heads into
 kettle of hot water, put our hands into an elep e hant's mouth to experience new sensation. I,