The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-08-14
A PATENT SERMON.
TIE HEN SCRATCHES WHERE SHE EXPECTS
To FIND BUG.

To FIND BUG.
Fellow sisters brethren; men, women ana
children; generally and particularly speak
ing. You needn't hustle any pages for the
text, for it amt there. 1t is a special dis
pensation to your appointed pastor; and he
hurls it at you for what it IS worth. Where
the hen scratches there she expects to ind
bug Did YOU come from the race track
OF the world 10 parade your "trotting bar
ness" before the meek and lowly? Have
you dropped the dazzling rattless of bust
ness and pleasure, TO while an idle hour
away listening to the mOurnful melody that
is rung by angel hands from the sacred
harps that hang forgotten upon the droop-
ing willow of mortality? Or are you to tussle
with the arch enemy for the mighty dollar?
Verify l say unto you, where the hen
scratches. there she expects to find bng.
My drowsy hearers, we are all OF rs lot
of damaged goods. trying to paHl ourselves
off rpon each other for more than our mar
ket valne; and the firm of Time. Death 81
Co, is doing n heavy commission business
upon our stock in trade. | hear the mallet
of death with its mechanical tap. tap. and
stolid monotone of going, going" and the
next minute down IL will come upon some
of our unconscious heads, and we shall be
folded up like the tents of Arabs, aud as
silently borne away to the other side Of Jor
dan, where the drygoOds man refrains from
troubling. and the grocer has nothing to say,
and the weary hen ceases from scratching
and the precious bug is found. In the midst
of life we are in debt, saws a notable proph-
ct. who was a near kin 10 V our beloved pas
tor. II any OF you are tempted to tarry
In the tavern of life. ard fail 20 settle your
account with the landlord. may the text
rise up before You like fabulous Arabiae
here only to rest from The rough AMI tum-
bic giant, and deter you from that sink or
OF utter depravity where bummers lead
trustful hens to scratch up the bugs they
devour.
Your undivided attention IS furthermore
solicited to the Specification of the text
metaphorically and collectively, in small
passages to suit every capacity, from the
boy shucking peanuts peacefully In the cor
ner, to the hardened sinner who stalks so
proudly into your pastors presence. Aud
woe unto you, young woman, sea saving up
the broad isle with your new cOa!-scuttle
bonnet and streamers flying for you are
vanity of vanities. And you young men in
your fancy neck cloths, 20 on until you slip
up over a bale of cotton and are left to DRIFT
over the rhinestone sea Of national disgrace.
by-word and Jest unto the world that
you love not wisely. but too well. NV be-
loved. l warn you now. if you manifest
SYMPTOMS OF such cowariice as has. been han
ded down TO you from high places the big
gest pair OF stosgv boots in the congregation
will rise mp in ju1 yment against you, and
kick you out into the broad road that leads
to everlasting ruin.
And finally when you cut the crust from
your brown bread loaf, and scrape the hard
bean from the top of your noOn-tide pot. if
you cut little into the soft and scrape a lit
tie below the crisp for the beggar's and out
casts portion, your conscience and digestion
will trouble you less; and as you steal out as
some Of you will to might where the silver
moon of memory hangs low over the haun
ted hills of the past, to bow at some ballo,y-
ed fnger-post that point the way a beloved
QUE vert over your broken heart to heaven.
may the eternal verdure of the evergreen
hope spring up in the barren spots trod hard
by the busy feet Of the absorbing. Now,
and brig yOu to the sweetness Of that peace
and tenderness of that love that overfovs
continually in deeds and words, for the ele.
walton OF the ragmuffins who march in the
rear ranks Of the great army of humanity;
for the barbarians are not all in the ragged
file, but "many a gem Of purest ray serene"
wants but lifting from the filth of shine
So mote it be. Brother SlowfaSt. circulate
the platter for the root of evil. until it is all
rooted out of this place. For verify 1 say
unto you, the hen that scratches here ex-
poets to find a bug. Shell out.