New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-28


OF God upon their own heads: aud thus by intem:
perance and its fruits the whole family is depraved
and ruined. Every member Of it sinks into mis-
cradle and dishonored grave, as says tue Holy
Scripture. " Their last old 'age shall be without
honor, and IL they die quickly, they shall have no
hope speech of comfort in the day OF trial, for
dreadful are tue ends Of wicked race"
Not sim Tell me, then, what is sin, II this be
not Would to God that sinful as is 1t were not
tue very worst sin of day; the prime inqnty oil
the people, the poisoned source and prolific origin Of
nearly all the other sins they commit the begetter OF
most of their temporal miseries and sfilctlons and
the ban to their social ameiioraton.
Assemble together the sinners OF every class
among us; those vino scarcely or never are seen al
Mass, those to whom the priest Of God breaches IL
vain and You will have before you an army OF
| drunkards The son goes to work, aud lies to his
parents to keep back part of his wages for drink and
gambling. The dishonest clerk hlcbes from DIS eii-
pOyer, that he may have the means TO Iiot Win Ms
boon companions at the bar OF the neigbb0fng grog'
gerry; and when excited by liquor and filthy CONVEX.
satiOn to spend the rest OF the night IN way thst
will not describe bat which makes the devils IN nell
laugh with fiendish Joy and satisfaction TO 10 the
prisons, to the brothels, and speak Win THESE OUT
casts Of socisty; approach the scaiioio wnere the
wretch, whose hands have been smofuea III inc
blood OF bis brother, must now expiae his crime;
ask them to tell you the fret step 10 their downward
course aud it will he strange you do not hear the
same reply, drink drink.
Our holy religion is religion whose base scharl'
ty whose walls are charity whose topmost stone
charity and drunkenness destroys the sacred edfce
from roof 10 foundation. The home Of the drunkafd
is q pandemonum ot angry demons; quarrels,
hareds enviss, oslumnies, unhappiDesS, jeao1iies,
disease, despair suicide murder every social evii
follows IN the train of this dsmning vice. - W no
bath wees 3 rays the Scripture, "wnose father hath
wo who hath content onsi who falls into pits who
hath wounds without causel who hath rednsss oil
syesl Surely they who pass their time over wine,
} aud study TO drink oil their cups"
Poverty and misery, filth and disease stalk ABROAD
throughout the land: like 50 many skeletons they
meet us d, every corner and they hudde away their
victims into close, unhealthy, pest-strcken tehe'
ments, cLeerless and comfortess. The house OF the
drunkard is indeed sad sight to look upon. Enter
n Dit reigns supreme. Dirt on she toorI DIT
ON the windows; dirt the broken chairs and
tables the bed IL heap OF dirty rage DirI IN the
man; dit on the wonani dirt on the childrsn ths
very dog Is NANCY. The door is tumbling of ii.
hinges; the broken window panes stuffed With old
rags the plaster peeled off and fallen down III many
6 places and what 10 left begrimcd with smoke from
the crazy stove-p!pe. Tue cupboard, eDpty OF every
thing 10 eat, contains only few old broken plates
bottles and rust-eaten thus. The fire Is out IN the
) stove, The nigh. il coming on; the Winter wind IL
rising, bitter blast! how 1t rattles the crayy win
dow frames and fckers the gutering tallow candle
There is silence in the house now tue man IL OF
spending bis last dollar 81 the Raripg bari the vile
ID on her way TO the pawnbrokers to pawn stolen
!. shawl FOR money to buy beer and the sekly, hun
CRY, winning children have at last sobbed themselves
i. 10 sleep.
i Desclstion, misery. starvation, crime here 10 q
G homo for you!
$ A less stirring strain, but perhaps equally inn
pressive, is found in the quiet, cOntemplatye, and
highly suggestive discourse on
i THE BOOK OF NATURE.
There is a book, my brethren, in which all
read. Those who cannot read the Bible, for want OF
learning can read in this, Ii is an older book than
the Bible; like the Bible, it comes from the hand OF
God; and like the Bible, when rightly interpreted, II
ia full OF truth and beauty. II 10 the book OF Ma.
ture invite you TO read with me in that book this
morning, fer Its Lessons are subnely religious. and
il is recommended TO us by our Lord Himself in the
gospel for this Sunday: " Behold the birds Of the
air consider the lilies of the field, how they grow !"
1t is recommended 10 us also by the example Of the
saints who have loved always TO trace out tbs foot
prints and the Dgerwork OF God Ia the visible crea-
tion 81. Anthony being asked by one OF his disel-
pies in what university be bad learned such excel.
lent maxms replied, that except the Holy Scriptures
he had studied one book only. tbs Book Of Nature.
In this book, said no, ave read in large and lu-
minous letters the PROJECTIONS Of God Let US, too,
INV brethren, loOk into that book. We ehall tind
grand plan IL Nature, with love everywhere III the
plan.
The first thing that must strike the student Of
ture 10 this thai ali things have been created by
intelligent will. Everything shows mark, OF de-
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clearly We Zee that all these different designs are
only parts Of one harmonious whole.
! /. ErerVthiHg an nature shoUs dtsign. III some
rude Indian from Western praries were 10 enter
a house in this city and csst bis eyes upon ball
clock, he would marks Of design IN it at once.
Inc numerals on the DIAL, the motion OF tho bands
and the swinging Oh the pendulum would be enough
for that. III you were 10 eX lain TO bin how these
numerals correspond with the hours VI the day, and
how accurately the bands measure the time, he would
! be Loaf in WONDER and look upon this wonderful
time piece belonging 10 the world OF wltcbcraft.
II, once more you should take of tho face and ex-
p0se 10 lis view the works within, and explain TO
hin all their complicated moyements-how the
weight produces the notion how that motion Is reg
ulated by tie pendulum, how one wheel Is attached
10 the hour hand and turns it slowly, how another
turns the minute hand, AID how these two wheels,
connected together by cogs made 10 preserve al
ways the same relative veiocity-bis wild wonder
would give way TO geuiler and more intelligent de-
light and he would praise the ekill Of the maker,
and the wisdom Of the inventor.
SEQ then, my brethren, what vast clock this So
lar systein isl IL measures for the year,, the
months the days. and part. Of tho day. The face OF
the sky above Is our dial plate, on which we read
the time; and ia what y grand ball IL IL hung ap,
that all may zee IL There no men so unlearIcd
bot they can understand this clock, and all glad
70 make Use OF 1t. Day and night, Summer and
Winter, seed-timo and harvest depend upon 1t; the
winds the rains and the tides are regulated by 1t.
The farmer pows and COWS by 1t, The seaman guides
his ship by it, the latoring man looks up at noon
time and evening 10 whether BID time Of work Is
over And now let uS open this clock and look al
the works. The earth itself is one Wheel and by
revolving ts axis once every day the gun IL made
10 pass across the dial Of the sky and mark the hours
The moon eocs around the earth once III the month
The eaTtl again makes circuit around the sun once
in tho year, and turning sometimes her northern,
sometimes her southern cheek TO that fiery orb We
have alternately Summer and Winter. liza does all