The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-10-24
From TIE Am.rioan pArsaolog7ieal Jo.rAal.
To the Sexton.

10 the SeXbOu'
There Is deal of t-ush ia thu following, since not
enc public building in thousand Is properly yeni-
IL ed rhs ai,uious spelling and queer modes oi
expression commsT it co tho faculties Of Compare
son AID Mrthiulness
A APPEL FOR AIR r,rHE sExrANr OF THE OLD
BACK MEsrlNGHoUsR- BY CASPER.
sextant of the meetinhouse which sweeps
AMI du u, or as supposed to a. d mskes tires,
And LIES tie gas, and sometimes leaves screw
looke,
In which case it smells orful-worse than lampile;
Add Wftags the Bel aud toles 1t when men dyes
40 s1e e. ef Of survivor pardners and sweeps path
Ana iof the servaces gifts Sl0J per annnm,
Wnien them that thinks deer, let 'em try it; st.
Set up before star-ii.e in all wea hers and
6ndlin fires when the weather is cold
Asfe Q, and ike as not grean wood Tor kindlers;
lwvuidn't BE- hired 10 40 1T Tor DO some
hut o sextaat there is / kermodd,ty
Wish more than god, wich doant cost anything,
Worth mule than ything exsep the Sole OF
mean pewer Are sextant, mean pewer Are I!
Otis plenty out do es, so plenty it domino
W0at ON aireh to dew with itself, but d about
Scaterin leaves and bloin fl mems harf's:
Ia short, its just as IF Q as are'' out dores.
But ex!ant IA our chu ch ITS nifty scarce,
Scarce as bank bills wen agents beg for mishuns.
wien soDe lay is purity of en- faint ncthin to me
Wal give Amt nothin 10 nobody but sextant, :.
snet 30 men, wiHmen and children,
spes hally the latter up in q title place,
Some has bao bTeths non amt swete, rs
-" Is ieVtry, seme Is scrofiius, some has bad
And some haint none an some amt over clean;
bat every on 'em breethes in & out, out & in,
bay IF times miauIe, or l million and a half
bfetns our:
Now how long will church full of Are last at that
rate,
ask you, say Is mints, and then watts to be did
Why thea they must brethe it all over agin,
Ard then agin, and 60 on, till each mas took it
down ~.
At least 10 tim s. and let ii up agin and watts more.
The same individual don't have The privelidge 81
OF brethen his own are, and ones else:
Each one mus take whatever comes to him.
y Sextant doant you know our lungs Is bellusses,
10 b ow the fer Of life and keep it from
Coin out; and how can bellusses blow without wind
And amt Wind air? put it to your conshens
Are is the same to us as milk to babies
Yr water Is to fish, CT pendufums to clox-
Or roots airbs unto an iniun Doctor,
Or little pills unto an omspath ~
Or boys 10 girls Ara Ii for to brethe
wat signifies who breaches If l cant b eethes
waits Pol! Watts Pollus, to sinners who are dead,
Ded for want Of breth? why sextan, when we die
Its only coz we cant breethe more-thats all
And now. sextant ler me beg of you
let little are into our church
ttewer are is sertain proper for the pews) taay-
ana dew II weak days and Sundays tew- t-is
~ amt much troube-only make hole
AMI the will come in of Itself;
I 8 loves tol come in where it can get warml:
And o how il will rouz the people up
And SPIRIT up the preacher and stop earps
And yawns and flights tfIectooal
AZ wind on the dry Boanes the Profit tells of
NO moar at present, but give us are, are, are.