Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-05-19
Mistfllaneous.
PATENT SERMON.
BY DOW, JR.


BY DOW, JR.
TExT.-"I would notiivc always--T ask not to
Where storm after storm rises dark
Ger the way"
My HEARERS
The word always "
means from everlasting to everlasting
| through all eternity, and clear into the
middle of forever and ever. If you can't
put on sufficient cogitative steam to carry
the car Of Imagination through this long
journey, you can find out easily enough BY
little reflection that it is no short distance
! from one end of always" to the other. 1t
is such an eternal jaunt that before we got
half through it, we should grow weary of
pleasure, end 81 gh for the privilege OF COM
mitting suicide But man is never conten-
ted; he is fretful babe of trouble, and
care will continue to worry and fret, no
matter how pretty are the playthings, or
how sweet the lulabies, with which Heav-
en- essays TO please him. He will sometimes
fret merely because he can find nothing to
fret about. If he were bound to live here
forever, he would fret because he could not
die and 60 to the other world, just for a
change; and now. seeing he has got to die,
| anu iiO tWO ways dDOuJ Ilt lItUS IKE
Gagged porcupine, and thinks he would like
to live always. In fact, he don't know
what he wants, no more than Love did
when he first felt the tender passion, left
his roseate bower, and went to eating
throughwort, thinking he had touch Of
| the cholera morbus Now my friends, if
we had been made up and warranted time
proof, and made OF genuine never-dccaying
materials, we should consequently have
been forever free from the wear and tear of
the thousand and one petty perplexities that
rub off the varnish from joy, and knocks
so many cogs out Of the vast wheel of life.
We should then have no occasion for clocks,
watches and other time pieces; for our days
would be registered in the same book with
our Creator-our years reckoned with his,
and his with ours the sands in our glasses
would run through all eternity without the
necessity exchanging their position, and the
stream of existence would flow on with the
same pure waters at the fountain as when
they first gushed forth from the embryo OF
chaos, Centuries might then be numbered
with the sands upon the sea-shore, passing
away, as single grains are washed off with
the tide, and buried in the oblivious wave.
10 live always, then, you may see is nc
joke; unless we were well provided for, both
in spirit and body, it would be worse than
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perishing mortals, and, therefore, can have
4 no reasonable desire to live always-espec-
tally as our soul S garments must grow worse
and worse rapidly, like shirt washed with
potash, and soon arrive at that state when
all attempts at patching are useless. When
that caterpillar, Infancy, has just eaten
! through the larvie Of nonentity, it doesn't
!, ever: and even after it becomes fhe vonth
). full butterfly, it is so full of fond anticipa
:, tions of delight. that n sublunarv eternit
! would hardly recomnense its ionoings Yes
tbe youth. / know. wonld ike 70 live nj
wovs, and surfeit on the sickenine sweets O
this world; but ah! perhaps he don't know
how soon The fair flowers that bloom in m,
Garden Of childhood will waste their ner
fume upon a desert air''-bow their sweet
ness is horne nm with tbe mormno dew n,
waited away in the gale to return no more
! Perbaps he don't know how soon the an.
tumn winds will strew their green leaves
upon the ground, or send them rustlinp
along the yellow paths of age! Perhaps he
don't know that while gathering sweets, he
may imbibe a few drops of poison. which
may in after years ulcerate upon his virtues
and perchance render him sore eyed suck
Il era through life. Perhaps too he ism {
aware that the wings of ,tov NAV hecome so
laden with the honey of early destination. as
to be wholly incanable of 'Aigbt throneh
manhoodW-tIat Beauty NAV. nrematnreiv =
cease to noursb her roses , and ee1y, the lv nvcy
snread the wan cheek Of m Desnair Then
I ask. would he ike 70 live alwavs9 No,
nor within thousand wears of # + He,d
sav-let me crawl throuGb the Srove-ieave W
ali follies and vexations behind meNemerpe
into n better worjdNtake q bottle of nvne.
rience along with me, and trv the world 1rL
over ogain'
NV friends-I have seen about enouob n
4 this world myself For scores IF vearS
have been searching every nook and corneI
for some perennial spring of happiness. in.
swollen streamIets hearing unon their sur'