Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-07-17

body sickly, scraggy, weak, and there
fore, silently, yet surely disarms it of its
divine weapons to cOnduer nature aud
make itself independent. IheologiaDs
tell US that sin and death began first to
smite our race when Adam was a young
man, and from him they have been trans
mitted across the ages to US. But we
need no doctor iti the church to infort1 MS
that the physical strength or weakness,
health or disease, freedom or bondage of
the parent irrevcrsibly fixes the physical
character of the child. Can the stream
rise higher than the fountain? Can
corruption bring forth interruption +? If.
then, you desire to be the parents of a
race of constitutional slaves to want and
nature, return to yonr rusty cups and
dusty demijohns; but if you desire to be
parents of stalwart, radiant, blooming
men and women, perfect in physical form
and power, remember that your VOW of
eternal enmity to this man staying monster
is gis er d in heaven.
his great inducement to virtue, ap,
pealiug at once to our pride and parental
affection, is well illustrates and sanction
ed by the marvellous birth and career of
him whose strength was in his unshorn
locks. Thrice the messenger whose couh.
tenance was tery terrible like that of an
angel premonshed the bride of Manoah
and mother of Sampson, in these signiti.
cant words: Beware, pray thee. drink
not wine, and eat not anything uuclean !;
for so thou shalt bear son and he shall
begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of
the Philistines" {oh that these words of
inspiration were ineffaceably inscribed
upon the door, post of every home in the
land y She forgot them not, and as if
to stamp this law with heavens own sig
net, her obedience was crowned with the
birth of the worlds unequallcd champion
of bodily strength and independence.
While he cherished the virtue and
temperance from which his superhuman
strength was born, he could snap the new
ropes like thread, wherewith the treacher-
GUS Dclilah had bound him, in heaps up.
on heaps he piled the slaughtered PhiIis-
tines, bore to the highest hill.tops the
posts of the gate Of their city, and buried
thousands of his mocbing enemies in the
ruins Of Dagon's temple. But whcn he
told that cruel traitress call his heart"
and alas like too many fast young men
of modern time, suffered himself to be
charmed to sleep upon tho very knees of
harlotry, 0or RIGHTEOUSNESS and drunk
enness arc twin vices, he was forever
shotn of the tresses of HIS virtue, "aud
his strength went from him." Seized,
bound with letters of brass, robbed Of his
eyes, he was dragged down to GAIA to
grind away his life in a heather prison
house. Familiar fate Of drunkards
misspent life The vice Of drunkenness,
then, while it makes the father grind in
the prison house of poverty, puts him
forever below the realm of physical inde-
pendcnce, at tho same time poisons and
cripples the constitution of the son, with
that moral distemper which, if unchecked,
would soon number the days Of the race,
or cry to heaven for second deluge.
But this part Of our theme cannot be
confined to persons only ; it contains col.
lective and national Importance. The cl-
walton of a people or nation above the
bondage of physical want, and into the
sublime realm of material independence,
depends not so much upon the sum total
of national wealth. as upon the capacity
of the people for annual production not
so much upon the bread cxpanse of its
acres as upon the industry, the sKill and
virtue ofits farmer not 80 much upon its
waterfalls, as upon the million Of spindes
that dance to their music not so much
upon the gold and silver for ages locked
in Gods grand old safe, as upon the phys
ical power and character Of the miner, aul
the we'll directed efficiency of his machin-
cry and this engiuery Of national, mate
rial production is simply the grand pro-
duct into which each citizens power to
produce has entered as factor.
1t is estimated by political economists,
that common day laborer adds five hun
dred dollars, annually, to the productive
wealth Of the world; consequently, he
who fails TO swell the sum total with at
least this sum, annually, is constantly rob-
hing his neighbor and dishonoring his
country. But does that townsman Of
| yours, whose habits Of intemperantc and
vice have palsied his arm and shattered
his nerves. adj Que jot or title to tBe
collective production Of your town? No,
on the other hand, he is not even self
sustaioing, but as helpless as babe on
its mothers bosom Your stronger, truer