The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-03

The CoTnlW li0goziar for July contains
n novel intellectual performance in the form
Of n genuine Japanose sermon, reported
and rendered into English by Mr.. \. L.
Willard, Secretary Of the British Legation
Mt Ycddo. Tic japanese priests dcliyc
their disCourscs. like popular lectures, ~
series that occupy fortnight, two being
given every dny until the course Is finished.
They read from desk and emphasize i'm
portant passages with FAM and they have
cheerful way Of taking an intcrmisSion ii
the middle Of the sermon Tor Il Puff Of to-
bacco. The congregations are compose
almost entirely Of children and very old
people. The sermon, Of which we give q
:ortion here. was delivered by 4 pYcachc]
of the Shingallu sect, which is Il religious
ccicctisn from Con!u"ius, Dudlh and othcr
Oriental forms Of teiici:
ain the song called The Four Sleeves
there is the passage II people knew be-
forchand oil the misery that il brings there
would be less going out with young ladies
20 look at The flowers at night Please give
yolr attention TO this piece Of poetry. This
is the meaning OF It: When yomr man
and a young lady set up n filtration without
tie consent Of thcir parents they think that
ii will Ill be very delightful, and !iud them
selves very much deceived. II they knew
what sad and cruel world this is they
would not act rs they do. The quotation is
from song Of remorSc. This sort Of thing
happens but too often in the world.
when man marrics wife he thinks
how happy he will be- and how pleasant il
will be keeping house on his own account !:
but before the bottom Of the family kettle
has been scorcAcd black he will bc Ike Il
man learning 10 swim in field, with Iii
ideas All turned topsy-tmyey: and, con-
traly TO all his expectations, ne viii find
thc pleasure of housekeeping to be al 1t
dclusion. Look at that woman there
Haunted by her cares, she takes no heed Of
her hair or o. her personal appearance.
With her head all untidy, her apron tied
round her as Il girdlc, with baby twisted
into the bosom Of Ter dress, she carrie
some wrctchcG bcan-saucc which she has
been out to buy. What SoT! ct creature Is
thist This all comes OF not listening 10 the
warnings Of parents. and OF not waiting toI
the proper time, but rushing suddenly inc
housekeeping; and who il % blame in lhe
#.
reflect. \ child Of i've OF six years will
ncycr think Q! learning l. play on Tho
guitar of lis own pleasure. What te)!
million times more miserable thing ii i
when parents, making their little girls hug
great guitar, listen with pleasure to the
POOR ittlc things playing on instruments
big enough, for them to climb upon, ami
sQuoaEing out SONGS IN their shrill treble
voices. Now, must beg you 10 listen 70
me carefully. II YOU gct confused and
don't keep n sharp lookout your children,
brought up upon harp and guitar-playin@
will be abandoning their parents and rt!u-
ming away secretly. Depend upon it, ilenI
all that is iccntious aud mcrctriciouS,
something moustrous will come forth.
" The poet who wrote The -Four Sleeves
regarded it as the right path Of instruction
10 convey IL warning against vice. But Inc
theatre, and dramas, and fashionable
songs,-if the moral tina: they convey Is
misscd-arc Il very great mistake. Al
though you may think ii very hight and
proper that young lady should practice
nothing but the harp and guitar until her
marriage, tell YOU that it is not so :. for il
she misses the morals of her songs and mu-
sic there is the danger Of her falling III love
with some man and clipping. While on this
subject ] have an amusing story to tell
YOU.
"Oncc upon time a frog, who lived at
Eioto, had long been DESTROYS Of going t.
see Osaka. One spring, having made ny
his mind, he started oil 10 sec Osaka and al!
its famous places. BY series of hops on
all-fours he reached q temple opposite
Nishi-no-Oka, and thence by the western
road he arrived ut Iama2aki, and began to
ascend the mountain called Tcnozan. Now,
il 90 happened that a frog from Osaka had
determined to visit KiCto, and had also as
cended Tenczan, and on the summit the
;wo frogs met, made acquaintance, and told
one another their intentions; 50 they be-
gan to complain about all The trouble they
had gone through, and had only arrived
half way after all.
= # they went on to Osaka and KioSo
their legs and loius would certainly not
hold out. Here was The famous moun:2in
Of Tenozan, from the top of which the
whole Of the Kiota and Osaka could be seen.
Ri they stood on tiptoc, and stretched their
sSbacks and looked 1T the view, they would
save themselves from stiff legs. Having
come 20 this conclusion, they both stood up
on tiptoe and looked about them; when tho
Kio.o frog said, Really, looking 1T the
famous places Of Osaka, which | have heard
80 much about, they don't seem to me TO
differ bit from Eioto. Instead Of giving
myself any farther trouble to 90 on, shall