Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-10-28
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IgABDsHELI SERMON.
TEXT-"EiE HES SCRATCHES WHERE SIZE ESI
PEC1s TO FIND Buc..

Fellow sisters, brethren, men, women and
children, generally and particularly speak.
ing. on needn't hustle any pages tor the
text, Tor 1T amt there. 1t is special dis
| pensatiOn to your appointed pastor: and
he hurls it at you for what it is worth.
Where the hen scratches there she expects
to find bug. Did you come from the race
track of the world to parade your 'trotting
harness" before the meek and lowly Have
you dropped the dazzling rattles of business
and pleasure to while an idle hour away.
listening to the mournfn melody that is
rung by angel hands from the sacred harms
that hang forgotten upon the dropping will
lows of mortalityp Or are you tusseling
for the almighty dollar9 Verify say un-
to you, where the hen scratches there she
expects to find a bug.
My drOwsy hearers, we are lot of das
mayed goods, trying to palm ourselves off
upon each other for more than our market
value and old firm of Time, Death & Co.,
is doing heavy commission business upon
our stock i'll trade. / hear the malet of
death. with its mechanical tap, tap, and
solid going, going" and the next minute
down 1t Will come upon some ofour uncon.
cious heads, and we shall be folded up like
tents of the Arabs. and as silently borne
away to the other side of Jordan, where
The drygOods man rCfrains from troubling,
and the grocer has nothing to say, and tho
weary hen ceases from scratching. and the
precious bug is found. In the midst of life
we are III debt, says Il noble prophet, who
was near kin to your beloved pastor. Ifanv
OF you are tempted to tarry in the tavern of
life, and fail TO settle your accounts with
the landlord, may the text rise up before
you like fabulous Arabian hero only to
rest from the rough and tumble giant, and
deter you from that of utter depravity
where bummCrs lead trustful hens to
scratch up the bugs they deyour.
our undivided attention is further soli-
cited to the Specification of the text, meta
phorically and collectively, in small pack
ages to suit the capacity, from the boy
shuckinS peanuts peacefully in the corner,
to The hardened sinner who talks so proud
~ III your pastors presence. And woe
unto you, young woman, seasawing up the
broad aisle with your new bonnet and
streamcrs a fiyin', for your fancy neck
cloths, 90 on until you slip over bale of
cotton and are left to drift away over the
brmstone sea of national disgrace by
word and jest that you loved not wisely
but too well. No, beloved, ! warn YOU
now, if you manifest symptoms of such
coWardcc as has been handed down to
you from high places, the biggest pair of
stogy boots in this congregation will rise
up in Judgment against YOU anI kick YOU
out into the broad road that leads to ever
lasting ruin.
And finally, when you cut out the crust
from your brown bread loaf and scrape the
hard beans from the top of your noon-tide
pot, il you cut a little below the crisp for
the beggar's and outcast's portion, your
conscience and digestion will trouble YOU
less and as you steal out, as some of you
will to night, where the silver moon of
memory hangs over the haunted hills of
the past, and bow at some hallowed finger
post that points the way n beloved one went
over your broken heart to heaven, nay tho
eternal vcrdure of the evergreen hope
spring up in the barren spots trod hard by
the busy feet of the absorbing now, and
bring YOU to the sweetness of that peace
and the tenderness Of that love that over
flows continually in deeds and words for
the elevation Of the rag-a-muflius who
march in the rear ranks OF the great army
OF humanity; for the barbarians are not
all in ragged file, but, many gem of
purost ray serene" wants but a lifting from
The filth to shine. So mote it be. Brother
Sl0wi;tst, circulate the platter for the root
OF evil, until it is all rooted out of this
place. For verify say unto you the hen
that scratches here expects to find bug.
Shell out.