The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-05-05
A PATENT SERMON.
The Hen Scratches Where She Expects tO
Find bug.


Find bug.
FELLOW SISTERS, brethren men, wo-
men and children, generally and partic-
ularly speaking. You needn't hustle
any.pages for the text, for it amt there.
II is special dispensation to your APP
pointed pastor and he burls it at you
for what it is worth. Where the hen
scratches there she expects to find q
bug. Did you come from the race
track of the world to parade your "trot-
ting harness" before the meek and low
ly? Have you dropped the dazzling
rattle of business and pleasure, to
while an idle hour away listening to
the mournful melody that is rung by
angel hands from the sacred harps that
hang forgotten upon the dropping will
lows of mortality? Or are you tus-
sling with the arch enemy for the al
mighty dollar? Verify say unto you,
where the hen scratches there she ex-
poets to find 4 bug.
My drowsy hearers, we are allof US q
lot of damaged goods, trying to palm
ourselves OIL upon each other for more
than our market value; and the old
firm of Time, Death & Co., is doing a
heavy commission business upon our
stock i'm trade. | hear the mallet of
Death, with its melancholy tap, tap,
aud the next monotone of "going, 60
ing" and the next minute down 1t will
come upon some OF our unconscious
heads, and we shall be folded up like
the tents OF the Arabs, and IS silently
borne away TO the other side of Jordan,
where the dry goods man refrains from
troubling. and the grocer has nothing to
say, and the weary hen ceases from
scratching, and the precious bug is
found. In the midst of life we are in
debt, saws a notable prophet, who was
near kin to your beloved pastor. If any
of you are tempted to tarry in the tav-
ern of life, and fail TO settle your &C.
count with the landlord, may the text
rise up before you like a fabulous Ara.
bian hero, only to rest from the rough
and tumble giant, and deter you from
that sink of utter depravity where bum.
mers lead trustful hens to scratch uI
the bugs they devour.
Your undivided attention is further.
more solicited TO the adjudication ofth,
text, metaphOrically and collectivel il
small packages to suit every capa ity
from the boy shuckiug peanuts peace
fully in the corner, TO the hardened sin
ner who talks so proudly in your pas
tors presence. And woe unto you
young women, sea-sawing up the broa'
aisle with your new bonnet and steam
ers n ilyin, for you are vanity of van
tiles. And you young men i'll you
fancy neck cloths, go on until you sill
up over a bail of cotton and are left Il
drift away over the broad brimston
sea of national disgrace, a byword an,
jest that you love not wisely but to-
well. No, beloved, warn you now,
you manifest symptoms of such cowaT
dice as has been handed down to yo
from high places, the biggest of stog
boots in this congregation will rise u
in judgment against you, and kick yo
into the broad road that leads to ever
lasting ruin.
And finally, when you cut the cru!
from yonr brown bread loaf, and scrap
the hard beans from to top OF your moo
tide pot, if you cut a little below tn
soft and scrape little below the cris
for the beggar's and outcast's portion
your conscience and digestion wi
trouble you less; and as you steal GU
as some of you will tonight, where tn
silver moon of memory hangs low owe
the haunted hills of the past, and boz
at some hallowed finger-post that point
the way beloved one went over you
broken heart to heaven, may the etern,
verdure of the ever green hope sprin
up in the barren spots trod hard by tn
busy feet of the absorbing Now an
bring you to the sweetness of that peaC
and the tenderness of that loye that ov
erflows continually in deeds and word
for the elevation of the ragamuffins VIII
march in the rear ranks of the gres
army of humanity for the barbarian
are not all in ragged file, but 'many
gem of the purest ray serene" want
but a lifting from the filth to shine. S
mote it be. Brother Slowfast, circulat
the platter for the rest of evil, until
is all rooted out of this place. For vel
lily l say unto you, the hen that scrathC
here expects to find bug. Shell out