Year: 1859

E&koM RECENT sDIeCouRSES BY THE REV. HEN3Y
ss''-a@ 1 WARD BEEcuER


y There are msny men who try to perform the
duties Of life as children read who are illtaught
at school, giving the same accent to every
word The virtues of cleanliness and punctu-
atty are BY them made equal with the virtues
Of justice and truth aud Iove-and this done
by lowering the higher virtues, rather than by
carrying up the little ones.


There are persons who are more anxioas as
20 whether they shall shave themselves on Sun
day than whether they shall cut their neigh
bors' throats on Monday there are persons
who are more anxious about the polishing OF
their boots on the Sabbath, than they are
whether they shall use them on Monday TO put
a poor man out of their stores


10 show forth the importance of man. Christ
took little child, that spark of being that is
vet to be, and said 6 Man is of so much i'm
portance that one had better have milestone
hung around his neck and be cast into the sea,
than to harm one of these little ones" God
has set hesesl and estimate upon the least
and the lowest, leaving us to sweep up in our
imagination to the highest ranks and states in
life.


AOoC ufCH LO cut llSIT ilfSS III IhO, anu
put their religion in the church, aud their sec
ular life out there in the world, will find that
they are very much like any other man who
attempts to cut himself in two They will find
that their life will gush out A man who set
his legs TO walk without any head would do as
man who tries to seperate his religion and
his secular life. l affirm that man is a unit
We can build ship in compartments so that
if you stave one the other will not leak, but
you cannot build man in that way You
can't divide him up and put religion into one
part and business into another. If you stave
man in one part you stave him all through.
There is no Sunday religion that viii uphold
the rascality of Monday.


There is not one man in thousand who has
any thing illustrous happen to him from
birth to death. Man is born with cry and
he dies with groan, and his whole life Vi
brates between the two. Life is made u } of
little things; but let us always remember that
these little things here, planted in time wave
broad and branchy heads in eternity aud God
says to US Plant and cultivate them. You
know not what the plant will be-" These lit
tie things are the letters of life, from which all
philosophy and knowledge start, and if you
would spell and read Alright, you must be right
in your letters.


If dog runs under rose-bush it enits its
perfume none the less and if chimney-Sweep-
goes to smell of it. it will not shrink up and
say: +" am not going to let you have any Of
my perfume !" if the hardest and coarsest and
most cruel of mankind come to it, the rose
would give the same odor; pluck it and carry
it into the bridal chamber, and still it is the
same lay it upon the funeral urn and still it
breathes forth the same perfume; leave it in
the darkness of room. and it will fill it with
sweetness carry it forth into the street where
it is covered by the dust and beaten by the
wind, while it lives it will still be the same fra
grance. So should we carry our virtues of love
and justice and truth every where the same,
whoever we meet and wherever We go.-Eur-
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