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Miscellany: Popularity: A Dialogue: Scene.--A Lawyer's Offic...

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13
Month
June
Year
1842
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Lawycr. - Good morning, Mr P. , takc n seat sir, I nttended your meeting ycsterd.iy. J was highly delighted witb yournew preachnr. I like the warm nnd powerful s'yle your clergymen of late are adopting. It is certainly caleulated to awaken ilie thouhdess. Ifyou setile Mr. S. in your society, you may consider me as a subscribnr. It is true I am not attachecl to any order of Christains. but I believe the great bulvvark of our national libcrties must bc diffusion of knowledge; nnd I always observed that your peoplepntronize institutions of learning. By the bye, this remindsme that our eleciion is near at hand. I hope, Mr. P., weshall have the pleasure of numbering you wilh our friends at the approaching contest. ( Exil ) Pres, - I will think of it. Enter Baptist. Lawyer. - Good morning. Mr. B. I am glad you called. Well, I went down to the river yesterday noon, to witness the immersion, and J must eay it is a benuiiful ordinance: and it scems to me that mode of administering is the most simple and primitive. To sce a little group stand upon the banks of a flowing s'ream and uniie their voice8 in that beautiful hymn. 'O how happy are they.' whüe the candidate ges down in:o the water, brings forcibly to one's tnind the scènes of Jordán and Judea. Besides your clergyman, Eider M. is a very interesting man. Your churcli govornment f have always admired - it is so republican. It was Eider L. of your order. I beüeve, who carried the great Cheshire cheese to Jefferson. Fie has been a faithful old patriot. - Ah, this puts me in mind that the Jeffersonian principies are agnin to be contested this fhll. and I hope I shall findyou, Mr. B. as finn a patriotas Eider L. has been. (Exit.)Enter Fpiscopalian. Laxcyer. - Your obedient servant, Mr E. bnppy to see you. sir. Wel!, I was in New York last week, and I walked four miles in the morning to hear Bishop H. He is a truly polishnd and eloquent man; and there is something in your mode of worship so systematic and so much in accordance with deccncy and order, and so much the opposito to that wild ranting kind of■ iisiiip. ihii 1 hiive lullen in love wiih it. Y uu see 1 hive purchnsêd me a conirnon prayer botik: The oigan and the clioir oí lip. H.'s 'jhureh ure superior to any I ever hcard. I called an ihe Bp. next morning. and obtained an introfluciion to him. He dons not of course. tnke an ;pen part in politcs. yet lie gnve me to understanti in the couise of our conversation, ihat his ièeliñgs were on the right side. (Exil.) En'cr Methodist, Laicver. - How do you do. brother M? I cali you br.ither. becnuse my parents were Methodists. And when I was a cliild the preachers used to visit our house, and I used to cali thcni all brothers. from hearing my father cali them so. It is singular how strong the impressions of childrnn are. ThougR 1 do not profess religión, yet I always feel more at home in a Methodist meeting thnn any other. And yet 1 do not know whether this arises so much from the force of my early impressions, as from that simplicity peculiar to your worship. and which is so congenial u my taste. I was r.ding through G. the oiher day, and as I ca'-e opposite a piece of Wood. I hcard the sound of singing, I immedJatcly discovered there was a cainp-meeting in the vicinty, and notwithsianding my business was very urgent. I could not resit the inclination. So I tied my beast to a tree, and afier walking a mile, I camc to the ground. T he first object that met my eye was the Presiding Eider G., appealing in a most evangelical manner, to the people who were seated bcneath the slnding branches of the surrounding forest. How forcibly it brought to m;nd the Mount of Olives. I am considerably acquainted wiih Mr. G., and though he takes no part in the political contests of the day, yet in feelings he and I have always coincided. Exit. Enter Unicersulist.Lawy er.- If ow d ye do sq ui re? VVell, I at(onded your meeting in the school house the other evening, and wns wcll saiisfied with the sermon. Your preachers, whether right or wrong, are certainly men of talent. Mr. S. used the most splendid imagery in bis sermón, and his arguments. ndmitting the premises, were certainly irresistable. I should have inviled him home with me. but my wife wai rather out of healt-h that evening. I cannot see, for my part, why people should beso prejudiced against your sentiments. They are certninly misrepresented. There is one thing that people say about your doctrine is true; and that ia.thnt it is ex tremely cnptivating. And as for influence I can say our best citizens are TJniversalists. Let me see, ] believe; squire, you have alwiiys been a vvann politici an on ihe riglitside. Well. the approaching -coutest requires our unanimous exertions. (Exit.) Ë:itcr Quaker. Lawijer. - Well, Thomas, how is t"hy health I am glad that thee has taken the trouble -to cali. Quaker. - I do not trouble wen of thy profession very often: but I have called this afternoon to pay some money lo (heb. As we do not believe in training men in the art of killing men systematically, they oblige us to pay for the enjoyment of our principies: and Í understand thee is - I fórgèt wliat military people callit - the man who receives the constiiution money. Latcycr. - Yes, I wish I could get ofii" as well as yon do: whereas it costa me ten times the sum, besides eight or ten days drilling every year. - But what rendéis the task more unpleasant is the refleciiim that always arises when I see the banner fly ing. and t!x drmns beating arovond me, that the object of all rhis preuaration is to train us in the art of destroyingeach other. And then I always think of the peaceful settlement ofPennsylvania by Penn. My grandfnther was a Qua ker, and Ihaealways admired their plainness of dres-.-, simplicity of Innguage, and pacific sentiment. In short, Thomas, I have often thought that f we weie nll Quakers, society would reseinble thestnte of our first parents in Eden.Quaiter. -We shnll ncvcr be nl I Quakers, so long as hypocrites have so much influence. [f thy grandfather was a Quaker, lam sorry thee has so degenerated from ihy anccstors. The scruples thee professos about miliiary duty. condüinn thee: ibr thee must be deluded by the devil to viólate thy conscience at so great an expense. Thee spe.tks our languageflippantly, and admires our dress - thy ordimry dialect, and thy foshionablé blue coat. figured vest. and gaudy Vatch emhellisshiuents are i icontcstible prnofs of thy sincerity. Thee eulogizes Penn - I have heard thee eulogize Napoleon as highly. I liave observed the dupliciiy thee uses for popu'nrity-. Thee reads a sermón for the Presbyierians in the morninc when ihey have no preachins. Thee goes in the afterfioon &nd l_eads singinir for the clmrchmen. In thëeVening tliee soestothe Universüüst rneeting. Thee idmires the inmersión of the Baptist, the cainp-mesting of the Methodist and the plain dress. nnd language of tJie Kriend. I wil] teM friend. thee stronely reminds me of my brown hor.e. I once eniployed an honest Irishínan to labor for me. I sent Patrick out in niornïttg to catch my brown horse. Now the brovrn horse ran in the pasture, in the middle of which wns a large square pond. Patrick was gone a long Hm?, and at length returned with the beast, after havjpg chased him eeveml times round the pond. "Well. Patrick," said I ';on which side of the pond did you find the horse?" "Truth." piid rVitricU. '''üifl I 'onnd him on all Pides."

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