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City Sinfulness

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
January
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dr, Cbanniug thug spoke like an apostle : - " You talk of the proaperity of your city. I know bat one true prosperity. Does the human toul grow .and prosper bere ? Do not point me to your thronged etreets. Í as-k, who throug theni ? It ia a W-mioded, selfeeeking, gold-worshipping, mandespisiüg crowd which I see rushing throuah them ? Do I meet iu them, uDder the female form, the gayly-deüked prostitute, or the idle, wasteful, aimless woaiau of fashion ? Do I meet the young man, showing off hia pretty peraon as the perfeotion of nature's vvork, wastiug his golden hours in dissipation au;J iloth, and bearing in his oountenance the gaza oí the proflígate ? Do 1 meet s grasping multitude, eeeking to thrive by coucenlment and fraud ? An anx iouB multitude, driven by fear of want t doubtful rnoans of guin. An unfeeling multitude, oariuguothiag for ottiers, il they roay thomselyes prosper and enjry. In the neighborhood of your comfortabla and splondid dwellings are ihere abodes of squalid misery or reoklef crime, of bestiul intemperance, or hfili famished ehildren, of profauouess or temptation for thouglnlesB youth ? And rj theee multipljing for yonr prosperity, and outstrippiDg aud neutralizing the influeoces of truth and virtuo ? Tlien your prosperity is a vain show. lts true type is lo muke a better people. The glory and happiness of o. city consist not in the number, but in the character of its populatioo. Oí .11 the fine arts in a city, the grandtist is the art of lorming noble specimens of hninaDity. The costilesc proiluutiouB of our manufacturo are cheap, comparad with a wise and good humau bemg. A city whioh should practically adotit ton principie that a man is worth more than wcahh or sitóte, would place itself at the head of the cities. A city n in whicb men ehould bo trained worthy of tho uame, would beeome the uaetrop. olia of tho eiitth." Q Wheo is a quarrelsoine woman like a ship? When she 'ankers aíter a storm. L3? When ig a lady like a spoon ? - Wheu sho is in tea-resting. (5P Why is a blacksmith iiko a safe 3Íeed ? Beeause odc is a horee-shoer nud th? other a svire hpreo.

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Old News
Michigan Argus