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Sincerity

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Do it in earnest, whit you will do, not witli a faint faltering that bolds iís ptirpose as a sick man holdsa cup ; and above all strive to le what inwardly you wonld seem. Many wenknesses men have.many faults, but the leakiest thing in n character s insincerity. That fíaw lels out all virtue f rom all actions. Smní;t'.,et oii of sauvity will not let slip, down wise throats, the Mmllest ounce of pretensión from ilie convicted insincera man. Once knoy !nm, and he has lost all power, and his ■ best deedshave a crack run clear ihrough 1 them ; we'll not accept las piety for religión, his kindness for humauily, or his truest statements for fact. (!n his knees is ho, in church 1 Ayo, as the hunter kneels to bring down game. or as the camel kneels, lo take great loads of treasure, willi ibis diffbrence, the camel takes tliein lor anolher, he for himself. - What luck hè shal! find, ihua trying to thread ihe needle's eye of lieaven, we will not hint, only suggesiing tliat he nny iïnil in the end that the wax noses and fingers of his most spolless marble imnges will melt off in the heat, and there is a place vvhere %eneering and varnish fuil - crack - ed and spoiled by the hot air. Thin plates of tiuth, spread over great faces of falsehood, serve a litile while, but tliey will not stand the fire; very luckily they will not, since nature would not be blameless if in all her work there was a corner to hide the fiiLse man. He is a failure, a canker blooni thnt comes to do sweet, no fruit. Even more extravagant in show of good fruit, than the sound of 'hrart, his very extravngance betrays him. Boys have seen large and premature ben-ies in the -.astures, where a üttle insect has pierced tbs blossom, and the snp goes to feed a monstrous pulpy ovcgrowth. They know it we!l enouli from the ncli whorlleberry, but a stranger to llic appearance, iniglit think it genuine fruit lili he liad iastcd. Sucli a mal-fruitage is llic insincero man. That littile rep'.ild o! ciissimulntion has let out the lifc-sap f rom hh fuirest blossoms, to waste its force in over-hasty, ovorgrown appenrances, bu' never a ripe seed fruit to bless ihe hungering. A liltle berry in its prime, is belter than all such abortion?. A little honest service is better than volumes of' guilt-bound proffers. Nay, even out and out ill use is better than false fuvor. A chestnut burr ripe full of fruit is do flatierer, yet a soft yieliling mtishroom is not so desirable a thing. ■ But ibero is a kind of insincerity whieh is rough and burry wilhout nuts. We have thistles as wel!, and aomc deep doublé deilcrs put on blunt carringe lo llirow the easy ofFlheir guard. Such an one is a devil who carries liis hoofs and horns holdly on', with a nonchalcnre, and air of frankness, that you ihink (hey aie assumed to hide uncommnn truthfulness under extreme modesty. Such an one is slyestof al1, for he veüs his very slyness. When you see liini, fail nol to give his horns a desperate tweak to try rf they are rooted, inspect him keenly, for indeed honest men have no cnuse to débase themselves extremely, and such frank unprofessing may bc the truest thing about one.

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Signal of Liberty
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