Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-06-19
lFrom the N. Y. Com. Advertiser
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ed an excellent little volume, entitled
"Fire Side Piety, or the Duties and En-
ioyments Of Family Religion" 1t is the
first of an intended series Of works Of
such a popular and practical character,
as may exert direct religious influence,
though not to be exclusively Of a reli-
gious character. The present volume
is the work Of several writer's engaged
to contribute to the series, and is pub
lished under the editorship of Jacob Alb
bott The project commends itself to
the appreciation of every christian moral
list. The domestic ireside is the place
to lay the foundation of public and pri-
vate morals, and Of social and individual
happiness The first object Of the heads
Of a family should ever be to render
their own domicil the most attractive
place for their offspring. In the first
place, the husband and the wife should
be assiduous in their mutual endeavors
to render their home the haPpiest place
for each other. To which point we
quote the following excellent paragraphs
before US.
"rhere is no suffering more acute than
that felt by an affectonate and sensitive
mind, mourning over the violation Of nup-
tial vows. This suffering is not confined
to the unhappy woman in the dwelling Of
poverty, who, at the midnight hour,
trembles as she hears the approaching
footsteps Of her drunken husband. You
may 60 into many an elegantly furnished
abode, and find the brok hearted wife
and mother, surrounded by every exter-
nal comfort, and yet in solitude, in silence
and tears. There is nothing that will
compensate for the neglect of those we
love. "I have SEEM" says quaint wri-
ter, "the accomplished wife, before twen-
ty moons had waned since she changed
her name, sitting lone and solitary as the
sparrow on the house top. Perhaps her
health was now so delicate that the nour-
ishing care ofher partner was almost ne
csssary to her existence, but he was
gone away TO some political, literary, or
perhaps to some dissipated club. Per-
haps he returns at midnight, breathing
the fumes Divine, and steaming with the
smoke Of segars."
"You call him brute who breaks his
wife's head, so he also is brute who
! breaks her heart; and how many an un-
happy wife sits frendless and alone, dur
ing all the hours of the evening, and
even of the night, when her iaithless
husband is seeking his pleasures in 9TH
er society. How painful must be her
reflections on thus finding her fondest
anticipations disappointed, and the fire
side, at which she hoped TO be blessed
with sympathy and society, deserted and
desolate. That man deserves not the
generous affections Of wife, who will
not invite her love by the respect and
honor Of personal attention. 1t is not a
few gaudy trinkets and occasional freaks
Of iondness that can give your wife a
happy heart, and make her home hap
py one. There must be real, substantial
kindness, the unequivocal evidence ol
love for the society and joys Of home.
cit is not unfrequcntly that wife
mourns over the alienated affections OF
her husband, when she has made no ef
fort herself to strengthen and increase
his attachment. She thinks because he
once loved her, he ought always TO love
her, and she neglects those attention:
which first enchained his heart. Many
wife is thus the cause of her own neg
lect and sorrow. That woman deserve es
not husbands generous love, who will
not greet him with smiles as he returns
from the labors Of the day; who will no
try to chain him to his home by the swee
enchantment Of a cheerful room and
cheerful home. There is not one mai
in a thousand so unfeeling as to with
stand such an influence, and break away
from such home."
So also with other members Of fami
l. ly, each of the elder children, as the,
grow up, should be taught to contribut
all in their power to the happiness Of tn
fire side. The endearments Of home =
How many youths are lost by their alb
sence! How many might have bee
saved from the paths Of vice and wretch
edness, by the cultivation of social vii
tues and religious duties and obligations
without unnecessary restraints and aus
terities, at home! In this work, the hus
band and father must bear his part
and his affectionate example shoul
be shining light to his family; but it
the peculiar province Of the mother an