Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-01-20
For the Green Mountain Eeema
The Family Circle.
NUMBER ONE.

NUMBER ONE.
What beautiful sight is well ordered family. If
there is paradise Earth surely, it seems to me, it
must be in bosom of such family. How wise and be-
Inefficient is our Heavenly Father in constituting the
family relation just as it is. No social enjoyment in
my opinion can be found in any other place. that can
bear any comparison to what may be realized in that
family where all its members are actuated by the law
of kindness. Here is an epiome of heaven. Each
one is doing his utmost to make the rest happy and
love and peace reign in every breast. The parents
love their children and do all they for their COM
fort improvement and highest good in every way and
the children in return love- respect and obey their par
ents in all things and do their utmost to realize THO
fulhlment of their hopes in every respect
At home around the family circle, there is no re-
strant no concealment of the real disposition, no as
suming, for the time being, pleasant countenancf
and agreeable manner where the heart it not enlisted
as is often the ina strange company, but every
action springs from the spontaneous promPtngs Of the
heart and is the index of its real character. TO know
the character ofau Individual you want 10 see him a
home, where he acts without disguise If here he i
kind gentle atfactionate polite and obliging in all
his actions you need not fear to trust him in any stua
ton in life One who is kind at home will not be UNI
kind abroad.
love to visit family where love reigns. 1t doe
me good in every respect. will remember, and mex
er shall forget, the happiness that enjoyed and Il
real benefit that received, in visiting Il certain fam
ly, while was pursuing my college studies tod
delight in visiting several families, but house wa
my favorte place of resort, especially if my studio
had perpeXed me, or anything had transplred to dig
compose my mind or in any way irritate my feeling
this was the house of widow lady who had five mo-
lovely children. think never witnessed in any 9th
err family such perfect government The slightest in
dicaton of the wish Of the mother, was law with al
the children This power she had gained not by &C
cident but by the most judcious training of each q
her children from infancy. She possessed much deci
sion Of character and neUer swerved from her purpos
to Weld to selfish desire of one of her offspring AM
they understood her character. But kindness and low
lowered up above everything else; and all felt it AM
mbibed the same disposition. Having lost her advi
sor, size made her children her con6dentias, and fire.
qucnty asked advice of them, Of the youngest, G
SIX years of age. This increased their confidence i
her; and likewise induced in them habits of reflection
investigation and forethought; that they manifesto
an independence of mind and decision of character
judgment far above most children Of their ages,
To spend an evening with them and witness the
poteness towards one another their obedience, the
love, and tenderness, and their order and decorum
every respect, would so soothe, camdown and mello
nv feelings that would return to my studio refresI
3D. strengthened in my purpose to act always on tn
law of love, happy in SOUL and prepared to enter agai
with vigor upon my college duties.
Why may not every family circle be as lovely as tn
one? They would be so if each member would be al
tuated in all things, only by love. The Earring al
contention so often witnessed in families, would q
cease, should the law of kindness become the rn
which each one would obey; and every family the
would be little heaven. a. A. w.