Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-10-19
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tuIIililiS SioW 'h'ouSh
the simple words, going home, strike chord
in the human breast, pealing forth the sweet
est music, and calling up the most hallowed
associations There is magic in the single
word, home, more poten, than all the flowers
of oratory all the melodious strains OF poetry,
or all the Statesmen's speeches that have
sounded through Senate halls, and reverbera-
ted to nations utmost bound; yes, there is
magic, throwing spell DER al who ere lis
tened 10 lis sound and OWNED its meaning
and who has ever heard it, without fully
comprehending the deepest happiness of
which life is capable of rendering? Home,
wherever found is an oasis in ife's desert
from whence gushes up the purest and most
refreshing waters possessing the power OF
washing from our remembrance all inlnrles:
all wrongs all appointments; healing all
of lfe's wounds, and placing before our
minds vision the reality of present happiness,
the hope of future bliss. Nature has so form
ed us that the family links, forming homes
golden chain, cannot be readily severed, can
not be slndered by distance, disappointment,
misfortune, misery or misanthropy; but in
each breast, (be it of the righteous children
of Abel or OF Gains murderous race) in each
breast, there is a d-of-sympalhy
vibrating TO the purest and holies emotions;
emotions that can never be destroyed nor
adulterated BY life's vanlies and seducng
pleasures; by the worlds false, yet syren
voice, leading 10 paths of crime and SIM nor
BY the hoier call of religions ennobng and
purifying influence ; no emotions, no clrcum-
stances, no event of earth can subdue or an
nihiate the healthful, the genial, and The in
spring influence OF home Home is home be
il upon a sterile cliff of Oceans shore amid
Greenland's ice-bound rocks; beneath the
,orrid's parching cline in the forests in
tricate wildness and isolation, or The desola-
ton of desert home is sliI1 that nowery spot,
b, shedding upon her chosen ones, her fragrant
perfume, her grateful inflence, her soothing,
composing and balmy influence. This home
feeling is more universal and spontaneous
than all others prevailing DER the human
heart; it sways them with that resstess pow
er, against which earth and life can offer no
barrier, but toward which every feeling and
impulse would centre it is this feeling erect
ing for us household Gods, having the power
of weaving us from the world and even the
thirst for mdnmon, is for a while assuaged
is but home rendered comfortable and beauti-
full by its Omnipotent influence. Read the
feelings of that traveller who long since left
his home, his fireside hearth, his bosom-che-
rished idols 10 visit mankind and mans va
ried aspect, in strange countries and foreign
'cimes; every object he beholds in nature or
art, reminds him of, or is compared 10 home );
in his personal comforts and the attentions
shown him daily does he think them equal
ling a wife's or mothers thoughtful care
Do the foreign customs and objects surround
ing him, equal those of his own land 2 Is We
getation as luxuriaut, trees of as noble growth
mountains as grand, waters as mighty, or sky
Though of Italy) as serene, as THAI gladden.
ing oul own, our ndtiUe land. Behold that So
litary secluded abode, planted amid Lapland's
hbernal cline from that humble and rural
tenement (so unnvting, sd repelng TO the
who was born beneath It's roof, and protected
by its rude walls, from the fierce blasts of a
frigid zone; yes, this child of northern
cline, familiar only with sterile rocks, and
nature in her stupendous yet gloomy gran
deur, has visited the sunny spots, bright
skies gay flowers, iuxuriant vegetation and
luscious fruits of earth's most favored climes
vet. he turns from them all, towards that po.
lar.star gladdening his vision, and ever sh'
ming with renewed splendor and brightness:
before him, though hid in gloomy vale
amid Lapland's nntamed mountains and per
petual SHOWS. Or, behold that ship, bound
ing o'er Oceans roughened wave, and gladly
buoyantly skimming its surface why do W,
hear the cheerful conversation and the voice
of hope? Why are duties rendered easy, an,
gladness pervading all Why are Iralar
skies, arts, painting and sculpture, and tn
soft, sunny cline of France foIgottenl VIII
has the land of Palestine, that goal of til
Crusaders pilgrimage; that spot witnessing
the germ of Christianity; Witnessing the lii
and works of Christ; yss, and tcithessin
earth and sky acrapped in lveeping-gloom, 0
beholding has shameful erueifrtionj why ha
this spot, from whence arose the star Of ligt
and truth now leading on the world to Bills!
full goal, this spot hallowed by Christ's foo
steps, and teeming with interest, why is
unthought Of, and fOrgottenl Why are a
eyes directed, all hearts tending towards on
point in the horizoni We read it in thos
brief words "hOmevdrd bound, +" but t,ro pord
yet possessing meaning deeper and create
than can be written
IscoGsifA.
Norihumberiand, or 1850.