Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1853-11-27

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W nave no beautiful groves in which TO fv about
Freely ." be perched up with birds Of every kind
ana among beasts too 'Why must stat beregr
'ha' little dove in NOah's ark might ave thouol,,
I wish could get out and Av where nlsoss >.
And 1t did get out Noah let it lv avav thro,,,b
the window and oh, how delighted If wasi No.
1t darted mp and went almost out of sissbt aud ,b
at dropped itself down through the air inst stappae
m time to save it from the water then il weuIdav
up and down and circle round the ark. and then
shoot of al lose itself amid that waste Of waters
Now t,alights, not on the firm. lry earth. but ON
the wet. deeaying trunk of a tree tossing, ON the
surface. then again it starts or in quest Of some
'h'ng TO eat, Tor it has been away from the ayk
ever since morning, and is quite hungry; it scOurs
along over the waves, yet sees no trees bearing
irult, no fields of grain. Now and then it passes
over the Heating earcars Of a dead fisa but from
t'at II tarns with disgust-it never has fed on such
iood 1t Is not long before it desires once more to
beWithin heark-that unpleasant place from which
IL was so glad to escape in the morning Ilpt il
almost night and the ark is out of sigbt and The
poor bird is tired so there It must stay and roost
but Oh how different 10 the porch ON which II rast
ed at home--SO near the water, on that wet log
the waves washing over it-and the ugly fishes
making il afraid! 1t was fearful place for such a
| tender, gentle bird TO be in. Yet there it must
| stay and rest. What night to spend With the
first faint ray of daylight the poor little dove aew
/ upward and upward, and looked this way and that
way till at last it caught sight of the vessel oatin
away of in the distance How GLAD she was ; how
| quickly she few with what eestaey did she light
! on Noahs finger! and when he drew her into the
ark, then and not till then did she feel safe.
| There are other arks besides that. AID other
doves foolish we have supposed The one in
NOalI's ark
The family is an ark. What a dear word IS
~hOme" to every one who has any human feeling
left When you think of home you always think
/ of those who there, brothers and sisters and
father and mother, and kind grandma. perhaps
who has taken care of each Of YOU when you were
little and who is ready 70 help you when YOU want
anything. And there may be others in the family
! you love, and without whom your home would not
| be such happy place Even the cat and the dog,
seem part Of the family and if you live on farm.
| am sure You would not be satisfied after return
ing from long visit to some distant place. till you
had gone to the cowyard and the stable TO see the
familiar faces of your old frieGts, the cows and
horses; the pic pen would have attractions for
you-it is a part of home and | expect you
would run to the barn for an apronlul Of corn, and
have all the fowls, and the geese and the turkeys
focking round YOU while YOU called out-ki-ip,
Kip! kip! Now, why IS all this2 There are child
rem in other places as kind and as pretty as your
brothers and sisters; there are other fathers and
mothers, and graDlmas. There are cows and hor-
ses cats and DOGS and fowls and pigs just as good
As yours TO be found elsewhere. Why is it, then,
that You are so fond Of just these ones above all
others? The reason is that they make up your
"home' they belong to your family It Is plea
sant, it is delightful to have the enjoyments Of
| home
And yet would you believe It? there are silly lit
tie doves in some of these arks Of safety-for the
family, the home is Gods ark for saving the chill
dren from surrounding evil. Yet, there have been
children, best with ali these pleasant things that
were discontented with their condition, and that
have even wished themselves free from the control
Of their parents they Thought that if they could
but be free (as they called IT, they would be much
happier 1t would hardly seem possible: vet it il
so and then. 4 boy has read some foolish
story about ships anI suors and he thinks if be
but 60 70 sea he will be man at once, and to
be "a man." with him. is to do Just as he likes.
and want for nothing.
| Or girl, perhaps, has been to Boston or New
York, and has seen the elegant furniture and hand
some carriage, and fine dresses her cousins have.
and then she longs to break away from that once
dear home. under the idea that if she could have
! such things, she must be happy.
Or the boy fakes notion that It Is far pleasant
er to stand behind tbs counter all day selling rib
bons and silks, than to be working in the shop or
field Or the girl thinks it is much more geuteel
to be a miIliner or a fashionable dress maker
than TO stay at home and help mother do the work
round the house Aud as they indulge in this
feeling Of discomfort, day by day, the comforts OF
home cease to attract them and their duties become
tiresomc At last they contrive to leave that
scene Of childhoods happest hours, to try the I'M
known dangers of the world They leave the ark
and seek a rcslingpl place amid the tossings of the
life delugc
1t may he the hoy has gone TO sea; his poor mo-
Tiers heart is almost broken hut 20 be would; he
was old enough to take care Of himself and he wan
ted to enjoy life Happy will it be if the bitter sor-
row and cruel realities of his first voyage have the
effect to send him back ready TO value the sweet
endearments of his sighted home. Too often the
first voyage 50 alters his character that be is asha
med or afraid to go back to the domestic freside-
No longer a dove hs has learned to live ON carton
has become lOathsome bUzzard.
See yonder man. poor oufcast ready to drop
into a pauper's grave; his father was good man,
a pious shoemaker. respected and happy; but the
/ son thinks he will be some tIing more elevated
in society, he leaves his hoHe, spends Few years
in the city is in a fair way to become physician;
but ah how little did he count on the danger OF
quitting the ark. he has become victim to city vi
ees He has no desire to return there IS no
ioyment for him now under that roof Indulgence
in sin is his only pleasure, anl that is but
ment; he takes his portion sf this world, and sinks
beneath the ellies Of Times vortex. That dove
for he was once dearly belOyel-neyer returned
to the ark.
And oh, how many girls could tell yOn of.
who have ventured away from homes where they
were happy, and have found no place ON which 10
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