Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-02-16
family Cirels.
OH E.
Farmer.


There should be no spot on the whole
earth so beautiful so happy as home. No.
where in the world should the heart turn
with so much longing, with such deep fulness
of love, as to that blessed sanctuary. The
fJndest associations, the Observation-Disclosures,
from infancy to manhood should cluster and
cling around it, and the memory of its Joys
should brighten the lingering days OF old
age. Every home was intended to be such
an Eden in the worlds wilderness. Alas !!
wv few such there really are. In how many
homes coldness, selfshness, disregard for
each others feelings and affection, make all
other places seem more attractive than this.
But to set aside all positive unkindness,
rudeness or ill-temper, all wiliul wrong do
ings of parents or children, how many homes
are cold and chill rs winter from the absence
of all manifestations of love. The father
wrapt in mantle of reserve, never caress.
,gly draws his children to his heart, and let's
them feel that it beats warmly for them.-
Satisfied if he gives them shelter aud food
and raiment, provides for their bodily and
intellectual wants, and teaches them their
religious duties, he deems it quite superfluous
to train up their affections, that yet demand
so much culture The mother, it we may
conceive it possible of a mother, seldom or
never clasps her child to her breast, and be-
slows the smile that childhood covets more
than the miser does the most glittering trca-
ire.
All the little outward tokens and manifes-
tations Of love, essential to domestic enjoy.
ment as the sunshine, the flowers, the sweet
songs Of birds are to the enjoyment of ma
ture, are withheld from those longing hearts
to whom they are as life itself, and cold,
pulseless, measured duty leads the steady,
unaltering march along that rugged way,
which ought to be bright aud beautiful with
the thousand blossoms of affection. The
heart of child is very tender. 1t is full of
strong impulses; its affections seek a bound
less requital, boundless as their bestowal
would be- And 10 whom should n child
l,ok but to its parents, its brothers, its sisters
to meet this sacred, beautiful demand Of its
nature The sweet smile of affection, the
kindly word, the gentle, beaming 6 lance,
the tones of sympathy in sorrow and trial,
the soothing and tender attention in illness,
those blessed little sclf.sacrifces, and unpre.
tending kindness, that sweet patience, and
meek forbearance, those delightful caressing
ways and alfeclionate manners that make
few homes almost heaven, should make all
homes so. In them "out of the fullness Of
the heart the mouth speaketh," and speech
and act are alike holy and beautiful. Win
ming, attractive, lovely are such homes =
Manhood turns from them to the worlds du-
ties with sigh, comes back with glad
SMILE Sorrow falls not so heavily on them
their inmates bear one another's burdens;
deep peace is theirs even in the midst ofafflic
tions. Words and deeds of love! Well
ha it been said, Oh let us unite the two,"-
and however dark and troubled our earthly
coarse, light will shine within our homes
which no sorrow, no care, nor even death
will have power to darken or remove. God
is love-the spirit Of His Word is love and
would we indeed walk according to his die
tates, Love proved alike in arord and decd,
must be the Guardian Angel Of our House.