Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-07-28
TOwANDA, July 5

TowANpA July 5, 1855.
GENTLEMEN very cheerfuly comply with your re-
quest and place the manuscript of my address at your
disposal D. WIMOT
To B. s RUSSELL A EDWARDS E NJ FARRAR Com.
mittee.
CHILDREN Your parents and teachers have
come here to spen this holiday with you, and
out of their love have provided abundantly,
every good thing for your heaIthful and inno-
cent enjoyment. They wish you to be very
happy-indeed, they are never more happy
themselves, than when they hear the merry
voices of your light hearts, and see the faces of
their dear children bright with Joy and glad
ness. They desire also, in the celebration of
this great festival of our country, that you
should receive Improvement and instruction ::
and have requested me to talk to you little
while, in the hope thereby that your minds
may gain some additional knowledge, and your
young hearts made warm with increased graft
tude and love for your kind friends here on
earth, and for your great Friend and Father
in Heaven.
Have you ever thought, children, of the deep
love your parents have for you? and of its
countless value? You are too young to un-
derstand all its wonderful strength, or to est-
mate its priceless worth. You would be very
unhappy indeed, if you were taken to some
strange and wilderness country, where the sun
never shines, and there left alone amidst the
storms and darkness of a cold and unending
winter. Oh, how helpless and fOrsaken you
would be Soon, very soon, you would die
with hunger and cold, and terrible fear. Yet
such would be your life now-thus dark and
cold and fearful, were it not for the love of
parents and friends 1t is their love that sus-
la'nS and nOurishes YOU, giving to your life all
lis beauty aud happiness Without this love
you would perish; or if the body lived, the
heart would wither; the sweet fountains of
your happiness would be dried up, and your
hearts would give forth only tears of bitter Sor-
row lOn have seen q beautiful flower brok-
en rom the stem on which it grew, aud noticed
10" soon It's sweetness and beauty were gone.
80 children, would it be with your young
hearts, if you We're cut off from the love of
your kind earthly friends They would no
more be light and merry, but sOrrowful and
%1: ": As the parent stem gave to the flower
u. It's sweetness and beauty, so does the love
u parents and friends give to the heart of the
[lld all It's JOY, and lightness, and merry glee.
y" on from this love, your young hearts
would would cease to dance with bright hopes-dark
s''oVS would oyershadow them like the gloom
" u d cold and stormy winters night. This love
parents for their children is most wonderful;
@ a1G wish you to think more about it, and to
NJ a-lgESIand more about it, because it teaches
- du great lesson of the wisdom and good
@ ol God. You know that you are too
vap ,aA Doth In body and mind, to provide for
sSS'sei'es, snS even for your simplest wants, food
r,s.. NJ c.ipo'hng ; and much less are you able to
k,,.Ge k.C lor your greater wants, instruction in
p45 'eoge and virtue. Yet you see with what
r,,. @.o1l and goodness Goo has provided for all
.s'' wants, by giving to You parents and
g. srs .,rS ~, |"o love yoa 50 tcnderly. You, who
von. 1aA aud helpless are mate strong through
In, parents love. ii the father have wealth,
r!t !ou ne pours it out like water if he have
and Os ~ lor You he spends his strength in days
rasnr n,sptS t OF weary toll for you the mother
jprs x',s Aer youth and health in anxious watch
Won, SaIr so Your infancy, and by the bedside of
-, 'ISness "a Is not this love most wonder
20" .et each chl3 ask hin OF herself