The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-02-28
Home L.

L
ly God sanctifes the id,of Home. Its
associations, enter largy into many OF
the most affecting andlstructive nara
tives of the scriptures, wether in the pat
riarchal and pastoral fo1s Of society, or
in the high civilization uich preceded or
witnessed the gospel dis,nsation. 1t has
always belonged to The est estate ofman
on earth, to find his haitatiou crowned
and graced those bltssigs which belong |
to well ordered hdne There is no line
of our household p9tr' which more sure
ly touches the cord' f true natural feel
ing, or christian sen brent, than this touch
ing line,
"Be it never so hunJle, there's no place like
| home"
Tie disadvantage, Of the want of
home, have in evet age, marked the mis-
cry and barbarism 4 people, where the
love Of home has nol been cherished. 1t
was the curse Of Cain, hat he was driven
out "a fugitive and svagabond in the
earth" 1t was The cuse which was pro-
phesied by David uporthe enemies Of the
Lord, LET his childen be continually
vagabonds and beg le them seek their
bread also out of their lesolate places"
1t is the peculiar evidence, amongst the
modern French, Of th,ir characteristic
want of Scriptural religRn, that they have
but little conception and love Of home,-
in the sense in which all moder christian
iscd nations cherish domestio life. There
i. not even the word :, be found in the
French language which denotes the spe
cific idea of"homenzwithout some phrase
..~ ~ -o,us ,u Iuon EtnB".s-
a house, habitation, and even an abode;
but none which conveys the cherished
idea cf home, for the idea can hardly be
said to belong to the sentiment and char
acteristic associations Of that people,
They have had such small experience, in
the real joys and virtues OF domestic life
that the French language does not contain
a word or name which is the specific
and appropriate designation OF the hon
ored name of "wife." They have words
for woman and female, and phrases, de
noting a married consort or domesti
associate, but not specific word which
denotes the simple relation Of wife.
For similar reasons, that language doc
not afford word equivalent in meaninj
to the old English word "comtort;" 10
the people have never learned the bless
inps which are associated with domestj
piety and well being. Even in their agr
cultural regions, instead Of each tamii
occupying its own home, or its little farm
the farmhouses are gathered into larl
groups or villages, at a distance, fro'
!, their lands, that the people may live in
, crowd, and spend their leisure in exc't
ments and dissipation.
The restraints and the retirement
home, would keep that people from swa
= ing to and fro, on the surging drifts
= changeful speculation and revolution b
e a. il is, society at its basis among the
moves on a moral quicksan' 1t was
n want Of this primary organization OF
II family which led Napoleon, and some
Ie his best Counsellon, to discern the sec
of demoralization in the French nations
ty: and it was in view Of the breaking
of society in France when all hum
!h things seemed getting aAoat in uncert
at seas, which led Alison, in his great his
ty ry 10 say, that what held England toge
h. or was her two millions Of fires
us homes.
m The family relation was Gods apPol
N ed institution for the nurture Of piety &
it, for the conservation Of human society
ne Hence the Psalmist says, "God set'
th, the solitary in families" The family
cir Gle is Coils appointed sphere for pros
ars ing the greatest moral results which
yht cial beings are capable of receiving.
m- influence Of the family relation IS so
iith slant, and so enormous, often when I
lily silent, that when this spring Of socia
nan f.uence Is sweetened, It will send
hen streams Of blessing 70 fertile many q
and sert waste.
Al Sad indeed il is, that men are oite
,her anxious 10 reform the world on a
scale that their IDEAS cannot be bro
ever down 10 the small circle Of the famil
9 ms lation. Their impressions Of the .
and oil intiutnce are ofso vast and vision
. IN magnitude, that they cannot conde
sion 70 regulate the little affairs Of thei'
family. There are too many who