Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
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Literary Notioe---The "Christian
Household"

1t is seldom that work coming from the
pen Of a clergyman, bearing upon its title
page religious name, inculcating christian
principles, and evidently written for the pur-
pose of turning the attention of the reader to
the truths of morality and Christianity, falls
into our hands without its pages being full of
sectarianism, fansticism, and bigotry. The
man is allowed to nearly cover the divine,
and while we look for aspirations of purity
and love, we find the most unbending, un-
charitable creeds and dogmas. The author,
instead of presenting in unvarnished truth
the love of God and the benefit of we'll do
ing, assumes an air of superiority, and indi-
rectly the tenor of his work says, 81 am
right-the world at large is in error, and
can prove it,
Religion. at the present day, is serving
many purposes. To some it is love and wis
dom, and to them, tree and shrub-morn-
ing dawn and evening sunset = twinkling
star and glowing sun-speak in unmistakable
language of his power and love. Earth,
with her varied tongues, proclaims it; and
with it Natures book is filled. While 9th
ers assume its mask to further selfish ends,
and where we look for the genial warmth of
sincerity and truth. arises the fstid air of
falsehood and the dread malaria of bypoc-
rasy.
Recently there has fallen into our hands q
small work entitled the "Christian House
hold" by Rev. GEORGE WEAVER. OF the
writer's history wo know nothing; but for
olearness of thought, beauty of expression,
truth of precept, and sttractiveness of form,
we have scarcely seen it excelled. This title
love, benevolence and duty, made radiant
with wisdom from above. Nor is the work
inaptly named, for gushing forth from every
word, and filling every sentence, is spirit of
universal love and charity, which is an ema-
nation from Deity, and the effects of which
will serve to mirror Heaven on earth. The
human heart is like harp that vibrates to
every passing breeze; but it is only master
hand that from chaos of harmonious sounds
can wake melody so sweet that every self
ish thought is lost in harmony.
The home pictures are natural and true to
life The artist has seemed to study well
his idsal-compare and harmonize it with
the real, and this with the inspiration of his
subject, and as he says, his head to steady
his hand for execution" he has completed his
picture - the Christian Household. His
subject is to him full of beauty, for he says,
81 look upon the Earth dressed in fowery
robe of living green, with its wstery wastes,
fountains of dews an1 rains, of freshness and
life, wrapped in the vesturs Of the soft yield
ing air, swinging in the depths of ETHEREAL
space, and bathed in the mighty foods of
heavenly light; and then up to the courts
above, where star shines to star, sun blazes to
sun, and world balances and swings to world,
and where systems repeat to systems the
grand anthems of divine and universal har-
mony; and in all the magnificent scene, see
nothing to compare with the beauty, perfect
ness, and grandeur of human nature"
And in every touch of his pencil he has
portrayed this beauty. May it be engraved
on the hearts and practiced in the lives oi
his readers, and thus living would "we open
fountain whose streams would be blessed
Hcss to the world, whose bow should be 9
promise to humanity, and whose flow should
be song of praise to God.
EMMA ELTON.
/ New YORK, june 10th, 1855.
/ The work mentioned in the above article
may be had in short time at the Bool
Store of STEWART & Bowen, in this city,
Ed. SENTINEL.