Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-12-22
Omuille DaiIq Dntte RerurH.
HOME.
BY w. II. d.


ever in our memories. sacred and hall
lowed, yet varied as the changing
phases of our mortal life. Let US.
kind reader. revert TO our first impress
sions of home. We cannot get back
TO the period of helpless infancy, when
our very weakness was our strength,
and we reigned in the household with
a power more supreme than that of a
ruler OF some mighty kingdom. Then
all hearts bowed down in submission to
the silent charm Of innocence and puri-
ty, while our slightest smiles of recog-
milton gave unspeakable joy, and our
cries of anguish sent pang of sorrow
to every heart. This we cannot res
member; but, perhaps, between the
periods of infancy and childhood, in
our first conscious impressions of home,
We find ourselves lying on mothers
bosom-enfolded in her arms --bathed
with her tender and undying love,
while her subdued voice is soothing US
to rest with hymns of melody whose
every sound of sweetness, through all
our after lives, shall seem like echoes
from that time. Such are our first
dreamy impressions on the shores of
time, and these shall linger in our me-
mories till time shall be no more.
But not only with our first impress
sions of homc shall our memories fond
ly linger because there We passed
our childhood in its Joyous glee, and at
tracted all hearts by our winning ways,
and there endured our first sorrows,
which, though transient, were as real
and us bitter to onr fresh and tender
hearts, as those of maturcr years :;
there, we played with our brothers and
sisters and there, we experienced the
hallowed and blessed influence of a
mothers love there we received a
fathers kind advice and admonitous :;
there, we climbed his knee to listen in
sorrow to some tales of human suffer-
ing, or glory in the triumphs of our
country over oppression and wrong !;
there, we rejoiced in the purity and
tenderness of a sisters love and there,
we felt the generous embraces of II
brothers manly heart; there, we form
ed our first friendships with our youth
full playmates, with whom we enjoyed
so much frolic and fun; there. burst
forth the ardent aspirations of our
youthful years. when with generous
impulses and unpervcrted taste, we
vowed ever to strive for the r ght and
GOOD; there, were our earliest visions
of the future, which seemed glowing
in rainbow.tints, with no clouds of sor-
row lowering upon its skies there, we
cemented the bonds Of friendship; and
there, we exchanged the first raptur-
Gus kiss of love; there, at morn and
eve our youthful prayers ascended to
heaven while with trusting and unsullied
hearts, we conided in saviour's un-
diving love; there, was the school
house where we conned our daily and
irk some task, watching the shadows as
thew shortened to the hour of noon, or
lenrthened with the declining sun ;
there stood the chuI CHI, where never
endino future first unfolded to our view,
while our souls asplred after eternal
things there, it may be, we have seen
the forms of loved ones carried to their
final home and whose spirits have
ever since been beckoning us to the
skies. There, too, were Christmas
merrv-makiggs, and New-Year greet
ings there, were harvest home, and
thanksgiving feasts: there, we rejoic-
ed in the light of a joyons life, or sor-
rowed in the fear of ii coming death /;
there, we revelled IN the heights of
earthly bliss and there, it may be, we
experienced events so tragical and SOL
emn that we could not whisper them
in the ear of our dearest friend.
But let US turn from the home of
our early years, to the later home of
onr hearts to that spot where we
have gathered all that is most sacred
and dear to us on earth for there, is
one 70 whom we have vowed to be
ever faithful and true -one to whom
we seem TO be united with more than
earthly ties there, our fairest hopes
center: there, our purest and sweet
-. q .:ons dtvpu thprp IN Our chill.