Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-14
For the Bugls.
G H l L D r E N I.

The human heart seeks to know and sympathize
with the universe Of mind around it, thus becom-
ing more finely and fully human; and the develop
ment gained depends mostly upon the periectness
of the knowledge, and the frecncss OF the sympa'
thy which we are able to give, and receive.
Pune. JOYOUS childhood has a thousand condi'
lions fitted to draw forth, and teach older hearts in
the world of human affection; so many, that l new
err think of children without %inwnrdIy saying "A
thousand ,imes blessed, in life, and mission, are
ye, little ones.
First, is the worship Of man and of woman be-
fore the cradle of infancy. The little hand RAISED
helplessly, ~bespeaks a tender, ana supporting
yntchfulness, while the interest centered upon ls
Young life is a new household bond, from which,
neither grand dame or uncle, cousin or sister are
exempt. This sleeping germ OF manhood or WON
snbood has Weakened a mothers undying faith,
itself at once the real prototype, and essence OF
the souls deepest religious emotion.
The parental element Of love rests with Infinite
satisfaction in this supply Of its demand ana
memory, logic and fancy are busy on a thousand
plans, Of which yonder unconscious b~aoyhood Is
the beginning and the ending.
Next, comes the %prattler, whose feet sound all
day through porlor and hail, chasing down garden
walks and over green turf, leaving cart, hoop ana
hat strewn there, while he goes mapping Of a sum
mer afternoon. When these parents have grown
old, the grass may stand in the door yord, tall and
%untrampled, waving before the autumn wind as 1t
comes across the garden and whistles through the
hall, yet memory has saved, for them, a warm
CLEAN of l~ovelight which she gathered from those
DAYS of childhood's sunshine. Then, many q SIM
pie story of half formed words, irresistabiy win
ming in its artlessness, was told by lips now grown
firm and rough, or closed perhaps, in silence for
ever. A few ideas gained from their limited OBJ
seryation and rudely combined; q dog, or a sled,
the ploughing of the kitchen garden, or pin sew
inc "to help Manu." were nple sources of amuse-
ment, and conversation.
The untaught spirit reveals itself in its uncal'
culating impulses, and emotions; fully confding, 1t
trusts unreseryedly; fearful or repulsed, it can
scarce be won; toward one, generous to a fault,
perhaps to another, misery; yielding all TO be led
BY Kindness, submitting to authority only in the
last extremity; human in all points, uneultivated
and uncombined everywhere; ye perfect little
prisms of humanity
Their first love is their first worship. 1t centers
upon the parents and regards them, in all aspects,
a, nearer reflection than any others. Ihisregard'
with the desire and effort of emulation attending
it. is ultimately blended with the alteration and as
piration, which The soul, in after years. sends forth
to the All Father. When the little one scans Inc
with its guileless eye, expecting to find no evil in
my word or way, yet eagle-eyed to discern 1T Ii
there. can | have q more sacred incentive to seek
goodness and all purity? l would preserve invio-
late the FIRST worship Of the young heart, and
cleanse thou me from secret faults, is the mothers
most urgent petition.
Hopeful little ones, joyous in every morrow
%trus,ful to every loving heart, disinte sted II
thought and act, spontaneous in expression. w
delight in youth, which cherishes these traits vs.
pause with loving reverence before a dlgnihed ol'
age, which has not lost them, and they must neeo
be our own also, else the kingdom OF HEAVIER
dwelle,h not with us. Yea rs hopeful as ye are
though no longer ignorant of the uncertainties o
the future, but through an unfultering trust in III
eternal law of God, which workcth everywhere 10
the welfare of bis creatures. But the world sci
dom suffers one to carry their childhood Away
with them. 1t teaches to he wary, lest we be over
taken by hypocrisy, treachery and selfshness, M
til one learns to be chary Of perils, bestowed then
on tried friends only; and n worthful friendship l
such, because 1t is as %trustful, and disintereste'
and as spontaneous as childhood itself,
The caresses, and loving words Of a little one ar
as exquisite as the budding Ct flowers in genia
Spring time, they are a honey dew bathing tn
soul in freshness, and bringing back, for the mo
ment, our primal innocence. The child's exis
tence is a star to preside over and point the way O
life, it giveth a light to cheer, and gladden. in a
hours, whether they fell lightly or gloomily upo
our dial.
With our cold knowledge and troublesome e'
periences hanging about us, we may live life Owe
and become young again in childhood,
"And when. with envy, time transported,
Shall think to rob us of our joys,
You'll in your girls again be courted,
And I'll go wooing in my boys"
My sentiment is--Children-Liying, the futur
men and women, who are to dwell on all the fac
of the earth:-early departed-the well remeu
bered angels, whom every home ~weepeth, yt
hopeth for. Blessed are We, little ones, everywhere
and always.
A. E. L. r.
Tup Tar Avn or F.ylL-The national IntellireI