Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-20

admire either the hero or heroine; and Miss
@Carrie Mason" talks very much like book.
and very little like sronan. And we cannot
like the spirit manifested in the book. 1t is
surely not one of Christian charity. If we
profess to be followers of Christ our life should
conform to his. Was Jesus acontroversialist?
He had ample proyocalion from the Pharisees
and Sadducees to become one, yet he always
answers them briefly, and passes on to his
plain and practical teaching of the people.
Jesus does not say Blessed is he who believes
in .sprinkling, or "pouring'' or immersion,-
or those who contend for Calvinism, Armenian
ism. or Catholicism. bnt he did say
.'Blessed are the peace-mdkers. for they shall be
called the Children Of God, ''-and Blessed are
the merofuI. and blessed are the pure IN heqrt''
The life of such a man as Joseph Curtis, of
whose memoir we have Just been speaking
will do more real good, and win more souls
to Heaven, than all the books of doctrinal
controversy ever published. The word of
God has thousands of Interpreters all claim
ing to he right, each crying II am the true
.prophetW But is it of SO much Importance,
Greek or Hebrew term, or whether we make
our calling and election siire?- The Bible.
and Shakespeare are the two hardest books in
the world to understand. But if we do I'M
derstand, (and thank God we can partially
how full, how rich. how complete is the mean
ingi They resemble each other in many re-
spects, the most striking of which, perhaps,
is their universally. The sweetest sentence
in the whole Bible. Like as Father pityeth
his children" who does not understand that
And ''Come unto me- all We that labor, and
are heavy laden. and will give you rest -
and There shall be no night there, ana God
shall wipe away all tears from our eyes,
we can all understand these. There is no '.con-
troversy" in them-''docirine" in them save
the blessed, incontestible doctrine of pater-
nal pity, and undying love
1t is not safe always to take our Bible in
terpreters upon trust, but we may al,oays take
God upon trust. True religion-Christ's reli-
gion lies before us in nutshell. Love God,
and thy neighhor as thyselr." And may He
who has given us This new commandment
give us grace also to walk therein.
THE HAPPY HOME. BY KiyIodn, author IF ''Leters to
archbishop H,ghes,' Romdnis,a Home, - 81 Men
and Things in Europe dc. Nea0 York: Harper d
Brothers 1858.
A little book with a good deal in it. A
obOk too " hich may be studied to advantage
in a country like ours, where all institutions.
both social, and political. aud all govern
ments, civil, moral and ecclesiastical depend
in greater or less degree upon that funda-
mental institution-that foundation of gov
ernment-Home. In a country like this. too.
where the sacred name of home" is so often
lost in the fashionable clearinghouse" and
the ''first-cass hotel, the precepts of this lit
tie volume cannot be too deeply studied,
too highly appreciated. We commend it, and
hope to treasure up its contents. ''neverthe-
less we have somewhat against" it too; and
this it is. 1t says good things, but it says
them in a rather cold and austcre way. That
is not the way to talk about home. There
should be warmth. and light, and life, and
love, in every body when they speak, or think,
or dream about "Heaven's fallen sister,
HOME! IeOple nave no right To prose"
about it any more than they have to be dull
when they talk about HEAVEN. Aud people
who have felt, really felt. and known the
blessings of a happy hOme;' who have real
lied It's brightness aud beauty, who have lived
in its atmosphere of light. and warmth, and
music and perfume" how in the name of won
der can they talk along so calm. and collect
ed, and exceedingly dignifed about it all, just
as if they deserved it of God when we all
know in our hearts they don't, or they would
appreciate it better.
And then our author does not once say to
us, ''make home beautiful to your children"
Ah! that was an oversight surely. He says,
make your home good place. but we say
make them beautiful. too-your children can
not grow up TO be Christians if you live in a
home with pig-stye in front of IT, Its
moral impossibiity. Oh! be sure make your
home beautiful and good and it will be hap
py."
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