Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-11-25

army do not work for families. They are IN
natural. They are not institutions founded on
natural instincts, but organized medicines to
be admins cred to the diseases of natural in
stinct. But the merchant runs not through an
itch of gold alone-it is the family behind him
that works more than mere love of money. Ii
is not the love of work or skill that drives up
the shop-it is the love of wife and child and
the holy sanctities Of the Root.
Hence Thanksgiving has its heart in the
Family. We go first to Church. But then
like the people and ike King David, we &c
back to our house. And on that day there
was not Hebrew who, once within his OWL
door, did not feel every inch as great as King
David. He was as great. The King of Israe
was nothing but father and husband in his
own family. King was less than Father, and
| the greater swallowed up the latter in the Fami
| ly. And, among US, every man that hath q
home hath throne such as King David never
sat upon, nor gold and ivory Solomon either.
| When God calls together man and maiden
wedding is ordination they are priests of God
When He trusts them with cradle, then He
crowns. But in the Family, the Heart wears
the crown, not the Head And when with
triple crowns multiplied, the parents at length
present their children to the Lord, safe and
saved, not Solomon in all his glory was array
ed like one of these parents! And the Queen
of Sheba who came leagues and days to heal
Solomon talk, might double the leagues and
multiply the days of journey, to hear the supe-
rior wisdom of mother, venerable and good
lingering on earth that we may know the tenn.
per and disposition of Saints in Heaven!
The Thanksgiving Day, then, is in heart and
spirit the FESTIVAL OF THE FAMILY
Now come home the children. Now all for
biddings cease, and rules relax; unwonted pla.
ees are laid open; locks give back their bolts;
jams and cakes are common as grass; no rooms
are too fine for treading-no clothes too fine fol
wearing-no places too select for familiarity
The children may go up and down through the
house-through pantry and cupboard. Frugal
ity is the only thing locked up to-day, and Par
simony is expelled; Generosity comes instead
and open handed Abundance. 1t is the grand
day of Family joy and liberty, in which it is a
sin to be sober and virtue to be merry.
But, as we must yet awhile tarry here,we
will beguile our WEAKNESS by that which it is
the next thing to home-a discourse of home:
l. God be thanked for The HOUSE. The heart
cannot carry all it feels, and so it overaows ev-
cry day, and the house is the place where all its
streams do collect. The heart is like plant in
the tropics, which all the year round is bearing
flowers and ripening seed, and letting them fly.
1t is shaking off memories, and dropping asso-
Citations. The joys of last year are npe seeds
that will come up in joy again next year. Thus
the heart is planting seeds in every nook and
corner; and as a wind which serves to PROSTATE
plant is only a sower coming forth 20 SOW its
seeds, planting some of them in rock creyiees,
some by river courses, some among mOssy
stones, some under warm hedges, and some in
gardens and open felds,s is it with our expert
ences of life, that sway and bow US either with
Joy or sorrow. They plant everything around
about us with heart SEEDS. Thus a House be-
comes sacred. Every room hath memory, and
thousand of them; every door and each win.
dow is clustered with associations.
After years and years we 90 back to the house
of our infancy, and faces Chat long have looked
up without seeing the roots that grow over them
look out upon US, and an invisible multitude
stand in gate and portal to welcome us, and
airy voices speak again the old words which
men do not hear except in childhood and IN the
house.
| One pites spirits that have no bodies. POol
things what modification it must be to fiji
about like a shadow, or 50 uHsubstantial thai
men can lcok through you and not know thai
you are there. 1t may be all well enough il
| August to wish oneself cloud, riding in fleece
high up in the cool air But when one has il
Autumn and Winter heard his own faotstep:
awhile, grasped substantial hands and claspeC
| forms that he could feel, he feels natural pity
for poor misty spirits that cannot eondenst
enough to be palpable to the senses. But wha
poor, shivering, restless, rapPing sprite il
without body, that is living man without
HOUSE. He cannot take root A man at h0
tel is like grapevine in flower-pot, movable
carried round from place to place, docked at the
root and short at the top There is no whert
that a man can get real root-rC ON, and spreaC
out his branches till they touch the morning anG
the evening, but in his Olrn house If could
should be glad to live in the house that my an
cestors had lived In from the days of the Flood
| That cannot be, for in ascending the line of an
cestry, find the people but not the houses
and it is more than suspected that some of then
never owned one. My fathers house 1t is like
picture rubbed out The frame and canvas
are there, but strangers have possessed it.
The room where | was born, where my moth
er rocked my cradle, and sang as angels do
where she died, where all my bOyish frolics be
gan and life spread out its golden dream-they
are all overlaid by other histories. We planted
pleasant things in the old house, but the Assyr
ians came in and settled down in them. The
educating power Of house cannot be over-esti
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not totally change its character, if men should
cease to live in their own permanent houses
One has the advantage of house and AOHSe
EOid-the other not family without house
is a camp merely fortified for the night; but
family in house of their own, are a family in
permanent fortifcation. 1t is well called ;
HOUSEHOLD, as if it was a fort and citadel, int
which men may run all their life long and b
secure A nation of men on wheels would re
main Oalmucks forever. A rolling stone gath
ers no moss.
II. The TABLE. l do not believe that W,
think enough Of that purifying power which do
mestic affection has to clothe and hide all tht
animal necessities Of our physical nature. i
has always seemed to me very strange thing
that man should be an eating animal / have
wondered that he was not made like misletoe
mounted on some branch which does its eating
for it, and serves up to its daily wants,digesteC
sap. Or that he was not an EDiDhytsS, or ali
plant, that hooks on to the bark and swings II
the air, collecting food from wind and atmOs
phere. For Gmitsting philosophers when they
would confuse kDowledge) eatiug, per Sc, is {
very gross operation for a spiritual being The
mouth is but a mill. Therein go perpetua
grists for grinding, The eye hath q certain no
bleness, as it Is the sun of the head, and shoots
! IOILn beams OF lghL Ane ear lakes ln-Dut II
is only impalpable sounds. The nose is a re-
cipient, but only of such parts of things as are
too ETHEREAL for form and which exhaIe in odors
But the mouth is strange aperture into which
men east untold substance, and it hath never
yet been filled, Nor do l believe that any man
can quietly watch the steps of eating, grinding
and swallowing, as mere animal act, unclothed
from associations, without feeling more disgust
han he would at pigs banquet from the noisy
trough.
And yet, if there is one word that is univer.
sally significant of love, peace, refinement, So
cial amenity, friendship, pure society, joy-it is
the TABLE. Suchpower hath the heart to clothe
the most unseemly things with its own sweet
vines and fragrant flowers that we have not only
forgotten that eating is an animal act, but we
have coUe to associate everything that is sweet