Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-01-28
HOME SUNSHINE

Make home cheerful. Don't let its sunshine
be darkened BY an impatient, fretful, or rePins
ing spirit. Perhaps you are not well and a
trife may serve to discompose and irritate your
nerves, but is that any reason why you should
revenge year annoyance on the first unoffend-
ing member ofthe family circle who comes in
your way? Or admitting the cause of the dis
turbance to be serious, oecasioned perhaps by
She gross carelessness wilfulness Of another,
ID it not one Of the "daily crosses" you are all
called upon to bear, and should it not be met
in gentle, patient spirit2 You are responsible
for every action of your life, every separate
infuenee which you exert upon those around.
VIII brother sister be made more loving
" more careful if every unintentional trespass
may, if every positive fault be met by unkind
looks or ungentle wordsl Win your influence
over 3 domestic, your power to win her to an
affectieLate feeling for yourself, to faithful
performance of duty, an interest in higher and
holier subjects, be strengthened by harsh or
angry rebukea Think, ere you render yourself
and those around you unhapPy-e ere You grieve
and dishonor the Master who has set you in
abe circle of human duties and home affections,
and who will one day require strict acc cunt
at your hands,
But, to make heme happy, more is required
than the suppression of the angry word, the
unkind feeling Indifference to that which
concerns others is fruitful source of domestic
nnhappiness. You must interest yourself in
all that interests those with whom you are SO
closely connected. If you are SO absorbed in
your own plans, your own enjoyments, your
own feelings, as to have sympathy for those
of others; if you have no time to 81 ejoice with
them that do rejoice, and weep with them that
weep' in the family circle, you destroying
much ofthe happiness of home, and casting a
hadow whore sunshine ought to be. It is of no
avail that you walk through lfe wrapt IN dreams
ofthe gre good that You will do for the many
some day in the. far off future; that you are
planning or e. ecuting work that shall accom-
plish much aboard, if you neglect the duty that
lies nearest to you. You can tighten your mo
sher's labors-yoa can take kindly, heart
warm, intelligent interest in all that concerns
reur father, and brother or sister-you can be
seacher, guide, helper to the little oEes-you
can nfulfi Cheerful lily and pleas antly, the daily
routine of household duties, though they
In wearisome and distasteful-and all this you
must do if you would render home happy
most obviously your first duty your previous
privilege.
And here let me whisper don't think any
thing too small to minister TO the comfort Of
home. A careiessly arranged dinner table, a
aiaorderly room, will dctract from it, With in
eelligenee, affection, and good temper, neatness
is still indis pensable. And where love foI
Abe beautifulis shown in all the arrangements
and adorrings of your home, line xl1essi We
yhough they may be, much will C done, al
most nnconscieuslysto themselves in attachin G
the members of your lirtle circle closer to theil
Swn freside. aa a7=F
saTry it my dear sisters, and ere We part, lei
me add word that cannot be out of place il
any portion of profsssedly Christian land
i Iou will not find it easy always to carry ont
these good resolutions. Days there OF lam
guor, and lisllessness, and weariness, wRen il
Is worry difficult to wear Il. shining brow, tc
perform faithfully the task we do not like, to
deny ourselves fer the sake of others. Let u:
then remember the earthly life of One "whC
pleased not himself,'' and ask Him for rstreng
40 iuI6l Alright the duties which He has given
rs. The brightest sunshine that everirradiate'
an earthly home is that reflected from thu
courts of Heasen.-Rural New Yorker.