Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1859-08-18
Timothy Titcomb on Watering
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IA tree often 1ausp!anted neither grows no
thrives"
l''He who 10 far from homs l. near 10 harm."
1 Wind and wster wander round the world
and grow fresher :or the jeornsy. The los
diamond knows no difference between th'
dust where it lies and the bosom from whicl
it fell; but everything that has vitality 70
quires home. Everything that lfrss seek
to Establish permanent relations with the
upon which il must depend for implies
Every plant and every animal - fts eoun
Try, and in that country fsvorits leq6sion
where it finds that which will givsAt the
healthiest deve lopmenf. and IL pest lux,
uri.at Rfe. Maise Iil, - - .Eas'
land, and oranges are not gathsseS In Lap
.and. The white bear pines and dies under
the equator. and the lion refuses to live Ia
polar attitudes. The elm Of . century may
not be transplanted with safety, unless Z
large portion of its home be tsken with il
What is true of sll organic material life
10 equally true of all mental and spiritua
life. Il is not because the soul il the ten.
ant of body which must have home thai
it, too, is subjected to q like necessity. The
soul is alive, and must feed that it may con.
tinue to live, and that it may thrive. i
takes root in material things, or in the
spiritual facts that invest aud permeste
them. no less than in society, through mul
tiplied 6.amenis of relation; and its roots
may never be violently dIslocated without
serious damage to its life. Lett . man b
removed from his accustomed place in ths
world. and from the society Of wife ans
children and friends and neighbors, anl
twenty-fcur hours will suffice to make hin
weaker man, and to institute III him eth
er general or special process of demoral
ization. The inconsistencies Of the Swiss
soldier is genuine disease, with 4 n atural
cause which operates independently of his
will, and beyond his control.
The influence of vacation and summer
travel has been felt by multitudes. Some
Of our most exemplary men, who have
never been known to kick over the traces
of propriety at home, break in the dasheI
and run away with the vehicle. ct sea side
hotel. The glass o. wine which never
meets their lips ct home is INDUCED in with.
out alarm among strangers. Bowling alleys
and whist tables and billiard rooms, which
are considered very bad things when among
acquaintances, are transformed into excel.
lent institutions in more distant locations.
Digniied gentlemen--officers of the church
and officers of the stste-become boyish
and hilsrious-not unfrequently uproarious
in an unfamiliar presence. The cords oi
xsss smoEstnzrureFFkrs--s. 4,1SkEeeenss
of familiar associates, adapt thema ives with
marvellous readiness 10 the prevalent feeble
ness of tension found in the humid atmos-
phere of watering places.
The young men who leave Christian
homes in the country, 60 to the city, ald
finding the restraints of home removed,
plunge into various forms of sin. The
young women who gather in boarding houses
which are S, far without home character,
that they are regarded only as places to eat
and sleep in rarely fail of receiving serious
moral injury. A constant traveller who is
constantly devout may possibly exist, but I
have never ssen him. The itinerant pro-
fessions hsve never, believe, been noted
for exhibitions of intellectual growth, or
profound piety. Gold hunters in California
and Australia become in few month semi.
savages. No genuine observer can decide
o,he, wise than that the homes Of nation
are the bulwsrKs of personal and natural
safety and thrift. A curse upon oil those
fantastic methods of living. dresfned of BY
socialism and communism, which would
sacrifice home to the meagre economies OF
great Establishments, where humanity 10 fed
| 10 stalls like cattle.