Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-08-27

"He who is everywhere is nowhere"
Wind and water warfder round the world
and fresher for the journey. The lost dia-
moud knows no difference between the dust
where it lies aud the bosom from which it
fell but everything hat has vitality re-
quires "a home. Everything that lives
seeks to establish permanent relations with
that upon which il must depend for supplies.
Every plant and every animal has its coun-
try and IA hat country a favorite location.
whore it huds that which will give il the
hruIthIesl development, ahd the most luxu-
RANT life Maze will not grow IN England,
aud oranges are not gathered IN Llpland.
The white bear piueS aud dies under the
equator, aud the lion refuses to live in po-
lar lalltudcs The elm Of century may
not be tranSplauted With safe y, unless u
large portion of its home be taken with it.
In juugeS and dens, in rool-beds and para.
site footholds, in rivers and brooks aud
bays, in lakes and seas, in cabins aud tents
and palaces, everything that lives, from he
loves animal aud plant To the lOrdlieSt
man, has a home-a place, or region,
with whose resources lis vitality has estab-
lished relations. l have no doubt, with an
alogy only for the basis of my belief, that
God, the fountain of life, has a home, aud
that there is somewhere in space place
which we call heaven
What is true of all organic material life
is equally true of all meutal and spiritual
life. 1t is not because the soul is a tenant
of a body which must have home that it,,
TOO, is subjected to like necessity The
soul IS alive, aud must feed that it may con
tinue to live, and that it may thrive 1t
takes root in material things oru the spir-
ltual facts that invest and permeate them
no less than in society, through multiplied
lilaments of relation and its roots may
never be violently dislocated without seri-
Gus damage to its life. Let a man be re-
moved from bis accustomed place in the
world, and from the society of wife and
children and friends and neighbOrs and
twenty four hours will suffice to make him
Il weaker man, aud toinStiluIe III him either
a general OF special process Of demoralIza-
| lion. The home-sicknGsS of the Swiss sol
dler is genuine disease, with a natural
cause which operates independently of bis
will ana beyond his control. The soul that
has once adjusted itself to its conditions
and has found the food necessary to nour
| lSh its growth and augment its vital wealth,
is nearest to its good /; aud the moment it
leaves these conditions for those which are
| strange, it approaches its evil. Let the ac-
customed influences watch hold it to virtue,
and strengthen its power to resist tempta-
tioD, and nourish its religious life, be eS.
capped from, and it will more readily become
the prey OF its own evil prOpensities, and
of the demoralizing influences that assail it
from without.
These facts find confirmation in familiar
popular experience. The influence of va
cation and simmer travel has been felt by
multitudes Some of our most exemplary
men, who have never been known to kick
over the trace of propriety at home, break
in the dasher and run away with the yehi-
Gle, at a seaside hotel The glass of wine
which never meets their lips at home is in
dulged in without alarm among strangers.
| Bowling alleys and whist tables and billiard
rooms which are considered very bad things
when among acquaintances, are transform
into excellent institutions in more distant
locations Dgnifed genllemen-oflicerSo of
the church and officers of the state-be-
come boyish and hilarious-not unfrequent-
ly uproarious-in an unfamiliar presence.
The cords of moral nature, kept taut in
the presence of familiar associates, adapt
themselves witt marvellous readiness to the
prevalent feebleueSs of tension found in the
humid atmospheres of watering places.
FixednesS of location becomes, then, a
condition vitalIy necessary to the growth
of true character and preservation Of the
health and harmony of the functions Of the
soul. Tue soul, like the body, lives by
what it feeds on. 1t must increase, or it
must diminish Travel has its benefits,
but they are indirect They come from
reSt-uot FROM growth. The direct iuAu-
ence Of travel is dissipation. No oman ever
comes back from travel with his powers un-
impaired. The power to concentrate the
mind, and to perform labor in the accuS-
toned way, is, in a measure, lost, and must
be re-acquired Now, if this condition OF
fxednesS be necessary to those who already
possess character and Christian principle,
how much more necessary is it TO those who
are mainly held to propriety and virtue 10y
outward influences. The young men who
leave Christian homes in the country, go to
the city, and, finding the restraints of home
removed, plunge into various forms of sin
The young women who gather in boarding
houses which are SO far without a home
character that they are regarded only as
places to eat and sleep in, rarely fail OF re
eeving serious moral injury. A constant
traveller who is constantly devout may pos
sbly exist, but'I have never seen him. Tht
itinerant professions have never, believe
been noted for exhibitions Of intelIectua
growth, or profound pietY Gold-hunters
in California aud Australia become in q
few months semi-saVages. No genuine ob
server can decide otherwise than that thI
homes Of nation are the bulwarks of per
sonal and national safety thrift. A ours
npon all those fantastic methods of living
dreamed Of by socialism and communism
which would sacrifice home to the meage
econt mics of great establishments, wher
humanity is fed in stalls like cattle
| may legitmately qualify or adapt wha
have said SO far as 10 admit that poo
home with poor location may be exehang
ed for a better one. A plant may be di,
loeated from an old, aud removed to neV