The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-09-07
TIMOTHY TrrcoMB ON WATERING PA
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aThe Ere burns brightest on ous's own
GA tree often trsnsplanted neither grows
nor thrives."
H who is far from home is near to harm"
Wind and water wander round the world
and grow fresher for the journey. Thc lost
diamond knows no difference between the dust
where it lies and the bosom from which it fell;
but every thing that has vitality requires >
home. Everything that lives seeks to estab-
lish permanent relations with that upon which
it must depend for supplies. Every plant and
every animal has its country, and in that
country a fayorite location, where it finds that
which will give it the healthiest development
and the most luxuriant life. Maize will not
grow in England, and oranges are not gath
cred in Lapland. The white bear pines and
dies under the equator, and the lion refuses
to live in polar attitudes. The elm of q CEN
tury may not be tansplanted with safety, nm
less a large portion of its home be taken with
It.
What is true of all organic material life, is
equally true of all mental and spiritual life.
1t is not because the soul is the tenant of .
body which must have 8 home, that it, too,
is subjected to q like necessity. The soul is
alive, and must feed that it may continue to
live, and that it may thrive. It takes root in
material things, or in the spiritual facts that
invest and permeate them, no less than in So
ciety, through multiplied flaments of relation;
and its roots may never be violently dislocated
without serious damage to its life. Let a man
be removed from his accustomed place in the
weaker man, and to world, and from the
society of wife and children and friends and
neighbors, and twenty-four hours will suffice
to make him a institute in him either =
eeneralo or special process of demoralization.-
The Inconsistencies of the Swiss soldier is =
genuine disease, with q natural 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 dasher and run away with
the vehicle, at a sea side hotel. The glass of
wine which never met their lips at home il
INDUCED in without alarm among strangers
Bowling alleys and whist tables and billiard
rooms, which are considered very bad things
when among acquaintances, are transformed
INTO excellent institutions in more distant To-
cations. Digni6ed gentlemen-oficers of the
church and officers of the, state-become boy
ISL and hilarious-not ~..unfrequently uproari-
ous-iu an unfamiliar presence. The cords
Of the moral nature kept tautin the presence of
familiar associates, adapt themselves with
maj ClOUo 0huC W 1AO PiOboAO AOCbiChOoo
of tension found in the humid atmosphere of
watering places.
The young men who leave christian homes
in the country e to the city, and finding the
restraints of home removed, plunge into va
rious formsiof sin. The young women who
gatheri in clearinghouse which are so far
without a home character, that they are regard
ed only as places to eat and sleep in, rarely
fail of receiving serious moral injury. A con-
slant traveller who is constantly devout may
possibly exist, but / have never seen him
The ~itinerant professions have never, 1 believe,
been noted for exhibitions of intellectual
growth, OF. profound piety. Goldhunters in
California and Australia become in a few
months semi-savages. No genuine observer
can decide otherwise than that the homes of a
nation are the bulwark of personal and nation
al safety and thrift. A curse on all these
fantastic methods of living, dreamed of by
socialism and communism, which would sacri-
fee home to the meagre economies of great
establishments, where humanity is fed in stalls
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