The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-07-05
MAKE HOME THE DEAREST PIACE
ON EARTH

here in adding to our wealth, and look
ing forward to some future time in
which to enjoy the treasures we are so
grecdly grasping for now? Why not
cmploya reasonable amount aforr gains
in beautitying and adorning the home,
around which halIowcd spot cluster all
the holiest thoughts and feelings that
we ever feel on earth
How many lost spirits might trace
their downfall direction back to that
gloomy frcsidc, where, instead of find. |
lng sympathy and encouragement, in
their bright dreams OF the future, they
meet no hing but frowns FROM n mother
ha"rasscd by the cares and troubles Of
tho day-cr by tho refusal ofa iathortoo
immersed in business calculations to DO
bothered by such trilling affairs.
Many and manya timehaveI thought
with what different signiication the
sweet word home would apply to tho
numerous phases Of abode occupied
by members Of the same large fam.
lily.
We will enter, on the wings Of fancy,
this palatial residence hero, certainly,
we ought to find Il homc--such Il one
as the world.toSscd man will turn to
with love and alteration in his moments
Of leisure; picturing to himself the de-
light and rapture with which he would
again tread its lovely walks; but, alas
We find nanght but Geld formality--
everything is splendid and beautiful %
the eye, but there is lack Of that soul
warming essence Of home that feeling
that this spot is sacred from the troub-
les, and cares, and vcXatiOnS that 40
hcSrt onr pathway ~ we travel through
the business walks ot life, and we in
stinctivcly feel that We are in Il temple,
erected to the worship Of mammon, and
that all the beautiful works of art, BY
/ which we are surrounded, are placed
there more to please the eye of the Wis.
itor, than they are to warm the hearts
that cluster around the family board
or meet around the hrcsidr, a. night
draws her mantle . cF thc earth.
Now, again, we will enter this large
mansion on the hIil---whcrc, rs far as
tie eye can rrNch, We SEC waving fields
OF grain; and herds OF cOntrutcd cattle
and horses IaAily cropping the rich her,
bage-surely, We think the owner ofso
mach wealth must have love y homo ];
but, as we enter, We feel that the main
object Of this man is TO accumulate, and
get gain. We enter his uncarpctcd
rooms, and gaze on the bare walls, de-
void Of all ornament; we look in vain
for some instrument of music with
which to while away lonely hour, hut
none such il to be found in his house
. his main object in life is to get togeth.
cr lands and Il, fast Az he has means at
his command. instead or hcau,ifyinp
his home, he adl. acre 10 acre, and for.
gcts. in his pride Of lit, that the dav il
fast co,r;n,r uhon oil ,l,ot Lo oo, ,so
of his vast tracts, will be what is allot.
ted u4oII at Iost--,pough 10 lie down in
in our last ,Iccl,.
The GREAT lronblo with mankind usu.
ally is, they ,o not know when they
have cot together enough ofthie " orld's
rood,. Irstcad Of cultiyotinc = coutcn.
ted ,uirit, and rnioyinc III, BLESSINGS
that 4 bouutituI Creator nloc., within
their reach, they nr, continually nr,.u-
inr after sometime bcv,ud-thinLin,
that, when thry reach 4 contain noint
in the rrco. h,ttlo os l;Co than tbc,. will
hn y, ,b, v,., ocn,, - tho;r 5,s;.,,
but too often thew find tbot tbc object
thcv b,vc hoon nnr.ni,r i -. oo,. ;o.
put f,tuu, tbn, / stillbocI,opin, tbom
ON. and while tbev ara nur,u;no i tboy
ucrlect TO eniov the BLESSINGS thew have.
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