The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-02-19

ed restless heart beneath il. 81 know we'll |
enough. its miserable, wasted life we're all |
feading--this dressing and going to parties, |
and giving them--that this constant striving
TO be stylish. and keep ones position. is a
foolish and sinful thing. Pm sick and asham-
ed of it. It's running our ,children. 1t will
make spendthrifts Of our boys. and silly
fashionable dolls of our girls. If we had
meyer begun this foolish plan Of keeping up
with our neishbors, or If conld only 60
back ten years in my life! But there's no
way Of getting cut of il now. All our ac-
quaintances would stare at US, and laugh at
us, and the children would be miserable and
the only way to effect any change is to 60 off
and bury ourselves in the country, away
from all influences and stimulants of our
present life; and that can't be thought Of. |
wish knew what to do, or where to turn.
II had only commenced differently"
| And the wife aud mother rung her hands,
and the charges, and the children committed
to her, for good or for evil, went on the way
of folly and vanity. for good impulses never
bring forth good fruits, unless they harden
into fixed principles of action, and what rud-
der to human soul adriit on the wild and
stormy waters Of life is an aimless and pur
poseless J9
/ IF" says the young man, full of dreams
and ardor, 81 could only have some grand,
heroic career! If could only do something
to benefit nv race, and send my name shin
ing down the future ages, great and honor
able, benefactor TO humanity blessing to
my age! Ii could only see glorious flu
ture before me-"
| And alas the youth does not look upon
that sweet and tender Face which shines
down to us across the slumbering centuries,
that Face, though it came on earth TO be the
one Hope and Healer Of our humanity.
sought no high honorable station amongst
men, but won its crown of thorns, and was
lifted up only upon cavalry.
i ssll oniy had something to do, saws the
Young girl il the first blooming years 81 her
womanhood, II should love II crown myself
with all which poets and good men say is
sweet and noble, and tender in woman; but
dear me-there is nothing | can find here,
and now in my quiet homie, and in every
day life, to do good, or for blessings TO
othersv'
Il Anu III tue sHeiltI II lHdl NuuuS Slll >
" quiet home," were father aud mother,
brother and sister, upon whose hearts her
loving deeds would tall, as the summer sun.
shine falls upon the earth, welcoming the
birds, calling 10 the flowers.
All around her were souls that needed
hourly her counsels and ministrations OF ten
derness, and yet she turned away from the
sublime though lowly duties Of the present,
and whispered to the future her pIaintiye,
dissatisfied ~ If"
.. All, reader. these :. if" never accomplish
anything! Weak mourning over he past,
plaintiye regrets over its lost opporinnitie.
and wasted hours, never make one better.
And remember, the only way IN which
you can prove TO God the sincerity Of re.
grets for the past. is TO improve the present
NO matter how late it is, nor what ynu
, have lost. So long as an hour Of life re.
mains to you, 50 long you have something e
do. Turn steadfast 10 the work that lies a
home, no matter how small it may be |
you do it in the right spirit, il is grand. no.
BILE, glorious, and shall be the loom weaving
its wedding garment for your soul, in tn,
day when il shall go to the marriage suppei
of the Lord.
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