The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-04-28

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AurnlcAs lows. How little
mankind IN general and Americans
IN particular. enjoy life, compared
aitl what they might enjoy by SIM
ply exercising 4 little more fore
Thought IN the selection Of their
homes and bestowing little more
labor aud care around and within
them. Tile homes Of America viii
not become what they should, mn
tiH true idea Of lfie shall become
more widely implanted. The wor-
ship 81 tie Almighty dollar" does
more 70 degrade American homes
and the life Of these homes, than
anything than all things else
Here utility is the God Of almost
universal worship The chief end of
life is to gather gold, and that gold
Is counted lost which hangs a picture
on the wall, which buys a choice
flower or shrub for The yard, which
brings a toy or n book to the eager
hands Of childhood the time il
counted wasted that is spent with
wife and children, in ramble after
wild flowers, or autumn leaves or
nuts, in building a rustic vase, or arr
Dor in the yard, or in training to
ways artistic the growth Of a vine,
or a hedge or tree. Is thistle whole
Of human life +? then ii is poor,
imeagre and almostundesirable thing,
a child will 90 forth from such a
home as a horse goes forth from a
stall glad to find fresh air and
wider pasturage. The influence Of
such a home upon him in after life
will be nothing at all, or nothing
good. Thousands are rushing from
homes like these every day. They
swarm into cities and into villages.
They crowd into all places where
! life is crowned with higher signif-
canoe and the old shell Of home is
deserted By every bird as soon as it
can fly. Ancestral homesteads and
I patrimonial acres have no sacredness;
and when the farmer and mother die,
4 the strangers presence obliterates
associations which should be among
/ the most sacred Of all things.
A radical reform is needed. We
would have you, who already pos
Isess a home Of your own, abandon,
at once and forever all thoughts Of
deserving it; and you, who have no
chosen abiding place, should early
select one, though its acres be few
or its buildings humble, and let that
choice be your permanent choice.
Then we would have you set your.
selves earnestly about improving and
identifying that home. We would
have you build up for yourselves and
your children, a home which will
never be lightly parted with--a home
that shall be to all whose lives have
been associated with it, the most in
Iteresting and precious spot on earth.
/ We would have that home the abode
of divinity, propriety, beauty, grace,
Hove, genial iellowships, innocent
amusements and happy associations.
Out from such a home we would
have good influences flow into neigh
berhoods and communities. In such
home we would see noble ambition
taking root, and receiving all gene
rous culture. We would have you
consider whether you ought not to
be more in the habit Of seeking honor
! for yonr defendants than your an
eesters; thinking it better to be no.
bly, remembered than nobly born !;
and striving to live 50 that your sons
and your sons sons, for ages toeome,
might still lead their children rever-
emily to the doors out Of which you
were carried to the the grave, saying,
look this was bis house; from that
spring lie drank that tree he plant
ed. :"
BATES AND HIS BANNER. Sergeant