The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-15

purify his tastes, that the temptation to go
in search OF. unhealthy stimulus shall be
gone.
A sad faced, careworn woman, a farm
er's wife, said to me, " II seemed good
deal of money to lay out on one thing,
when we bought the piano, but | have been
paid hundred fold, for the self-denial |
had to make, in the pleasure it gives the
children, not to speak of the comfort it is
to me when | am tired out, to hear the
girls play their simple pieces. Oh, have
never grudged a cent of the money since
the piano came into the house"
What is more delightful, more thorough
ly enjoyable, than for the family to gather
around the piano, of a Sunday afternoon,
or evening, and join in singing those old,
soul-stirring strains, those grand old tunes,
which come echoing down the years, with
not an atom of their beauty lost. but the
rather, like the richest wine of the vintage,
growing more precious with each passing
generation? And there are hymns of our
own day, whose writers may not yet, have
gone up to sing them with Gods angels,
which are destined to live as long as the
language, in which they were conceived.
Is there any one, who can listen entirely
unmoved to that soul-uplifting hymn,
''Nearer my God, to thee, nearer to
thee ~?
Over and over let us sing it in the house.
hold for there may come day when
some member of the household band, lis
tening to the voice of the tempter, silvery-
tongued, and soft-about to yield, shall
suddenly hear above the honeyed accents,
like the echo of some sweet far-away song,
"Ncarer my God to thee ! :" and the pic
lure of happy group assembled on Sun
| day ewes, in bygonc days, of a mothers
face, aglow, with loves sweet contentment,
of a fair young sister, whose mellow voice
took up the refrain "Ncarer my God, to
thee, nearer to thee - shall fit across his
vciw, and with the song, and the picture it
evoked, may come the power to turn the
deaf ear to the poisonous batteries and Sc
auctions of the fiend.
Other hymns there are too, which should
be household words. AS cradle songs, the
little ones should learn to know and love
them, and as they grow older, the sweet,
and sacred words, welded to tunes which
seem to have been made for them, and
them alone, will sink deep into their hearts
and will scarcely fail to terminate and ri
pen into golden harvests, on some day, or
days in after life.
Let us forestall Satan in every way we
can, and cheat him of his victims by null
tiplying the attractions of home, and max
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those who are within, will never have the
faintcst longing for forbidden fruit, whose
partaking they know. would bring shad-
ow of shame on a spot, which should lie
forever in the sunlight of purity. and love.
And when the time comes for one to leave
the happy limits, to wander among the
crooked ways of the world, there will be a
thousand unseen cords, strong as love can
make them. and as soft, holding the wan
derer, when he stumbles, and ever with
gentlest tension, drawing his mind back to
the warmth and light of home
If you love music if your children show
the least taste for it, do not fail to encour-
age them, and guide their taste in the right
direction. Perhaps you cannot afford the
luxury of piano. 1t is a luxury know,
and an expensive one, it seems. Could
you not afford a cabinet organ! A good in
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piano Many prefer it for sacred music.
Think of it friends, you who would keep
the dear ones of your home flock from
wandering away from the fold and becom-
ing lost in the great barrens of the world,
lying outside of the walls of home.
One perfect man has walked among men.
Long, long ago he went away, but before
he set out upon his agonizing Journey he
spoke TO those sorrowing ones who gath
cred about him, precious words and this
was part Of what he told thcm "ln my
Fathers house are many mansions if it
were not so, | would have told you. | go
to prepare place for YOU
Nor to that little group alone was the
promise made, but to you and to me, oh,
FRIEND whoever you are, if we will but
claim it, for these are the ideal homes for
which all men yeam some time in their
lives, and for which the most perfect homes
of earth are but a preparation. I'll.