Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1876-03-04
Home! Home! Sweet, Sweet
HOme!''

The following beautiful thoughts were
written for the Eastern Argus, by Frank
Maurce Fielding, some time since, but they
have hot and will lose any Of their beauty or
truth by age
And what is home, and where, hu, with
the living Mrs Hemans.
Ringing down through the centuries while
the heart which dictated is hushed forever.
and the hands which penned have crumbled
INTO their native Dust Is Il wonderful melody,
sublimely simple, weirdIy pa,lietic-a,tuned
to the pulse OF all mankind-the last sweet
notes Of the dying swan the song hich
never wears t-"HOTe-Hone-Swe
Sweet Home!" How many thousand lips
the wide world over have rung out the meio-
dy or echoed the sentiment. None can doubt
ii came warm from the heart glowing with
the soui ; immortal fire-for how quickly il
takes hold Of the universal heart! How
sadly touching its history! The gifted child
o! genius, homeless wanderer in a foreign
land, breathing away his life in this last plant,
which will live lille true aud tender hearts
remain to respond TO the impassioned utter
ances Of Heaven inspired song. Wha, e
world OF pathos in the simple sentence which
records his doom, John Howard Payne. the
author Of Home, Sweet Home, never had
home!"
Hear, broken, dyrg alone in exile, poverty
and misery, he bequeathed To the world this
priceless legacy, this gem of immortal song
Sweetest, purest thoughts most halowed
associations cluster around the ideal home
he gentle mother with her "meekIy thought.
ful eye, the kind but ludicious father, wisely
tempering firmness with mildness command |
ing the highest respect while winning the |
fondest love Of his children-bruthers and
sisters emulous OF each Others welfare, the |
brooks, the flowers the pictures with their |
silently refining influence, the judiciousy |
selected newspapers, the greeting and the |
good night kiss, the well II led social board, |
the home voices ''at eve in kindred music |
blending" and the blessed family altar whose |
benign influence follows each and all through |
fife. A home may indeed be n,ore humble |
Than this. and no less "a bome!" Gods |
blessing follows the family altar! no home is |
complete without it! Nothing can fully COM
pensate for the lack of early religious training.
/ he counsels of loving, pious mo,her, en-
forced by her prayers, are a never ceasing all
potent Influence for good No one can 70
hoPelessly astrav who has "a good, praying
mother at hOme!" Her teachings may seem
iisregarded in the wild whirl of earthly
pleasures and rush of temptations, but as
'NOahs dove" returned TO the ark for rest,
20 does tire memory Of the Child fit back to
he hailowed sphere Of home associations and
ond parental instructions
II the home We have pictured is a minia-
lure paradise, sarely its opposite reigns do
nestle discord, and worst of all, the evil pas
Mons, necessarily restrained in intercourse
with the werld, find free outlet in a counter
part OF the imagined abode of the lost and
iespairiny! As quarrels matrimonial are
pronounced the worst and most deplorabIe,
heir natural concomitant, household strife, is
more intense and bite. as well as ruinous in
IS consequences than any into which one can
'e drawn outside, in that the parties, having
more intimate know wledge Of each others
points, are more skilled in apply.
ng the torture, while the constant jar and
riciion prevent healing of the breach.
There are 10 words Of holy writ more forci.
'ly exemPlified than these: "A kingdom di.
ided against itself shall not stand.' In all
antilles there are jars or differences recurring
ldicious smoothing over, or concealment
within the should be sacred precincts Of home,
ut woe to the family whose discords and
rieyances become public property when
very detail Of domestic misbaps, wrong, or
lunder is held up in its most exaggerated
and distorted light to the rude gaze
{ the public,and whole community perhaps $
ecomes cntangled in a warfare where no !,
,urels are TO be won There are cases in
eed of domestic injustice or brutality where
ntside interference becomes an imperative
uiy, but in ordinary domestic diffiuties it is ,
My productive Of evil.
There is no greater bore than the person r
nth grievance; the woman who regaIes [
on at every meeting with full particulars Of c
very domestic disaster, and enlarges upon r
ie shortcomings or general depravity Of par i
cular members Of her family, o. the man ,
Tho groans under the burden Of domestic r
expenses and treats with choice details for r
'hich you care as little as to know wha, the
King Of the Canniba Isles had for his breah- c
ISL +,
Favoritism in families is pcrnicious evil, n
rely destructive of all domestic harmony.
he hearts of the others are c,nbitteretl by I
Ie injustice, and none are really more injured T
IAN The so called favored recipient of the s
aIents' injudicious, openly manifested par r.
atty, particularly in those unnatural cases Il
here a younger child is set ove- an elder. Ii
il desirable to SOW the seeds of a fe-ong a
uerness, which will surely spring up and C.
,ear fruit thousand fold S'' i,
Sowing the wind" when the sure rcsul,
any embitte led spirits are every day repeat p
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