The Hartford herald., 1879-09-03
MOther-HOme-Heayen.

cent their spell.
How beautiful, and with what per-
feet harmony the three blend together,
surpassed only by that other, and sub
Inner Father, Son and Holy
Spirit" In the first three are contain
ed all the elements of our paradise be-
low in the latter, the paradise of the
soul in Heaven.
Beautiful and harmonious a. are the
the words in connection, they lose
nothing by separate contemplation
mother
my mother, sweetest name ON earth,
learned II on her knee,
And realized its sacred worth
In girlhOod's infancy"
Among all the varied relations of life
which our Heavenly Father has insti-
tuted for rhe happiness of mankind, for
the benefit of society, and for the pre-
servatiOn, of its morals there isnOne 80
pure and holy; so free from taint of
My childhOod's hOme-an oasis, the
one green and sunny spot upon the
desert waste of life. What charms rest
upon the sweet name. 1t il the polar
star of our existence, shining through
the gloom and darkness of our way,
guiding our frail bark by its beauteous
light over the restless pillows of life's
stormy sea. There is no place where
the mind so loves to linger, as among
the dear scenes of our childhood's home.
There, kind father welcomed us with
found affection. There, a pious mother
first taught our infant sons to lisp tine
name of Jesus. There, kind brothers
and loving sisters dwelt, the dear COM
paniOns of our early days.
as in memory We visit the hallowed spot.
We see again as of yore, the happy
group, seated around the cheerful fire.
side, ourselves one of the number; a
happy, care-free girl, and in imagina-
tion we unite with them i'm singing the
sweet songs we loved so well. Their
memory like "a delicious perfume fingers
around me still. But all that has passed
away. Passing away is written upon
all things earthly. We have been de-
prived of many whom we loved on
earth, and our cherished home is left
desOlate; but there is home which
knows no such charge, where friends are
never separated, and where the sorrow
ing ones of earth are promised relief
from all their griefs, and where tears are
exchanged for unending joy. In the
shadowy past there is one sweet remin-
isence which the storm of life can never
efface 1t is the memory of our child
hoods home, sweet home. And in the
dim visiOned future, there is one star
whose lustre never fades. 1t is the hope
of an eternal home in heaven
"The port of endless peace,
The heaven of the soul"
cannot tell of Heaven. "Eye hath
ri ~ n .aSlyn1 ~
all things fair, know We aught of Heav-
en-? asked a sweet breathed zephyr,
from the far off spicy isles of the tropic
sea where summer holds eternal sway
amidst unfading flowers, if it could tell
me of n land called Heaven; asked old
ocean, if down in its coral caves and
beautiful grottos, paved with the lowell
est tinted shell, through which the
sweeping waters forever play; its shad-
Owy wales and mysterious bowers, O'er
hung with mosses and creeping vines
and sweet pearl drifted flowers; its
spacious chambers, whose walls are en-
ameled with glittering diamonds, rubies
and precious stones, whose light shedsa
halo of gorgeous reflection DER the treas
ures that spangle its mystic abode upon
which the eye of man had neverrested,
aught was known of Heaven? No an
swer came. The mighty waves rolled
proudly on in solemn, silent grandeur,
as they had rolled for near six thousand
years. | asked the singing bird, the
perfumed flowers, the rushing tOrrant,
and the rippling stream if they could
tell of Heaven? L asked an aged man,
whose three score years and ten had
been spent in heaping up the "yellow
dust" of earth, if he could tell me OF
the unknown, blissful world, where the
"wicked cease from troubling and the
weary heart finds rest" where youth in
eternal vendure blooms, and beauty en-
earth; so unselfish i'm its character, and
so enduring i'm extent, as the relation OF
mother and child. Ii is holy rela-
tionship, glorified by our blessed Savior,
when he took upon himself the re-
lation of child to the Virgin mother.
The influence which mother brings To
bear upon the present and future hap
piness of her child is incalculable. Ii
is impossible to conceive of an atmos-
phere more eXquisitively adapted to
the quickening and keeping alive i'm
young souls those germs of moral and
spiritual life, which, if rightly trained
through life, are destined to fit them for
the society of the highest and nOblest
beings of which the mind can conceive
in this, and future state of existence,
than that which surrounds an intelli-
gent, atfectionate, and pious mother.
The unquestioning obedience which
We yield to her, our perfect trust in her,
our unreserved love of her, arethe inia-
tory steps uniting us with our Divine
Parents. Our training for Immortality
begins with recognition of "a mothers
love.
Oh, if there is anything that can
keep the mind pure and free from evil
thoughts, making it Il fit dwelling place
for angel visitants, il Is the recognition
and appreciation of a mothers endur-
ing love; enduring as He who implant-
ell it in her faithful heart And how
unselfish and impartial is that love.
No distinctions are made among its lob-
jects. All share alike the rich boon of
u mothers love. a father may disown
ah, even curse his profligate son, and
east off with scorn his erring daughter.
Not SO with the gentle Christian moth
er. 1t matters not how deep i'm the sin
they may have fallen; pity, the twin
sister of love is awakened, and togeth-
er, hand in hand they follow the erring
one through all the dark places of sin |;
to the prison house, to the gallows, to
the grave, to the dark unknown future,
clinging fast when all save God, have
forsaken-still loving, still pleading
"a mothers love-the fadeless light,
That glimmers DER our weary way;
A star amid the clouds of night,
An ever burning, quenchless ray"
And Home-"our Paradise below
truly, if there is anything lovely and
desirable here below, it is home, our
home, consecrated by domestic love-
sanctified. When we speak of the san
city of home, We Use no figure of speech,
for it is there that the affections are
elected, exercised and expanded, where
all the virtues are implanted, and those
beautiful characters formed which if not
perverted by sin, will constitute our
sublimer life when the present initiate
ry one shall have passed away, and we
have entered into that higher spiritual
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