News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-05
HOME RETURNING.
AN INTERESTING SERMON ON
THE sUBJECT.
The Rev. DIR. Colly yer's Vacation Les
sons-Bringing Back the Sun
shine with Us.


The Rev. DIR. Colly er's Vacation Les
sons-Bringing Back the Sun
shine with Us.
The Rev. Robert Collyer Sunday
morning preached sermon appropriate
to the close of the vacation season and
the return OF so many from sea side and
mountain side to the cares and labors
of everyday life. He chose his text
from Isaiah, X, S-"Who are those
that fly as cloud, and as the doves to
their windows ?" In the course of his
remarks, after picturing the flight to
the country and the enjoyment and rest
of pastoral life, he said
We have coma home, and no more
welcome words can dwell on our lips
if it be true, norcan doubt it is true
of the vast majority of those who gather
into our Christi q ass1ISites in this city.
We are flying hone bat has any hint
come to us as we we're able to look. to
our home from FIR away that is net
quite what it sncnld be? Then we
must heed that hint. Are we getting
on in years and growing little tired of
the way we havewelcomed the life all
about us to our hreside. SO that when
old friends drop sway we do not care to
make or to welcome new ones ? l have
seen men and woEen grow very misera-
bic through that mistake. For true
home has three doors -one for our
children and all their children and all
our kith and kin snd one for our friends
and neighbors aud one for the poor,
who deserve our pity and charity and
all these open, not into the house alone,
but into the hear, and we pull in the
latchstring or ltck the door and lose
the key at our peril. Or has it seemed,
as we sat in quietnees, that we have
been too eager to welcome those who
could give us an equal or better well
come and to build up the social life,
which is so good when it is true, at the
expense of tho deeper life, SO that we
have less time to live for those I have
named? There is danger in that direc-
ton in a city like ours, and we must
heed the admoniion.
went through ducal palace a few
years ago and heard very sad story
from the friend Who went with me. We
were looking at wonderful staircase,
and he told me how the heir-a small
boy-when he was playing here one day
tangled his foot in the rich fretwork and
broke the tendons. His mother had SO
many social duties that she seldom saw
her children and knew nothing of the
hurt, and the child's nurse kept it from
her. But such misery came and peril
that she had to be told. A surgeon was
sent for at last, but it was too late. The
child was manned for life, the limb
withered aud i was thought the hurt
would end in the boys death at last.
God forbid, say, that our children
should ever ne so neglected, nor will
they pe. 11,l 44fottaerr leave
their children to wither away in splendid
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New York as we'll as in London.
We come home. Do we come to find
peace-veo, and rest that we can find
nowhere else-not even in the country
Or had we grown fretful before we went
away. and little hard to live with
We might not be able to help it, but
we may have thought of it with touch
of dismay and said, 81 will see to that
when we begin again, for if it grows on
me it would be compliment to call me
a bear" Let us see to it that we hold
the peace we have brought back witt
us, so that our children and their moth
er shall not long for another vacation te
release them from the doom OF our pres
ence. Let the sunshine which floods
the place as we draw up the blinds ano
open the windows to make all sweet bt
a type of the indwelling spirit for this
whole year, so that those who belong tt
us shall hide only noble and beautiful
meanings in their words when they say
"There's no place like home," and focl
to it as doves to their windows, becaus'
it is a shrine to them as well as home
l. We have come home, we say, that TIN
children may go to school again bu
has any CLEAN of new light come t.
us as we rested and thought of this
touching their education For, Will
we may trust and believe that only goo'
can come to them in their learning, d.
not hesitate for moment to say tina
there are children who will flock to thei
schools as to a prison and to their task
as to sore bondage, and they canno
tell you why; but the chances are tina
the reasons are very simple if we woul
only take pains to look for them. The
are not equal to the tasks that are lai
on them, and so they are slowly break
ing down or burning up year by yeai
and will die in the end from overwor
though We may call it a fever-or liv
only half q life, while the other half ha
gone into their learning. Or that whic
they have to learn in-ehe machines W
call schools MAJ answer in no sense t
their nature or their liking, any MOI
than if you should try to turn duel
ling into a nightingale, or to train
lamb to bear heavy burdens. They II
volt at their tasks, poor things, and "
fret and scold, while all the time it
the revolt of nature and of Gods graz
: hidden in their life.