Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-23
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Essay Read Before Church Hill
Grange by Miss Loula Piercs.

Gralge py MISS L2uIa Flercs'
What beautiful and tender associa.
tions cluster thick around that word
The very name Of it has charm
to call back the wanderers memory
of his happy childhood hours, spent
with father and mother. 1t makes
him long to see that hallOwed spot
be it ever so humble. lie knows
there are loving hearts there, to
which he can 60 from all the
tumults of the world, and it is to him
the dearest SPOT OH earth. 1t is not a
fine house, richly furnished, well sci
tables, beautiful gardens, superb car
riagcs, that make a home. Content
ment with love makes the home.
We can adorn the inside with happy
smiling faces, and by keeping our
selves and every thing aro und us
neat. The outside we can make
beautiful by simple adoLnments,
which nature has so bountitully be-
slowed upon us, planting of trees,
raising of flowers, training of vines,
etc.
Home is a delicate and sensitive
place.
In our intercourse with the world
we know how to ward off the arrows,
that are aimed at our hearts, but, at
our home our hearts wear no cover
ing, no armor, aud every drroW
strikes there. A single bitter word
may disquiet the home for whole
day, but like unexpected flowers that
spring along our pathway, so do
words of kindness, aud gentle acts,
aud a sweet disposition, make glad
the home where peace and blessings
dwell. Home should be the sacred
refuge of our lives. whether rich or
poor. How pleasant il Is TO see the
home governed by the spirit Of love.
See the little ones quick to perform
acts ofattention towards their parents,
doing scores of little deeds for father,
or placing the best chair for mother.
Oh! how we ought TO love that
mother, who has done so much for
us.
Father may turn his back OH us,
brothers and sisters become our
enemies, but Il mothers love endures
through dH. When the vail Of death
has been drawn between us and
mother, how quick-sighted do we be-
come TO her merits, and how bitterly
do we then remember every word ui
unkindness which may have Scaped
us. How careful we should be in
the fulfilment of those offices of alice
ton while il is yet in our power,
And let us ever remember that
mother is the best friend God ever
gave US. There are but few who can
receive the advantages of College
education, but all can be graduates
of the heart. The learning of the
university may fade from recOllec-
ton, but the simple lessons of home
enalntled upon the heart in childhood,
defy the rust Of years. SO deep and
lasting are the impressions OF early
life, that we often see man of age,
holding fresh i'm his memory. the han.
nv evcHts of his bovbood days. We
live to Gather around the fireside,
and listen to father and mother
Tell of their childhood DAYS. 1t makes
them forget the present, as they cali
together The happy events of thcir
homes, left so long ago.
lie that has no home knows moi
the sweetest pleasure of life. We as
sisters scarcely know the influence
we have over our brothers. We can
make them gentler, tru +, purer, and
give Them a higher opinion of wo.
man. They will love us the better
for our good acts, for every great aud
noble feeling which we exercise
Every good action, is a round in the
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