Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-07-01

or the Tweed. or tue Thames, or the
Raritan? That song at eventide, when
you were tired out-indeed too tired to
sleep, and you cried with leg ache, and
you were rocked and sung to sleep-you
hear 1t now,.the SOFT voice, from sweet
lips, she as tired, perhaps more tired
than you, but she rocked, and you slum-
bered. Oh, those family songsl
The songs that father sang, that moth
er sang; that sisters and brothers sang.
They roll on US today with q reminis.
cence that fills tho throat as well as the
heart with emotion. In our house In my
childhood it was Always religious song.
/ do not think that the old folks knew
anything but religious songs. At any
rate never heard them sing anything
else. 1t was Jesus, Lover Of My Sou, )"
or .Rock Of Ages" or There Is Foun-
tain Filled With Blood. or MARY to the
'Saviour's Tomb" Mothers. be careful
what you sing your children to sleep
with. Let it be- nothing frivolous or
silly.
Better have in it something Of Christ
and heaven. Better have in it something
that will lelp that boy 30 years from
now to bear up under the bombardment
of temptation. Better have in it some
thing that will help that daughter so
years from now when upon her come the
cares OF motherhood and the agonies Of
bereavement and the brutal treatment
Of one who sworo before high heaven
that he Would cherish aud protect. Do
not waste tho best hour for making an
impression upon your little one, the hour
of DUSK. the beach between the day and
the night. Sing not a doleful song, but
suggestive song, Christian song, a
song you will not be ashamed to meet
when it comes to you in the eternal des.
tiny of your son and daughter. The ORR
ole has loud song. and the chewink a
long song, and the blucbird short song,
but 1t is always family song, and let
your cleaning song to your children,
whether loud or long OF short. be a
Christian song.
These family songs are about ell we
keep Of the old homestead. The house
where you were born will go into the
hands of strangers. The garments that
were carefully kept US relics will become
moth eaton. The family Bible can go
into the possession OF only one OF the
family. The lock Of gray hair may be
lost from the locl1et, and in q few years
all signs and melnentoes OF the old home
stead will be gone forever. But the
family songs, those that we heard at 8
years Of age. ut 5 years Of age. at 10
years of age. will be indestructible and
at 40 or SO or 90 or 70 years Of age will
give us mighty boost over some rough
place in the path of our pilgrimage.
THE LOST RESTORED BY SONG.
Many years ago group Of white chill
dren were captured and carried off by
the Indians. Years after, mother who
had lost two children in that capture,
went among the Indians. and there were
many white children in line, but so long
aJtime had passed the mother could not
tell which were hers until she began to
sing the old nursery song, and her. two.
children immediately rushed up, shout
ing, Mammal !" Mamma Yes there
is an Immortality i,lya sndrse Tysongz1
.Heafit ,Eatl 81 mot hers5 IN rtality.
or power rescue anu
s. What nm occasion hat1nust haye:beeni
in Washington, Dec. IT,; 1860, when
Jenny Lind sang Home, Sweet Home"
the author Of those words, John Howard
Payne, seated before her. She had rem
dered her other favorite songs, "Casta
Diva" and her "Flute Song" with fine
effect, but when she struck Home,
Sweet Home" John Howard Payne rose
under the power, and President Fillmore
and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and
the whole audience rose with him. Any
thing connected with home ransacks our
entire nature with holy power, and
songs that get well started in the nur-
sery or by the family hearth roll on after
the lips that sung them are forever silent
and the ears that first heard them for
ever cease to hear.
preach this sermon just before many
of you will so out to pass days or weeks
In the country. Be careful how you
treat the birds. Remember they are
Gods favorites, and If you offend them
you offend him. He Is SO fond of their
voices that there are forests where for a
hundred miles no human foot has ever
trod and no human car has ever listened.
Those interIninable forests are concert
halls with only one auditor-the Lord
God Almighty. He builded those audi
forums of leaves and sky and supports
all that infinite minstrelsy fox himself
alone. Be careful how you treat his IA
yorite choir.
In Deuteronomy lie warns the people,
IF birds nest chance to be before thee
d the way In any tree or on the ground,
whether they be young ones or eggs. thou
shalt not take tho dam with the young,
that it may be we'll with thee and that
thou mayest prolong thy days. So you
sec your own longevity is related to your
Ecatment of birds. Then 80 forth and
attend the minstrelsy. Put off startling
colors, which. frighton the winged song
sters into silence or flight, and put on
your more sober attire and move noise
lessly into tho woods farther and fax
Their from the main road xnd have no con-
versation, for many concert in snd out
of doors has been ruined by persistent,
takers, and then sit down on o NOISY
bank
Whore Wild stream with headlong shoch
Comes brawling down bed OF rock.