Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-07-07


the soft voice from sweet lips she As tired,
perhaps more tired than YOU. but she rocked,
and You slumberrd Oh, those family songs
Mothers, be caresu what you sing your
children to sleep with. Let It bc nothing
frivolous or silly. Better havo in It some
thing Of Christ and heaven. Better have In
it something that viii help that boy thirty
years from now TO bear up under the
bombardment of temptation. Better hayein
1t something that will help that daughter
thirty years from now when upon her com"
the cares Of motherhood and the agouics OF
bereavement AMI tho brutal treatment OF ono
who swore before high heaven that he would
cherish and protect.
These family songs are about all we keep
OF tho old homestead. The house whore you
were born will 20 Into the hands OF strangers.
The garments thai wr-e carefully kept as
relics will become moth eaten. Tho family
Bible can gO into the possession OF only ono
OF the family The lock OF gray hair may bo
lost from the lockct, and in few years all
signs aud momrntocs Of the old homestead
will be gone forever. But ths family songs,
those that We heard Ht two years of age, at
five years OF nE", ut ten years OF age Will be
ind,strurtihc aHl at forty or nifty or sixty or
seventy years ofaCe VIII give us a mighty
boost over some rough place III the path OF
our pilgrimage
MANY years hA,b % group VI VINO 'AlhNI'h
wero captured and carried or 10y the Indians.
Years after. a mother who had lost two chill
dren in that capture, went among tho lndi-
ans, and there were many whlto children in
line. but so long u time had passed the moth
er could not tell which were hers until she
began to sing the Old uur- ry song, and her
two children Immediately rushed up, shout
ing: Mamma! "Nlamna" Yes, there Is
an Immortality in nursery song. Hnnr it,
nil Won ruDthp mn iul.tFtllity OF pDWpr TO
roscu" and save.
What an occasion that must have been in
Washington December II, 1850 when Jennie
Lind sang "IIomr, Sweet Home. the author
OF thus" words, John Howard Payne, seated
before her. She had rendered her other ia-
yorltu songs: "C.sta Diva ani her Flute
Suu.,' with IN" clIp't, tut Wn"n sh" struck
"IIomr, sweet Howr. John Howard Payne
rose under IN" power and Hrr-il"nt Fillmore
and Henry Clay and Daniel Wr'~ter and tho
whole audience rp~' with him. AnNthinS
connected with home ran1loks our entire
nature with Il holy power, and songs that
get well started In the nursery or hy the
family hearth roll on after the hy- that sung
them nr" forever silent and the "Hrs that lrst
heard them forever r"a-' t. hear.
Be careful how You treat til" birds. Re-
member they are Cots flvorltcs and II YOU
Offend them you offend Him. lIeis SO ionl OF
their voices that there are forests where for a
hundred miles no human foot has ever trOl
pm ~ st9rtIin', r"r,,r. ,yi,,h tri'.h,e, ,ha
win..cd SON Star. int, silence. ar niyht nnI
nm, on vonr NOR, s,l,rr at.ir, and rnrvn
noiscirs.ly into tho woals farther md far
th"r from tho main rnRd Rnl hay" no convcr-
ration fnrn,anv ,,,r,,,.rt il, ,,nI ONT nfJo,rs
h,s Ir,p r7,lrr1 In, nnr,str,,t taIk,ra and
tbon at Jnyn a n,,,,v I,uk
,,,'.',,' .',,,..,,.,.
{ mes Irawin: down a f,i u r"sk.
Ana amer perrapsa nalf an hour OF intense
solitude there VIII be n tap OF a bcak on a
tree branch far up, sounding like the tap OF a
musical baton. ani then first there will bs
solo. followed lyn duet or quartet and after
ward hy doNologi,s in all the tree tops and
amid all the branches. and II You have a
Bible along with You and you can without
rustling the leaves. turn to the one hun
dred and fory-cirhth Psalm Of David and
read. praise the Lord, hcusts and all cattle
creeping things and flying fowl, ." and then
. turp 1Vpr DuirtlV ny tttNt uul Tpul t'Ilv