Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-07-15

a44 vou cried with leg acha. and you were
-ock@i and sung to steep-you hear II now,
,he -oft voice from sweet lips. she es tired.
perhaps more tired than you, but she rocked.
and you slumbered. Oh, those family songs,
Mothers, be careful what you sing your
children 70 sleep with. Let it be nothing
frivolous or silly. Better have In II some
thing q Christ and heaven Better have In
& something that will help that boy thirty
Esars IRON n. a e to ssa1 u gst and ssxs the
i. sorE"thins tina. will help tia, daughter
,h.ry years from now when upon her come
thr cares Of uotherhood and the agoniee OF
ter-ayeI4ent and the brutal treatment Of one
VII sore he.ore high heaven that be would
c1arsaaai protect.
Thee family songs are about all Wa keep
Of the old homestead. The house where you
were torn .ill 20 into the hands OF strangers.
The garment. that Were carefully kept as
relics viii CeeoLLe moth eaten. The family
Bible can 70 into the possession % only one
OF the family. The lock OF gray hair may be
lost from the locket. and in a few years all
signs and nomentoe. q tha<old homestead
will re gone forever. But the family songs.
those that we heard at two years OF age, at
five years 0. age, at ten years Of age, Will be
indestructihle and at forty or fifty or sixty Or
seventy years 81 aGe will give US a mighty
toos, over some rough place in the path OF
our pilgrimage.
Many years ago u group OF NHIt3 FlfllEen
were captured and carried OF by the Indians.
Years after, a mother who had los; two chill
dr-n III that capture. went among the 1ndt
ar. ana there were many white children in
line. bnt So long "A time had passed the moth
cr csuIi not tell which We're hers until she
tegan ~ sinctiie Old nursery song. and her
two children Immediately rushed up, shout
Ing Mammal "Mamma" Yes, there is
an Immortality in a nursery song. Hear it,
All Won m0th4rG an Immortality or p0Wof TO
re4euc and save.
What an occasion that must have been in
Washington December II. 1850. when Jennie
Lind sang "Home. Sweet Home the author
| ~ those words, John Howard Payne. seated
| l,-fnrr her. She had rendefei her other fa-
sorlte songs -Casta Diva and her Flute
Song. with fine effect. but when she struck
Horne. Sweet Home" John Howard Payne
r"-" uni"r the power, and President Flilmore
and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and tho
whole audience rose with him. Anything
connected with home ransacks our entire
ta'ur" with a holy power, and songs that
g-t we'll started III the nursery or by the
family. hearth roll on after the lips that sung
them ar" forever silent and the ears that first
heard them forever cease to hear.
Be careful how You treat the birds. Re-
member they a.e Gods fayorites. and if YOU
n1I"nI them you offend Him. He is 50 fond Of
thor Voices that there ara forests where for q
hundred miles no human foot has ever trod
ana no human ear has ever listened.
Put OF startling colOrs, which friRhten tho
i WIn.rI 5ongsters into silence or flight. and
It!t Oh your more sober attire and move
nolseIr-sly into the woods farther and far
tfer from the main road and have no CONVEX
sation. for many a concert in and out ofdoors
has f"cn ruined by persistent takers, and
then sit down a messy bank
Where a Wild stream with %headlong shock
6 TftS Drawing down a bed OF rock
And after perhaps q half an hour of intense
solitude there will be a tap Of a beak on q
tree branch far up. sounding like the tap Of a
musical baton, and then first there will be
solo. followed by a duet or quartet, and after
ward hy doNologies in all the tree tops and
amid all the branches, and if you have. "A
Bitl' along with you and you can without
rlStiing the leaves. turn to the one bap-
dr"i and forty-eighth Psalm of Davfd and
read, Praise. the Lord. beasts and all cattle,
creeping things and flying fowl" and then
turn over quietly 20 my text and read. "By
them shall the fowls Of the heaven have
their habitation, which sing among the
branches" orlf under the power Of the bird
voices YOU are transported. az when Doctor
Morgan played so powerfully on the organ at
s. John that Richard Cecil said he was in
such blessed h"wilderment he could not find in
his Bi4e the first chapter of Isaiah, though
he leafed the book over and over. and YOU
shall Ire 50 overcome with forest harmony
tlat you canpot find the Psalms of David,
never mind, for God will speak to you SC
nightly 1t will make no difference whether
You hear His voice from the printed page or
the vibrating throat Of one of His plumeG
creatures.
While this summer more than usual out OF
doors let us have what my text suggests. an
out 81 doors religion. What business had
David, with all the advantages of costly relig.
ll"us service and smoking incense, on the al.
tar. to be listening to the chantresses among
II" tree branches? Ahj he wanted to make
himself and all who should come after him
nor" alert and more worshipful amid the
sweet sounds and beautiful sights OF
the natural world. There is an old church
that needs to be rededicated. 1t is older thar
st. pauIs or st. Peters or st. Marks or st,
Sophia 5 or st. Isaac's. 1t is the cathedral Of
nature. That is the church in which the ser
vices Of the millennium will be held. The
buildings fashioned out OF stone and brick
and mortar will not hold the people.
Again the Mount of Olives will be the
pulpit. Again the Jordan will be the
taptistry- Again the mountains will be
thn galleries. Again the skies will b.
III" blue ceiling. Again the sunrise will
i" Ie trout door and the sunset the back
ibor Of that temple. Again the
clouds VIII be the upholstery and tle
In"rnlnE mist the incense. Again toe
trees will he the organ loft where
the fowls Of heaven have their hab
ltation, which sing among thu
branches. 81. Francis tAssisi preached q
sermon = birds and pronounced a benedic-
ton unon them, but al birds preach to Us
ani th"ir heneilrtion Is almost supernaI.
]. the time OF Edward " no one WI.
allowed 70 own a swan except he were {
king sson or had considerable estate. Through
100 or 200 years OF life that bird was said
never to utter anything like music until lis
last moment came, and then lifting il.
crested beauty Il would pour forth 4
song Of almost matchiess thrill r.
sounding through the groves. Anc
-. although the struggles Of life NAV 10
To much for Us and We may find i: hard 4
sing IT all. when the last hour comes to vor
aH1 1.e, may there be a radiance from at.or.
md = glory settling round that shall enahle
u 70 utter a song on the wings II which W.
~4tl EGonuf u whore the music never cease
II and the RAPTURE never d..
lie Is Ealing Down from HI native grove.
~ IcFe4!-oae. no nesting ntxa-
lie = 8 aslng down by himself ~ die.
L*at1 aAr2eus lis eve aaf uurlumes bis wings
~ thF sa eetest seax is tie Last be ss1ss
I've - ay child. that " ten death shah cs1Faa.
TA1.ike an 50 eet. II may waf, thee home
Costume Of >preeuald Peasants.
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