The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-06-30

Blood or Mary to the Saviour's
Tomb Mothers be careful what YOU
sing your children 20 sleep with. Let
It be nothing frivolous or silly. Better
have In IL something of Christ and
Heaven. Better have In It something
that will help that boy thirty years
from now to bear mp under the bonn
bardment of temptation. Better have
IN II something that will help that
daughter thirty years from now when
upon her come the cares Of motherhood
and the agonies OF bereavement and
the brutal treatment Of one who swore
before high Heaven that he would cher
ish and protect DO not waste the best
hour for making an impression upon
your little one. the hour a dusk. the
beach between the day and<the night.
eih9 PA q doleful song, bat suggea-
90 1f!sp ccps. |. song yS !:
your son and dSuk = =
has lou: song, ss..; the eide 4. . isssx
song, and the blue bird a short song,
but II In always family song and let
your cleaning song to your children,
whether loud or long or short, be q
Christian song
These family songs are about all 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 as relics will be-
come motheaten. The family Bible can
go into the possession Of only one of
the family. The lock of gray hair may
be lost from the locket, and in a few
years all signs and mementoes OF the
old homestead will be gone forever.
But the family songs, those that we
heard at two years of age, at five years
OF age, at ten years Of age, will be in
destructible. and at forty or fifty or
sixty or seventy years of age will give
ms q mighty boost over some rough
place in the path of our pilgrimage.
Many years ago group of white chill
drsn were captured and carried off by
the Indians.
Years after, a mother who had lost
two children In that capture went
among the Indians, and there were
many white children in line, but so
long time had passed the mother could
not tell which were hers until she be-
gan to sing the old nursery song. and
her two children Immediately rushed
up, shouting Mammal" Mammal
Yes, there is an Immortality in a nur-
sery song. Hear It, all you mothers. an
Immortality of power to rescue and
save. What an occasion that must
have been in Washington, Decem-
Der II, 1850, when Jenny Lind
sang Home, Sweet Home" the
author Of those words, John How
ard Payne, seated before her. She
had rendered 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
hing connected with home ransacks
'ur entire nature with u holy power.
md songs that get well started in the
nursery or hy the family hearth roll on
'fter the lips that sung them are for
'ver silent and the ears that first heard
hem forever cease to hear.
lpreach this sermon just before MANY
4 you will go out to pass days or
veeks in the country. Be careful how
ou treat the birds Remember
hey are Gods favorites, and IL You Of
end them you offend Him. He is so
ond OF their voice that there are forests
where for hundred miles no human
DOT has ever trod and no human ear
las ever listened. These iterminable
orests are concert halls, with only one
Lord God Almighty.
He builded those auditoriums of
caves and sky and supports all that in
mite minstrelsy for himself alone. BE
areful how you treat his favorite choir.
n Deuteronomy, he warns the people:
II a birds nest chance to be before
hee in the way in any tree. or on the
round. whether they be young ones or
ggs, thou shalt not take the dam with
he young, that it may be well with
nee, and that thou mayest prolong thy
avs" 20 you see your own longevity
) related to your treatment of birds
hen go forth and attend the min
trelsy. Put off startling oolors, which
tighten the winged songtsers into
Hence or fight, and put on your more
ombcr attire. and move noiselessly
ito the woods, further and further
rom the main road, and have no con-
ersation, for many concert in and
ut Of doors has been ruined by per-
istent takers, and then sit down on
,ossy bank.
Where wild stream with headlong shock
Comes brawling down bed Of rock.
nd after perhaps a half hour of in
ense solitude, there will be tap of a
eak on tree branch far up, sounding
Ike the tap of musical baton, and
hen first there will DO a solo, followed
y duet or quartet. and afterward by
oxologies In all the tree tops and amid
II the branches, and II you have
'ible along with you, and you can
without rustling the leaves, turn to the
4sth Psalm Of David. and read Praise
he Lord, beasts and all cattle, creep
ng things and flying fowl" and then
urn over quietly to my text and read,
by them shall the fowls of the
eaven have their habitation, which
ing among the branches" or, IL under
he power of the bird voices, you are
as when DIR. Morgan
layed so powerfully on the organ at
t. Johns that Richard Cecil said he
'as In such blessed bewildcrment he
ould not find in his Bible the first
hapter of Isaiah, though he leafed the
ook over and over, and you shall be
0 overcome with forest harmony that
GU can not find the psalms of David,
ever mind for God will speak TO you
0 nightly il will make no difference
neither you hear his voice from the
rinted page or the vibrating throat OF
ne Of his plumed creatures
IL think | will take a holiday the
ext three weeks" remarked the secre-
Try and treasurer of private company
, the chairman thereof. But you re-
,rned from one only two weeks ago
rrue; that was my holiday as secre-
Iry; | wish TO go now as treasurer. -
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A Proper Use of the Word. Amy