Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-06-26

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childhood Il Wa Alwayss rslig1ous song.
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anything bat religious songs At any
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ssviours Tomb Moshsrs. b. careful
what yoa sing your chiidsea 70 sleep
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ally.
kssw have In Il sosAsehing Of Christ
snd haven Bsttev have In u sonsthing
thas VII hslp thak boy ~ pears from
nov 10 bsar mp uades ths bombsrdmsnt
u tssnp<asion- Better have in 10 noms-
thing that viii help that daughter -
ycars from now vhso upon hcr CONE the
cares cf motherhood and tbs agoniss Ut
bereavement and the brutal tre~tmcnt
Of ous Who swore before high h1wven
that he would cherish and protect. Do
not waste ths bsxt hour fog making an
impression upon Jour little one. the hour
Of dusk. The beach betwssn ths day and
ths night. sing not . doaeful song. bat
Suggestive sony. . ChFistian song. .
song you will NOS b. aahomcd b meet
when 10 cumes 10 yorin ~ ctssnal de-
tiny Of your sDu and dnnghtw. The orr
ole he . loud song. and Tho chswiuk .
long song. and the bluebird sshort song.
bat IL y always = family song. and let
your cleaning song to yoor children,
whether loud o. long or short. Be .
Christian song. =
These family songs are about Al we
keep Of the old homestead. The house
where you wsre born viii 90 into the
hands Of Strangers. The garments that
were carefully kept ~ relics win become
moth eaten. The family Bible can go
into the possession Of only one u the
family The lock Of gray hair may hs
Lost from the locket. aud in fow years
all signs and mcmentoes Of the old home
stead win DO gone forever. But the
family songs. those that we heard at 3
years VI age, ut ) years Of age. ut 10
years Of age. will he intlestructible and
at - or 50 @ % or 20 years of eye viii
give ~ mighty boost over some rough
place in the path Of our pilgrimage.
THE LOST RESTORED BY soN0.
Many years ago . group Of white chill
dren were captured and carried Of by
the Indians. Years after, mother who
bad lost two children in that capture,
went among the Indians. and there were
many white children In line, but 80 long
time had passed the mother could not
tell which were hers until she began to
nng tho old nursery song. and her two
children immediately rushed up. shout
ing, ..Mxmnlar Mammal" Yes, there
il an Immortality In nursery song.
Hear II. all you mothers, an Immortality
Of power to rescue and save.
What an occasion that must have been
in Washington, Dec. II. 1850, 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 ''F1ute 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
tho whole audience rose with him. Any
thing connected with home ranAacks our
entire nature with holy power, and
soues 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 10 hear.
Ipreach this sermon just before many
Of you viii go out 10 pass days OF weeks
in the country. BE careful how you
treat the birds Remember they are
Gods favorites. and IL you offend them
you offend him. He Is 80 fond If their
voices that there are forests where for
hundred miles no human foot has ever
trod and no human ear has ever listened.
Those interminable forests are concert
halls with only one auditor-the Lord
God Almighty. He builded those audi
forums of leaves and sky and supports
al that Infinite minstrelsy for himself
alone he careful how you treat his In
vorite choir.
Ia Deuteronomy he warns tho people,
III a iris nest chance to bc before thee
In thu way in any tree or ON tho ground.
whether they he young ones or eggs. thou
shalt not take the dam with the young.
that IL may be well with thee aud that
thou msyest prolong thy days" So you
sce your own longevity is related to your
treatment OF birds. Then 60 forth and
sttrssd the ninstrclsy. Put Of startling
colors. which brighten the winged song
STEERS into silence or flight. and put on
your more sober attire AMI move Noise
lessly into fhe woo!s farther and far
Their from the main road and have no con.
vsrsation. for many n concert In and out
Of doors has besn mined by persistent
takers. and then SIT down on messy
bank
wh~r~ Wild stream with hesdionx shoch
Cosnes hfasiins down lid II rooh.
And altar r.sri,ar,s "A half AR, hsasP ~ In