Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-03-23
Home.

The following essay, with the above
title, was. written by Mr.. q. A. Herholz,
of this county. while he was attending
the business college at Berea, Ohio, and
was selected by the rhetoric class to be
published ia the college paper,
Home Is the place where our infant ewes
first opened to the light of this weary, tear
stained world 1t is the place where first we
felt the strong heart-beatings of parental
love- Home, the blessed refuge Of our early
years, where life appeared the sweetest,
flowers Were. the fairest, and the .sun .shone
the brightest; where love, Joy and peace
were commingled in the most perfect har-
was purest, hopes were brightest, and earth
seemed nearest heaven,
1t seems that home is one of the Rrea test
blessings which God has bestowed upon us.
1t is the morning star of our existence, and
the evening star Of bur declining years. It
is the signal upon storm cloud, that tells
us of quiet retreat from the storms of life.
Its pleasures remain when all other sources
of worldly happiness are vanished. It's love
and sympathy continue when all besides is
cold.
Home is as magnet, attracting all that
belong to it. During my career III Dakota,
met band of profane young men one day.
They were full of life, hardly knowing
what to do with themselves. One of them
having mouth-organ was requested to play
u tune, which he did. And be played that
beautiful tune, Home, Sweet Home" It
seemed to me as though never had heard
IN instrument echo more sweetly than that
It affected those young men so that one of
them could not restrain his tears; they rolled
down his cheeks, and in q sobbing voice he
exclaimed: "Oh, could be at home only for
day." Why is it that young people away
from home get homesick? Ali, it is the never
ceasing attraction of that sweet word homo
There is no word in the eEnglish'4anguage so
full of thrilling and intense meaning as the
word home. It is entwined around the ten
derest chords of the heart and the sweetest
remembrances of life. We carry through
life the pictures of its quiet scenes hung
around the chambers of memory. We re-.
member the beautiful trees, flowers and
green fields where we sported in our child
hood. The impressions made on the tender
mind are not easily forgotten.
What false idea great many have of
home! They consider it a mere place of ac-
commodation; the place to eat and sleep; the
place where all that is low and evil can be
unguarded and unchecked! These persons
know very little of what really constitutes a
home, A home in its true sense is the high.
est work of nature. Home is not merely
four small walls. even if tinged with gold
But it is the place where love and peace
abide where all are linked to each other by
the most intimate and endearing ties hus-
band to wife. wife to husband !; parents to
children, children to parents krothers and
sisters to sisters and brothers. A power
like that of electricity runs through tho
family group. All, as one, share the pleas-
ures and sorrows Of life.
Home is the sanctuary Of mothers love.
There is nothing else; perhaps, that adds
more to the beauty and comfort of home
than mothers love. She is the one that
comforts in sickness and endures the Sleep
less nights. She is the one that catches the
lisps of the stammering tongue. And when
her child leaves home her prayers ascend to
God that he will protect her child and keep
it from Satan's spares. And, even if her
son should break away from the restraints of
home and plunge into vice, still will the
yearnings Of her heart follow him. The
prodigal is still her son. and even if he
should die criminal she will weep over
him, and in her agony plead with God to
have mercy upon him. A mothers love
will never cease. l.-
Is there anything else that could be com.
pared with homer No, there is not But
there is place that exceeds it. After we
have crossed the dark river Of Jordan, whose
banks are as mountains and whose waters ore
as the tempestuous ocean, and are permitted
to enter the pearly gates Of those beautiful
mansions prepared for U.S. our home on earth
will fade deaway.-HeaVen be our eternal home,