Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-06-30
INTERESTING PAPER
Read at a Meeting of Luther
League.


At home! How enchanting it wa
there TO dwell,
In the pine covered valley far away
1 see in the distance the open. wooded
dell
White clouds, like swans, floating
DER the way,
Remotest, as fer as the vision car
scan,
Surrounded by mountains in fancy ]
stand.
AT home was the place for content.
ment and peace.
The years of childhood and youth are
the happy times of life. One year in
particular is important for all the boys
and girls and that is when they are
being instructed preparatory to copfir-
nation. Then lasting impressions are
made on their mind and individual
responsibility brought near the cons
cience.
From that time on the boys begin to
build castles in the air, study about
how they are going to take part in life's
battles when the tine shall come for
them 10 assume their places in family,
state and church soon to be vacated by
older men. And the girls, just ut the
age when development from childhood
TO womanhood takes place-like the
Rosebud being transfer med into the
beautiful blossom-feel new desires and
aims, often not knowing, themselves,
what they are longing for.
Everything is anticipated with bright
hopefulness. But a time will come
when mature manhood is past and the
years Of vigorous participation in the
affairs of life belong to history, then 1t
may be that experience may point back
to many failures, shortcomings and
disappointments. At that time recall
ing memories of the happy days Of
youth and will bring solace to the
troubled, perhaps lonely heart. Such
thoughts must have been uppermost in
tbc Liihh VI thC poCb WhDh hS WAOtC thC
song beginning with these lines:
"Sing, o. Sing in youthful spring,
In your brightest summer;
The fountrin OF the song begins
In the heart, to heart it cometh,
Anthems from your younger days
VIII, when autumn time arrives,
Resound TO you in gladness."
And. in another song exclaims:
Echo from my voice Of childhood
Ever cheer me 90 my way"
With these introductory remarks I
so suggest 10 the oLder people
that il IL their duty TO help the young
in their efforts TO get impressed upon
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