The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-05
Home Circle



Leave your homes with loving
words, they may be your last.
Love is the best aud strongest thing
on earth, but impat fence can kill it.
Speak kindly. 1t encourages the
dOwncaSt, cheers the s0rrOwing and
often wakenS the erring to earnest
resolves to do better.
Parents are indebted to their child
rem for the constant Incentives TO
noble living; for The perpetual re-
minder that you DO not live in yOursei:
alone; for their SakeS YOU are admrn-
iShed to put from you the debasing
impulse: together into your lives every
noble and heroic quality, every ten
der and attractive grace.
For home 10 be d home in the high
est sense OF the word, and not mere
ly a place to sleep ard eat, each
member Of the family must contrib
ute his or her share. There must be
fOrbearance, sympathy and love. A
great deal depends ON the parents.
They should in the early childhood
of their children teach them to make
the home the dearest place on earth.
The aged live more in the past than
the present. Their reverieS are prin-
cipally OF their boyhOOd and girl
hood. How necessary then that
these days be made happy, that their
reveries may give them pleasure. 1t is
not a perfect where the inmates hold
themselves alUOf. it is where the guest
is ever welcome. where friends delight
to come again. Those that shut them
selves from the world become selfish
and narrow minded. 1t requires inter
change of thought to expand the mind
And what is more delightful than the
happy interchange Of thought between
friends in a happy home.
Kindness is one Of the pureSt traits
that finds 4 place in the human
heart. 1t gives us friends wherever
we may chance TO wander. To show
kindness it is not necessary to give
large sums Of money or to IerfOrm some
wonderful deed that will immortaliZe
your name. 1t is the word of sympathy
to the discouraged aud disheartened.
KinGneSS makes sunshine wherever it
goes; it is the real law OF life; the link
that connects earth with Heaven.
Would you live in the remembrance
Of others after you are gone? write
your name on the table Of their hearts
by acts OF kindness and love. The
noblest revenge we "a make upon our
enemies is to do them a kindness.
1t is customary, ano seems to be
natural for blessings to brighten as
they take their flight, the little hour
of joy that was yesterdays position,
brief and humble though it may have
been, becomes Of a roSeate hue and
four-fold important when viewed in
the flatteridg lights of retrospsction.
Countless numo ers Of us are changing
the burden of that tender lay:
Backward, turn backward, Time In
thy flight,
Make me a child again just for to-
night"
And to many the desire is largely |
prompted by visions Of lost Opportun-
tiles and misspent lives. The ever
recurring theme, 1T might have
been, (which tells the history, in brief,
Of many lifetime mistakes, is COM
mon to is all as we repeat the words
with a sigh, realizing all too late, our
former blindness and folly.
Many of US find life hard and full
Of pain. The world uses US rudely
and rouhgly. We suffer wrongs and
injuries. Other peoples clumsy feet
tread upon Jul tender spirits. We
must endure miSfortunes, trials and
disappointmentS. We cannot avoid
these things, but we should not allow
the harsh experiences to deaden our
senSi5ilitieS or make US StOical or
sour. The true problem Of living is
to keep u hearts sweet and gentle
in the hardest conditions and expert
ences- If you remove the snow from
.he hillside in the late winter, you
will find sweet flowers growing there
beneath the cold drifts, unhurt by
The storm and by the snowy blankets
that covered them. So should we
Keep our hearts tender and SenSitive
beneath life'S fierceSt winter blasts,
Ind through the longest years Of
suffering, and rel in injustice and
wrong treatment. This is true VIC
living, !