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Consider the plenty that abounds. I speak not of the few affluent, but of the great majority who enjoy the common lot. What abundance in their homes!
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Look at the household of any unpretending citizen, and say what realm of earth, what domain of nature, does not send its treasures thither? The orchards, the fields, the pastures, the hills, the rivers, the mines, the oceans, bring their tribute to the fireside.
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From the shores of the Mediterranean come the olive, the grape, the orange, the fig, the date. The farther Indies send their fragrant herbs and sweet spices. The repast of a frugal family is rarely set forth without offerings from all quarters of the globe. The cottager's lamp, that bums by night, is fed with oil from the Arctic zone. The light of day shines through clear crystal, that shows the perfection of the arts, and the cheapness of their most beautiful products.
In humble abodes the wonders of manufacture appear. Bich cotton stuffs tell of the affluence of the Southern soil and the skill of the Northern artisan. Luxuries, of old the prerogative of princes, are now familiar things. The silks of France and Italy are worn by the wife and daughters of the farmer and the mechanic. It is better to contemplate the plenty within reach of the common lot.
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Among what people, in what age, has the common lot been so favored as with us? When in the earth's history have so many persons had rea- son to be grateful at the feast of the ingathering as now? We boast not of great banquets, in which the luxury of the few is wrung from the misery of the many. We speak not of pearls dissolved in the wine cup, and the price of cities thus quaffed at a draught. Our country, prouder than the empire of a Caligula, or a Cleopatra, can point to the house- holds of her people, and in the amount of their combined blessings pity the poverty of the builders of the- Coliseum or the Pyramids.
Other lands may have prouder palaces and more princely fortunes. None can show so many fa- vored homes. Go to thy home, and tell how great things the Lord, the giver of the harvests, hath done for thee in its plenty.
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Consider too its peace as well as its plenty. No wars disturb it, nor rumors of war. No civil strifes threaten its tranquillity.
No tyrannical powers intrude upon its freedom. Every household is better guarded than any feudal castle. Equal laws make it more impregnable than walls or moats. We do not indeed forget our own imperfections and failings. It is something to boast of, that slavery is the ex- ception now among civilized nations, instead of being, as of old, the universal law for the weaker from the stronger. For ourselves, we disclaim all share in its origin and con- tinuance, deeming it to be a local misfortune to be deplored, not a national institution to be honored. As a nation, we are lovers of equal law. The sober thought, nurtured by the best experience of the Atlantic States, finds its response in the new regions of the farthest West, and not even the mad thirst for gold has made the restless people on our Pacific coast forgetful of their birth- right of liberty and law.
A mighty habit of civil order has entered into our national life. The strongholds of order are in our homes. There each man finds the motive that leads him to resist alike the disorganizer and the invader. Thence we derive the assurance of the best of standing ar- mies ; for men that have households to defend, will be as little inclined to yield to hostile invasion as to destructive revolution. How peaceful our homes! As mighty is the power nurtured within them that makes them so. The laboriBg man may own a better libra- ry than a prince or prelate of the olden time.
For a pit- tance trifling eyen to him, he may have tidings daily from all quarters of his own country, and firom foreign lands. His chUdren bring with them more learning from the com- mon school, than would have sujQSiced of old to constitute the wisdom of a sage.
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For a less sum than the tippler gives for the draught that fevers his blood and crazes his brain, the artisan may adorn his house with choice works of art, through the cheap and beautiful products of the en- graver's skill ; and thus the beautiful from the hand of man and of God, may refine and cheer the common lot. Music, that voice of the beautiful arts, is becoming a familiar bless- ing, and a part of ordinary education. Groups of children by the fireside, and in the field and garden, sometimes at the corners of the streets or in their walk home from school, are heard singing their songs and hymns together, thus ex- changing discord for peace, quarrels for harmony.
Even the utilities that are becoming the custom of our time, have their refining and exalting influences. The light that streams up in our streets and houses, is the handmaid of a light brighter than its own. The pure water that gushes up in so many homes, has connections far more substantial than fanciful with the living water of the divine word. Facts enough show that human civilization needs, in the most literal isense, its water-baptism before its spirit-baptism can be realized.
The spirit is not lost sight of even in this utilitarian age. Within every home, in any degree worthy the name, Christianity proves its power, whether the gospel be nomiimlly professed or not. The very unity of the fiiunily comes from Him, who has decreed the purity of the home by his fundamental law, and bound parents to each other and their offspring by a tie at once of principle and affec- tion. Greater still the blessing where Christianity is fuUy known and practised in its truths and graces, where the pleasant fireside is a consecrated altar, and the earthly man- sion opens ever into the heavenly.
Consider them well, and moreover, own God's hand in them. God is Creator and Lord of nature. From him comes the plenty of our homes. Man does not create, he finds the bounties of his lot. His utmost industry and skill but find the blessings stored up for him.
We may look upon the kingdom of nature from many points of view. We may consider the organism of the heavens, the great peri- ods of the earth's apparent formation, the influence of cli- mate and position upon the history of nations, and see God's hand in natural laws. But what view of the universe is more sublime, and at the same time more touching, than that from the home?
The- heavens themselves help in keep- ing it upon its foundation by the force of the great law of attraction, whilst every element and domain of the earth conspires to give it blessing. His love looks down from the stars of heaven that shine into the casement, and is reflected from the little flower that blooms in the garden, or cheers the sick man's cham- ber.
To God, Creator and Preserver, be onr thanksgiving. God is in history, and to his hand we trace the peace of onr homes. Onr familiar social blessings are not the exhalations of a day, bnt the growth of ages. No clearer or more striking view of the development of the Divine plans in the course of events can be given than the domes- tic view. There is a providence in the development of liberty, and so too in the progress of law, and in the combination of them both in a true social order.
What better symbol of their combination and proof of providential guidance than the peaceful home? In two grand lines of influence it brings to every household the co-ordinate powers which, from quarters once antagonistic, unite in a true civilization. From the East with the Star of true empire, came the benign power that united these two mighty agencies of our ciyilization. Surely it was the religion of Jesus that wed- ded Roman law to Germanic liberty, and laid the founda- tions of constitutional freedom and domestic peace. Blessed indeed was that bridal, and the living Word that hallowed the union still dispenses the blessing, and calls the children of its lineage to a future brightening unto the perfect day The Constitution, and above it, the Bible 1 In this is the Word of God, and the way of life, present and eternal.