Show home and women our homes of what is is their cornerstone but virtue of women and on what does our social well being rest but our must we not trace all other blessings of civilized life to the doors of our private dwellings 2 are not our hearthstones hearth stones guarded by the holy forms of conjugal filial and parental love the cornerstone corner stone of church and state more sacred than either more necessary than both botha let our temples crumble and our academies academics decay let every public edifice our halls of justice and our capital of state be levelled bevelled level led with the dust but spare our homes let no socialist invade them with his wild plans of community man alan did not invent and he cannot improve abrogate or ib rogate A I 1 vate vale shelter to cover in in two hearts dearer to each other than all the world high walls to the profane eye eve of every human being seclusion enough for children to feel that mother is is a holy and peculiar name this is is home bom e and here is is the birthplace birth place of every virtuous impulse of every ev ei y sacred thought here i the church and state must come for ori on gin and their support oh spare our homes the love we experience there gives us more faith in in an infinite goodness the purity puny disinterestedness arid and tenderness of home is is our foretaste and our earnest earliest of a better world vv orld in there the relation lati n there established and fostered do we feel through life the chief solace and joy of existence what hat friends deserve I 1 the name compared with those who a birthright birth right gave us our mother is is worth a thousand friends one sister truer and dearer than twenty companion we who have played pla ed on the same hearth under the lights of the same scene an and i season of innocence innocence and hope in in whose veins run the same blood do we not find that years ears only make the more sacred arid and important the tie that bind us coldness may spring up distance may I 1 separate different lerent dif spheres may divide but those who can love anything who continue colove to love at all must find that the friends whom god himself gave are wholly unlike any we can choose for ourselves arid and that the yearning fori for I 1 these hese is is the strongest il the expiring spir n affections christian Chrz shan |