| Show written for this paper THE POWER OF SENTIMENT in an essentially utilitarian age men sneer at sentiment they laugh at that in which there to ie no immediate or apparent profit until things and feeling once deemed praiseworthy and bricf leu less are relegated to the background as in the main unworthy of consideration if they interfere with modern ideas or demands habits anil customs thoughts and which were sacred acred to the fathom are set not saide aside or destroyed destri with as little compunction as the housewife exhibits when she ebe brushes aside the dust or cobwebs from her cherished home religion in 8 me form having some was once deemed the ese voce f family life and the sabbath was its oay ay of no obstacle save deal deab b of force enough to interfere with or sup supplant the duties ol of church and aad worship nor did visitors but arely divert a family from the lit sling mid and of 01 this benign and util universal versal spirit however much ol 01 0 tila ti Is may now exist baurch i leg anti babbaro keeping are not considered of great importance by society high or low in quiet villages village as a show 0 respectability it may more or its but the the wh wb d ei u other days woula i be looked upon by many as puritanism ritan ism fanaticism or as aa PL a using being righteous overmuch over muot V 1 boon a similar precarious foothold the old loving clinging sentiment ot of home today one place is in as good as another persons move change localities as they change their cloth log ing the power of associated ideas has ban become a feeble thing compared with we the giant of years gone by when every nook aud and corner wore a loving aspect to the soul when every room had its sad or joyous memories which were more mere dear than gold and so blended were they and interwoven into the very fabric of life that to leave a locality so loaded with these treasured associations was waa like tearing up a tree by its roots after it had bad stood grown and become part of its surrounding blending in the sum mera sun and amid the oi of winter with the be local elements and becoming strong and bale thereby mens thoughts concerning their native land are modified also by this changing and indifferent mood excuses are plentiful as an leaves in autumn necessity opportunity advantages are magnified on the one hand and ani difficulties and trials of the other ari are la in thought invested Invests tj with sterner features wan ban they ever were the extravagant impulses of political delirium are at times contagious and newfound new found liberty of action and expression is in such striking contrast with the generally quiet orderly conservative serva tive home methods method that ous ou manhood with unwonted and exuberant rushes into the new conditions 16 as the wild herse bares into battle 00 nevertheless Nevert beless religion home and native land retain their tower over over the hearts of many sentiment never be comes a dead letter to lo them nor la 18 it shorn because of change or surroundings or Lemp temptation tation of the witchery of early years there might have been in each unpleasant or unsatisfactory things or thought boughs but these fad as aa the years year flit by they are washed by tits the waters of willing forgetfulness loto into the sea of everlasting oblivion while the brighter better loving memories and ule boadt associations take on a luster more than earthly for they are preserved and glorified by the best and purest and richest thought this sentiment would surround itself with a reproduction of lie its ideal idea in the buil building dlug of a tome home the planting plant lne of a tree the cultivation of flowers aud the society of birds and animals which were once a well blended enjoyment enjoy mei met t and a delight hence we know of a who reproduced the very counterpart of his bis german horns home in ID aalt lake lafee city mayhap ile 18 interior and appointments have more show ebow of opulence opu leuce letice solstice science and art than the one lung long left its ita outer forma form is in hardly of eo weather stained and old but every loving look sends memory back again while we the geni of wealth and soul of sentiment eee so in newness and froah only the sanctified original we knew another who was waa a lov ov er of trees trebe the franj RD and stately specimens under which be played in early years yeara were here an ever present dream and ancl time enabled him years yeara afterward to import or grow some of the varieties which for apes have made the english rural lanos lan caps a picture once seen been never to be forgotten A friendly and tree raiser sent to him from the east some aptel specimens mens of the english royal oak but during an enforced absence irom home anti and consequent conae quent lack of attention with change of climate they dwindled and died to the intense regret of the appreciative receiver many of our english sisters oday among their household treasurer treasur tr some flower or plant which is dear tu them from association in the be memories me moriea ui of early years yean we have bare soon een the pleasant smile or keener lot interest 6 rest of tears teara over a violet a daisy a buttercup or a cowslip all long since known and sought tor for in the bedge hedgerow rows and meadows meadow of their native land rod to bet betor or tend a slip alip of geranium gilly flower stock or other simple ample flower common in every village garden at home hom ewas was to possess a prize indeed the strong minded may took look upon this as simple and some would want to hide bids their beads bead from others it if cou con goings of such sentiment as a this but trifling an aa those things thing may appear they are inbred as it were yet if 1 stilled stifled or absent in no way does doe it recommend this thin look jack of sensibility taste refinement or association an influential post past the pride and glory of the mother country rests reata in part upon apon her colo bulzing power but as her La illione have swarmed from the parent hive and gone out to redeem the watte waste places of the earth it has baa been creditable to the souls of some of these colonists that they carried with them pleasant plea cant memories and exhibited amid strange surroundings roun dings longings for the familiar things of scenes far oh far away nor with an understanding of the tenacious of that olas class need dead we w wonder thata that a certain ensued which none seemed able to explain mot mo t had come from froin the agricultural districts and probably many of them had been aided bythe by the government in their exodus from home the cause of this strange range void was not long been used to the open fields and the companionship of birdp the song of the lark the thrush sad and blackbird bad been the music of their toil the robin and the lon Lorn atit tit the and the wren the plover and the partridge dile bad been to them what other things are to the denizens of the city although it has haft been said thata that a touch of nature makes the whole world alib when the attention of the british government was called to this feeling which involved patriotism and the thought and love of home the magnanimity nani mity of authority was wa so ao aroused to the situation that a man of war won waa specially fitted for bird life which were ware to in ty and numbers cumbers from the fields and hedges of england and transported to the colonies where this sentimental depression existed the effect was magical mag ioa As these hers gore from home flirted flitted from place to place they carrvel the spirit of peace and content until when acclimation and increase followed the spirit of unrest died out and that homesick feeling was satisfied which will never be known to their native posterity I 1 and experience prove that even the hollest holiest sen ciment thoat nt that of religion which is at the base of all true progress proe reas and alone allies men to the be heave heavens DS may by lack of culture or by false on culture fall of its beneficent work the cares of life the pressure pre asure of surround inep a little natural indolence can obliterate or stunt the growth of this sentiment which in some to is but half hardy bard y or an exotic in the early day as aa now there are degrees of love appreciation and interest there are thousands thousand in utah who went their ten or fifteen miles to meeting on sabbath I 1 in a the old world but we have knowla those who from habit were fairly regular in the he city though when they went to live in the be big fields field and were outside of observation found it quite a took task to 6 got get to meeting at all 11 II A spirit of indolence came first and then heo indifference which acted and reacted upon the family until none oared for sabbath Babba tb or kne knesting eting ff or re liff laiglon ing sentiment languished until pleasure became the prevailing idea and all were weaned by moving as aa I 1 if strength of character and determination were unknown bad indeed to Is the condition otan community whon when a forcing process has to be resorted to to arouse enthusiasm for home bows or country sad when the he love of surroundings surrounding and regard for natures products prod in flowers and trees and birds la Is deemed a weakness and a t lly sad aad indeed when home life Is deprived of the alluring revelations and force of reo religious lif th thought ouight sad bad la in the condition of a clety when sentiment Is if set at naught bought for things which are deemed more profitable fashionable manly or essential but blest bleat to Is that people or nation who in the love of beauty order appreciation count nothing common or unclean 91 tern ers to in quiet wayla by gentle things thing so as to take man from the whirl and strife the turmoil and conten contention contentious tioU of modern times into that arcanum of soulful sentiment where home bouto and country are linked lloyed in lu dissoluble a association so witti pleasant and over autuore broods that genius and spirit of gratitude to the ibe giver which Is IB ever subject to the mellowing influence ot of willing worship and a pure religion forever undefiled |
