Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1881 — Singing of Sad Songs. [ARTICLE]

Singing of Sad Songs.

One of the most deleterious influences on the mind is the singing of sad songs in and about the home corner. Music has power to penetrate every cell of the brain and to kindle emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, sadness of life. We know families, honest and loving, but mistaken as to the use of means and agencies to develop children, make home, especially during the quiet evening and the stilled Sabbath, a place of musical moaning or wailing till the mind becomes drenched in depression and all the clear frank, joyous sentiments of the soul are hampered under the influence of unnecessary sadness. Open the doors of the >oul to admit light, life, knowledge happiness. Sing the cheerful songs or none. Play the light, |oyous, inspiring pieces that call animation to the soul and lifts the mental out of the depths of sorrow and sadness cares sink men and women into. There is nothing in religion to cause tears. If a soul is on the road to heaven why should It be sad and cast down ? If home is to be made a home, let it be a dear, sweet, clean, tidy, cheery place, where flowers grow, smiles come trooping over the face and wher the music is of a class that pleases and encourages those who listen tbere-to. Making of home a den of gloom, and banishing the light and cheerfulness has driven thousands of sons, daughters and husbands to the bad, and left thousands of wives and mothers to watch the clouds rising over their fading vears, when they might a.< well have had life, love, cheerfulness about them all the time.