Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1870 — Memories. [ARTICLE]

Memories.

When everything is counted, it will be found t.nat the sum total of our lives resolves itself into but two things, anticipation and memory. The pleasures and miseries of the moment are ephemeral, and only to be taken note of as they have been looked forward to, or as they leave their record in the pash In youth, life is richest in anticipations; but as -the years roil on, the mind acquires the habit of looking backward, and when old age is come, there is nothing left but memories this side the grave. Fortunate is that man who, in the midst of the cares and turmoils of a busy and often unsatisfactory life, has a happy childhood to look back upon—a picturegallery of loving faces that once formed a home circle; a record of sunny years which includes gentle tones, kind actions, cheerful surroundings, smiling skies, twittering birds, blooming flowers, and innocent amusements. Whoever robs a child of these, robs him of more than he can ever return to him in any other shape. A close, hard, narrow life lived in childhood, not only dwarfs the future man’s whole moral and aflfectional nature, but leaves him no blessed store of memories to fall back upon when the present is unsatisfying. Make your little child happy. Provide for him what enjoyments you can, be they great or small, and begrudge no money that you can spare in securing him these. In doing this you are not only giving him present pleasure, which is a great deal, as in youth impressions are stronger and more readily received, and the capacity for enjoyment consequently greater; but you pre really laying up a store of happiness for him in memories which shall last him all his life. Let the whole atmosphere which surrounds your children be so impregnated with affection, that they shall breathe it in, as it were, at every inspiration, and their hearts will grow larger, and their blood run the clearer and purer for it. Let your own lives, mothers and fathers, be so upright and so pure, that when you have passed away and your children have taken your places, your memories will be enshrined in their hearts, and a halo will surround them like the aureole of a saint. Sitting, my friend, by the evening fireside ; sitting in your easy chair at rest, and looking at the warm light on the rosy face of your little boy or girl sitting on the rug before you, ao you ever wonder what kind of remembrance those little ones will have of you, if God spares them to grow old T Look into the years to come; think of that smooth face lined and roughened; that curly hair gray; that expression, now so bright and happy, grown careworn and sad; and you, long in your grave. Of course, your son will not have quite forgotten you; he will sometimes think and speak of his father who is gone. What kind of remembrance will he nave of you!

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