Household Affections.
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal, and bear the stamp of heaven. The man of high descent may love the halls and lands of his inheritance as a part cf himself, as trophies of his birth and power; the poor man’s attachment to the tenement he holds, which strangers have held before, and may to-morrow occupy again, has a worthier root, struck deep into a purer soil. His household gods are of flesh and blood, with no alloy of silver, gold, or precious stones; he has no property but in the affections of his own heart; and when they endear bare floors and walls, despite of rags, and toil, and scanty meals, that man has his love of home from God, and his rude hut becomes a solemn place.—Dickens.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 377, 19 March 1932, Page 25 (Supplement)
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172Household Affections. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 377, 19 March 1932, Page 25 (Supplement)
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