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On such a morning as now lowers +around our old gray parsonage, I miss the bright face of my ancient friend, who +was wont to dance upon the hearth and play the part of more familiar sunshine. +It is sad to turn from the cloudy sky and sombre landscape; from yonder hill, +with its crown of rusty, black pines, the foliage of which is so dismal in the +absence of the sun; that bleak pasture-land, and the broken surface of the +potato-field, with the brown clods partly concealed by the snowfall of last +night; the swollen and sluggish river, with ice-incrusted borders, dragging its +bluish-gray stream along the verge of our orchard like a snake half torpid with +the cold,—it is sad to turn from an outward scene of so little comfort +and find the same sullen influences brooding within the precincts of my study. +Where is that brilliant guest, that quick and subtle spirit, whom Prometheus +lured from heaven to civilize mankind and cheer them in their wintry +desolation; that comfortable inmate, whose smile, during eight months of the +year, was our sufficient consolation for summer’s lingering advance and early +flight? Alas! blindly inhospitable, grudging the food that kept him cheery and +mercurial, we have thrust him into an iron prison, and compel him to smoulder +away his life on a daily pittance which once would have been too scanty for his +breakfast. Without a metaphor, we now make our fire in an air-tight stove, and +supply it with some half a dozen sticks of wood between dawn and nightfall. +</p> + +<p> +I never shall be reconciled to this enormity. Truly may it be said that the +world looks darker for it. In one way or another, here and there and all around +us, the inventions of mankind are fast blotting the picturesque, the poetic, +and the beautiful out of human life. The domestic fire was a type of all these +attributes, and seemed to bring might and majesty, and wild nature and a +spiritual essence, into our in most home, and yet to dwell with us in such +friendliness that its mysteries and marvels excited no dismay. The same mild +companion that smiled so placidly in our faces was he that comes roaring out of +Ætna and rushes madly up the sky like a fiend breaking loose from torment and +fighting for a place among the upper angels. He it is, too, that leaps from +cloud to cloud amid the crashing thunder-storm. It was he whom the Gheber +worshipped with no unnatural idolatry; and it was he who devoured London and +Moscow and many another famous city, and who loves to riot through our own dark +forests and sweep across our prairies, and to whose ravenous maw, it is said, +the universe shall one day be given as a final feast. Meanwhile he is the great +artisan and laborer by whose aid men are enabled to build a world within a +world, or, at least, to smooth down the rough creation which Nature flung to +it. He forges the mighty anchor and every lesser instrument; he drives the +steamboat and drags the rail-car; and it was he—this creature of terrible +might, and so many-sided utility and all-comprehensive +destructiveness—that used to be the cheerful, homely friend of our wintry +days, and whom we have made the prisoner of this iron cage. +</p> + +<p> +How kindly he was! and, though the tremendous agent of change, yet bearing +himself with such gentleness, so rendering himself a part of all life-long and +age-coeval associations, that it seemed as if he were the great conservative of +nature. While a man was true to the fireside, so long would he be true to +country and law, to the God whom his fathers worshipped, to the wife of his +youth, and to all things else which instinct or religion has taught us to +consider sacred. With how sweet humility did this elemental spirit perform all +needful offices for the household in which he was domesticated! He was equal to +the concoction of a grand dinner, yet scorned not to roast a potato or toast a +bit of cheese. How humanely did he cherish the school-boy’s icy fingers, and +thaw the old man’s joints with a genial warmth which almost equalled the glow +of youth! And how carefully did he dry the cowhide boots that had trudged +through mud and snow, and the shaggy outside garment stiff with frozen sleet! +taking heed, likewise, to the comfort of the faithful dog who had followed his +master through the storm. When did he refuse a coal to light a pipe, or even a +part of his own substance to kindle a neighbor’s fire? And then, at twilight, +when laborer, or scholar, or mortal of whatever age, sex, or degree, drew a +chair beside him and looked into his glowing face, how acute, how profound, how +comprehensive was his sympathy with the mood of each and all! He pictured forth +their very thoughts. To the youthful he showed the scenes of the adventurous +life before them; to the aged the shadows of departed love and hope; and, if +all earthly things had grown distasteful, he could gladden the fireside muser +with golden glimpses of a better world. And, amid this varied communion with +the human soul, how busily would the sympathizer, the deep moralist, the +painter of magic pictures, be causing the teakettle to boil! +</p> + +<p> +Nor did it lessen the charm of his soft, familiar courtesy and helpfulness that +the mighty spirit, were opportunity offered him, would run riot through the +peaceful house, wrap its inmates in his terrible embrace, and leave nothing of +them save their whitened bones. This possibility of mad destruction only made +his domestic kindness the more beautiful and touching. It was so sweet of him, +being endowed with such power, to dwell day after day, and one long lonesome +night after another, on the dusky hearth, only now and then betraying his wild +nature by thrusting his red tongue out of the chimney-top! True, he had done +much mischief in the world, and was pretty certain to do more; but his warm +heart atoned for all. He was kindly to the race of man; and they pardoned his +characteristic imperfections. +</p> + +<p> +The good old clergyman, my predecessor in this mansion, was well acquainted +with the comforts of the fireside. His yearly allowance of wood, according to +the terms of his settlement, was no less than sixty cords. Almost an annual +forest was converted from sound oak logs into ashes, in the kitchen, the +parlor, and this little study, where now an unworthy successor, not in the +pastoral office, but merely in his earthly abode, sits scribbling beside an +air-tight stove. I love to fancy one of those fireside days while the good man, +a contemporary of the Revolution, was in his early prime, some five-and-sixty +years ago. Before sunrise, doubtless, the blaze hovered upon the gray skirts of +night and dissolved the frostwork that had gathered like a curtain over the +small window-panes. There is something peculiar in the aspect of the morning +fireside; a fresher, brisker glare; the absence of that mellowness which can be +produced only by half-consumed logs, and shapeless brands with the white ashes +on them, and mighty coals, the remnant of tree-trunks that the hungry, elements +have gnawed for hours. The morning hearth, too, is newly swept, and the brazen +andirons well brightened, so that the cheerful fire may see its face in them. +Surely it was happiness, when the pastor, fortified with a substantial +breakfast, sat down in his arm-chair and slippers and opened the Whole Body of +Divinity, or the Commentary on Job, or whichever of his old folios or quartos +might fall within the range of his weekly sermons. It must have been his own +fault if the warmth and glow of this abundant hearth did not permeate the +discourse and keep his audience comfortable in spite of the bitterest northern +blast that ever wrestled with the church-steeple. He reads while the heat warps +the stiff covers of the volume; he writes without numbness either in his heart +or fingers; and, with unstinted hand, he throws fresh sticks of wood upon the +fire. +</p> + +<p> +A parishioner comes in. With what warmth of benevolence—how should he be +otherwise than warm in any of his attributes?—does the minister bid him +welcome, and set a chair for him in so close proximity to the hearth, that soon +the guest finds it needful to rub his scorched shins with his great red hands! +The melted snow drips from his steaming boots and bubbles upon the hearth. His +puckered forehead unravels its entanglement of crisscross wrinkles. We lose +much of the enjoyment of fireside heat without such an opportunity of marking +its genial effect upon those who have been looking the inclement weather in the +face. In the course of the day our clergyman himself strides forth, perchance +to pay a round of pastoral visits; or, it may he, to visit his mountain of a +wood-pile and cleave the monstrous logs into billets suitable for the fire. He +returns with fresher life to his beloved hearth. During the short afternoon the +western sunshine comes into the study and strives to stare the ruddy blaze out +of countenance but with only a brief triumph, soon to be succeeded by brighter +glories of its rival. Beautiful it is to see the strengthening gleam, the +deepening light that gradually casts distinct shadows of the human figure, the +table, and the high-backed chairs upon the opposite wall, and at length, as +twilight comes on, replenishes the room with living radiance and makes life all +rose-color. Afar the wayfarer discerns the flickering flame as it dances upon +the windows, and hails it as a beacon-light of humanity, reminding him, in his +cold and lonely path, that the world is not all snow, and solitude, and +desolation. At eventide, probably, the study was peopled with the clergyman’s +wife and family, and children tumbled themselves upon the hearth-rug, and grave +puss sat with her back to the fire, or gazed, with a semblance of human +meditation, into its fervid depths. Seasonably the plenteous ashes of the day +were raked over the mouldering brands, and from the heap came jets of flame, +and an incense of night-long smoke creeping quietly up the chimney. +</p> + +<p> +Heaven forgive the old clergyman! In his later life, when for almost ninety +winters he had been gladdened by the firelight,—when it had gleamed upon +him from infancy to extreme age, and never without brightening his spirits as +well as his visage, and perhaps keeping him alive so long,—he had the +heart to brick up his chimney-place and bid farewell to the face of his old +friend forever, why did he not take an eternal leave of the sunshine too? His +sixty cords of wood had probably dwindled to a far less ample supply in modern +times; and it is certain that the parsonage had grown crazy with time and +tempest and pervious to the cold; but still it was one of the saddest tokens of +the decline and fall of open fireplaces that, the gray patriarch should have +deigned to warm himself at an air-tight stove. +</p> + +<p> +And I, likewise,—who have found a home in this ancient owl’s-nest since +its former occupant took his heavenward flight,—I, to my shame, have put +up stoves in kitchen and parlor and chamber. Wander where you will about the +house, not a glimpse of the earth-born, heaven-aspiring fiend of +Ætna,—him that sports in the thunder-storm, the idol of the Ghebers, the +devourer of cities, the forest-rioter and prairie-sweeper, the future destroyer +of our earth, the old chimney-corner companion who mingled himself so sociably +with household joys and sorrows,—not a glimpse of this mighty and kindly +one will greet your eyes. He is now an invisible presence. There is his iron +cage. Touch it, and he scorches your fingers. He delights to singe a garment or +perpetrate any other little unworthy mischief; for his temper is ruined by the +ingratitude of mankind, for whom he cherished such warmth of feeling, and to +whom he taught all their arts, even that of making his own prison-house. In his +fits of rage he puffs volumes of smoke and noisome gas through the crevices of +the door, and shakes the iron walls of his dungeon so as to overthrow the +ornamental urn upon its summit. We tremble lest he should break forth amongst +us. Much of his time is spent in sighs, burdened with unutterable grief, and +long drawn through the funnel. He amuses himself, too, with repeating all the +whispers, the moans, and the louder utterances or tempestuous howls of the +wind; so that the stove becomes a microcosm of the aerial world. Occasionally +there are strange combinations of sounds,—voices talking almost +articulately within the hollow chest of iron,—insomuch that fancy +beguiles me with the idea that my firewood must have grown in that infernal +forest of lamentable trees which breathed their complaints to Dante. When the +listener is half asleep he may readily take these voices for the conversation +of spirits and assign them an intelligible meaning. Anon there is a pattering +noise,—drip, drip, drip,—as if a summer shower were falling within +the narrow circumference of the stove. +</p> + +<p> +These barren and tedious eccentricities are all that the air-tight stove can +bestow in exchange for the invaluable moral influences which we have lost by +our desertion of the open fireplace. Alas! is this world so very bright that we +can afford to choke up such a domestic fountain of gladsomeness, and sit down +by its darkened source without being conscious of a gloom? +</p> + +<p> +It is my belief that social intercourse cannot long continue what it has been, +now that we have subtracted from it so important and vivifying an element as +firelight. The effects will be more perceptible on our children and the +generations that shall succeed them than on ourselves, the mechanism of whose +life may remain unchanged, though its spirit be far other than it was. The +sacred trust of the household fire has been transmitted in unbroken succession +from the earliest ages, and faithfully cherished in spite of every +discouragement such as the curfew law of the Norman conquerors, until in these +evil days physical science has nearly succeeded in extinguishing it. But we at +least have our youthful recollections tinged with the glow of the hearth, and +our life-long habits and associations arranged on the principle of a mutual +bond in the domestic fire. Therefore, though the sociable friend be forever +departed, yet in a degree he will be spiritually present with us; and still +more will the empty forms which were once full of his rejoicing presence +continue to rule our manners. We shall draw our chairs together as we and our +forefathers have been wont for thousands of years back, and sit around some +blank and empty corner of the room, babbling with unreal cheerfulness of topics +suitable to the homely fireside. A warmth from the past—from the ashes of +bygone years and the raked-up embers of long ago—will sometimes thaw the +ice about our hearts; but it must be otherwise with our successors. On the most +favorable supposition, they will be acquainted with the fireside in no better +shape than that of the sullen stove; and more probably they will have grown up +amid furnace heat in houses which might be fancied to have their foundation +over the infernal pit, whence sulphurous steams and unbreathable exhalations +ascend through the apertures of the floor. There will be nothing to attract +these poor children to one centre. They will never behold one another through +that peculiar medium of vision the ruddy gleam of blazing wood or bituminous +coal—-which gives the human spirit so deep an insight into its fellows +and melts all humanity into one cordial heart of hearts. Domestic life, if it +may still be termed domestic, will seek its separate corners, and never gather +itself into groups. The easy gossip; the merry yet unambitious Jest; the +life-like, practical discussion of real matters in a casual way; the soul of +truth which is so often incarnated in a simple fireside word,—will +disappear from earth. Conversation will contract the air of debate, and all +mortal intercourse be chilled with a fatal frost. +</p> + +<p> +In classic times, the exhortation to fight “pro axis et focis,” for the altars +and the hearths, was considered the strongest appeal that could be made to +patriotism. And it seemed an immortal utterance; for all subsequent ages and +people have acknowledged its force and responded to it with the full portion of +manhood that nature had assigned to each. Wisely were the altar and the hearth +conjoined in one mighty sentence; for the hearth, too, had its kindred +sanctity. Religion sat down beside it, not in the priestly robes which +decorated and perhaps disguised her at the altar, but arrayed in a simple +matron’s garb, and uttering her lessons with the tenderness of a mother’s voice +and heart. The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a +divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the +permanence of moral truth, it was this. All revered it. The man who did not put +off his shoes upon this holy ground would have deemed it pastime to trample +upon the altar. It has been our task to uproot the hearth. What further reform +is left for our children to achieve, unless they overthrow the altar too? And +by what appeal hereafter, when the breath of hostile armies may mingle with the +pure, cold breezes of our country, shall we attempt to rouse up native valor? +Fight for your hearths? There will be none throughout the land. F<small>IGHT +FOR YOUR STOVES</small>! Not I, in faith. If in such a cause I strike a blow, +it shall be on the invader’s part; and Heaven grant that it may shatter the +abomination all to pieces! +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIRE WORSHIP ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part +of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project +Gutenberg™ electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG™ +concept and trademark. 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