Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1855-11-29
1.-THE OLD FOLKS. /"

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thankless child. !"
Il suppose ! must go down and see
the old folks pretty soon, but il is dull
job" said fashionably dressed young
man to me, one evening. ''The coun-
try is so dull, after living in the city,
that dread to go there there is moth
ing TO look at; and nowhere to 60 !; but
mother is getting pretty feeble and /
ought to co.
! perceived that the " old folks" he
so disrespectfully spoke of, were no
other than his own father and mother.
81 could get along one day well
enough he said, but the old folks are
never satisfied unless | stay week, or
three or four days, and Lget heartsick
of it, it is SO dull / used to go and see
them once or twice year, but now it's
between two and three years since !
have been there. | could go oftener,
but it is so tedious and then they make
so much of me, and cry SO when they
sec me, that it makes me feel bad, be-
cause / do not 90 as much as / ought );
so sometimes think viii not at all. z
How little had this careless son tho't
of his aged parents. and yet how daily,
how hourly had those aged parents tho't
Of him, and how many fervent prayers
had ascended to God for him from the
quiet fireside. He knew not how many
evils those pray yers had ayerted from his
ungrateful head, Of how many blessings
they had poured out upon him.
But all sons are not thus ungrateful.
A young friend ofmine who has resided
sixteen years in the same great metro
polls, has never failed twice year to
visit his parents, and goes often, or
whenever it is possible for him to leave
his business. accidentally saw a let
ter he addressed to a sister short time
since,i which shows that a young man
can be immersed in extensive business
and yet find time to love and yenerate
his mother. s' Z = 's.3-.-. s..
s's Iireceivedz a short note from moth,
ier," he writes, after hearing that she
had been i'll. set am fearful she Is not,
improving. If she is any worse, or be-
comes dangerously sick, / desire to
know it, i dread the thought that our
mother cannot be spared 10 US many
years, at the best il may be but a few
months. | have thought Of It very much
for few weeks. Although she has
lived nearly her threescore and ten, and
nature has become almost exhausted, !,
yet how 4 should miss her !; how We
should all mourn for her What a
mother she has been to US; what an ex-
ample J; what q Christianl.-I am sure
Of il /; ! know she has been my dearest
object ,lb,iet Of love and affection all the days
3ofny. life .y However, may have stray
ed from her bright examples and her
teachings, my mother has always been
before beckonipg me to walk in the
right ways;; and if I have, not prayed
myself, swithtthe fsrvor and devotion that
j should have always felt that she was
supp,isating for me. How much she
has cared for Us What's sacred trea-
|snEe, even TO the end Of our lives will
bs The Insmories Of our mother. i4si
see ee her now, i as she looked to me,
when she stood by ths bedside of , one
dying brother. cheering him il his suf-
ierings; and | hear her lsay, lay The same
clock that told the hour 'f 'of his brill, ii il
now telling tue hour 81 lis death I =
WHAT i scene was that we know,
dssr sister, that these things must BE-,
and i j. not il 1 ndelaneholy strain that
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