The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-14
PILLS BANNER.
How the Infant Glass Won It
"Be Ye Faithful Unto Death"

"Be Ye Faithful Unto Death"
-'Tse never made to go to churchr'
.earfully exclaimed little Phillip Judd,
rs his patient mother combed out the
curly looks of her only son and heir that
bright Sunday morning. preparatory
for his pilgrimage to the Sabbath-school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Judd lived in L, a
small town in Western Illinois. They
were poor, but in spite of this misfort-
une, if such it may be termed, they
were decidedly rich in the possession of
a family heirloom which had been
handed down from generation to gen.
Grafton with unbroken faith.
And this precious heirloom consisted
of an old saying, viz: 1.-THE Judd FAM
lily are noted for their extreme piety."
This was the oftrepeated expression
of an aged Methodist minister, a rugged
pioneer In ''the church militant" who,
in his journeying in those olden times,
had oft and again been the welcome
guest at the hearthStone of many a
representative of this remarkable fam
ily, whose name, il seems, was lepion
throughout the wide scope of country
in which this patriarch was wont to
labor.
And this, his fsyorite saying, repeated
in the experience meeting, on the camp
ground, and around the festal board,
became of history, and, as the Judd
family passed from one generation to
another, this religious appellation chung
to them, and followed the family name
like benediction.
The grand old prelate has long since
been gathered to his fathers, and ere
young Phil Judd shall have reached his
majority, four score and ten winters
will have swept the autumn leaves over
that old mans grave.
Thus, early in life. greatly to the sor-
row of his parents, did Phil sound the
keynote of revolt. He s'was never
made to 60 to church," or to Sunday.
school, either. for both were the same
to him. Both were a terror to his
young heart. Even as he grew Older
the feeling of aversion to places of di
vine worship grew upon him.
His worthy parents had fondly cher
ished the hope that they might live te
see their only child and son minister
in the church. But how early, indeed
were their hopes blasted.
Certainly, here was break in the
golden chain. Was it possible thai
Phillip Judd, sole heir to a sacred lseir
loom of generations, would ignore and
cast sway this birthright?
But Phil was a dutiful son, and al
though never losing his dread of the
church and Sunday-school, attended
quite regularly during his earlier years
He often tried TO become interested in
the Sunday-school. but the teacher often
was wearisome, and the long talks BY
the superintendent "made his bones
ache" as he often said. He took
q book from the Sunday-school Ii.
brary once which was so full of horrible
stories of deaths of martyrs and bad
boys that it made him have terrible
dreams.
At last he gave up trying to like the
Sunday-school; and. as he grew older,
his parents. seeing that he could never
be minister of his own choice, advised
him to choose some occupation suitable
TO his inclination.
Phil was always bright scholar, and
his education, though limited, was thor
ough. He had often wished to be a
- railroad man." as he called it, and at
last determined to seek his fortune and
his idol in the far West.
1t was sorrowful parting for the
happy home. How many Just such sor.
rowful partings have there not been,
Goodbye, my boy" said his father.
:" Be faithful, and you'll win!"
"Oh, Phil! / 6,os0 you will be good,
and you viii write to me; but YOU will
promise not to forget the church and
Sunday-school!
'-1es, mother. I'll write; and I'll not
forget. Good-bye!"
And be was gone-out into the world.
1t Is needless to follow our hero
through the sundry and manifold vicis-
STUDIES of the first years of his battle
with the world. Perhaps his expert
ences would differ but little from those
OF thousands who started in life as did
he.
First an odd job here; another there;
then meniai's position at menial' S
salary; then something higher and bet
ter. until now we find him higher on the
ladder toward the coveted goal Phil is a
telegraph operator at c., a large
railroad center. Here he has been
stationed some months, and has lately
received the promise of promotion. 1t
was soon to come.
In al these years that Phil had been
absent from home. he never forgot the
parting promise to his mother. He
often wrote to her. and his assurance
that he kept the pledge. together with
the rennrt that he was ''doing well. -