The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-14
PILLS BANNER.
How the Infant Glass Won tt
"Be Ye Faithful Unto Death"

else never made to go to churchr
tearfully exclaimed little Phillip Judd,
as 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
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 oft-repeated 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
lily, whose name, it seems, was legion
throughout the wide scope of country
in which this patriarch was wont to
labor
And this, his favorite saying, repeated
in the experience meeting, on the camp
ground, and around the festal board,
became of history, and, us the Judd
family passed from one generation to
another, this religious appellation chung
to them, and followed the family name
like benedictiop.
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 twas never
made to 60 to church," or to Sunday
school, either, for both were the same
to him. Both were terror to his
young heart. Even as he grew older
the feeling of aversion to places of di-
vine worship grew upon him.
ished the hope that they might live to
see their only child and son q minister
in the church But how early, indeed,
were their hopes blasted.
Certainly, here was break in the
golden chain. Was it possible that
Phillip Judd, sole heir to sacred heir
loom of generations, woulu ignore and
cast Gway this birthrightP
But Phil was q 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 IL
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 ne 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 q
railroad man, as he called it, and at
last determined to seek his fortune and
his idol in the far West.
1t was q sorrowful parting for the
happy home. How many Just such sor-
rowful partings have there not been
-" Goodbye, my boy" said his father.
1" BE faithful, and you'll win!"
''Oh, Phil! k,1oa0 you viii be good.
and you will write to me; but YOU will
promise not to forget the church and
Sunday-school! "
"Yes, mother, I'll write; and I'll not
forget. Good-bye!"
And he was gone-out into the world.
1t is needless to follow our hero
through the sundry and manifold vicis
STUDIES OF the tirst 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 menial's position at meniaFs
salary; then something higher and bet
ter, until now we find him higher on the
ladder toward the coveted goal Phil is
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 all 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 report that he was doing we'll"
filed the hearts of his parents with
great Joy.
During the few months that Phil had
been in c., he had occasionally at
tended church, and once in awhile
would visit the Sunday-schools.
One Sunday morning, as he was
strolling along, his attention was at
tracted to procession composed of
young men who were entering church
near by. One of their number carried
a staff from which foated a beautiful
banner of white silk, and upon whose
folds were these words: s.Be Ye Faith
full Unto Death. = Instinctively Joining
the throns Of children, he entered the
church and took quiet seat ID the cor.
ger I'he cxerclsps Of the snpdaz~