St. Paul daily globe., 1885-02-02

enough to keep their property in their own
name, the heirs are respectful in their be-
havor. But If the parents are in famine as
Jacob was when Joseph sent for him, how
they crowd the old mans How mortified they
are because he will
EAT WITH HIS KNIFE
instead of his fork How they are disgusted
with his antediluvian habits! How they are
provoked because he cannot hear distinctly
what they say! How long they will let him
wear the old coat or hat before they get him
new one! How chagrined they are at his
independence of English grammar! How
he hangs on! Seventy, and not gone yeti
Seventy-fve and not gone yet Eighty and
not gone yets Will he ever gos They don't
see any need of doctor In his last illness
and go up to the drug store and buy him
dose of something that makes him worse, and
they economic on a coffin, beating the un-
dertaker down to the last point of charges,
aud giving note for that reduced amount,
which they never pay and offciated at the
obsequies of aged people where the family
were linordinatlly resigned. I have
been tempted to take my text from Proverbs:
'.The eye that mocketh at its father and re-
fusetl to obey its mother, the ravens of the
valley shall pick it out and the young eagles
shall eat it.''
l congratulate those of you who have the
honor of providing for aged parents. The
blessing of the Lord God of Jacob and Jo-
seph will be upon you forever. And here
SOUND THE PRAISES
of that ssterhood who have remained un-
married that they might administer to aged
Tba al
these self sacrificing ones by ungallant
names, and they are said to be precise and
angular and queer. But if you had had one
half the annoyances that they have had Kan
tippe would have been al angel compared to
you. The world may give such u one q
nickname, but God calls her his daughter,
and heaven calls her saint and call her
a domestic martyr. A dozen ordinary mar
red women have not as much nobility of
character as is in the smallest joint of the
little finger of her left hand. Yet, though
the world is six thousand years old, this is
the first apotheosis of maiden hood, though in
that group of those who have declined mar
rage that they might execute a special
mission, were Anna Ross aud Margaret
Breckenridge and Mary Shelton and Anna
Etheridge and Georgiana Willetts, the angels
of the battlehelds of Fair Oaks and Black-
burns Ford and Chan cellorsville and Coop
er's shop hospital. and though single life has
been honored by the fact that the three
grandest men of the Bible, John and Paul
and Christ were celbates. Let the un-
grateful world sneer at the maiden aunt, but
God has
THRONE IN HEAVEN
already furnished for her ascent and In the
vase that stands on the side of that throne
are two Jewels. the one large as the Koh-i-uoor
of London tower and the other like the
largest diamond OF Golconda, the one cut by
the lapidary Of the palace with the words:
''Inasmuch as ye did it 20 father,'' and the
other cut with the words: ''Inasmuch as ye
did it to MOTHER
While w.. see all around US outrageous be-
havior toward aged parents aud we have set
forth In the Bible the undlial demeanor of
Micah, the Ephraimite, who stole LOO
shekels from his mother and Absalom's un-
natural schemipg to dethrone David, his
father, history is sglow with many stories Of
fiIial hdelity. Epaninidas, the warrior, found
his greatest Joy in entertaining his parents
by the recital Of his victories. Look there at
Eneas flying from burning Troy, his old
father, Anchises, on his shoulder. Death
was the penalty inflicted by the Athenans
upon uuflial conduct. See young Ruth es-
cOrting across the wilderness venerable
Naomi. See John Lawrence
BURNT AT TIE STAKE
In Colchester while his children encouraged
him, ''Lord, strengthen thy servant and keep
thy promise!''
For the most Of you the old folks have
made their last visit 10 your house or soon
will make 1t, and am wondering if they will
ever visit you at the Kings palace.
Oh, what day that will be when the old
folks come from the neighboring mans sion to
see you amid the alaba-ter pillars OF the
throne room and find you Iivingwith the King.
They are coming up the steps and the
epauletted guards Of the palace rush in aud
say: "Your father has come: your mother
has comet and when you meet them under
the arches of precious stone and on the pave
ment OF porphyry the scene will eclipse the
meeting on the Goshen highway when Jacob
aud Joseph
FELL on EACH OTHERS SECKs
and wept good while. But how changed
the old folks! their cheeks smoothed into the
flesh OF a little child; their bent back
slaughtered into immortal symmetry and
their step feet as that OF roe on the noun
taiu, as they say: "We heard by spirit
passing this way from earth that you were
dissipated and wayward after we left the
world, but God has heard our prayer, aud
now you are here, aud as we went to see you
before We died, now we come TO see you after
our ascension. And father viii say Mother,
Joseph Is yet alive" aud mother will say
''Yes, father; Joseph is yet alive" and then
they viii recall all their earthly anxieties In
regard TO you aud their midnight supplica-
tions In your behalf and they will recite the
old passage with which on earth they cheered
their staggering faith: 81 will be God to
thee aud thy seed after thee"