The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-08


ment in q land where there has never been
death and all the Inhabitants shall live as
long a. God. But Joseph was Joseph, not
outstanding the palace, and your chill
dren will be your children, noiwithstsnd
Ing the raining splendors of an everlasting
noon.
WHAT A THRILLING OCCASION
was the visit OF the old shepherd to his son.
the Prime Minister. As the aged country
man sits in the ralace and looks round al
the mirrors and the fountains and the carved
pillars, be wishes that Rachel, his wife, could
have lived 70 come with him, aud visited
their son in his 2 reat home. "Oh. be says.
If Rachel could only have seen al this"
Well, that is good time when the old folks
come 20 see you Your little chiliren stand
round with eyes wide open and wonder how
poodle can be SO very old. Perhaps the old
people stay only few weeks for sometimes
they feel little restless, especially when
night comes on, for they sleep better in their
own beds But while they are with you sou
feel somehow that there is
BENEDIcTIoN.
in every room of the house. They are quite
fet bic and YOU make ID as easy for them as
you can. and realizs they Will not visit you
very often sud perhaps never again. You go
to their room after they have retired to see
IL their lights are properly put out, Tor they
understand candle and lamp better than
they do modern apparatus for illumination.
You ask them in the morning tn positive
interest how they rested. Joseph thought
Inc more of aged JAG 30 when Oh the histori-
cal visit than you thought of the old people
who visited you. Before they left your house
should not wonder If they half spoiled your
children with Kindness. for grandfather and
grandmother are more Ienient and indul-
gent with their grandchildren than they
were with you. and what wonders of revels
nnr0ll from n EN-
OF the one and from the sleeve of the other.
Blessed is that home which the Chris
usn cid folks come to visit
whatever il may be for architect
uIe, before they leave it is palace. Though
they come fifty times the two most memora
bic visits are The first and the last. Those
tive pictul es will hang in the hall OF your
men DRY as long as memory lasts. and you
will often thing where they sat and how
they looked and at what figure of the carpet
and st what doorsill they gave you the 6ual
good by. Be not ashamed TO introduce your
father whea he comes TO town though his
manners be those of a shepherd, or your
mother though her hat bespeak no costly
millinery. Joseph introduced his father In
homespun to Pharaoh, the King Good al
vice the wife of Theod osius Inc Emperor,
gave him: Remember. o husband, wha'
lately you were, and what how you are!"
By this time you notice what kindly pro
he did net say: Il can not be bothered with
having the old man around here. How awk
ward ne would look. climbing these marble
stairs and walklr these mosaics- He would
be putting his hauus on the fresco. People
would ask. Where did that greenhorn come
fromT his manners a. tabie would shock
all the Egyptian court. Besides that, ne
might get sick oil my hands, and he might
be querulous and treat me as mere boy
when l am next to Pharaoh IL power. Of
course he must lot suffer. and they have
q famine in his country | will seno few
provisions down. But don't talk TO me about
fetching q man from Paden-AranI into the
polite society Of this great capital.
WHAT NUISANCE
it is to have SO many poor relations" But
not SO said Joseph. He goes out 20 meet his
old shepherd father with perfect abandon OF
affection. and brlr ga him t. the palace and
introdus q. him to Phsrosh. and makes pro-
vision for the rest of his father days and
nothing Was to- good for the old man liviI
and after his death Joseph, with magnificent
military escort. took his fathers rems ms to
the family cemetery at Mscphelsh ard laid
him tenderly down beside Rachel. Josephs
ID other.
Would to God that all sons treated thsi
parents as we'll as Joseph treated his. If
pareots have large fortunes and are wise
enough to keep their property in their wn
name, the heirs are respectful in their be
havior. But If the parents are in famine,
Jacob was when Joseph sent for him, how
they crowd the old man. How mortified
they are because he Will eat with his knife
instead of his fork How they are disg listed
with his antediluvian nabitsl How they are
provoked becau he can not hear distiu city
what they say! How long they will let him
wear the old coet or hat before they get him
q new onel How chagrined they are at his
Independence OF English grammar! Seventy,
and not gone yet Seventy five, and not
gone yet. Eighty, and not gone yeti Will he
ever co. They don't see any need OF doc.
( or in his last illness. and go up to the drug
tore and buy him dose of something that
mai es him worse aud they economize on
coffin, beating the undertaken down TO the
last point Of chrrges, and giving note for
that reduced amount, which they never pay.
have officated at the obsequiss IF sged
people, where the family were so lnordi
mattel resigned Il az | have been tempted TO
take my text from Proverbs: The eye that
mocketn at its father and refuseth to obey
It's mother. the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out and the young eagles shall eat
it"
/ congratulate those of you who have IL Q
honor OF providing for aged parents. The
blessing OF the Lord God of JAG DO and Joseph
will be upon you forever. l rejoice to say
that though my father lived in plain house
the most OF his days, he died IN q msnsion
provided by the final piety of one of his %
who had achieved a fortune, with servants
to wait on him and carriages and horses to
carry him whittier he would go, ar5nrs in
which TO sit during the long summer even
ings and dream over the past, must
cal instruments to cheer him, and in any
room OF that mansion he was welcome, aud
when life was over with all the honors that
mis- neighbor could express, he was carried
out to the village Macpelah to rest beside his
Rachel, whe. for more than fifty years had
been his companion. After you have earned
Q fortune, share il with the old people.
They probably inculcated the principles
through which you achieved your success 3
Pay them back a Christian percentage in
kindly consideration. Let Joseph share
with his father Jacob the pasture fields
OF Goshen and the glor es of the Egyptian
court
Aud here / sound the praises of that els er-
hood who have remained unmarried that
they might administer to aged parents.
THE BRUTAL WORLD
sometimes calls these self sacrificing ones by
uneallant names, and they are said to be
precise and angu ar and queer. But il you
had had one b alt of the annoyances they
have had. Xsntippe would have been an
angel compared 10 you. IL is easier to take
care of Eve romping rollicking children
than one childish old man. Among the
finest specimens of womsnhood in Brooklyn
and in yonder transporting city are these
aho alloUad the hocp, of Girl hood IN paaa