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

such queen OF selfsacrifice who had jewele
hand after jeweled hand offered her In mar
riage, and vet by sense of flial obligation
was kept on the old place until health VS.
worn out and the attractiveness Of persona
presence had vanished.
The world may give such a one a nick
name, but God calls her his daughter, ant
Heaven calls her saint, and call her DO
nestle martyr. A dozen ordinary married
women have not as much nobility of char
scter as the smallest joint of the little firge
of her left hand. Yet. though the world il
six thousand ears old, this is the first apo
theosis of manhood. though in that group o
those who have declined marriage that they
might execute q special mission were Auns
Ross and Margaret Breckenridge and MARI
Shelton and Anna Etheridge and Georeius
Willets, the angels of the battle fields OF all
Oaks and Blackburns Ford and Chsncellors
vile and Cooper's Shop Hospital. and though
single life has been honored by the fact tina
the three grandest men of the Bible, John
and Paul and Christ, were celibstes. Let the
ungrateful world sheer at the maiden aunt
but God has q 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-nool
OF the London tower. and the otheg like the
largest diamond of Golconda; the one cut by
the lapidary of the palace with the words
''Inasmuch as ye did it to father" and the
other cut with the words, "Inasmuch as "
did ii unto mother"
/ While we see all around Us outrageous be
hsvior toward aged parents, and we have sci
forth in the Bible the unflisl demeaDor Of
Micah, the ephromite, who stole l, 100 shek
els from his mother. and
ABsoI.oN's UNNATURAL scHENING
to dethrone David, his father, history i,
sglo with many stories OF flisl fidelity
Epa pninodas the warrior found his great.
cital of bis victories. Look there at Aen cas-,
flying from burning Troy, his old father An
chises on his shoulder. Death was the pen
atty inflicted by the Athenians upon unfilial
conduct. See young Ruth escorting across
the wilderness venerable Naomi. See John
Lswrence burned at the stake in Colchester,
while his children encouraged him.
crying: Lord, strengthen thy servant and
keep thy promised" Christ, while yet rs.
pended in excruciation, provided for the old
age OF Lis mother. over the hills 10 the
Poorhouse" Is the exquisite ballad by Will
Carleton, who had talked with an old W oman
turned off by her prosperous sons, bat am
glad that in my text it is over the hills to a
palace. II will % and see him before die''
resolved Jacob, and in little while the de-
crepit shepherd is treadipg the tesselated
corrid ors OF an emperor.
For the most of you the old folks have
made their last visit to your house or soon
will make 1t. and l am wondering il they
will ever visit you at the Kings palace
hope so. AL the provision has been made
for your arrival at the shining habitation of
the King. But" you say; Il am yet in
the pit OF SIM" So wss Joseph once in pit.
But" ven say, II am in Q prison of in
EQUITY" So was JOSEPH once in q prison.
But" you say. II had grown up without
q mothers care" So had Joseph been de-
MED maternal attentions. But" you say,
Il am not in the land of my nativity" So
was Joseph far away from home But"
you say Il have been exaggerated by be-
trsysl" Did not Josephs brothers sell him
TO passing Ishmaelitish caravan, but God
brought him to emblazoned residence and if
you will trust in Christ Jesus you all will be
empalaoed.
Oh, what day that will be when the old
folks come from the neighboring mansion to
see you amid the alabaster pillars of the
throne-room and find you living with the
King. They are coming up the steps. and
the epsuletted guards OF the palace rush in
and say: Your father has come! Your
mo her has GOMEZ" And when you meet
them under the arches of precious stone and
on the pavement of porphyry the scene will
eclip se the meeting on the Goshen highway
when Jacob and Joseph fell on each others
ucChb duu W6pt . SOOu WuIc. Dut uOW
changed the old folks Their cheeks
smoothed into the flesh of little child their
bent backs straigetened into immortal sym
metry and their step feet as that of the roe
on the mountain as they say: I'VE heard
by spirit passing this way from earth that
you we're dissipated and hayward after we
left the world, bat God has heard our prayer
and now we are here, and, as we went to see
you before we died now we come to see you
after our ascension. And father will say:
Mother, Joseph is yet slive;;' and mother
will say: Yes, father, Joseph is yet alive;'
aud then they will recall all their earthly
anxieties in regard to you and their mid
night supplioations in your behalf. and they
will recite the old passage with which on
G srth they cheered their staggering faith ::
~ will be God to thee and thy seed after
thee"
Oh, the palace the palace That is what
Baxter called The Saints Everlastin &
Rest" That is what John Bunysn called
The Celestial City" That is Young
Night Thoughts" turned into morning
civilizations. That is "Grsy's Elegy in a
Churchyard" bt C Jme a resurrection specta
Gle. That is The Cottsr's Saturday
Night" changed into Cottar's Sunday
morning. That is 1.-THE Shepherd of Sails
bury Plain" amid the fiocks on heavenly
hills. That Is fsmine-struck Paden.Aram
exchanged for the pasture fields of Goshen.
That is Jacob visiting Joseph at the Emerald
Castle.