Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-15

| victories. For, while Moses, the brother,
led the vocal music after the crossing OF
the Red sea, Miriam, the sister with TWO
! glttering sheets of brass uplltted and
glittering in the sun, led the instrumental
music, clapping the eymbals till the last
/ frightened neigh of pursuing cavalry horse
was smothered in the wave, and tue last
! Egyptian helmet went under.
How strong 1t makes a family when all
the sisters and brothers stand together,
and what an awful wreck when they disin-
tegrate, quarreling about a fathers Will
and making the Surrogate's office horri-
bic with their wrangle. Better when you
We're little children in the nursery that,
/ with your playhouse mallets, you had
accidentally killed each other, fighting
across your cradle, than that, having
come to the age Of maturity and having in
/ your veins and arteries the blood Of the
same father and mother, you fight each
other across the parental grave In the
cemetery.
If you only knew it, your interests are
identical. OF all the families OF the earth
that ever sto0d together perhaps the most
conspicuous is the family OF the Roths-
childs. AS Mayor Anselm ROthschild
was about to die in 1912 he gathered his
children about him--Anselm,S Solomon, Ma
than, Charles and James--and made them
promise that they would always be united
on Change. Obeying that injunction,
they have been the mightiest commercial
power on earth, and at the raising or
| lowering of their sceptre nations have
risen or fallen. That illustrates how
much, on large scale and for selfish
purposes, a united family may achieve.
| But suppose that instead Of q magnitude
of dollars as the object, it be doing good
and making salutary impression and rails
ing this sunken world, how much more
enabling! Sister, you do your part, and
brother will do his part. III Miriam will
lovingly watch the boat on the Nile,
Moses will help her when leprous disas-
ters strike.
Wnen father and mother are gone, and
they soon will be If they have not already
made exit, the sisterly and traternal bond
Will be the only ligament that will hold
the family together. How many reasons
for your deep and unfaltering affection
for each Otnerl Rocked in the same
| cradle; bent over by the same mOtherly
tenderness; tOiled for by the same fathers
weary arm and aching brow; with COM
mon Inheritance OF all the family secrets;
and with names given you by parents
who started you with the highest hopes
for your happiness and prosperity i
charge you, be loving, and kind, and for
giving. II the sister see that the brother
never wants a sympathizer, the brother
! Will bcN bnub LuG bl5hti AbNtL anus al eh-
cOrt. On, if the sisters OF a household
knew through what 10 rrifc
and damning foundations their brother
goes in this city life, they would hardly
sleep nights in the anxiety for his saliva
ton! And ifyou would make holy con-
splracy Of kind words and gentle atten-
lions and earnest prayers, that would save
his soul from death and hide a multitude
of sins. But let the sister dash of in one
direction in disciDleship Of the world and
the brother flee Off IN another direction in
dissipation, and 1t will not be long before
they will meet again at the iron gate OF
Despair, their bIistered feet in the hot
ashes of a consumed lifetime. Alasi
that brothers and sisters, though living
together for years, very often do not know
each other and that they see only the
ImperfectiOns and none Of the virtues.
Gen. Bauer, of the Russian cavalry, had
in early life wandered of in the army and
the family supposed he was dead. After
he gained fortune he encamped one day
in Husam, his native place, and made a
banquet, and among the great military
men who were to dine he invited a plain
miller and his wife who lived near by and
who, affrighted, came, fearing some harm
would be done them. The miller aud his
wife were placed one on each side of the
| General at the table. The General asked
the miller all about his family, and the
miller said that he had two brothers and a
sister. "NO other brOthersP' 'My young
er brother went of with the army many
years ago, and no doubt was long ago
| killed.v Then the General said ''SOl-
dIers, am this mans younger brother
whom he thought was dead" And how
loud was the cheer and how warm was
the embrace
Brother and sister, you need as much of
an introduction 10 each other as they did.
You do not know each other. You think
your brother is grouty and cross and
queer, and he thinks you are selfish and
proud and unloYely. Both wrongl That
! brother will be a prince in some woman's
\ eyes, andsthat sister a queen in the esti-
nation Of some man. That brother is a
magnificent fellow, and that sister is "A
morning in June. Come, let me introduce
] YOU: 'MOses, this is Miriam;" "Mlriam,
I thisis Noses" Add 10 per cent. TO your
| present appreciation Of each other, and
when you kiss good morning do not stick
up your cold cheek, wet from the recent
| washing. as though you hated TO Touch
each others lips in atfectiOnate caress.
Let it have all the fondness and cOrdiality
Of "A loving sisters kiss.
] Make yourself as agreeable and helpful
10 each other as possible, bering
that soon you part. The few years Of
boybOOd and girlbood will soon slip
! by and you Will 90 out 70 homes OF
your own, and into the battle with the
world, and amid ever changing vlcissi-
tudes, and on paths crossed with graves,
/ and up steps hard 10 climb, and through
| shadOWy ravines. But oh, my God ami
| SaYlOurl may the terminus Of the journey
| be the same as the start; namely, at
| fathers and mothers knee, IL they nave
Inherited the kingdom. Then, as in boy
hood and girlhOOd days, we rushed in
| after the days absence with much 20
! tell Of exciting adventure, and father
! aud mother enjoyed the recital as much
| as we who made 10, so we shall on the
! hillside OF heaven rehearse 10 them all
4 the scenes OF our earthly expedition, aud
/ they shall welcome us home, as we say,
/ Father and mother, we have come and
] brought our children with u.s." The old
/ revival hymn describes IL with glorious
/ repetition:
"Brothers and sisters there viii meet,
Brothers and sisters there will meet
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Will meet 20 part no more"
| read OF a child In the country who was
detained at neighbours house on a stormy
/ night by some fascinating stories that
were being told him. and then looked out
and saw IL was 80 dark be did not dare 10
home. The incident impressed me the
more because In my childhood had much
/ the same experience. The boy asked his
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