Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-15

sbe watched the boat woven of river plant
and made water tight with ssphaltum. car
rying its one passenger? Did she not pu
all the ages of time and OF a coming etern
ity under obligation, when she defended
her helpless brother from the perils aquatic
reptiliRn and ravenous? She !
was that brought that wonderful babe arc
his mother together 30 that he was reared
to be the deliverer of his nation, WheL
otherwise if saved at all from the rushes Of
the Nile, he would have heen only one
more of the God-defying Pharoahs toi
Princess Thermutis of the bathing house
would have inherited the crown OF Egypt
and as she had no child OF her own this
sdopted child would have come to corona
ton. Had there been no Miriam there
would have been no Moses. What a gar
land for faithful sisterhoodl For how many
a lawgiver aud how many hero and no"
many a deliverer and how many saint
are the world and the Churth indebted to
q watchful, loving, faithful, godly sister
Come up out OF the farm houses,
come up out of the inconspicuous
homes! Come up from the banks OF the
Hudson and the Penobscot and the SaVsn.
nah and the Mobile and the Mississippi and
all the other Niles of America, and dIet-us
see YOU, the Miriams who watched and
protected the leaders in Law and medicine
and merchandise and art and agriculture
and mechanics and religion If | should
ask all these physicians and attorneys and
merchants and ministers of religion and
successful men of all professions and
trades who are indebted to an elder sister
for good influences and perhaps TOR an ed
ucstion or prosperous start, to rise, they
would rise by the hundreds. God knows
how many of our Greek lexicons and how
much of our schooling was paid for by
money that would otherwise have gone Tor
the replenishiug of sisters wardrobe.
While the brother sailed off for resound.
inc sphere the sister watched him from the
banks of selfdenisl.
Miriam was the oldest of the family,
Moses aud Aaron, her brothers, and
younger. Oh,
THE POWER OF THE ELDER SISTER
to help decide the brothers character for
usefulness and for heaven She can keep of
from her brother more evils than Miriam
could have driven back waterfowl or cro-
crodile from the ark of bulrushes. The
elder sister decides the direction in which
the cradle boat shall sail BY gantleness,
by good sense, by Christian principle she
can turn it toward the palace, not Of
wicked Pharaoh, but OF holy God; and
brighter Princess than Thermutis shall
lift him out Of peril, even religion, whose
ways are ways of pleassntness and all her
paths ore peace. The older sister, how
much the world owes her Born while
vet the family was in limited circum-
stances, she had to hold and take care of
her younger brothers. And if there is
ANYTHING that excites my sympathy it is
little girl Juggling round great fat child
and getting her ears boxed because she
cannot keep him quiet. By the time she
gets to young womsnhood she is pale and
worn out, and her attrsctiVeness has
been sacrificed on the altar
of sisterly fidelity, and che is consigned to
celibacy and society calls her by an ungal'
liant name. but in heaven they call her
Miriam. In most families the two unde-
sirable places in the record Of births are
the first and the last, the first because she
is worn ont with the cares of home that
cannot afford to hire help, and the last be
cause she is spoiled as a pet. Among the
grandest equipage that sweep through the
streets of heaven will be those occupied by
sisters who sacrificed themselves for broth.
ers. They will have the finest Of the
A pocalyptic white horses, and many who
on earth looked down upon them will have
to turn out to let them pass.
LET SISTERS NOT BEGRUDGE THE TINE
and care bestowed on brother. 1t Is hard
to believe that any boy that you know so
well as your brother can ever turn out any
thing very useful. Well. he may not be
Moses. There is only one OF that
kind needed for elk thousand
years But tell you what
your brother will be--either a bless
ing or O curee to society and candidate
for happiness or wretcheiaess. He will,
like Moses, have the choice between rubies
and living Goals, and your influence will
have much to do with his decision. He
may not, like Moses, be the delivcrer OF
nation, but he may, after your iather and
mother are gone, be the deliverer OF
household. What Thousands o! homes to
day are piloted by brothers. There are
properties now we'll invested and yielding
income for the support Of sisters and
younger brothers, because the older broth.
er rose to the leadership from the day the
father lad down to die. Whatever you
do for your brother will come back to you
again. If you set him an ill.natured, cen.
serious, inaccommodsting example, it will
recoil upon you from his own irritated and
despoiled nature. Ifyou, By patience with
all his in6rmities and By nobility of char
acter, dwell with him, in the few years of
yozr cozpanionship. you will have your
counsel reflected back upon you some day
by his splendor Of behavior in some crisis
where he would have failed but Tor you.
DON'T sNUB HIM.
Don't depreciste his ability. Don't talk
discouragingly about his future. Don't let
Miriam get down of the bank OF the Nile
and wade ont and upset the ark Of bal
rushes. Don't tease him. That spirit
abroad in the family is one Of the mesnest
and most deyiliSh. There is a teasing
that is pleasurable and is only another
form of INNOCENT rcillery, but that which
provokes and irritates and makes the eye
flush with anger is to be reprehended. 1t
would De lees blsmewoFthy to take bunch
of thorns and draw them across your sis
ter's cheek, or to take knife and draw its
sharp edge across your brothers hand
till the blood spurts, for that would
damage only body bat teasing
is the thorn and the knife
scratching and decorating the disposition
and the soul. 1t is the curse OF inumer-
able households that the brothers tease the
sisters and the sisters the brothers. Some
times it is the color OF the hair. or the
shape Of the features, or On affair OF the
heart. Sometimes it is by revealing q
secret or by q suggestive look, or a guffaw,
or an "ahem!" Tease! Tease! Tease
For Gods sake quit it. Christ says, BE
that hateth his brother is q murderer" "
Nov, when you, By teasing, make your