The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-18

sicians, and attorneys, and merchants, and
ministers of religion, ana successful men
of all professions and trades who are in
debted 10 an elder sister for good influence,
md perhaps for an education or pros
porous start, 10 rise, they would rise by tho
hundreds, God knows how many OF our
Greek lexlcons and how much OF our
schooling was paid for by money that
would Otherwise have gone for the replen-
ishing of sisters wardrobe. While the
brother sailed of for a resounding sphere
the sister watched him from the banks OF
self-deniAl.
Miriam was tho eldest of tho family
Moses and Aaron, her brothers, and
Younger. OH the power OF the elder sis
tor 10 help decide the brothers character
for usefulness and for heayenl She can
keep of from her brother more evils than
Miriam could have driven back WATERFOWL
or crocodles from the ark OF bulrushea'
The elder sister decides tho direction In
which the cradle boat shall sail, by gem
teness, by good sense, by Chriatian prin.
cipla she can turn II toward the palace, not
Of q wicked Pharaoh but OF holy Cod
and brighter princess than Thermutis
shall int him out Of peril, even Religion,
whose ways are WAYS of pleasantnosa and
All her paths are peace, The elder sister,
how much the world owes her Born while
yet tho family was In limited circumstances,
she had TO hold and take care OF her
younger brothers, And ifthero ls anything
that excites my sympathy II 10 q little girl
Juggling around great, fat child aud get
ting her ears boxed because she cannot
keep him quiet. by the time she gets TO
young womanhood she Is pale and worn
out, and her attfactiyencss has been sacri-
feed on the altar Of aistery fidelity, and
she is consigned 10 oelibacy, and society
calls her by IN ungAllant name, but in
heaven thoy call her Miriam, In most
families the two most undesirable places
In the record OF births are the first and tho
last; the first because she IL worn out with
the cares Of home that olnnot afford TO
hire help, and the last because she Ia
spoiled M q pct, Among the Rran1ost
equipagea that sweep through tho streets OF
heaven win be those occupied by sisters
who sacrificed themselves for brothers,
They will have the finest Of the apocalyptlc
whito horsOs, and many who on earth
looked down upon them will have TO turn
out TO lot them pnea.
Let SISTERS not boqudge tho time and
care bestowed on a brohcr, II is hard TO
believe that any boy that you know no we'll
nv your brother can ever turn out any
thing worry useful Well, he may not bo q
Moses. There IN only one Of that kind
needed for Xix thousand yonrs. But tell
you what your brother will bo-oither
blessing or n curse to society, and can
didRtc for happiness or wretohcdnosa. Ho
will, like Moses, have the choice between
rublos and living Goals, and your influence
will have much TO do with his decision, lie
may not, like Moses, bo the deliyeror OF u
nation, but he may, after your father and
mother nro gone, DO the delycror Of q
household. What thousands OF homes TO-
day arO piloted by brothers. There arc
properties now we'll invested, and yielding
Income for the support Of sisters and
younger brothers, because the elder brC thor
rose 10 the leadership from the day tho
father laid down TO die. Whatever You do
for your brother will como back TO YOU
again, II you set himNn ill.natnrod, con-
serious, unOccommodnting example II will
rocoiI upon You from his own iIriMied and
dCspoilcd nature, II You, by patience
with all his inllrmiiiea and by no tlily OF
character, dwell with him IN the fuw years
OF his compOnionship, YOU will have your
counsel reflected bOcs upon you aomc day
by his splcndor Of behavior IN gomo crisis
whore he would have failed but for you,
Don't snub him. Don't depreriuto his
ability, Don't talk digcourOgngly about
hi future, Don't lot Miinm get down OH
ths bonk OF the Nile aud wodo out and upset
the Nrk OF bulrushog. Don't tonso him.
Brothers and sisters do not consider itOny
harm 10 tease, That spirit abroad In tho
family II ono Of the mcNnost and most dew
iliah, Thore Ia u teOsing that Ia ploaeurOblo,
and " only another form OF innocent rail-
lory, but that which proyokes and initiates
and makes the eye flush with anger IL 10 DO
rcprohcndod. II would DO less blame
worthy to take bunch Of thoms and draw
them aorosa your sisters chook, or 10 tako
n knifo and dpaw its ahpp edge across
your brothcrs hand iill the blood spurls,
FOR that would damage only the body, but
teasing IL the thorn and the knife scratch
ing and decorating tho disposition aud the
soul. II In tho curse OF innumonblo
households that tho hrothcra toaso tho sia-
tore and tho eiBlom tho brothers. Some
timoa II Ia the color OF the hnir or tho
shape Of the features, or nm affair OF tho
heart. Sometimes II " by revealing 40
oret, or by suggestive look, or q guifaw,
or nm "Ahcmm Tcnscl Teaeol Tonao For
Code eOko, quit IL, Chri0t says; lie that
hatcth his brother In y murderer Now,
whom you, by toaSing make your brother
or eiqtor hate. you turn him or her into
murderer or murdorceB.
Don't let Jealousy ovOr touch n sisters
soul, M II no often dooa, bocauaO hor
brother gets more honor or moro means.
Even Miriam, the heroine Of the toxt, was
struck by that evil passion OF jealousy. She
had posewsod unlimited influence over
Mosop, md now he marrlaaaa black woman
from Ethiopia and Miriam Ia no diSgustcd
and outraged nj Moscn--Arrt because he
had married NJ 0ll, and, noSt, because he
hid praotioed miSoegonOtion, thOt eho is
drawn into frcngy, and thon begins 10
turn whto, and gote white m n oorpgo, and
then whitor than corpse, Hcr complexion
IN like chalk. Tho fact IL, uho has the
Egyptian loproay. And now tho brother,
whom she had dofondcd ontho Milo, oomos
10 hor rescue In prayer that brings hor
restoration. Lot there DO no room In all
your house for Jealousy, eithor 10 ait or
stand, II IL a leprouu abomination. Your
brothers eucccga, o Hlstcrs, In your guocogB.
His Victories will bc your Victories. For
while Mbeee, tho brother. led the vocal
music after tho crossing Of tho Rod soa,
Miriam, tho sister, with Tho glittcring eheots
OF hrom upliftod and glittorlng IN tho sun,
lod tho instrumental music, clnpping tho
oymbals I'LL tho laet frightened noigh OF
pursuing cavalry horse was snothorcd In
the wavo, and tho Inst Egyptian holmot won't
under.
How strong II mokos q family whom all
Tho sisters and brothers stand together, and
what m awful wreck whom they dlaintograto,
quoroling about fathers will, and making
the eurrognto'a oilico horrible with their
wrnnglo. Better when you were little
children In The nursery that with your plny-
house mallets you bNd accidentally killed
each other lighting across your cradle than
that having come 10 the ago Of maturity
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