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

tight with asphaltum, carrying its one
| passenger? Did she IiQt put all the ages
OF time and Of comtog eternity under
obligation when she desended her helpless
brother from the peril$ aquatic, reptilian
and ravenous. She tgYas that brought
that wonderful babe md his mother to-
gether so that he was reared to be the
! dehyerer of his nation, when otherwise, if
saved at all from the rushes OF the Nile,
he would have been onlY one more of the
G0d-defylng Pharaohs; for Princess
ThermutIs of the bathing house would
have Inherited the crown of Egypt, and as
she had no child of her own, this adopted
child would have come to coronation.
Had there been no Miriam there would
have been no Moses. What q garland
for faithful sisterho0d! Fer how many
lawgiver and how many hero and
how many deliverer and how many
saint are the world and the church
indebted to watchiul, loving.
faithful, cody sister, Come up
out OF the farmhouse, come up
out Of the inoonspicuOus honest Come
up from the banks Of the Hudson and the
Penobscot, and the Savannah and the Mo-
bile and the Mississippi and all the other
Niles OF America and let us see you, the
Miriam who watched and protected the
leaders in law and medicine and mer-
chandise and art and agriculture and me-
chanics and religionl II should ask all
these physicians and attorneys and mer-
chants and ministers OF religion and sue
cessful men OF all professions and trades
who are indebted TO an elder sister tor
good influences and perhaps for an educa-
tion or prosperous start, to rise, they
would eby the hundreds. God knows
how many of our Greek lexicons, and
how much of our schooling was paid for
NV Hr,sa
for the replenishing OF sisters ward
robe. While the brother sailed of for
resounding sphere the sister watched him
from the banks Of self-denial.
Miriam was the Oldest one OF the fam-
ly, Moses and 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 Miri-
am could have driven back waterfowl or
crocodile from the ark of bulrushes. The
older sister decides the direction in which
the cradle boat shall sail. BY gentleness,
by good sense, by Christian principle she
can turn it toward the palace, not of a
wicked Pharaoh, but of q holy God; and
a brighter Princess than Ifhermutis shall
lift him out OF peril, even Religion, whose
ways are ways OF pleasantness and all her
paths are peace. The older sister, how
much the world owes herl Born while
yet the family was in limited circum-
stances, she had to hold and take care of
her younger brothers. Andjf there Is any
thing that excites my sympathy it is a
little girl Juggling round a great fat child
and getting her ears boxed because she
cannot keep him quiet. BY the time she
gets to young. w0EnanhoOd she is pale and
worn out, and her attractiVeness has
been sacrificed on the altar Of sisterly f.
deity, and she is consigned to celibacy
and society calls her by an ungallant
name, but in heaven they call her Miriam.
In most families the two most undesirable
places In the record of births are the first
and the last; the first because she is
worn out with the cares OF home that
cannot afford to hire help, and the last
because she is spoiled as pet. Among
the grandest equipages that sweep
through the streets OF heaven will be those
occupied by sisters who sacrificed them
selves for brothers. They will have the
finest of the Apocalyptic 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 time and
care bestoWed0n a brother. 1t is hard to
believe that any boy that you know so well
as your brother can ever turn out anything
very useful. Well, he may not be
Moses. There is only one Of that kind
needed for 5000 years. But l tell you
what your brother will be-either a bless
ing or a curse TO society and a candidate
for happiness or wretchedBess. He will,
like Moses, have the choice between
rubies and living GOALS, and your iniiu-
ence will have much 70 do with his deci-
sion. He may not, like Moses, be the de-
liyerer of great nation; but he may,
after your father and mother are gone,
be the deliVerer Of a household. What
thousands OF homes to-day are piloted
by brothersl There are properties now
well invested and yielding income for the
support Of sisters and younger brothers
because the older brother rose TO the
leadership from the day the father laid
down to die. Whatever you do for your
brother will come back 10 you again. II
you set him an ill-natured, cens0riUus,
accommodating example, IL viii re-
coil upon you fron his own irritated and
despolled nature, IL you, by patience
with all his inlirmltles and by nobility Of
character, dwell with hIm, in the few
years of your Partnership, you will
have your cOunselS reelected back UPON
you some day by his splendor Of behavior
Ia some crisis where he would have failed
but for you.
Don't snub him. Don't depreciate his
ability. Don't talk discOuragingly
about bis future. Don't let Miriam get
down OF the bank OF tne Nile and wade
out and upset the ark Of bulrushes.
Don't tease him. Brothers and sisters do
not consider 10 any harm TO tease. That
spirit abroad Ia the family is one OF the
meanest and most deyilish. There is a
teasing that is pleasurable aud 10 only
another form OF Innocent raillery, but
that which provOkes and irritates and
makes the eye flash with anger is 70 be
reprehended. IL would be less blame
worthy 20 take q bunch Of thOrns and
draw them across your SISTERS cheek, or
TO take knife and draw its sharp edge
across your broJher's hand till the blood
spurts, for that would damage only the
body, but teasing rs the thorn and the
knife scratching and decorating the dis
position and the soul. IL is the curse OF
innumerable households that the brothers
tease the sisters and the sisters the broth
ers. Sometimes II Is the color OF the hair,
or the shape Of tue features, or an affair
OF the heart. Sometimes IL 10 by reveal
ing secret OF by a suggestive look, or
gufaw, or an "Ahemw Teasel Teasei
Tease For Gods sake quit II. Christ
says: "He that hateth his brother Is a
murderer" Now, when you, by teasing
make your brother or sister hate, you
turn him or her into a murderer or MUIR
deress.
Don't let jealousy ever touch a sisters
soul, as 10 so often does, because her
brother gets more honor or more means.
Even Miriam, the heroine OF the text, WAS
struck by that evil passion OF jealousy.
She had possessed unlimited influence