The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-26

the Nile, he would have been only one
more Of the 0od.defying Pharaohs, for
the Priacess Thermutis, Of the bathing
house, would have Inherited the crown Of
Egypt, and a. she had NO child Of her own
this adopted child would have come to
coronation. Had there been NO Miriam
. garland for faithful sisterhood! For,
how many . law-giver, and how many
. hero, and how many . deliverer, and
how many . saint are the world and the
Church indebted to Q watchful, loving,
faithful godly sisteri Come up out Of the
farm houses; come up out Of the uncon-
spicuous honest Come mp from the banks
of the Hudson and the Penobscot and the
Savannah and the Mobile and the Missis-
sippi and all the other Niles of Amer
lea, and let US see you, the Miriams
ers In law and medicine and
and art, and agriculture, and
and religion! 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 for
good influences, and perhaps for an educa-
tion or q 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
for the replenishing of sisters wardrobe.
ing sphere the sister watched him from the
banks of self denial.
Miriam was the oldest of the family,
Moses and Aaron her brothers and young.
er. Oh. the power of the elder sister to
help decide the brothers. character for USE
fulness and for Heaven! She can keep of
from her brother more evils than Miriam
could have driven back waterfowl or croc-
odile from the ark of bulrushes. The other
cradle boat shall sail. By gentleness, by
good sense, by Christian principle, she can
turn it toward the palace, not of a wicked
Pharoah, but of a holy God; and a bright
er princess than Thermutis 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 her! Born while yet the family was
in limited circumstances, 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 q
great fat child and getting her ears boxed
because she can not keep him quiet. BY the
time she gets to young wOmanhood she is
pale and worn out, and her attractiv eness
has been sacrificed on the altar Of sister
fidelity, and she is consigned to cel;bacy,
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 . homo that can not
afford to hire help, and the last because
she is spoiled as q pet. Among the grand.
est equipages 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
Apocalyptic whit elhorses, 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 bestowed ON . brother. It 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 Noses.
There is only one Of that kind needed for
5000 years. But I tell you what your
brother will be-either . blessing or cnrse
to society and . candidate for happiness
or wretchedness. He will, like Noses,
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 deliver of .
nation, but he may, after your father and
mother are gone, be the deliverer of .
household. What thousands Of homes to-
day are piloted by brothers. There are
properties now well invested, and yield
ing income for the support OF sisters and
younger brothers, because the older brother
rose to the leadership from the day the
father laid down 10 die. Whatever you
do for your brother will come back to you
again. If you set him an ill-natured, CEN
serious. accommodating example, it will
recOil upon you from his own irritated and
despoiled nature. II you, by patience
with all infirmities and by nobility Of
c character, dwell with him, in the few years
of your companionship you will have
your counsel reflected back upon you some
day by his splendor Of behavior in some
cases where he would have failed but for
you.
Don't snub him. Don't depreciats his
ability. Don't talk discouragingly about
his future. Don't let Miriam get down OF
the bank Of the Nile and wade out and up.
tknn - - G,,lp hin,
Brothers and sisters do not consider it any
harm to tease. That spirit abroad in the
family 10 one Of the meanest and most
devilish. There is . teasing tha- IL
pleasurable and il only another form
of innocent railery, but that which
provokes and initiates and makes the
eye flush with anger il to be reprehended.
1t would be less blameworthy to take .
bunch Of thorns and draw them across
your sisters cheek, or TO take . knife and
draw its sharp edge across your brothers.
hand till the blood spurts, for that would
only the body, but teasing is the
thorn and the knife scratching and lacer-
ating the disposition and the soul. It is
the curse of innummerable households that
the brothers tease the sisters and the sis
ters the brothers. Sometimes it is the color
Of the hair, or the shape of the features. or
an affair Of the heart. Sometimes it is by
revealing q secret, or by . suggestive look,
or a guffaw, or an "ahem" Tease! tease!
tease! For Gods sake quit it. Christ says:
HE that hateth his brother is murderer"
Now, when you. by teasing. make your
brother or sister hate, you turn HIM or her
into murderer or murderess.
Don't let jealousy ever touch q sisters
soul, as il so often does, because her BROTH
er gets more honor or more means. Even
Miriam. the heroine of the text was struck