The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-05-28
The True Ministry of the Kiss.


The True Ministry of the Kiss.
By the Rev. Henry B. Hudson.
OF the great needs of American home.
life to-day, hearty, sincere, and
frequent manifestation of affection
stands at the head. Thousands of
families there are in which never q kiss
is exchanged. The day is begun and
ended by all, from the father to the
five-year.old, in the same heartless
fashion. No wonder the years rapid
ly hide their faces in the "long ago"
Yet what can stay SO many sorrows
as the hearty kiss of true affection1
Does mammals kiss possess such won
derful curative power for the baby,
and the child's have no power of heal.
ing for the mother?
Boys, kiss your mothers. It won't
break The heart that has endured the
strain of ceaseless vigil and care
through all the years of your infantile
tenderness, and helater years of your
happy, headlong, heartless helpless
ness. Try it some day. Many a boy
has risen to noble renown by the self
denying toll OF a widowed mother,
She is proud of your success, and asks
no other reward for the heavy strup-
gle than the hearty affection Of an ap-
preciatiye soul. Don't deprive her of
that slight recompense, my boy.
Should the cloud become 80 heavy az
to take her from your sight, you will
never have another mother. The law
may give a man dozen wives; Heay-
Ell can give him but one mother. The
boy that is too big to kiss his mother
is too small to kiss anybody else.
Girls, beware of him! Such boys f.irly
pant with anxiety to attend every oc-
casion that may afford them oppor-
t!'nity to kiss some butterfly, whose
chief accomplishments may be little
waist mo reference to economy and
big bustle-not OF useful activity, but
OF paper.
know boys, your mothers voice
may lack the low melody of your
"last flame" but it will ring with the
music OF unselfish affection long after
your 'fiame's" has been lost amid the
ashes of seltishness. Your mother
may not be able to vie with some girl
you know, In coddllng with q wealth
ofaffectionate adjectives and lancuish-
ing attitudes, q pet pug-nosed dog, or
rabbit-faced cat. But with arms and
body rising superior to the pain and
ache that tortured her frame, she car
ried you night and day in the lingering
sickness OF your infancy; she pressed
you to her heart and covered with
kisses your faces, even while made so
repulsive with foul disease that your
fair charmer, who daily divides her
affections between you and her dog.
would have turned away in dispusf'
But then her arms have borne a no.
bier burden, her heart is filled with a
holier love, her mind occupied with q
loftler ideal, else you would not be
where you are to-day. Then kiss the
dear old face. deeply scanned with care
for you. Don't wait till that loving
smile, stereotyped by death, can only
be impressed upon your heart forever.
The noblest and highest ideal of your
future is embodied III your mother,
my boy.
Girls, kiss your fathers. Make them
glad every day that their patient toll
has such affectionate reward. Show
each ono of you, that you appreciate
your father. His tremulous hand
may not be as fair and smooth as the
"hly" hand of the duke seeking your
smile. His aged form may not be as
erect rs the brainless fop who ilnpa.
tlently waits permission to take you
to q new home, there to surround you
with every luxury-at your fathers
expense. His handwriting NAV not
be as roundly regular as that of your
last correspondent; but that scrawline
signature on the corner of an old en-.
velope will drain more money out OF
the bank in q minute, than your ad-
miring Adonis' copper-plate, written
all over a spotless page of foolscap.
can in ten years.
Then, each kiss imprinted upon
that whitening brow may help YOU to
remember that your parents WON'T
be with you forever. The rapidly re-
volving hand is completing the cir
cult OF life's dial; each passing day
brings nearer the season for flight;
each growing infirmity is pluming of
the wings; by-and-by the mellow dusk
OF life's autumn will lure the gentle
spirit from your bleak neglect to the
summer bloom OF the glory-land.
Then will settle over the old ho.ne.
stead the blight of a poverty which no
wealth Gun Danish. So strengthen
the soul and cheer the spirit OF your
father and mother by the affection of
to-day; and if by reason of early
privation and disadvantage from
which they have carefully guarded
their children, you breathe the purer
atmosphere OF better things, know
that the frequent kiss of loving appre-
citation is the magical power by which
you may daily lift the hearts OF your
parents to the height upon which their
loving self-deniai has placed you.
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