St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-15
BROTHER AND SISTER.
DR.. Talmage Makes the Sisters Influence
Upon Her Brothers the Text
of His Sermon.
A Pen-Picture of Miriam, the Faithful
Brilliant and Strategic Sister
of Moses.
Tho Wonderful Power OF n Good
Sister To Mould the Broth
er's Character.
Raillery, Depreciation, Discourage
ment and Jealousy Have No
Place in n Home.
DIR. TnImare,s sermon,

anu IhdNc NO
Place in n Home.
Dr. TaImage's Sermon.
/ Special 10 the Globe.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, March 14.-The sub
jet of DIR. Talmage's sermon to-day was
The Sisters Influence Upon Her Brothers.
The text was Exodus IL, 4: "And his sis
ter stood afar off. to wit what would be
done TO him." DIR. Talmage said: Princess
| Thermutis, daughter of Pharaoh, looking
out through the lattice of her bathing
house, on the banks of the Nile, saw a Curl
Gus boat on the river. Ii had neither oar
nor helm, and they would have been useless
anyhow. There was only one passenger,
and that a baby boy. But the MayflOWer
that brought the Pilgrim Fathers to America
carried not so precious load. The boat
was- made of the broad leaves of papyrus
! frightened together by bitumen. Boats were
sometimes made of that material. as we
learn from Pliny and HerUdOtus and TheO-
phrastus. xiii all the Hebrew children
/ born" had been PharaOh's order. To save
her boy, JOchebed, the mother of little
Moses, had put him In that queer boat and
| launched him. His sister, Miriam. stood
on the bank watching that precious craft.
| She was far enough off not TO draw atten-
ton 10 the boat but near enough to offer
| protection. There she stands on the bank.
Miriam the poetess. Miriam the Quck-wit-
ted, Miriam the faithful. though very hui
man, for i'm after time she became so mad
with that very brother for marrying a wo-
man she did not like, that she made great
family row and was struck with 'leprosy.
Miriam was
A SPLENDID SISTER
but had her faults, like all the rest of us.
| How carefully she watched the boat con-
tanning her brother. a strong wind might
upset it. The buiIaloes often found there
might in a sudden plunge of thirst sink il.
Some mvenous water fowl might swoop
and pick his eyes out with iron beak. Some
crocodile or hippOpOtamus crawling through
the rushes might crunch the babe. Miriam
watched and watched until Princess Their
NUTS. a maiden OH each side OF her holding
palm leaves over her head TO shelter her
from the sun. came and entered her bathing
house. When from the lattice she saw that
boat she ordered il brought. and when the
leaves were pulled back from the face of
the child and the boy looked up he cried
aloud, for he was hungry and frightened
and would not even let the princess take
| him. The infant would rather stay hungry
/
mother. Now Miriam. the sister, incog-
nito, no one suspecting her relation to the
child. leaps from the bank and rushes down
and offers to get nurse to pacify the child.
| Consent is given. She brings JOchebed.
the baby's mother, incognitO. not sure of
/ the court knowing that she was the mother,
and when Jochebed arrived the child
stopped crying. for its fright was Gained
and its hunger apDeased. You may admire
JOchebed. the mother, and all the ages may
admire Moses. but clap my hands to APP
plaud at the behavior of
MIRIAM, THE FAITHFUL.
brilliant and strategic sister. Miriam was
the oldest of the family, Moses and Aaron
her brothers and younger. Oh. the power
of the elder sister TO help decide the broth
er's character for usefulness and for heavenl
She can keep off from her brother more
evils than Miriam could have driven back
waterfowl or crocodile from the ark of bull
rushes. The elder sister decides the direc-
ton in which the cradle boat shall sail. BY
gentleness, by good sense. by Christian
principle she can turn it toward the palace.
not of wicked Pharaoh, but of a holy
God; and brighter princess than Thermutis
shall lift him out of peril, even religion,
religion, whose ways are ways of pleasant
ness and all her paths are peace. The elder
sister, how much the world owes her? Born
while yet the family were i'm limited cir
cumstances, she had to hold and take care
of her Younger brothers. And If there is
anything that excites my sympathy 1t is n
| little girl Juggling around great fat child
and getting her ears boxed because she can
not keep him quiet. BY the time she gets
10 young womanhOOd she is pale and worn
out, and her attractiveness has been sacri-
feed on the altar of sisterly fidelity, 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 most,undeSirable places in the record of
births are the first and the last, the first be-
cause she is
WORN OUT
with the cares of home that cannot afford
to hire help, and the last because she Is
spoiled as a pet. Among the grandest
| equipages that sweep through the streets of
/ heaven will be those occupied by sisters
who sacrificed themselves for brothers.
| They will have the finest of the apocalyp-
tic white horses and many who on earth
looked down upon them will have to turn
out TO let them pass. Let sisters not be-
grudge the time and care bestowed on
brother. 1t is hard to believe that any boy
that you know so well as your brother can
/ NNtl tuiu Oul tulilE NcIl useful. W ell.
/ he may not be Moses. There is only one
of that kind needed for 5000 years. But
tell YOU what your brother will be-either
blessing or a curse to society, and candi-
date for happiness or wretchedness. He
| will, like Moses, have the choice between
/ rubies and living coats, and your influence
will have much TO do with his decision.
He may not, like Moses. be the deliverer of
| q 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 brothers? There are
properties now well invested and yielding
income for the support of sisters and
| younger brothers because the elder brother
rose TO the leadership from the day the
father laid down to die. Whatever you do
| for your brother will come back to you
again. II you set him an ill-natured, CEN
serious, unaecommOdating example
1T WILL RECoIL
upon you from his own irTitated and de-
spoiled nature. IL you. by patience with
all his infmities and by nobility of charac-
ter, dwell with him, i'm the few years of
| your companiOnship. Won will have your
counsels reflected back upon you some day
by his splendOr of behavior in some crisis
where he would have failed but for YOU
Don't snub him. Don't depTeciate his
ability. Don't talk discouragingly about
his future. Don't let Miriam get down off
the bank Of the Nile and wade out and up
set the ark of bullrushes. Don't tease him.
Brothers and sisters do not consider Il any
harm to tease. That spirit abroad I'm the
| family is one Of the meanest and most dew
IliSh. There is a teasing that is pleasurable
and is only another form of innocent rail-
| lery, but that which provokes and irritates
and makes the eve f1uSh with anger Is To no