Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-02

rock was rolled to the door, and the or,v
obsequies at which God did all tho oa,oa.
OF priest and undertaken and erava.d;reo,
and mourner, were ended.
Oh, was not Miriam, the sister ~ Ho.o.
doing a good thing, an important thin
glorious thing when she watched ~ -. =
woven OF river plants and made water
tlgnt with %asphaltum, carrying it's one
passenger? Did she not put all the ages
OF time and Of a coming eternity under
obligation when she defended her helm.
less brother from the perils aquatic. rentil.
ian and %ravenous? She it was that
brought that wonderful babe and h;s
mother together, so that he was reared n
be the deliverer of his nation, when other.
wise, If saved at all from the PUSHES of
the Nile, he would have been onlv one
more OF the God.defying Pharaohs. for
the Princess Thermutis, of the hath;no
mouse, would have inherited the crown Of
Egypt, and as she had no child of her own
this adopted child would have come to
coronation. LAT there been no Miriom
there would have been no Moses, What
q garland for faithful s%isterhood? For.
how many a law-giver, and how manv
a hero, and how many a deliverer. and
how many a saint are the world and the
Church indebted to a watchful. loving.
.althful cody sister? Come up out of the
farm houses; come up out of. the uncon-
spicuous homes! Come up from the banks
OF the hudson and the P%enobscot and the
Savannah and the Mobile and the Missis.
slppi and all the other Niles of Amer.
lea, and let us see you, the Mirians
who watched and protected the lead.
ers in law and medicine and
merchandise, and art, and agriculture, and
mechanics, and religion! II I 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.
tlon or a 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 hat would otherwise have gone
for the replenishing of a sisters wardrobe.
While the brother sailed off for q resound.
ing sphere the sister watched him from the
banks of self
Let sisters not begrudge the time and
care bestowed on a 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 a Moses.
There is only one of that kind needed for
5000 years. But I tell you what your
brother will be-either a blessing or a cnrse
to society and a candidate for happiness
or w~retchedness. He will, like Moses,
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 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 Weld
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 to 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. If you, by patience
with all infrmities and by nobility of
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 depreciate 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 bulrushes. Don't tease him.
Brothers and sisters do not consider it my
harm to tease. That spirit abroad in the
family is one of the meanest and most
devilish. There is a teasing that is
pleasurable and is only another form
of innocent raillery, but that which
provokes and initiates and makes the
eye flush with anger is to be reprehended.
1t would be less blameworthy to take a
bunch of thorns and draw them across
your sisters cheek, or to take a knife and
draw its sharp edge across your brothers.
hand till the blood spurts, for that would
damage only the body, but teasing is the
thorn and the knife scratching and LAGER
ating the disposition and the soul. 1t is
the curse of innunlmerable households that
the brothers tease the sisters and the sis
VCAo IL OOulcUlIueS IL Is Gu6 Color
of the hair, or the shape of the features, or
an affair of the heart. Sometimes it is bv
revealing a secret, or by a suggestive look,
or a guffaw, Or an "ahemw Tease! tease!
tease! For Gods sake quit it. Christ says:
H that hateth his brother is a murderer"
Now, when you, by teasing, make your
brother or sister hate, you turn him or her
into q murderer or murderess.
Don't let jealousy ever touch a sisters
soul, as it SO often does, because her BROTH
or 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 over Moses,
and now he marries, and not only so, but
marries q black woman from Ethiopia,
n Miriam is so Disguised and
outraged by Moses, first because
he had married at all, and next because
he had practiced miscegenation, that she
is drawn into a frenzy and then begins to
turn white, and gets as white as a corpse,
inc then winter than a corpse. Her com
plexion is like chalk; the fact is, she has
the Egyptian leprosy. And now the
brother whom she had defended on the
Nile comes to her rescue, in a prayer that
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