The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-21

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tho world, unhalowed by Christian and SIS
tcry influences; if you allowed the younger
sisters OF your family TO come up without feel
ing that there had been a Christian example
set them on your part, there will be nothing
but bitterness of lamcutation. That bitterness
will be increased by all the surroundings of
that home; by every chair, by every picture,
by the old time mantel ornaments, by every
thing sou can think OF as connected with that
home. All these things will rouse up agoniz-
ing memories. Young women, have you any
thing to do in the way of making your fathers
home happy? Now is the time 70 attend to it
or leave it forever undonc Time is flying very
quickly away. / suppose you notice the wrin-
kles are gathering and accommodating on those
kindly faces that have 50 long looked upon you !;
there is frost in the locks; the
foot is not as firm in its step as it used to be.
and they will soon be gone, The heaviest clod
that ever falls on parents cofn-lid is the
memory of an ungrateful daughter o, make
their last days bright and beautiful. DO not
act as though they were in the way. Ask
their counsel, seek their prayers, and, after
long years have passed, and you go out to see
the grave where they sleep, you will find
growing all over the mound something love
licr than cypress. something swccter than the
rose, something cha,ter than the Hly-the
bright and beautiful memories of tilial kind
ness performed ere the dying hand dropped
on you benediction, and you closed the lids
over the weary eyes of the worn out pilgrim.
been struck with orphanage, and that you had
been handed over into the cold arms oil the
world, rather than that you should
have been brought up under a
fathers care and d mothers tenderness
at last to scoff at their example and deride
their influence; and on the day when you fol-
lowed them in long procession to the tomb, to
find that you are followed by still larger pro-
cesson of unfiial deeds done and wrong words
uttered. The one procession will leave its bur
den in the tomb and disband; but that longer
procession of CHASTITY memories will for ever
march and for ever vail. o, it is a good time
for young woman when She is in her fathers
house. How careful they are Of her welfare.
How WatChful those parents of all her inter-
ests. Seated at the morning repast, father at
one end the table, children on either side and
between, but the years will roll on, and great
changes will be effected, and one will be missed
from one end the table, and another will be
missed from the other end the table. God pity
hour shaS nothing but regretful recolections
20 further, and advise you not to depend
for enjoyment upon mere personal attractions
1t would be sheer hypocrisy, because we may
not have it ourselves, to despise, or affect to
despise beauty in others When God gives it,
lie gives it as u blessing and as a means of
usefulness. David and his army were coming
down from tho mountains to destroy Nabal
and his tioCks and vineyards. The beautiful
Abigail, tho wife of Nabal, went out to arrest
hun when he came down from the mountains
and She succeeded. Coming to the foot OF the
hill, she knelt. David with his army OF sworn
men came down over tho cliffs, and when he
saw her kneeling at the foot of the hill he CRIED
"halt!' to his men, and the caves echoed it:
"IIaltl haiti" That one beautiful woman
kneeling at the foot of the cliff had arrested all
those armed troops. A dow drop dashed back
Niagara. The Bible sets before us the
portraits of Sarah and Rebecca, and Abishag
Absaom's sister, and Jobs daughters, and
GOV foi IN
outdoor exercise, and by skilGul arrangement
OF apparel, let woman make themselves at
tractive. The sloven has only one mission
and that to excite our loathing and disgust
But alas! for those who depend upon pertonal
charms for their happiness. Beauty is such n
subtle thing il does not seem to depend upon
facial proportions, or upon the sparkle of the
eye, or upon the flush of the check You
sometimes find it among irregular features
1t is the soul shining through the face that
makes one beautiful. But alas for those who
DEPEND upon mere personal charms They
will como to disappointment and to q
great fret. There are so many differ
ent opinions about what are personal
CharmS and then sickness, and trouble,
and age, do make such rayages. The poorest
god that woman ever worships is her own
face. The saddest sight in all the world is
woman who has built everything OH good
looks, when the charms begin to vanish O,
how they try to cover the wrinkles and hide
the rayagos of time! When Time, with iron
shod feet, steps on a face, the hoof-marks re-
main, and you cannot hide them. 1t is silly
To try to hide them. | think the most repui-
siyc fool i'll all the world is an old fool!
Why. my friends should you be ashamed to
be getting old? 1t is sign it is prima facie
evidence that you have behaved tolerably
well, or YOU would not have lived to this times
The grandeSt thing, think, is eternity, and
that is made up of countless years. When
the Bible would set forth the aitractivencss of
coy Ite hni L.
snow" But when the color goes from tho
check, and the lustre from the
eye, and the spring from the
step, and the sracefumess from the
gait. alas for those who have built their time
and eternity upon good looks But all the
passage of years cannot take out of ones face
benignty, and kindness, and compassion, and
faith, Culture your heart and you culture
your face. The brightest glory that ever
beamed from n woman's face is the religion of
Jesus Christ. In the last war two hundred
wounded soldiers came to Philadelphia one
night, and came .unheralded, and they had to
eNtcmporlzo hospital for them, and the
Christian women of my church, and of other
went out that night to take care of
the poor wounded fellows. That night / saw
a Christian woman so through the
wards of the hospital her sleeves rolled up,
ready for hard work, her hair dishevelled
IN the excitement of tho hour. Her faco
was plain, very plain; but after the
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were put around the splntered limbs, and
the exhausted boy fell of into his first pleas
ant sleep, she put her hand on his brow, and
he started in his dream. and said: 80,
thought an angel touched mei' There may
have been no classic elegance in the features
OF Mrs Harris, who came into the hospalt
aiter the "Seven Days" awful fight rs she sat
down by q wounded drummer-boy and heard
him soliloQuize; "A ball through my body,
and my poor mother will never again see her
boy, What pity it isl" And she leaned
over him and said "Shall he YOUR mother,
ana comfort you? ' And he looked mp and said
YES IL try TO thinksshe's hero. Please to
WI &c Il long letter to her and tell her all about
it, and send her lock OF my hair and comfort
her But would like TO have you tell her
how much / Suifored-yes | would like YOU TO
do that, for She would feel SO for mo. Hold my
hand while | die" There may have been no
classic elegance in her features, but all the hos
pitfalls of HarriSon's Landing and Fortress
Monroe would have agreed that she was beau
tilul; and if any rough man in all the ward
had insultCd her, some wounded soldier would
have leapcd from his couch, ON his best foot.
and struck him dead with o crutch
Again advise you not TO depend for hap
pnesS upon the batteries of men. Ii is a poor
toyour sex that so many men
feel obliged IN your presence 10 offer unmean-
Ing compliments. Men capable Of elegant and
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