The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-02-24
souls immortal happldess are building on the

" AEAtuesb Oh ner early lie III LnlS unSaGsIdc-
tory struggle and omits the present opportu-
nifty of usefulness in the home circle: what
mistake!
So surely as the years roll around. that
nome in which you now dwell will become ex-
tlnct. The parents will be gone, the property
VIII go into other possession, you yourself
Will be in other relationships, and that home
when, only year ago, was full Of cOngratu-
lation, VIII be extinguished. When that
period comes you will look back to see what
you did or what you neglected to do in the
way OF making home happy. 1t will be too
tate l to correct mistakes: If you did not
smooth the path, of your parents
toward the tomb; If you did not
make their last days bright aud happy; II you
allowed your younger brother to go out into
the world, unhallowed by Christian and sis
terly influences; if you allowed the younger
sisters Of your family to come up without feel
Ing that there had been Christian example
set them on your part, there will be nothing
but bitterness of lamentaton. That bitter
ness will be increased by all the surroundings
OF that home; by every chair, by every pict-
ure, by the old time mantel ornaments by
everything you can think of as connected with
that home. All these things will rouse
you anything to do in the way of making your
fathers home happYl Now is the time to
attend to it, or leave it forever undone Time
Is lying very quickly away. / suppose YOU
notice the wrinkles are gathering and accumu-
Iating on those kindly faces that have SO long
looked upon you; there is frost in the locks;
the loot Is not as firm in its step as it used to
De; and they will soon be gone. The heaviest
clod that ever falls on parents coffiD-lid is
the memory OF an ungrateiul daughter o,
make their last days bright and beautiful.
10 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
ma growing all over the mound something
loVeIler than cypress, something sWeeter than
the rose, something chaster than the lily-the
bright and beautiful memories of filial kind
ness performed ere the diving hand dropped
on you benedictiOn, and you closed the lids
over the weary eyes of the WORKOUT pilgrim
Better that, in the hour Of your birth, YOU had
been struck with Orphanage, and that YOU had
been handed over into the cold arms
OF the world, rather than that you
shou'd have been brought up under a
fathers care and a mothers tenderness
at last to scott at their example and deride
their influence; and on the day when you fol-
flowed them in long procession to the tomb. to
find that you are followed by still larger pro-
cessiOn Of unfilial deeds done and wrong words
uttered The one procession will leave it's
burden in the tomb and dsband; but that
longer procession of CHASTITY memories will
Tor ever march and for ever wall O, ii is a
good time Tor Young woman when she Is in
her fathers house. How careful they are of
her welfare. How watchful those parents of
all her interests. Seated at the morning re-
past, father at one end the table, children on
either side and between, but the wears 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 that young WOman's soul
who, In that dark hour, has nothing but re-
gretful recollectiOns.
l go further, and advise you not to depend
for enjoyment upon mere personal attractions
1t would be sheer hypocrisy, because we may
not have 1t ourselves, to despise, or affect to
despse, beauty in others. When God gives
1t, He gives 1T as blessing and as means of
usefulness. David and his army were coming
down from the mountains to destroy NabaI
and his fOcks and VINEYARDS The beautiful
Abigail the wife of NaDal, went out to arrest
him when he came down from the mountains,
and sle succeeded. Coming to the foot of the
hill, she knelt. David with his army OF
sworn men came down over the cliffs, and
when he saw her kneeling at the foot of the
hill he cried "Halt!' to his men, and the
caves echoed it, "Haltl Haltp' That one
beautiful woman kDeeling at the
foot of the cliff had arrested all those
armed troops. A dewdrop dashed back
Niagara. The Bible sets before us the
portraits of Sarah and Rebecca and Abshag,
Absalom's sister, and Jobs daughters, and
outdoor exercise, and by slllful arrangement
of apparel, let women 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 personal
charms for their happiness Beauty is such a
subtle thing, it does not seem to depend upon
facial proportions, or upon the sparkle of the
eye or upon the flush of the cheek. 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 come to disappointment and to a great
fret There are so manv different opinions
about what are personal charms; and then
sickness, and trouble, and age, do make such
ravages. The poorest god that woman ever
wOrshps is her own face. The saddest sight
in all the world is a woman who has built ev-
ervthng on good looks, when the charms be
gin to vanish. 0, how they try to cover the
wrinkles and hide the ravages of time When
Time, with iron-shOd feet, steps on face, the
hoof marks remain, and you cannot hide them.
1t is silly to try to hide them. | think the
most repulsive fool in all the world Is an old
fool
Why, my friends should you be ashamed tc
be getting old 1t Is a sight is prma facie
evidence that YOU have behaved tOerably well
grandest thing, | think, is eternity, and that
is made up Of countless years When the BIZ
BILE would set forth the attraCtiveness OF Jesus
Christ, it says: His hair was white as snow. y
But when the color goes from the cheek, and
the lustre from the eye, and the spring
from the STEP and the gracefulness from the
gait, alas for those who have built theil
time and their eternity upon good looks. But
all the passage of years cannot take out oil
ones face benignity, and kindness, and com
passion. and faith. Culture YOUR heart and
YOU culture your face. The brightest glory
that ever beamed from woman's face Is the
religion of Jesus Christ In the last war two
hundred wounded soldiers came to Philadelphia
one night, aud came unheraded, and they
had to extemporize a hospital for them, and
the Christian women of my church, and Of
other churches went out that night to take
care of the poor wounded fellows. That night
| saw Christian woman 60 through the
wards OF the hospital, her sleeves rolled up
ready for hard work, her hair disheveled IL
the excitement of the hour Her face wa:
plain, very plain; but after the wounds were
washed and the new bandages were pu
around the splintered limbs, and the exhausted
bov fell into his first pleasant sleep, and sh'
put her hand on his brow. and he started il
his dream. and said: 20, | thought an an
gel touched met There NAV have been nc
classic elegance in the features of Mrs. Har
ris who came into the hospital after the
Seven DAYS" awful fight as she sat down b.
a wounded drummer bow and heard bin
soliloOuZe: "A ball through nv body. an,
nv poor mother will never again see her boy
What pity it isl" And she leaned over hin
and said: 'ShAll ! be your mother and com
tort youl" And he looked up and said