The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-03-01

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home in which you now dwell wiz become
extinct. The parents will be gone, the
property will be turned over into other
you yourself will be in other
hips, and that home which, only
a wear ago, was full Of congratulation,
will 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. II you did
not smooth the path Of your pa
rents toward the tomb; II you did
not make their last days bright
and happy; IL you allowed your
younger brother to 60 out into
the world unhallowed by Christian and
sisterly influences; If you allowed the
younger sisters of your family to come
up without feeling THAI there had been a
Christian example seq them on your part,
there will be nothing but bitterness OF
lamentation. That bitterness will be in
creased by all the surroundings of that
home; by every chair, by every picture,
by the old time mnntel ornaments, by
overy thing you can think of as connected
with that home. All these things viii
rouse up agonizing memories. Young
women, have you any thing to do in the
way Of making your fathers home hap
py? Now is the time TO attend to
il, or leave it forever undone. Time Is
flying very quickly away. / suppose you
no tice the wrinkles are gathering and
accommodating on those kindly faces
that have so long looked upon you;
there Il frost in the locks; the
foo Is not as firm in its step ns it used TO
be; and they win soon be gone. The
heaviest clod that ever falls on parents
coffiu-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 pray ers and, after long years have
passed and you go out to see the grave
whore they sleep. you will find growing
all over the mound something lovlier
than cypress, something sweeter than the
sweet rose, something chaster that tn 8
Ay-the bright and beautiful memories
Of flial kindness performed ere the dying
hand dropped on you benediction.
and you closed the lids over the weary
ewes of the worn out 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 should have been brought up under a
fathers care aud mothers tenderness
a last to scott at their example and de-
ride their influence; and on the day
when you followed them in long process
sion TO the tomb to find that you are fol-
lowed by still larger procession of I'M
filial deeds done and wrong words ut
tered. The one process ion viii leave its
burden in the tomb and dsbsnd; but
that longer procession Of CHASTITY mem
cries will forever march and forever wall.
Oh, it is a good time fer young woman
when she is in her fathers house. How
careful they are of her welfare. How
watchfrl those parents of all her inter
ests. Seated at the morning repast
father at one end of the table, children on
either side and between, but the years
will roll on and great changes will be eff
fected, and one will be mi Used from one
end Of the table, and another will be
missed from the other end of the table,
God pity that young woman's soul who,
in that dark hour, has nothing but regret
full recolections.
90 further, and advise you not to de.
pend for enjoy ment upon mere personal
attractions. 1t would be sheer hypocrisy,
because we may not have it ourselves, *
despise or affect 10 despise, beauty in
others. When God gives it he gives 1t as
a blessing and as a means of usefulness
David and his army were coming down
from the mountains to destroy Nabal and
his focks and vineyards. The beautiful
Abigail, the wife of Nabal, went out tc
arrest i'm W hen he came down from the
mountains, and she succeeded. Coming
TO the foot of the hill, she knelt. Dav i'd
with his army of sworn men came
down over the cliffs, and when he
saw her kneeling at the foot Of
the hill he criod Halt" to his men
and the caves echoed it: ''Halt
halt % That one beautiful woman kneel
ing at the foot of the cliff had arrested al
those armed troops. A dewdrop dashed
back Niagara. The Bible sets before US
the portraits of Sarah, and Rebecca, and
Abishag, Absalom's sister, and Jobs
daughters, and says: "rhey were fair t.
look upon" By outdoor exercise, and by
skilful arrangement of apparel, let wOm-
en- make thems elves attractive. Tn,
sloven has only one mission, and that t.
excite our loathing and disgust. But alas
for those who depend upon persona
charms for their happiness. Beauty Il
such a subtle thing, it does not seem to de
pend upon facial proportions, or upoI
the sparkle of the eve, or upon the lusl
of the cheek. You sometimes fine
it among irregular features. It i
the soul shining through the fac
that makes one beautiful But alas! foi
those who depend upon mere persona
charms. They will come to disappoint
ment and TO great fret There are 8,
many different opinions about what ar
personal charms; and then sickness, ant
trouble, and age, do make such ravages
The poorest god that a woman ever wor
ships is her own face. The sadlest sigh
in all the world IS woman vino has bull
every thing on good looks, when tn
charms begin to vanish. o, how they trl
to cover the wrinkles and hide the raw
ages Of timei When time, with iron-sh
feet, steps on a face, the hoof.marks re
main, and you can not hide them. IL I
silly to try to hide them. ! think tn
most repulsive fool in the world is an oil
fooll
Why, my friends, should you be ashame,
TO be getting old? II is a sIgn--it is prim
facie evidence that you have behaved toll
erab'y we'll, or you would not have live,
to this time, The grandest thing, / think
is eternity, and that is made up Of count
| less years When the Bible would Sc
lOIIu the ALtIhGllNtuthb Oh Jesus GullSl
! II says: ellis hair was white as snow
| Bnt when the color goes from the cheek
and the ulster from the eye, and the sprin
| from the step, and the gracefulness fror
| the gait, alas for those who have bull
their time and their eternity upon goo
| looks. But all the passage of years ca
not take out Of ones face benignity, an
| kindness, and compassion, and faith
| Culture your heart and you culture you
| face. The brightest glory that eve
beamed from a woman's face is the religio
/ OF Jesus Christ. In the last war two hun
| dred wounded soldiers came to Philadel
| phia one night and came unheraled, an,
| they had to extemporizs a hospital 10
/ them, and the Christian women Of mI
| church and Of other churches went GU
| that night 10 take care OF the poor wound
| ed fellows. That night | saw a Christia'
woman 90 through the wards of the hos
| ptal, her sleeves rol led up, ready for har
work, her hair dsheveled in the excite
/ ruaut Of the hOuv Hgr face WAS Dlaif