Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-03-02

be gone. The heaviest clod that ever falls
On parents coffin lid is the memory OF an
lngrateful daughter. oh, make their last
lays bright and beautiful Do not act as
though they were in the way. Ask their
counsel. seek their prayers, and, after long
rvers nave paIsed, auu you go OUT TO see the
grave where thoy Sleep YOU will find grow
ng all over the mound something lovelier
than cypress, something sweeter than the
rose, something chaster than the lily-the
bright and beautiful memories OF filial kind
ness performed ere the dying hand dropped
On you a benediction. and yol closed the
Ids over the weary eyes of the worn out
elgrtm. 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 I'M
der fathers care and mothers tenderness,
, at last to scott at their example and deride
their influence; and on the day when you
followed them in long procession to the
! tomb, to find that yoI are followed by a still
larger procession Of unfilal deeds done and
wrong words uttered. The one procession
will leave it3 burden in the tomb and dis
band; but that longer process on OF CHASTITY
memories will forever march and forever
wall. Oh, it is a good time for young wo-
man when she is in her fathers house How
careful they are of her welfarel How wat, III
full those parents of all her interests 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 he effected, and one will bs 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 regretsul recollections.
Igo further, and advise you not to depend
for enjoyment upon mere personal attrac-
tons 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 he gives it as a blessing and as
means of usefulness. David ard 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 to arrest him when he came down
| from the mountains, and she succeeded.
Coming to the foot of the hill, she knet.
David, with his army of sworn men, came
down over the cliffs, and when he saw her
knelling at the foot of the hill he cried "Halt!n
to his men. and the caves echoed it: "Halt
haiti" That one beautiful woman kneelng
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 Rebscca, and AbiShag,
AbSalom's sister, and Jobs daughters, and
says: "They were fair to look upon.n BY
out door exercise, and by skiliful arrange
ment of apparel, let women make themselves
attactive 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 feat
ures 1t is the soul shining through the face
| that makes one beautiful. But, alas! FOR
those who depend upon mere pers NAL charms.
They will come to disappointment AMI to a
| great fret. There are SO many different
! opinions about what are personal charms;
and then sickness, and trouble, and age, do
make such ravages The poorest god that
woman ever worships is her own face The
| saddest sight in all the world is a woman who
has built everything on COOL looks, when the
charms begin to vanish. Oh, how they try
to cover the wrinkles and hide the ravages
of time! When time, with iron shod feet
steps on q 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 cd fool!
Why my friends, should you be ashamed
10 be getting old! 1t is a sight is prima
! tacie evidence that yoI have behaved toler-
| ably well or you would not have lived to this
time The grandest thing, l think, is eternity,
and that is made up of countless years
When the Bible would set forth the attrac-
! tiveness Of Jesus Christ, it says: His hair
was white as snow" But when the color goes
! from the cheek, and the luSter from tho eye,
and the spring from the step, and the grace
| funess from the gait, alas! for those who
have built their time and their eternity upon
| good looks. But all the passage of years cam
! not take out of ones face benignity and kind
ness, and compassion, and faith. Culture
your heart and you culture your face; The
/ H,trr klN,A
| woman'S face is the relig on of Jesus Christ
In the last war 200 wounded soldiers came to
Philadelphia one night, and came unheraldel,
| 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 go through
the wards of the hospital, her sleeves rolled
up, ready for hard work, her hair di-
sheveled in the excitement of the hour.
Her face was plain, very plain: but
after the wounds were washed and the
new bandages were put round tho splintered
limbs and the exhausted boy fell off into his
first pleasant sleep, she put her hand on his
brow and he started in his dream, and said:
"Oh, thought an angel touched men There
may have been no classic elegance in the
features of Mrs Harris, vino came into the
hospital after the Seven Days awful fight
as she sat down by a wounded drummer boy
and heard him soiiloquize: IA ball through
my body, and my poor mother will never
again see her boy. What a pity it isl" And
she leaned over him and said: "Shall | be-
your mother and comfort your And he
looked up and said: Eyes, I'll try to think
she's here Please to write long letter tC
her and tell her all about it, and send her 6
lock of my hair and comfort her. But
would like to have you tell her how much
suffered-yes, would like you to do that
for she would feel so for me. Hold my hand
while die" There may have been no classic
elegance in her features, but all the hospitals
of Harrisons Landing and Fortress Monroe
would have agreed that she was beautiful
and if any rough man in all that ward had
insulted her, some wounded soldier would
have leaped from his couch, on his best foot.
and struck him dead with crutch.
Again, | advise you not to depend for hap
piness upon the batteries of men. 1t is 6
poor compliment to your sex that so many
men feel obliged in your presence to offer un
meaning compliments Men capable If ele
giant and elaborate conversation elsewhere
sometimes feel called upon at the door of TIM
drawing-room to drop their common sens
and to dole out sickening fiatteries They
say things about your dress, and about you
appearance, that you know, and they know
are false. They say you are an angel
You know you are not. Determined to tel
the truth in Office and store and shop, they
consider it honorable to lie to woman. TIL
same thing that they to you on this side o
the drawing room three minutes ago the,
said to some one on the her side of the draw
ing room. Oh, let no one trample on you
self respect. The meanest thing on which
woman can build her happiness is the tiatter
les of men,
Again, I charge you not to depend for hap
, piness upon the discipleship of worldliness.
[ have seen men as vain Of their old fashions
} and their eccentric hat as yon brainless fo
is proud of his dangling fooleries. Fashio
sometimes makes a reasonable demand Of lis
and then we ought to yield to it. The dasie
of the field have their fashion of color AM
leaf; the honeysuckes have their fashion o
ear drop, and the snowtlakes flung out of tn
winter heavens have their fashion Of exquis