The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-29

and Old Mother Kpowlesf Let I'M there
fore strive without ceasing 20 be old
women. Let us ever . aspire 10
the title of old women. Let IN not tasry,
press forward, let ms advance. let us get
gait upon us,and 10 do and act and live that
the world shall rise up and call each one of
us an old woman, yea even frum way-
hack.
Secondly. What did this old woman
do? This IL q legitimate field OF inquiry;
hut unfortunately our knowledge Ia limit
ed. We have not q complete biography
of her life. History indeed In hushed and
silent touching the details OF her career.
OF this much. however, We are certain
this old woman, the text informs us, lived.
To this We may anchor. Here 10 our rock
and our foundation; there was an old
woman, and she lived. Blessed thought!
she lived. And IL was well for her that
she did. Now this word ''live" implies
not only existence. In the sense in which
we find IL used here, IL means something
more. II conveys the idea of dwelling.
IL suggests n habitation. But this old
woman could not have lived like the
beasts of Tho field. We do her an injus-
tico To suppose for an instant that she
would he satisfied with a hole in the
ground. Equally improbable In the su. =
position that she lived like the birds, for
although we have seen pictures OF elderly
ladies riding broomsticks through the air,
this particular old woman was one of
them. Far otherwise. We are. therefore,
forced to the conclusion that she lived i'm
n house. Blu there are confessedly many
kinds Of houses. There are log houses,
frame houses, rump houses, clearing
houses, dry goods houses. hurly houses,
full houses. In what kind Of a house
did oar old woman live? We
do not know: WI are not told. But
whatever was the house. she lived in IL
m pps1 mazda fhna 1NpSt ~ No rnnv mot nj.
ways have the kind of houses we want.
People may tell us, indeed, that our house
il the rumpcs house they ever saw. But
do not let us repine. The text teaches us
to stick to our house and he proud of il.
Thirdly, we find that the old woman
lived under u hill. Now the skeptical will
ask how could this be? How could the
old woman prevent the hill from crushing
the life out of her? The language of the
the text il flGurative. People say, for ex-
that we arc under the thumb OF
our dear Brother Sanders, and they are
probably correct. Yet Brother Sander
never actually applied his thumb to US.
So, too, many declare that we are under
n cloud, when to he exact. i'm a physical
sense, there are no more clouds over us
than are over the rest of the brethren n.
And this reminds us of "a beautiful Christ
mas hymn which Brother Sander has
composed i'm our honor:
Wait till the clouds roll by, Richards,
Wait till the clouds roll by;
Then will the people cry, richards,
Why don't you up and die?
Fourthly. Sand il she's not gone"
There are two kinds OF gone
ness, one of a temporary. the
other OF u permanent character.
The text plainly refers 10 he latter var;-
city. For il she has simply gone down
town. or gone to the circus.or gone to bor-
row n little baking powder and q fiat-iron.
she certainly intends to return. But IL she
has gone to pot, or, according to the re-
vised version, gone into the soup: IL she
has gone like our dear departed Brother
McGinty to the bottom Of the sea; il she
has gone where the woodbine meth IL
she has gone bag and baggage; IL she has
skipped. fled, vamoosed and departed for
ever, then she il indeed a 0oner, and i'm
will she return.
Lastly, brethren. we read that barring
the possibility of her being gone, 'she
lives there still" Oh, the comfort and
consolation of this thought! She lives
there still. II we only get there, we have
this shall stay there. Our
enemies may kick. hut they cannot turn
us out. We are in, we are solid, we have
got n dead cinch. Let us, therefore.
sit down again. They who get there ,shall
stay there. This, Brother Sanders i'm
forms me, has been the guiding text of his
life Through all his multitudinous mis-
fortunes, and disappointments and fail
ures, he has not despaired. He still be-
lieved lac would get there. and when he
got there he intended to stay there. And
now he thinks he has got there at last. Let
us all unite i'm singing the 4S3rd hymn.
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