Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-11-21

Do you say that young man IL yet alives
No: be Is dead. Dead 20 his fathers en-
treaties Dead TO his mothers prayers Dead
70 the family altar where he was reared.
Dead TO all the noble ambitions that once in
spired him. Twice dead. Only a corpse of
what he once was. Gibbetsd before God and
man and angels and devils Chained in q
death that viii not loosen its cold grasp. His
father Is asleep, his brothers are asleep, his
sisters are asleep; but his mother Is watching
him, watching him In the night. After he
has gone to bed and fallen into a drunken
sleep, his mother will go up TO his room and
see that he is properly covered, and before
his bloated lips. Mother, why don't you go
to bedf' "Ahr she says. 81 cannot 90 to
bed. l am Rizpsh watching the slsinF'-
And what are the political parties OF this
country doing for such casesi They are tax
ing care not 10 hurt the feelings OF the
jsckals and buzsards that roost on the
shelves OF the grog shops and boot above the
dead. ! am often asked to what political
party belong and now declare my opin-
lon Of the political parties to-day. Each one
is worse than the other and the only consola-
ton in regard to them Is that they have
putrefied until they have no moro power TO
rot. Oh, that comparatively tame scene up
on which Rizpah lookedi American mother
hood and American wifehood this moment
are looking upon seventy OF the slain upon
seven hundred OF the slain, upon seventy
thousand of the slain. Wool woel wool
Ny only consolation on this subject Is that
foreign capitalists are buying up the Ameri-
can breweries. The present owners SEQ that
| the doom OF that business Is coming as surely
as that God is not dead. They are unloading
upon foreign capitalists, and when We can
get these breweries into the hands Of people
living on the other side OF the sea our politi-
- L. Er.tA ~ he
| liquor traffic. and at their conventions nomi-
mating Presidential candidates will put in
their platform plank as big as the biggest
plank of the biggest ocean steamer, saying:
Resolved unanimously that we always have
been and always will be opposed to alcohol.
But must spur on our Arab steed, and
here we come In sight OF Beeroth, said to be
the place where Joseph aud Mary missed the
boy Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to
Nazareth, going home now from great
national festival. Where Is my child,
JesusY' says Mary. "Where Is my child,
Jesusf' says Joseph. Among the thousandc
that are returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly He was walking on in
the crowd. They described Him, saying:
HE Is twelve years old, and Of light CON-
plexion and blue eyes. A lost childf Great
| excitement In all the crowd. Nothing SC
stirs folks as the news that child Is lost.
shall not forget the scene when, In grea,
outdoor meeting / was preaching and Some
one st.pped on The nlatform and said that 4
child was lost We went ON with the relic.
ions service. Int all our minds were ON III
lost child
After a vhiIs a man bronybt IN tina Mat.
form a beautiful little tot that looked like q
piece Of heaven dropped down, and said
'Hore Is that child" And forgot all thai
was preaching about and lifted the child
to my shoulder and said, Here Is the los,
child, and the mother will come and get hel
right away, or will take her home and add
her 10 my own broodr' And some cried and
some shouted, and amid all that crowd in
stantly detected the mother Everybody
had TO get out of her way or be walked over
Hats were nothing and shoulders were moth
ing and beads were nothing In her pathway
and I realized something Of what must hav,
been Marys anxiety when she lost Jesus, anC
what her gladness when she found her boy il
the temple OF Jerusalem talking with thos
old ministers Of religion, Shammai, Hills
and Betirah.
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comfort mary ana Joseph SAD "here y
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route, and you put on 1t via southampton
or via San Francisco" or via Marseilles,
put on your wishes about your child, WI
the throne OF God" How long WIN such I
good wish take TO get To- It's destination
Not quite as long as the miillonth part OF
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