Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-07-20
DgPARTED VOICES CALL
De. TkLHecE PeEtcHEs 4 SEsNos
At LeNe1CE, Q.

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LAgKaDE. o, July 1f,--FoS naany
yeaz peogle have gzsbsEe6 70 ugit5,
todee ~ tilis seaso1 n tie year fog .
great outdoly assembly. TIE grDusdf
are q silogf sa1 hou Ban1usky. Tls
place bea0fifUI begOnd ceser1pfion.
Dr. Taifnags preaeilsS tbis nlosI.inz 10
fils deiigbtfgi Dises - ya<t sD1ft5-
fude Bis s8b,ect Eas the Vacant
Chair. AMI his ter. Samuel ~. -.
Thou shalt ~ missed. became t5J
seat viii b. empty
Set On the table tbs cutlery and fiIs
eiia<sd siiyeywaFs q the paiaee. fos
King Saul viii give a gt&ts dinner ~
day. 4 distinguished place II kes,s a
tie table Tor biz sOo5n-laN. erie.
bgated vaD5oT, Dayid ~ mama. The
1ueste, fsWeisd and pI1lned. come lD
and take their places. When peoTls
are Invited 10 a kings bADg0et t5eT
ere yery apt 20 90. But befOrs TIE
covers are lifted from tie feast Ga1I
Iooi1s around and finds q vacant seat az
the table. lie says within bjinself. PER
hape audjbIy. ''What does ti1s meant
Where s my soD-iD-law1 Where y
Dayid. the great warTiOr1 ! invited
MIN. expected him. What a vacant
chair - the kinzs banquet
The fact va tllat Dayid, tie warrior.
had been SEATED for the last tins ~ his
fatber-ip-laws table The day befDre
Jonathan had coaxed David 10 go and
occupy that place 1t the table. saying
70 David ln the words Of ny text.
fsrhOu shalt be Inissed. became hIy
seat VII ~ empty" Tie prediction
was fulfilled Dayld was missed Hb
seat wos empty That one vacant chair
spoke louder than all the occupied
chairs at the banquet
THK yAcAET CHAIR
Ia almost every ho1ae the articles Of
furniture take living peuOpalify.
That picture-a stranger would not see
.aBything remarkable either 10 its design
or execution, but II r. more 20 you than
all the pictures u tbs Louvre and the
Luxembourg You remember who
bought Il and who admired IL. Ana
that hymn bo.ok--you remember who
sang out of II. And that cradle-yOn
remember who rocked H. And that
'BibIe--you remember who read out Of
|t And that bed--yoa remember who
slept 10 H. And that room-you re-
member who died Ia II. But there e
nothing ia all your house 20 eloquent
and 70 mighty voiced as the vacant
chair
/ suppose that before Baul and hls
guests got up from this banquet there
was great chatter Of wine pitchers.
but ali that racket was drowned out by
the voice that came up from the vacant
chair at the table Millions have gazod
and wept AZ John Quincy Adams
vacant chaiF IN the house Of represen.
tatiyea, and az Henry Wilson's vacant
chair IN the vice presidency. and at
Henry Clay's vacant chair IN the AmeTi-
can senate and at Prince Albert's va
cant chair Ia Windsor castle, and az
'rhiers' vacant chair Ia the councils of
the French nation; but ali these chairs
are unimportant 10 you a. compared
With the vacant chairs IN your own
household Have these chairs any les
sons Tor us 10 learnt Are wo any bet.
TER men and women than when they
Brst addressed usi
First point out 20 you tho fathers
vacant chair Old men always like 20
Isit In the same place and Ia tho same
chair. They somehow feel more at
home. and sometimes when you are Ia
their place and they como Into the
room, you Jump up suddenly and say.
Here, father, here's your chair Tho
probability H. II Is an armchair, Tor he
3 not 70 strong a. he once WA, and ho
needs little upholdlng Ills hair Il a
little frosty, his gums little depressed.
for Ia hls early days there was not much
dentistry. Perhaps cane chair and
old fashioned apparel, Tor though you
may have suggested some Improvement.
father does not want any Of your non
sense. Grandfather never had much
admiration for new tangled notions !
rat az tle table OF one Of my parish
ioners Ia a former congregation an
aged man was NJ the table, and the son
waA presiding. and the father some
what abruptly addressed tho son aud
said, my son, don't now Try 10 show
oil beeanae tins minister Is hereF
Your father never liked any now
customs OF manners, he preferred the
old way Of doing things, and he never
looked 10 happy ~ when with his Dyes
closed he sat Ia the armchair la the
corner Prom tho srnkiod brow 10
ihe Up OF the slippers, what plaoidlty !
The wave oi the past years Of hls llio
brake al the foot II that chair Por
hhpa sometimes ho was a li.tie lnpa.
iieni, ard sometimes told the same
story twice, bnt over that Gld chair
how many blessed memories hoYsrl !
llofo you dld not crowd that old chair,
aud that d dld not got very much Ia
tho way, Sometimes tho old mans
ohaif gotta very much la the way eape
olally II be has boen 10 nnwsso ~ to
make over al bis property 80 hia chll
dlon nith the understanding that they
afs n tnka caro- " hln haye soen Ia
sach eases children crowd tlle oid mans
chair b iha door, and Then eroed d
clear Into tllo uirpet and llien onoNd Il
Into flls poofhousa, aud krap on covd
Tag Il unlll the old nlan ioll oOi " Il
|nlo Ne grave
fAcNfp rLAch
liul gouf fathers elalf ras Nioned