Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-26

", come wedding or burial, come
health or sickness, come life or death,
come time or eternity. ALPS well
Alps well Keep your heart right ana
all else will be right. Men and women
have sometimes given strange ana
whimsical directions in regard TO what
shall DO done with their heart after
death. Robert Bruce ordered his heart
to be sent TO the Holy Land for burial.
The Earl Of Leicester ordered his heart
| to be sent to Brackley Hospital. lsa-
bella, daughter of the earl Of Pembroke,
died at Berkhampstead, but ordered
her heart taken TO TewksburY Cathe-
dral. Lord Windsor, dying in for
eign land, ordered his heart inclosed in
lead and sent to England for burial In
| the chapel OF Brakeman. Now, what
shall we decree for our heart? That 1t
be the Lords, and then 1t makes no
! difference what else becomes OF 1t. Llv-
ing and dying may it all be his.
Thus in three chapters have coun-
selled that the holidays be grouped.
May nothing interfere with their felicl-
ties May they be so spent that they
will be food Cor pleasant "Reminiscences
further on. You know that after
while the old homestead will be broken
up. For years and years the children
come home to spend the holidays and
the house is rummaged from garrett to
cellar, and the scenes OF childhood are
rehearsed, and we laugh till the tears
come as we talk over some boyish or
girlish freak, or cry over some old trou-
1 k,f bn W
again TO mirth for it does not take
half second for q tear OF the eye to
strike the smile of the lip. For few
years the grandchildren make the holt
DAYS merry. One OF the many uses Of
grandchildren is to
KEEP OLD FOLKS YOUNG.
Then after few years the annual gath
ering at the old homestead is half
broken up. for father or mother is gone.
About two years after (for there are
generally about two years between the
time of their going) the other half OF
the holiday season is broken up. Then
the old house goes into the possession
OF strangers, and the sons and daugh-
ters by that time have homes OF their
own. They plant their own Christmas
trees, and hang up their own children's
stockings, and Irvine their own holly
and mistletoe, aud have their own good
times. They will perhaps be riding out
on some of those holidays, either in
sleigh or carriage, twenty or thirty
years from now, along the place where
we slumber the last sleep, and may we
have been so considerate and sympa-
thetc in our own demeanor toward
them now, that they will then say one
TO another, as they pass the silent
mounds Of the village graveyard or city
cemetery: There rest as kind father
and as kind a mother as ever wished
their children a Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year"
Meanwhile we their parents and
grand parents will, hope, through the
attonement of our blessed Lord be keep
ing holidays livelier, and higher up, in
the presence of the very Christ whose
birth the earthly Christmas commence
rates, aud of the Ancient of Days"
who saw the first year open, and will
see the last year close; in companion
ship with the overwhelming circle OF
heavenly kindred, many already there
and many soon to come; and the tables
Of that festivity will purple with the
grapes Of Eschol, and redden with 1.-THE
new wine Of the kingdom" and glow
with twelve manner of fruits" from
the trees of life; and the gifts OF those
holidays will be mansions and thrones,
aud crowns of glory that never fade
away. Oh, that these delightful holi-
days OF earth may fit us for those more