Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-04-20

( emerald Ills way.
! The process is going on every moment
: in all directions. What makes that
father have sncll hard work To find tho
hymn to-day? lie puts on his spectacle.
and holds the book close mp. and then
holds IL far off. and is not quite sure
whether the number OF the hymn is $50
or $50, and the inCers with which he
turns the leaves arc very clumsy. He
stoops good deal. although once he
was straight as an ROW and his eve,
were keen rs "A hawks. and the hand
he offered To his bride on the marriage
day was of goodly shape aud as God
made it. ] will tell you what is thu
matter. Forty years ago he resolved
his family should have NO need. and
his children should be well edu.
Gated, and suffer none OF the dis
advantage Of lack OF schooling from
which he had suffered for lifetime.
and that the wolf OF hunger should nev-
or put it's paw on his door sill. and forty
or fifty years he has been tearing OF
from the palm tree of his physical
strength and manly form branches To
throw in the pathway of his household.
IT has cost him muacle, and brain, and
health and cycsight, and there have
been twisted off more years from his
life than any man in the crowd ON
tho famous Palm Sunday twisted
of branches from the palm trees IN
the road from Bethpage 10 Jera-
salem. What makes that mother
look So much older than She really
Is? You say she ought not yet TO have
one gray line in her hair. The truth S.
the family was not always as well oY ~
now. The married pair had hnr,l
struggle NJ the start. Examine the tins
OF the forchnger and thumb OF her right
hand, and they will tell You the story of
the needle that was piled day in and
dry out Yea, look &C both her hands.
and they will tell the story OF the tims
when she did her own work, her owr
mending and scrubbing and washing.
Yea, look into the face aud rcnd the
story of scarlet fcvers and Groups and
midnight watchings when none but God
and herself in that house were awake,
and then the burials and the loneliness
afterward, which was moro exhausting
than the preceding watching had been.
no one now to put to bed.
| How fair She once was and ns grace
| frl rs the palm tree, but all the branch.
es OF her strength and beauty were
long ago torn off and thrown into the
pathway OF her household Alasl that
sons and daughters. themselves so
straight and graceful and educated.
should ever forget that they are walk.
ing to-day over the fallen strength OF
an industrious and honorcd parcntage.
A little ashamed. are YOU at their I'M
grammatical uttcrance? IL was through
their sacrifices that you learned ac-
curacy OF speech. DO you lose patience
with them because they are little
querulous and complaining? / guess
you have forgotten how querulous and
complaining you were when YOU We're
! getting over that whooping cough or
that intermittent fever \ little an
noyed, are You, because he. hearing Is
| poor and you have TO tell her something
twice? She was not alwas hard of
hearing. When you were two years old
your first call for drink ut midnight
woke her from sound sleep rs quick as
any one will vallen Mt the trumpet call
of the resurrection.
oh, my young lady. what is that uu-
der the sole of your fine shoe? 1t is
! palm loaf which was torn Off the tree
of maternal fidelity. Young merchant,
young lawyer. young journalist, young
mechanic, with good salary and fine
clothes and refined surroundings, have
you forgotten what time your father
had that winter, after the summers
crops had failed through droughts or
Hoods or locusts, and how he wore his
old coat, too long, and made his old har
do, that he might keep you at school on
college? What is that, my young man,
under your fine boot to-day, the boot that
so well fits your foot, such "a boot ~
your father could never afford TO wcarP
1t must toe leaf from the palm tree OF
| your fathers sclf-sacridccs. Do not be
ashamed of him when he comes 10 town.
and because his manners are little old
fashioned try TO smugglc him in and
smugglc him out, but call i'm your best
friends and take him To- the house OF
! God and Introduce him Ia your pastor.
and Say: This is my iather" Il he
had kept for himself the advantages
which ne gave you, he would be rs well
educated and as well gotten up ms you
| When in the English parliament mem
Der was making great speech that was
unanswerabic, n lord dcrisivcly cried
| out: ~ remember YOU when YOU black.
cned my fathers boots!' Yes, replied
the man, and did not do IL wcll?"
Never be ashamed OF Your early sur.
roundings. Yes yes. all the green
leaves we walk over were torn Oft some
| palm tree have cultivated the habit
Of forgetting the unpleasant things OF
/ life. and chiefly remember the smooth
! things, and as far as / remember now
1 my life has for the most part moved on
| over road soft with green leaves.
! They fscrc torn of two palm trees that
| stood at the start OF the road. The
prayers, the Christian example, the good
advice, the hurd work OF my father and
mother. How they toiledl Their fingers
/ were lnottcd with hard work Their
/ forchcads were knotted with many
cares. Their backs stopped from curry
/ ing our burdens
They long ago went into slumbcr
among thor kindred and friends on the
/ banks Of the Raritan. but the influences
/ they threw in the way Of their children
are yet green as leaves the moment they
are pluckcd from palm tree, and we
/ feel them on our brow and under our
+ feet and they viii strcw an tho way