The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-04-15

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: suffer so much for us, can we not sufIs
, little for CHRISTI II He can afford o,
Palm Sunday TO travel TO Jerusalem 3
carry cross, can we not afford fev
leaves from our branches TO max
emerald His way.
The process Is going on every momen
in all directions. What makes thu
father have such hard work TO find tn
hymn to-day? He puts on his spectacle.
and holds the book close up. and the1
holds IL far off, and Is not quite susv
whether the number of the hymn b lb(
or $50, and the fingers with which ID
turns the leaves are very clumsy. He
stoops good deal, although once he
was straight as an arrow and his eycG
were keen as a hawks, and the hand
he offered 70 his bride on the marriage
day was Of goodly shape and a. 0od
made II. will tell you what Il tho
mettsr' Forty syears ago he resolved
Me family should hsxs no. ns.AeGn.
\ eatcd. and sdifer h5nd or dIs-
advantage of lack of schooling from
1 WHICH, Ht fsit SuIltTtu ~ tllCtlInS,
and that the wolf of hunger should new
err put its 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
1t has cost him muscle, and brain, and
health, and eyesight, and there have
been twisted off more years from his
life than any man in the crowd on
the famous Palm Sunday twisted
off branches from the palm trees on
the road from Bethpage to Jeru-
salem. What makes that mother
look 50 much older than she really
is? You say she ought not yet to have
one gray line in her hair. The truth is
the family was not always as well OF as
now. The married pair had a hard
struggle at the start. Examine the tips
Of the forefinger and thumb of her right
hand, and they will tell you the story of
the needle that was piled day in and
day out. Yea, look at both her hands,
and they will tell the story Of the time
when she did her own work, her own
mending and scrubbing and washing.
Yea, look into the face and read the
story of scarlet fevers 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 more exhausting
than the preceding watching had been,
no one now to put to bed.
How fair she once was and as grace
full as 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. Alas! that
sons and daughters, themselves 30
straight and graceful and educated.
should ever forget that they are walk
ing to-day over the fallen strength of
an industrious and honored parentage
A little ashamed, are you, at their I'M
grammatical utterance? 1t was through
their sacrifices that you learned ac-
curacy of speech. Do you lose patience
with them because they are . little
querulous and complaining? l guess
you have forgotten how querulous and
complaining You were when you were
s .sss 'nss ossf is9.l s!Issl e.
noyed, are you, because her hearing Ii
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 at midnight
woke her from sound sleep as quick as
any one will walen at the trumpet call |
of the resurrection.
Oh, my young lady, what is that I'M
der the sole of your fine shoe? II is q |
palm leaf 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 a time your father |
had that winter, after the summers |
crops had failed through droughts or /
Hoods or locusts, and how he wore his |
Did coat, too long, and made his old hat /
10, that he might keep you at school or
college? What is that, my young man,
inder your fine boot to-day, the boot that |
10 well fits YOUR foot, such boot as
your father could never afford to wear?
L must be leaf from the palm tree of
your fathers self-sacrifices. Do not be
ashamed of him when he comes to town,
md because his manners are a little old
fashioned, try to smuggie him in and
him out, but call in your best
friends and take him to the house of
iod and introduce him to your pastor,
md say: This is my father" II he
,ad kept for himself the advantages
which he gave you, he would be as well
and as well gotten up as you.
When in the English parliament men,
Der was making great speech that was
"a lord derisively cried
mt; IL remember You when you black
med my fathers boots!" Yes" replied |
he man, land did l not do ii well?"
Never be ashamed of your early sur
Yes, yes, all the green
caves we walk over were torn off some
balm tree. have cultivated the habit
II forgetting the unpleasant things of
life, and l chiefly remember the smooth
Kings, and as far as | remember now
ny life has for the most part moved on
'ver road soft with green leaves
they were torn off two palm trees that
TODD at tho start of the road. The
'rayers- the Christian example, the good
dvice, the hard work of my father and
nother, How they toiledl Their fingers
we're knotted with hard work. Their
oreheads were knotted with many
ares Their backs stopped from carry
lg our burdens.
They long ago went into slumber
mong their kindred and friends on the
anks of the Raritan, but the influences
hey threw in the way of their children ,
re yet green as leaves the moment they I
re plucked from a palm tree, and we
eel them ON our brow and under our
'et, and they will strew all tho way ,
ntil we lie down in the same slumber.
elf-sacrifice. What a thrilling word !,
lad am that our world has SO many 4,
'ecmens of it, The sailor boy on ship
oard was derided because he would :
ot fight or gamble, and they called ,
i'm coward. But. when child fell ,
and no one else was ready 10
clip, the derided sailor leaped into the
"a, and, though the waves were rough.
he sailor swimming with one arm car G
ed the child on the other arm, till res L
led and rescuer were lifted into safety. [
nd the cry of coward ceased and all L
izzaed at the scene of daring and self
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