Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-04-11

I made them The mighf1est cratoElos
that ever rolled through the churches
had. in their pathos. the sighs and groans
/ Of the composers, who wore their lives
out in writing the harmony. American
Independence was triumphant. but Il
moved on over the hfele1s forms Of tens
/ Of thousands Of men who fell at Bunker
Hill and Yorktown and the battles be
I tween. which were the hemorrhages OF
the nation The kingdom Of God ad-
/ vances in all the earth, bat It must be
over the lives Of missionaries who die OF
malaria in the jungles or Christian
workers who preach and pray and toll
and die in the service. The Saviour tri-
uynphs in all directions-but beauty and
strength must be torn down from the
palnn trees Of Christian heroism and con-
secretion and thrown in his pathway.
To what better use could those palm
trees on the southern shoulder OF Mount
! O;ivet and clear down into the Valley OF
1 Gethsemane put their branches than to
surrender them for the making Of
| Cbrist's Journey toward Jerusalem the
more picturesque. the more memorable
, and the more triumphant? And to what
better use could we put our lives than
| into the sacrifice for Christ and his cause
and the happiness of our fellow crea-
turesg Shall we not be willing TO be
| torn down that righteousness shall have
triumphant way? Christ was torn down
for as. Can we not afford TO be torn
down for him7 If Christ could suffer so
much for us, can we not suffer a little
for Christi If he can afford ON Palm
| Sunday to travel TO Jerusalem to carry
a crogs. can we not afford few leaves
from our branches TO make emerald his
way?
FEW LEAVES FROM OUR BRANCHES.
The process is going on every moment
in all directions. What makes that
father have such hard work TO End tbs
hymn today? He puts on his spectacles
and holds the book close up. and then
holds it far of, and IS not quite sure
whether the number Of the hymn l. 80
or 130. and the fingers with which he
| turns the leaves are very clumsy He
stoops a good deal, although once he wa.s
straight as an arrow. and his eyes we're
! keen as q hawks, and the hand he
| offered TO his bride on the marriage day
was Of gUodly shape and Is God made IT,
/ viii tell you what Il the msEEsT- Forty
Years ago be resolved his family should
/ have 10 need and his children should be
| well educated and su=sr none Of the
I disafvzutages cE Lack Of schooling from
I which he Lad suffered for q lifetime. and
/ that the wolf Of hunger should never
L vut it, paw On his doorszN. and FOR
L forty OF Fifty years be has been tearing
/ OF from the palm tTse 0f his physical
strength and manly furm branches to
/ throw IN the pathway Of his household.
/ Il has cusz hiEn muscle and brain and
health snd eyslght, and there have
been tprisssd OF more years from his life
than any m2n II the crowd on the
famous Palm Sunday twisted off
h-zzcbss tr0m the palm trees on the
rad from Bethpage TO Jerusalem. What
makes Eias mother look so much older
thzu shs really is, You say she ought
not ys4 10 have one gray line in her hair
Ths truth is the family was not always
Ns vel Of as now. The married pair
had hard struggle at the start. Ex-
anime the tips of the forefnger and
rhzu5 Of her right hand and they will
;eIl YOu the story of the needle that was
Piled day IN and day out.
Yea. look at both her hands and they
viii tell the story of the time when she
did her own work, her own mending
and scrubbing and washing. Yea, looB
into the face and read the story OF
scarlet fevers and groups and midnight
watchings when none but God and her
self in that house were awake, and ther
the burials and the loneliness afterward
which was more exhausting than the
preceding watching had BEEN, and nc
one now to put to bed. How fair she
once was and as graceful as the palm
tree, but all the branches of her strength
and beauty were long ago torn of and
thrown into the pathway of her house
hold. Alasl that sons and daughters
themselves 80 straight and graceful anC
, educated, should ever forget that they
are walking today over the falleI
strength of an Industrious and honoreC
parentage. A little ashamed, are you
; at their ungrammatical utterance? i
was through their sacrifices that yoJ
. learned accuracy of speech. Do yoJ
lose patience with them because they
, are little querulous and complaining
guess you have forgotten how queru
lous and complaining when you wer'
i getting over that whooping cough o.
} that intermittent fever. A little an
noyed, are you, because her hearing il
, poor and you have to tell her some
} thing twice? She was not always har,
. of hearing. When you were two year
! old your first call for a drink at mid
, night woke her from a sound sleep a
: quick as any one will waken at tn
trumpet call of the resurrection.
, Oh, my young lady, what is that uude
} the sole of your fine shoe? 1t is palm
leaf which was torn off the tree Of ma
} ternal fidelity. Young merchant, younl
/ lawyer, young journalist, young me
I chanic, with good salary and fine clothe
and refined surroundings, have you for
gotten what time your father had tina
] winter, after the summers crops ha'
! failed through droughts or foods or 10
} Gusts, and how he wore his old coat to
; long and made his old hat do, that h
might keep you at school or college
I What is that, nay young man, under you
fine boot today, the boot that so well fit
. your foot, such a boot as your fathe
could never afford to wear9 II must b
a leaf from the palm tree of your father
! self sacrifices. Do not be ashamed o
| him when he comes to town, and, be
| cause his manners are a little old fash
toned, try TO smuggle him in and smug