Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-09

ing and white, In membraneous Group, l
want you to know II will be glorlously
bettered in that land where there has
never been q death and where all the
Inhabitants will live on In the great fu-
ture as long as God. Joseph was Joseph
Notwithstanding the palace, and your
child will be your child Notwithstanding
all the reigning splendors OF eyeriast-
ing noon.
II is a great day with you when your
Old parents come TO visit you. Your
little children stand around with great
wide.open eyes, wondering why any
BODY could be so old. The parents can
not stay many days, for they are little
restless, and especially at nightfall, be-
cause they sleep better In their own
bed; but while they tarry you some
what feel there is be1ediction in every
room 10 the house. They are little
feeble, and you make 1t as easy as you
can for them, and you realize they will
probably not visit you very OfLen-per-
hapS never again. You go to their
room after they have retired at night to
see il the lights are properly put out,
for the old people understand candle
aud lamp better than the modern appa-
ratus for illumination. In the morn
ing, with real interest In their health,
you ask .hem how they rested last
night. Joseph, in the historical scene
OF the text, did not think any more OF
his father than you do Of your parents.
The probability ia, before they leave
your house they half spoil your chill
dren with Kindness. Grandfather and
grandmother are more lenient and in
dulgeut to your children than they ever
were with you. And what wonders OF
revelation in the bombazine pocket OF
the one and the sleeve Of the other!
Blessed is that home where Christian
parents come 10 visit. Whatever may
have been the style OF the architecture
when they came, ii is a palace before
they leave. II they visit you fifty
times, the
TWO MOST MEMORABLE VISITS.
viii be the first and the last. Those
two pictures will hang in the hall of
your memory while memory lasts, aud
you will remember just how they looked
and where they sat, and what they said,
aud NJ what figure OF the carpet, and at
what door sill they parted with you,
giving you the final goodbye. Do not
be embarrassed IL your father come TO
town aud be have the manners OF the
shepherd, and il your mother come TO
town and there be in her hat no sign Of
costly millinery. The wife OF the En-
Deror TheOdosjus said a wise thing
when she said: Husbands, remember
what you lately were, and remember
what you are, and be thankful"
And here 1 would like 10 sing the
praises of the sisterhood who remain
unmarried that they might administer
70 aged parents The brutal world calls
these seli-Sacrihclng ones peculiar or
angular; but il van had had as many
anDoyances as they have had, Xantippe
would have been an angel compared 10
you. IL is easier TO take care Of five
rolllcking, romping children, than OF
one childish old man. Among the best
women are those who allowed the bloom
OF life 20 pass away while they were
caring for their parents. While other
maidens were sound asleep, they were
soaking the old mans feet, or tucking
up the covers around the invalid
mother While other maidens were In
the cOtillion, they were dancing attend
ance upon rheumatism, aud spreading
plSsters for the lame back Of the septic
marian, AID heating catulp tea for in
semnis.
ln almost every circle OF our kindred
there has been some queen Of self.Sacri-
fee TO whom jewelled hand after jewell
ed hand was offered in marriage, but
who stayed 90 the old place because Of
the sense OF flial obligation, until the
health was gone and the attractiveness
of personal presence had vanished.
Brutal society may call such one by
nickname. God calls her daughter, and
heaven calls her saint, and | call her
domestic martyr. A half dozen ordi-
nary women have rot as much nobility
as could be found in the smallest joint
OF the little finger of her left hand.
Although the world has stood six thous-
and years, this is the first apotheOSis OF
maidenhoOd, although 10 the long line
OF those who have declined marriage
that they may be qualified for some
especial mission are the names OF Anna
Ross and Margaret Breckenridge, and
Mary Shelton, and Anna E,beridge, and
Georgiana WillettS, the angels Of the
battle-felds OF Fair Oaks aud Lookout
Mountain and Charlottesville; and
though single lie has been honored by
the fact that the three grandest men OF
the Bible-Jobn and Paul aud Christ
we're celibateS.
Let the ungrateful world sheer at the
maiden aunt, but
GOD HAS 4 THRONE
Furnished for her arrival, and on one
side OF that throne in heaven there IS a
vase containing two jewels, the one
brighter than the K0hinoOr Of London
Tower, aud the other larger than any
diamond ever found 10 the district OF
Golconda-the one jewel by the lapi-
Diary OF the palace cut with the words:
'Inasmuch as We did il to father" the
other jewel by the apidary OF the pal
ace cut with the words: "InaSmuch as
We did il 10 mother" lover the Hills
to the Poorhouse" is the exquisite bal
lad Of VIII Carleton, who found an old
woman who had been turned of by her
sons: but I thank God /
may find 10 my text lover the hills to
the palace"
may say In regard to most Of you
that your parents have probably visited
you for the last time, or will soon pay
you such visit, and / have wondered
II they will ever visit you in the Kings
palace. oh" you say, 81 am in the
pit OF sin!' Joseph was in the pit.
"Oh, " you say, II am In the prison OF
mine iniQuity" Joseph was once In
prison. Oh" you say, II didn't have
a fair chance; l was denied maternal
kindness" Joseph was denied mater
nal attendance. on" you say, II am
far away from the land Of NY nativity"
Joseph was far from home "Oh," you
say, II have been betrayed aud exas-
perated." Did not Joseph's brethren
sell him 10 a passing IShmaelitish cara
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