Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-07-26


In mid-life. his forehead developed with
the great business of state: but Jacob
was glad to get back Joseph anyhow,
ana IL did not make much difference to
me Old man whether the boy looked
oder or looked younger And it will
De enough JOY for that parent if he can
get back that son, that daughter. at
the gate of heaven, whether the de-
parted one shall come a cherub or in
iull grown angelhood. There must be
change wrought by that celestial eli
mate and by those supernal years, but
II will only be from lovelines to more
loneliness, and from health to more ra-
dlant health. o parent, as you think
OF the darling painting and white in
membraneous Group, | want you to
know it will be gloriously bettered in
mat land where there has never been
death, and where all the inhabitants
will live on in the great future as long
as God. Joseph was Joseph notwith-
standing the palace, and your child will
be your child Notwithstanding all the
relgning splendors of everlasting noon
Whit thrilling visit was that
of the old shepherd to the prime
minister, Joseph | see the old
countryman seated in the palace
looking around at the mirrors and
the fountains and carved pillars, and
oh! how he wishes that Rachel his
wife, was alive and she could have
come with him to see their son in his
great house. 20, says the old man
within himself, Il do wish Rachel
could be here to see all this.n / visited
at the farm house of the father of Mil
lard Fillmore when the son was presi-
dent of the United States, and the octo-
genarian farmer entertained me until
IL o'clock at night telling me what
great things he saw in his sons house
at Washington, ana what Daniel Web
ster said to him and how grandly Mil
lard treated his father in the White
House. The old mans face was illu-
mined with the story until almost the
midnight. He had just been visiting
his son at the Capitol. And | suppose
it was something of the same joy that
thrilled the heart of the old shepherd
as he stood in the palace of the prime
minister. 1t is great day with you
when your old parents come to
visit you. Your little children
stand around with great wide-open
eyes, wondering how anybody could be
so old. The parents cannot stay many
days, for they are a little restless, and
especially at nightfall, because they
sleep better in their own bed; but while
they tarry you somehow feel there is a
benediction in every room in the house.
They are a little feeble, and you make
it as easy as you can for them, and you
realize they will probably not visit You
very often-perhaps never again. You
go to their room after they have re-
tired at night to see if the lights are
properly put out, for the old people I'M
derstand candle and lamp better than
the modern apparatus for illumina-
ton. In the morning, with real inter-
est in their health, you ask them how
they rested last night. Joseph in his
historical scene of the text, did not
think any more of his father than You
do of your parents. The probability |
is, before they leave your house
they shall spoil your children
with kindness. Grandfather and grand |
mother are more lenient and indulgent
to your children than they ever were
with you. And what wonders of revel- |
alton in the bombazine pocket of the
one and the sleeve of the other! Blessed
is that home where Christian parents
come to visit Whatever may have been
the style of the architecture when they
came, it is palace before they leave.
If they visit you fifty times, the two
most memorable visits will be the first
and the last. Those two pictures will
hang in the hall of your memory while
memory lasts, and you will remember
Just how they looked, and where they
sat, and what they said, and at what
figure of the carpet, and at what door
sill they parted with you, giving you
the final goodbye. Do not be embar-
raised if your father come to town and
he have the manners of the shepherd,
and If your mother come to town and
there be in her hat no sign of costly
millinery. The wife of the Emperor
Theodosius said wise thing when she
said: Husbands, remember what you
lately were, and remember what you
are, and be thankful. 4"
BY this time you all notice what
kindly provision Joseph made for his
father Jacob. Joseph didn't say, Il
can't have the old man around the
place. How clumsy he would look
climbing up these marble stairs
and walking over the mosaics!
Then he would be putting his
hands upon some of these frescoes.
People would wonder where that old
came from. He would shock
ali the Egyptian court with his man
ners at table. Besides that he might
ret sick on my hands, and he might be
1uerulous. and he might talk to me as
though were only a boy, when am
he second man in all the realm. o.
.ourse he must not suffer. and if there
: famine in his country-and L hear
here isl will send him some proyis-
-. I .,,,s4 .ol-a a man from Pad