The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-07-12


are properly put out. for the old people
understand candle aud lamp bstter than
the mo iern apparatus for illumination. In
the morning. with real interest In their
health, YOU ask them 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 probable
ity Is, before they leave your house they half
spoil your children with kindness. Grand
father aud grandmother are mors len snt aud
indulgent TO your children than they ever
were with you. Aud what wonders OF re-
velation In the bonbazins pocket OF the ons
and the sleeve OF the otherl Blessed IL that
home where Christian parents come to visit |!
Whatever may have been the style OF the
architecture when they came, II II q
palace before they leave. III they visit
you ffty times, the two most mem morahls
visits will be tho first AMI tho last Thoss
two pictures will hang In the hall OF your
memory while memory lasts. au1 you will
remember just how they looSsi. ani where
they sat. aud what they said. aud at what
figure OF the carpst. and Mt what doorsill
they parted with you, giving you the flnal
gooiby. Do not be embarrassed II your
father come to town AMI he have tho man
ners OF the shepherd, and II your mother
come to town AMI there b, In her hat no
Emperor Theo loslus said n wise thing when
she said. "Husb1uds, remember what you
lately were and remember what you are and
be bethankful."
by this time you all notice what kin ily
provision Joseph male for his father. jacob.
Joseph did not say; ''I can't have tho old
man around this place. How clumsy hs
would look climbing up these marble stairs
and walking over thess mosslcsl Then he
would bs putting his hands upon some OF
these frescoes People would wonder where
that old greenhorn came from. He would
shock all tho Eysptian court with his man.
ners at table. Besides that no might get
sick on my han Is. and hemight be querlilous,
and he might talk to mo as though were
only u boy, when I am the second man in
all the realm. or course he must not sutf,r,
AMI II there Is famine Ia this country-tnd
I hear there Isl will send him some pro-
visions, but I can't take man from
Padansram and intro lu,s him into this
polite Egyptian Coufs. What nuisance II
Is to have poor relationsH'
Joseph DID not say that, but he rushed out
to meet his father with psr'e:t abandon OF
affection, and brought him up to tho palace
and introduced him to the emperor, aud
provided for all the rest oil ths fathers days.
and nothing wtstoo gooi for tho old man
while living, aud when no was deaf Josept,
with military escort, took his fathers rs-
mains to the family cemetery. Would Col
all children were rs kind TO their parents
Ittho father nave large property, an he
be wise enough to keep 1t In his own name,
he will bs respected by the heirs, but how
often II Is when tho son fin Is his father IN
famine, as Joseph found Jacob In famIns,
the young psople make It very hard for the
old man They ara so surprised hs eats
with kuife instead OF n fork. They are
chagrinei at his anteilluvlan habits. They
arc provoked because he canno. hear rs W oil
as he used TO, aui when he asks II ovsr
again aui the sou has to repeat 1t he bawl,
in thu old maa's ear, "I hope you hear that |"
How long he must wear the old coat or thu
old hat before they get him new one How
chagrlned they are at his Independence OF
the English grammar! How long hs hang,
on Seventy years, aud not gone yet |!
Seventy-1ve years, aud not gone yet Elgltv
years, AMI not gons yet Will he ever 20?
They think 1t OF no us, to hays do,tor ia
his last sickness, and go up to the drug
store, and get a dose OF something that
makes him worse, aud economic on coain,
and beat the undertaken down to the las,
point, giving a note for the reduced amount,
which they never pay. have on slate AT
obsequles OF aged people where the family
have been so inorilnately resigned to Proyl-
donce t'nat telr like taxing my text IRON
PROVERBS, "The eye that moo keith at its father
and refuseth to obey its mother, the ravens OF
the valley shall pick II out, and the yonns
eagles shall eat it," In other worls, s. ch
an migrate ought to have u fock OF crows
for pallbearers l congratulate you II You
have the honor OF providing for aged par
ents. The blessings OF the Lorl God oil
Joseph and JACOB will be on you.
l rejoice to remember that, though my
father lived In plain houss tho most OF his
days, he died in u mansion provided by thu
filial pisty OF son VINO had achieved u for
tune. There the octo sntrlan sat, and the
servants waited on him, and there were
plenty OF horses AMI plenty OF carriages to
convey him. and n bower In watch to sit on
long summer afternoons dreaming ovor the
past, and there WAS not room in the house
where he was not wslcons, an there wors
musical instruments OF all sorts TO reyllo
him, aud when lie had passed. the neiThbors
came out aud oxpresssl all honor possible
and carried him to the village Mtohpslah
and put him down beside ths RIclsl with
whom he had lived more than hall CEN
tury Share your SUCCESSES with the old
psope. Ths probability is that the principles
they inculcatei achieved your tortuns. Give
them Christian percentage OF kin tly con.
sideratlon. Let Joseph divide with jacob the
pasture tsld, of Goshen An the glories OF
the Egyptian court.
Aui hsrs would llksto sing the praise,
OF the sisterhooi who remain unmarried
that they might ad nlulster to aga p &c ants.
The brutal world calls thsss slcrih,iny CUES
peculiar or angular, but II yol hays hal as
many annoyanoes as they have hal Kan
tippe would have bssn an angel conparsi to
you. 1t Is easier to taSs CARA OF Nv. rollicS-
Ing, romplny childrsn than OF ons caildish
old man. Amoug the best wonsn are those
who allowed the bloo N o; life to pt,s away
while they wsre caring for thslr pwsnts.
While other maldens war, solnl asleep
they were soaking the old mans feet or
, tu,kiny up the covers around ths invalid
mother. While other mltdens wsra In tho
cotillon they were dancing alton lsn,s upon
rheumatism and spreading plasters for the
lame b tck OF the ssptenarlan and hsatln I
cstnlp tea for insomnia.
In almost every circle OF our kin Ire There
has been somsqueen OF self sacrlnceto whom
jewsled hand after jewsle haul was orsrsl
In marriage, but who stayei on the oil
place because OF the ssnss OF nllal obligation
until the health was goas and ths attra,tlv =
ness OF psrsoual presence had vanished.
Brutal society may call such aone by n nlcS'
name. God calls her daughter, aui hsavSn
calls her saint. an | call her domestic mar
tyr. A half dozsn or .inary women have not
as much nobility as could bs foun In the
| SIN sllest Joint OF the little flu gar OF her left