The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-09

style Of the architecture when they came,
it is a palace before they leave. If they
visit you fifty times, the two most memora-
BILE 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
doorsill they parted with you, giving you
the final goodby. Do not be embarrassed
II 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
nat no sign Of costly millinery. The wife
thing when she said: Husbands, remem-
Der what you lately were, and remember
what h you are are and be :tlh1ankfrl.",
kindly provision Joseph made for his father
Jacob. Joseph did not say: 81 can't have
The Old man around this place. How clum-
stairs. and walking over these mosaics!
Then he would be putting his hand upon
some OF these frescoes. People would won
DER where that old grecnhorn came from.
He would shock ali the Egyptian court
with his manners at table. Besides that,
he might get sick on my hands, and he
might be querulous. and he might talk to
me as though were only a boy, when |
am the second man in all the realm. OF
course, he must not suffer. and if there
isl will send him some provisions: but I
can make man from Padana ard
Introduce him into this polite Egyptian
SOtIt. W ildI d nuisance 1t is to have
re!a tions!'
joseph did not say that, but he rushed
cut 10 meet MS falner with perfect aban-
uol. OK affection, and brought MN up TO
inc palace, ana introduced nm TO The en-
peloi, ana provided Tor all the rest Of the
latherS Gay -, ana nothing was too good Tor
the oId man while living; ana Wnen he was
Ccad, Joseph, with military escort took
l'ls' IdtHer remains to the family ceue-
tciy- " ouid GOD all children were as KIND
to their parents.
rejoice to remember that though my
1dthei I1Veu IN u plain house. the most OF
ms Gays ne uleu III MADISON provided nv
liic maj piety Oh = son VINO had achieved
q Iortune. lnere the octogenarlan sat and
the servants waited on n,lI, and there We're
plenty OI horses ard plenty OIL CARRIAGES to
convey hlln, and d lower in when 70 sit
On loIiS summer afternoons, dreaming over
the past; anu there was not room IN the
mousse where ne was not Welcome and there
were musical instruments OF ali sorts to re-
gaze nl1n, ana when lie hau passed, the
ne-SnDOfS came out ana expressed all nonor
possible and carried him 10 lne Village
Machpciah, ana put him down beside Lne
naiI Il century. Snare your successes with
the old people. Ihe probability IS that tne
pMnclpies tney mcuicateu achieved your
fortune. Give Them d CHRISTIAN percentage
OF Kindly CohoueiatlOI- Let JOStpn dlVlue
WIN Jacob the pasture neius OF Goshen ana
the SIoreS of tue Egyptian court.
And here 1 would Ike to sing the praises
OF the SlSterhood VINO remain unmarried
that they might administer to aged parents.
ne brutal WOflu CdiIo lneSe SSlL-SdcfllClnS
ones peculiar or angular; but ii you hau
mad as many annoyanceS as they have had,
&anuppe would have been an angel com
pared TO you. 1t is easier to take care OF
nve rollicKing, rompinS children. than OF
one childish Old man. Among the best Uo-
men are those VINO allowed the bloom OF
their parents While other maldenS were
sound asleep, they We're soaking the ora
the Invalid mother. While other inaidens
were in the coulon. they Were dancing
attendance upon rheumatiSm, ana spread
ing plasters Tor the lame back of the sep
tenar4an, and heating catnlp tea Tor IN
Ia almost every circle of our kindred
there has been some queen of, self-sacrlflce
to whom jeWelled hand after teWeiled hand
was offered i'll marriage, but VINO stayed on
the old place because of the sense OF hila
obligation, until the health was gone ana
the attractiveness of personal presence na
vanished. Brutal society inaX cdli suIn d
and heaven calls her saint, and L CAN her
domestic martyr. a half dozen ORDINARY
women have as not much nobility as Gouia
be found in the smallest JOINT OF the NIUE
finger OF her left hand. Although the world
has stood SIX THOUSAND years tins JOS {
first apotheoSiS of maldenSOott. attn old /
the long line of those' III
Homr gsse 1hai s ms about one vacation
Anna Ross, and Margaret Brec{inriGge,
and Mary Shelton, ana Anna Etherdge.
and Georgiana Willetts, the angels OF ,, tne
battlefielas Of Fair Oaks, ana l rhnMs5h
single life has been honored ny the TACT
that the three grandest men OF the Blpie-
John and Paul and ChrlstI"ere cei;pa 49, 81,
maiden aunt, but God has throne purnlsn-
ed for her arrival, and on one slde OF tilat
throne in heaven there IS vase c on
moor of London tower, I'D the other larger
than any diamond ever found in the dis-
lapidary OF the palace cut with the words :
'Inasmuch as We did it to father the
other Jewel by the lapidary OF the palaaf ace
cut with the words: ai "a 4 4ba Sf Po o
house is the exquisite ballad OF WI Ear ar
Teton who found an old woman VINO haa
been turned off by her pro5pf 81, ov sons fex
''Over the hills to the palace. z,.,o+
As if to disgust us with unfilial conduct
the Bible presents us the story OF -Alcah'
Who stole the LOO shekels from his moth
or, and the story Of Absalom, who tried to
Gethrone his father. But all history is
beautiful with stories of tliai hdeity:
Epamnondas, the warrior found his chlef
delight in reciting to MS parents his victo-
ries. There goes Aeneas from burning
Troy, on his shoulders Anchises, his father.
The Athenians punished with death any
unhlial conduct There goes beautiful Ruth
escOrting venerable Naomi across the desert
amid the bowling of the wolves and the
barking of the jackals John Lawrence,
burned at the stake in Colchester, was
cheered in the flames by his children, VINO
said: 80, God strengthen Thy servant
and keep Thy prornise!' And Christ in
the hour Of excruciation provided for His
old mother. Jacob kept his resolution. Il
will go and see him before l die and a
little while after find them walking the
tesselated floor of the palace, Jacob and
Joseph, the prime minister proud of the
shepherd.
I may say in regard to the most Of you
that your parents have probably visited
YOU for the last time, or will soon pay you
such q visit and [ have wondered if they
Will ever visit you in the Kings palace.
ooh" you say, II am in the pit of sin!''
Joseph was in the pit oh" you say, 81
am in the prison of mine iniquity!' Joseph
vas once i'll prison. oh" you say, u
didn't have q fair chance; l was denied
maternal attendance oh you say, II
am far away from the land of my ma tiv-
ity" Joseph was far from home. 'Oh,"
YOU say, II have been betrayed and exas-
peratedn' Did not Josephs brethren sell
him to a passing Ishmaelitsh caravan?
Yet God brought him to that emblazoned
residence, and if you will trust His grace
in Jesus Christ, you, too will be enfpalaced
Oh, what a day that will be when the old
folks come from an adjoining mansion IN
heaven and find you amid the alabaster
pillars of the throneroom and living with
the King! They are coming UP the steps
now and the epauletted guard of the palace
ruShes in and says: Your fathers COM
Ing, your mothers cominGt" And when
under the arches of precious stones and on
the pavement Of porphyry, you greet each
other the scene Will eclipse the meeting on
the Goshen highway, when Joseph and
Jacob fell on each others neck and Wept a