Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-12
Would God all chill

family cemetery. Would God all chill
dren were as kind to their parents
IL the father have large property.
and he be wise enough to keep it in
his own name, he will be respected by
the heirs; but how often it is when the
son finds his father in famine, as
Joseph found Jacob in famine, the
young people make it very hard for
the old man. They are so surprised
he eats with knife instead of a fork.
They are chagrined at his antedelu-
Wan habits. They are provoked be-
cause he can not hear as well as he
used to, and when he asks it over
again, and the son has to repeat it.
he bawls in the old mans ear: II
hope you hear THAR How long he
must wear the old coat or the old hat
before they get him new one! How
chagrined they are Mt his independ-
ence of the English grammar! How
long he hangs on! Seventy years and
not gone yet! Seventy-five years and
not gone yet! Eighty years and not
gone yet! VIII he ever go? They
think IL of no use to have
doctor in his last sickness, and
go up to the drug store and get
dose of something that makes him
worse, and economize on coffin and
beat the undertaken down to the last
point, giving note for the reduced
amount, which they never pay have
OBLIGATED at obsequies of aged people
where the family have been so inor-
dinately resigned to Providence that
felt like taking my text from Pro-
verbs: THE eye that mocketh ut it's
father, and refuseth to obey its
mother, the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out, and the young eagles
shall eat it," In other words, such an
migrate ought to have flock of crows
for pail bearers! ] congratulate you
If you have the honor of providing for
aged parents. The blessing of the
Lord God of Joseph and Jacob will be
on you.
l 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 a visit and | have
wondered IL they will ever visit you in
the kings palace. 'Oh," you say, II
|
the pit. "Oh," you say, ~ am in the
prison of mine iniquity!" Joseph was
once IN prison. oh" you say, II
didn't have II fair chance; | was de-
MED maternal kindness" Joseph was
denied maternal attendance" "Oh,"
you say, II am far away from tho
land of my nativity Joseph was far
from home oh" You say, ~ have
been betrayed and exasperated!' Did
n passing Ishmaelitish caravan?
Yet God brought him to that en-
blazoned residence; and II you will
trust his grace in Jesus Christ, you,
too, will be empalaced. Oh, what
day thai will be when the old folks
come from an adjoining mansion in
heaven, and find you amid the ala bas-
ter pillars of the throne-room and
living with the KING! They are COM
ing up the steps now, and the epau.
letted guard of the palace rushes in
and says: Your fathers coming. your
mothers comingv' And when under
the arches of precious stones and on
the pavement of porphyry you greet
each other, the scene will eclipse tho
meeting on the Goshen highway,
when Joseph and Jacob fell on each
others neck and wept good while.
But oh, how changed the old folks
will be! Their cheek smoothed into
the flesh of little child. Their
stopped posture lifted into immortal
symmetry. Their foot now so feeble.
then with the sprightness of bound
ing roe, as they shall say to you: "A
spirit passed this way from earth and
told us that you were hayward and
dissipated after we left the world; but
you have repented, our prayer has
been answered, and you are here; and
as we used to visit you on earth before
we died, now we visit you in your
new home after our ascension" And
father will say, Mother, don't you
see Joseph is still alive?" and mother
will say, Yes, father, Joseph is yet
alive. :" And then they will talk over
their earthly anxieties in regard to
| you, and the midnight suppli-
cations in your behalf, and they
will recite to each other the scrip.
cheer their staggering faith II will
be God to thee and thy seed after
thee" Oh, the palace, the palace.
the palace! That is what Richard
Baxter called THE Saints Everlasting
Rest" That is what John Bunyan
called the Celestial City" That is
Young's Might Thoughts" turned
into morning Civilizations That ia
Gray's "Elegy in Churchyard"
turned to resurrection spectacle. That
is the "Cotter's Saturday Night ex-
changed for the "Cotter's Sabbath
morning. That is the shepherd of
Salisbury Plains amid the focks
on the hills of heaven. That is
the famine-struck Padanaram turned
into the rich pasture fields of Goshen.
That is Jacob visiting Joseph at the
emerald castle.