The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-07-19
FROM YOUTH TO AGE.
Rev. DIR. Talmsgt's Interesting Discourao
Through the Press.


BRcoKLyN, July 8.--Rsv. DR.. Tai
mage, who is now nearing tho antip0des
on his round the world journey, has
selected as the subject for his sermon
through the press totlav "The Rustic In
the Palace" The text being taken from
Genesis xiv, 28. "I will 90 ana sec him
before I die."
Jacob had long since passed tho hun q.
dred year milestone. In those times
people were distingulshe :. for longevity.
In the centuries afterward persons lived
to great age. Galen, the most celebrated
physician of his time, took 80 little Of his
own medicine that he lived to 14O wears.
A man of undoubted veracity on the
witness stand in England swore that no
remembered an event $50 before. Lord
Bacon speaks OF countess who had cut
three sets Of teeth and died at I4O years.
Joseph Crele Of Pennsylvania lived l1O
years. In 1857 a..book was printed con.
tainlng tho names Of 81 persons who
lived 140 years and the names of IL per.
sons who lived $50 years.
Among the grand old people Of whom
we have record was Jacob, the shepherd
OF tho text. But be had q bad lot Of boys.
They were jealous and ambitious and oy
cry way unprinclpled. Joseph, however,
seemed 10 be and exception, but he had
been gone many years and the rrobabll.
ltY was that no was dead. AS some
times now in house you will find kept
nj Inc table vacant chair, aplate, knife,
FORK, Tor somc deceased member of the
family, so Jacob kept ia his heart a
place for his beloved Joseph. There sits
tho OLD man. the flock of 140 Years in
their flight having alishtcd long enough
10 leave the marks OF thor claw on ioro.
head aud cheek and temple. His long
beard SHOWS down ovor his chest. His
eyes arc somewhat dim, and he can eeo
farther when they are closed than when
theY are open, for he can 500 clear back
into the time when beautiful Rachel, bis
Wile, was living, and his children shook
the oriental abode with their merriment.
Inc centcnaran is sitting dreaming
oVer the past when he hears n wagon
rumbllng TO Tho ftOut door. lie gets IN
anu goes TO tho door to sec who hao ar.
rived, and his long absent sons from
Egypt como in and announce to him
mat Joseph, instead of being dead, il
living In an Egyptian palace.with oil th
investlture of primo minister next TO th,
KING IN the mghtcst empire of all th
void! Tho news was TOO sudden ant
TOO glad for tio old man, and his checks
Whlten, and he has dazsd look, anC
his stan falls out Of his hand, and he
would have dropped had not the sons
caught him and led him to lounge and
put cold water on his face and famed
HIM little.
La that halt delirium the old man
mumbies somethingaabout his son JOS
eph. He says: "You don't mean JOS
eph. 40 you--my dear son, who has been
deadao lon22 You don't mean Joseph,
10 you?' But after they had fully re-,
eucltated HIM and the news was con-
nrmed the tears begin their winding way
Gown the crossroads Of tho wrinkles, and
Ihe sunken lips OF the old man culver,
ana he brings his bent fingers together
as ne says: Joseph is YET alive. | viii
20 and see him hetoro die.''
IL dld.not tako tho old man great
Whlie TO get ready, 1 warrant YOU. IIe
put On the best clothes that tho shop-
herd's wardrobe could afford. lilo got
into the wagon, aud though tho aged nrc
cautious and like to ride slow tho wagon
dld not get along fast enough for this old
man, and when the wagon with Tho old
man met Joseph's chariot coming down
10 meet him, aud Joseph 60, out OF the
chariot and got into tho wagon and threw
his arms around his iather's neck. il. VIVA
an antithesis Of royalty and rusticitv.
OF simplicity and pomp, tilial affection
ana paternal love, which lonves ia 40
much IN doubt about whether we had
better laugh or Cry that we do both, So
Jacob kept the resolution Of tho text. "I
Will 60 and see him before die"
WnaC strong and unfailing thing is
parental attachment! Was it not al-.
most time for Jacob to forget JoscphY
Inc hot suns of many summers had
plazed on tho heath; tho ri~er Nile had
oVetnoWed and recedod, overllowcd and
receded again and again; tho seed had
peen soWn and harvest reapcd. SLare
rose and set. Years OF plenty and years
OF famine had passed on, but the love of
JACOB tor Joseph in my text ia over
whelmingly dramatic. Oh, that ia n
cora tnat ls not snapped, though pulled
Vh ~ .'.., Dy many decades! Though when
sne little chlld expired the parents may
n aoS nGVe peen moro than rs Years of
oso aso, auu now they are rs, yet tho vision
~ N""ioS hIu tuo Cnlulbl lace. md
tne hret utterances of tho infantjle lins
are fresh today, in spite of tho passage of Of
ha1 century. Joseph was as fresh in
jacobs Jaco memory as over, though at at II II
y@osrs @ OF age the boy had dIsanneored
rom iron the old homestead. I foun1 Ii" IN
our our (lamliy record the story OF an infant
tnat mad died so years before, md "i as;d
10 my parents, "What Is this re,orS A. o~I
ana what docs 1t mean?' Their % cH;ef
answer was long, deep Sigh. T. '1,os woa
YET 10 them very tender sorr"w
What does that all means Why' STryoTi T.
means our children departed aro y, nurs ~
yet, and that cord of attachment reach - ",
ing ACROSS the years will hold IA nntH % !,
: brings us together in the palace, as Jacot n
and Joseph were brought together. Tho
is one thing that make old people d.,
happy. They realize it is reunion witt
those from whom they have long beel
separated.
1 am ofton asked as pastor, and ever,
pastor is asked the question, twill IN;
children be children in heaven and for.
ever childrenP p" We'll, there was n,
00iIht a Srnot ohono,a e., T,,nnxI, g.. ~,