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

| huol wear the ola coat OF the
old hat before they get him new
one! How chagrined they are at his
independence of the English grammar.
How long he hangs on. Seventy years
and not gone yet! Eighty years and
not gone yet. VIII he ever go? They
think it of no use to have doctor in
his last sickness, and go up 30 the drug
store and get dose of something that
makes him worse, and economize on a
coffin. and beat the undertaken down
to the last point, giving a note for the
reduced amount, which they never pay.
| have OBLIGATED at obsequies of aged
| people where the family have been so
Unfortunately resigned to providence
that l felt like taking my text from
Proverbs 1.-The eye that mocketh at
its 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 in
CRATE ought to have a flock of crows for
pall-bearers. congratulate you if yon
have the honor of providing for your
aged parents, The blessing of the Lord
God of Joseph and Jacob will be on
you.
rejoice to remember that though
my father lived in a plain house the
most of his days, he died in a mansion
provided by the filial piety of a son
who had achieved fortune. There
the octogenarian sat, and the servants
waited on him, and there were plenty
of horses and plenty of carriages tc|
, convey him, and bower in which t0|
sit on long summer afternoons. dream
ing over the past: and there was not a
room in the house where he was not
welcome, and there were musical in
struments of all sorts to regale him;
and when he had passed, the neighbors
came out and expressed all honor pos
sible and carried him to the village
Maehpelah, and put him down beside
the Rachael with whom ne had lived
more than half a century Share your
successes with the old people. The
probability is that the principles they
ineulcated achieved your fortune. Give
them Christian percentage of kindly
consideration. Let Joseph divide with
Jacob the pasture fields of Goshen and
tbs glories of the Egyptian court
And here | would like to sing the
praises of the sisterhood who remain |
unmarried that they might administer
to aged parents The brutal world calls
these self-sacrificing ones peculiar or
angular; but if you had had as many
aanoyanees as they have had Nantippe |
would have been an angel compared 70
You. 1t is easier to take care of five
rollieking, romping children than OF
one childish old man. Among the best
women are those who allowed the
bloom of life to pass away while they
were caring for their parents. While |
other maidens were sound asleep they
were soaking the old mans feet or
tucking up the covers around the in
valid mother. While other maiden
were in the cotillion they were dancing
attendance upon rheumatism, an
spreading plasters for the lame back o.
the septenarian and heating catnip tea
for insomnia.
In almost every circle of our kindred
there has been some queen of self-Sacri
flee to whom jeweled hand after jeweleo
hand was offered in marriage but who
stayed on the old place because of the
sense of filial obligation, until the
health was gone and the attractiveness
of personal presence had vanished.
Brutal society may call such one by
a nickname. God calls her daughter,
and Heaven calls her saint, and / call
her domestic martyr. A half dozen ordi.
nary women have as not much nobility
as could be found in the smallest joint
of the little finger of her left hand.
Although the world has stood six thou.
sand years. this is the first apotheosis
of maidenhood, although in the long
line of those who have declined mar
riage that they might be qualified for
some especial mission are the names OF
Anna Ross. and Margaret Breckenridge,
and Mary Shelton. and Anna Etheridge,
and Georgiana Willetts, the angels of
the battlefields of Fair Oaks. and Look.
out Mountain and Charlottesville; and
though single life has been honored by
the fact that the three grandest men
of the Bible-John and Paul and Christ
were celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer at
the maiden aunt, but God has a throne
DurnlSneu LOT ner arrival, anu on one
side of that throne in heaven there is a
vase containing two jewels, the one
brighter. than the Kohinoor of London
Tower, and the other larger than any
found in the districts of Col.
conda-the one jewel by the lapidary
of the palace cut with the words: ''In.
asmuch as We did it to the father" the
other jewel by the lapidary of the pal
ace cut with the words: 'Inasmuch a.
We did it to mother" "Over the Hills
to the Poor House" is the exquisite
ballad of win Carleton, who found an !.
Did woman who had been turned off by
her prosperous sons; but / thank God
may find in my text, ''Over the hills tc
the palace"
As if to disgust MS with unfilial con.
luct the Bible presents us with the
story of Micah. who stole the eleven
hundred shekels from his mother and