Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-07-25
REV. DIR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Rustic I'm the Palace

cte."-Genesis XIV, %.
Jacob had long since passed the hundred
year milestone. In those times people ware
distinguished for longevity. In the centuries
afterward persons lived to great age. Gtlen,
the most celebrated physician OF his time,
took so little Of his own medicine that he
lived to 40 years. A man o. undou1tei
veracity on the witness stand IN England
swore that he remembered an event $50 years
before. Lord Bacon speaks OF a countess
who had cut three sets ofteeth ant del at
140 years. Joseph Crele. OF Ptnnsy,yantl.
lived 40 years. In 1857 u book WAS printed
containing the names OF thirty-seyan per-
sons VINO lived 40 years. AMI the names OF
eleven persons who lived 15) years.
Among the grand old people OF whom wa
have record was Jacob. the shepherd o. the
text. But he had bad lot of boys. They
were jealous and ambitious and every way
unprincipled. Joseph, however, seemed ;a
be an exception, but he had been gon. m tuy
years, and the probability was that hs was
dead. Az sometimes now in n house you
will find kept at the table = viclnt chair. a
plate, a knife, a fork, for sons deceased
member of the family, so jacob kept in his
heart place for his beloved Joseph. There
sits the old man. the flock OF 40 years in
their flight having alighted long enough to
leave the marks OF their claw on forehsa
and cheek and temple. His long beard sno vs.
down over his chest. His EYES are some
are closed than when they are open. for he
can see clear back into the time when beautt.
fuI Rachel. his wife, was living an his chill
dren shook the oriental asoie with their
merriment-
The centenarian Is sitting dreaming over
the past when he hears wagon runbltnS
to tho front door. He gets up and goes to
the door to see who has arrived, and his
long absent sons from Egypt come In and
announce to him that Joseph instead OF be-
ing dead Is still living in an Egyptian palace.
with all the investiture OF prime minister,
next to the king in the mishti-s. empire OF
all the world! The news was too sudden
and too glad for the OLD man, and his chseks
whiten, and hn hIs dazed look. and his
staff falls out of his hand, and he would
have dropped hal not the sons caught him
and led him to a lounge AMI put COLI water
on his face and famed him little.
In that half delirium ths old man mum.
bles something about his son Joseph. II.
saws: 'You don't mean Joseph, do you
nv dear son who has been deal so long?
You don't mean Joseph, do you?" But after
they hal fully rasuseitated him and the new,
was confirmed the tears begin thelr win lin Z
way down the crossroads OF the wrinkles,
and the sunken lips Of the Old man quiver,
and he brings his bent fingers together rs
he slys "Joseph is yet alive. L VIII go an1
see him before I die"
1t dill not take the old man grelt while
to get ready. warrant you. He put on the
hest clothes that ths shepherds wirirop pe
could affori. H got into the wagon, an
though the aged are cautious and iISs to
ride slow the wagon did not get along fast
enough for this old man, AMI when tho
wagon with the old man met Joseph's ohari-
OF coming down to meet him, and JOSEPH
got out OF the chariot au1 got into ths w.t-
on and threw his arms around his father )
neck. II was an antithe5is Of royalty and rus
ticity of simplicity and pomp, OF fiiial al &C.
I .rual iOvn which leaves
much in doubt about whether ws hal better
laugh or cry that we do both. 50 JACOB kept
the resolution OF the text, II will go and see
him before de-"
What n strong IN unfailinS thing is plr-
enta! attachment! Was it not almost time
for Jacob to forget Joseph2 The hot srns oil
MANY summers hal blazad on the heath ; the
river Nile had overaowsd and rece ie !. over
flowed and receded again and again; the
seed had been sown and the harvest reapsi I;
stars rose and set years OF plenty ana year:
Of famine had passed on. but the love oil
Jacob for Joseph IN my text is overwaelm-
ingly dramatic. On, that is n cord that Is
not snapped, though pulled on by many de.
eades Though when the little child expired
The parents may not havs been more than
twenty-five years OF age, AMI now they ara
seyenty-nve yet the vision OF the cradle, an
the childish face, and the first utterancsS OF
the infantile lips are fresh to-day, in spite o!
the passage of a half century. Joseph was
as fresh in Jacob's memory az ever, though
at seventeen years OF aga the boy had disap-
pearei from the old no N sStead. l founi in OUT
family record the story OF an infant that had
died fifty years before, an 1 said 10 my
oaren,s, "What is this record, AMI what
Does it mean?" Their chief answer was a
long, deep sigh. 1t WIS yet to them very
tender sorrow. What does that all mean!
Why, it means our children departed are ours
vet. and that cori OF attachment reachin
across the years will hold US until it brir g.
us together IN the palace, as JACOB an
Joseph were brought together. That IL ola
thing that makes Old people happy. Thay
realize II is reunion with those IRON Waop
they have long been separated.
am often asksi, as pastor, AMI every
pasto: is asked the question: "Will my
children be children in heaven and forever
children?' We'll, there WAS no doubt great
change in Joseph from the time Jacoo lost
him and the time when jacob found him
between the boy seventeen years Of age and
the man In mid-ilfo, his forahsat developed
with the great business OF State-out Jacoo
was glad to get back Joseph anyhow, and 1t
did nor make much diirerenns to the old man
whether the boy looked older or loosei
Younger. And it will be enouz,l
Joy for that parent II he can get back
that son, that daughter, at the gate
OF heaven, whether the departed loved ons
shall come a cherub or in full grown angel
hoo'. There must be n change wrought by
wears. but it will only be from loyeliness to
more loveIines5 AMI from health to more
r liant health. parent, as you think oil
the darling painting and waite In mem orlu ,
ous Group l want you to know II VIII %
yloriously better in that land whore there
has never been death an1 where all the in
habitants will live on in the great future "a
long "a Goal Joseph was Joseph, notwlth-
standing the palace, AMI your child wi!l o;
your child Notwithstanding all the reiSuin: !:
splendors OF everlasting noon.
What n thrilling visit was that OF the oil !
sbepberI TO the prime minister Joseph! ]
see The old countryman seated IN the pl'ace
looking around at the mirrors, anil the foun-
tains, and tine carved pillars, an on, nov
he wishes that Rachel, his wife. WIS alive
and she could have come there VITA MIN to
see their son in his great house! "Oh,
saws the oil man within hins slf, II do wisi
Rachel could Iva hero to see all this
1 visited tho farmhouse OF the father
OF Millarl Fillmore when the son was
President OF the Unitei States, and
the octoSenarian farmer entertain.
ed me until IL O'Clock at night, telling ma
what great things he saw in his sons house
at Washington, and what Daniel Webster
said 10 him. and how gran lily Millar treated
his father in the White House. the old
mans face was iiluminei with the story
until almost tds miinisnt. lie haa Just
bnen visiting his son at the capital. AMI
sunpose it was somethinS OF the sam. joy
that thrilled the heart OF the Old saepher l
as he stood in the palace o;the prim, minis.
ter.
1t is a great day with you when your oil
parents come 10 visit you. Your little chill
dren stand around with great wide open
eyes, wondering how anybody could be So
old. The parents cannot stay many days,
for they ara q little restless, and especially
Mt nightfall, because they sleep better IN
their own bed, but while they tarry You
somehow feel there is 4 benediction in every
room in the house. They are q littl'
feeble, ond you make II as easy as YOU cal
for them, and you realizs thev will prob
ably not visit you very often-psrhaps nsve,
again. You go to their room after the,
have retired at night to see IL the light
are properly put out. for the old people
understand candle ani lamp better than
the mo iern apparatus for illumination. II
the morning, with real interest in the