The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-07-13

forever children" Well, there was no
doubt great change in Joseph from
,he time Jacob lost him and the time
when Jacob found him--between the
boy II years of age and the man in mid
life, his forehead developed with the
great business of state-but Jacob was
glad to get back Joseph anyhow, and
it did not make much difference to the
old man whether the boy looked older
or looked younger. And it will be
enough joy for that parent If he can get
back that son, that daughter at the gate
of heaven, whether the departed loved
one shall come cherub or in full grown
angelhood. There must be a change
wrought by that celestial climate and
by those supernal years, but it will
only be from loneliness to more lowell
ness and from health to pere radiant
health. o parent, as you think of the
darling painting and white in membrane
Gus Group want you to know it will
be gloriously bettered in that land where
there has never been death and where
all the inhabitants will live ON in the
great future as long as God! Joseph
was Joseph, notwithstanding the palace,
and your child will be your child not
withstanding all the raining splendors
of everlasting noon.
A Great Bay.
What thrilling visit was that Of
the old shepherd to the prime minister
Joseph! see the old countryman seat
ed in the palace looking around at the
mirrors, and the fountains, and the
carved pillars, and, oh, how he wishes
that Rachel, his wife, was alive and
she could have come there with him to
see their son in his. great house! ooh, )"
says the old man within himself, 81 do
wish Rachel could be here to see all
this" visited at the farmhouse Of the
father of Willard Fillmore when the
son was president of the United States,
and the octogenarian farmer entertain
ed me until II o'clock at night, telling
mo what great things he saw in his
sons house at Washington, and what
Daniel Webster said to him, and how
grandly Willard treated his father in
the White House. The old mans face
was illumined with the story until al
most the midnight He had just been
visiting his son at the capital. And l
suppose it was something Of the same
| Joy that thrilled the heart Of the old
shepherd as he stood in the palace of
the prime minister.
1t is great day with you when your
old parents come to visit you. Your
little children stand around with great
wide open eyes, wondering how any
body could be so old. The parents can
not stay many days, for they are little
restless, and especially at nightfall, be-
cause they sleep better in their own
bed, but while they tarry you somehow
feel there is a benediction in every room
in the house. They are little feeble,
and you make it as easy as you can for
them, and you realize they will probably
not visit you very oten-perhaps never
again. You go to their room after they
have retired at night to see if the lights
are properly put out. for the old people
understand candle and lamp better than
the modern apparatus for illumination.
In the morning, with real interest in
their health, you ask them how they
rested last night. Joseph, in the his
torical scene Of the text, did not think
any more Of his father than you do Of
your parents. The probability is, before
they leave your house they half spoil
your children with kindness. Grand
father and grandmother are more leni-
ent and indulgent to your children than
they ever were with you. And what
wonders of revelation in the bombazine
pocket of the one and the sleeve of the
other! Blessed is that home where
Christian parents come to visit! What
ever may have been the style of the
architecture when they came, it is q
palace before they leave. If they visit
| you so times, the two mort memorable
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.
To lot be embarrassed if your father
cone to town and he have the manners
of the shepherd, and if your mother
come to town and there be in her hat ne
sign of costly millinery. The wife o.
the Emperor Theodosius said wise
thing when she said, Husbands, re
member what you lately were and re
member what you are and be thank
full
Joseph and Jacob.
By this time you all notice whaI
kindly provision Joseph made for his
father, Jacob. Joseph did not say: 90
can't have the old man around thi:
place. How clumsy he would lool
climbing up these marble stairs ant
walking over these mosaics! Then h,
would be putting his hands upon some
of these frescoes. People would wonder
where that old greenhorn came from
He would shock all the Egyptian cour
with his manners at table. Besides tha
he might get sick on my hands, and h,
might be querulous, and he might tall
to me as though were only boy
when am the second man in all tn,
realm. OF course he must not suffer
and if there is famine in his country
and / hear there isl will send hin
some provisions, but can't take MAJ
from Padanaram and introduce hin
into this polite Egyptian court. VIVA
nuisance it is to have poor relationsr
Joseph did not say that, but he rush
ed out to meet his father with perfec
abandon of affection, and brought hin
up to the palace, and introduced him t,
tie emperor, and provided for all the res
Of the fathers days, and nothing wa
too good for the old man while living
ord when he was dead Joseph, Wit
military escort, took his fathers re
mains to tho family cemetery. Woul,
God all children were as kind to thei
parentsl
If tho father have large property, an,
he 10 wise enough to keep it in his ovl
name, he will be respected by the heirs
but how often ii is when the son find
his father in famine, as Joseph foun,
| Jacob in famine. the Young people maxi