Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-07-14

wrought by that celestial climate and
by those supernal years, but 1t will
only be from loneliness to more lowell
ness and from health to more radiant
health. o parent, as you think of the
darling painting and white In membrane
Gus Group 1 want you to know 1t will
be gloriously bettered In thatland where
there has never been o death and where
all tho inhabitants will live on In the
great future as long as Godl Joseph
ives Joseph. Notwithstanding the palace,
and your child will be your child not
withstanding all the raining splendors
Of everlasting noon.
A Great Day.
What thrilling visit was that of
the old shepherd to the prime minister
Joseph I SEQ the old countryman seat
ed In the palace looking around OF the
mirrors, and the fountains, and the
carved pillars. and, oh, how be wishes
that Rachel, his wife, was alive and
she could have come there with him to
see their son in his great housed "Oh, ]"
says tho old man within himself, II do
Fhssh f"1 1hEslted at the hfHs e1 ST ne
father of Willard Fillmore when the
son was president of the United States,
and the octogcnarian farmer entertain
ed me until IL o'clock OF night, telling
me what great things he saw in his
sons house at Washington, and what
Daniel Webster said to him, and how
prandly 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 1t was something Of the same
10Y 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 como 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 u benediction In every room
in the house. They are little feeble,
and you make 1t as easy as you can for
them, and you realize they will probably
not visit you very often-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-
emit and indulgent 20 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, 1t is o
palace before they leave If they visit
you 90 times, the two most 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.
Do not be embarrassed if your father
come to town and he have the manners
Of the shepherd, and If your mother
come to town md there be in her hat nc
sign Of costly millinery. The wife OF
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 what
kindly provision Joseph made for his
father, jacob. Joseph did not say: u
can't have the old man around this
place How clumsy he would look
climbing up these marble stairs and
walking over these mosaics Then he
would be putting his hands upon some
of these frescoes. People would wonder
where that old greenhorp came from.
Ho would shock all the Egyptian court
with his manners at table Besides thai
he might get sick on my hands, and hi
might be querulous, and he might tall
to me as though were only boy,
when am the second man in oil the
, realm. OF course he must not suffer
and If there is famine In his country
and l hear there isl will send hin
some provisions, but I can't take MAJ
from Padnnaram and introduce hin
into this polite Egyptian court What
q nuisance 1T is to have poor relationsP
Joseph did not say that but he rush
ed out to meet his father with pertec
. abandon Of affection, and brought hin
up to the palace, and introduced him K
} the emperor, and provided for oil the res
Of the fathers days. and nothing wa'
too good for the Ola hah Whiie
and when he was dead Joseph, will
| military escort, took his fathers re
) mains to the family cemetery. Would
God all children were as kind 10 theil
parentsl
II the father have large property, ant
he be wise enough to keep 1t IN his owl
name, he will be respected BY Che heirs
but how often 1t is when the son fnd
} his father in famine, as Joseph fount
Jacob In famine the young people MAKE
1t very hard for the old mon! They arr
so surprised be eats with knife instead
Of fork. They are ohagrined at MI
. antediluvian habits They are provoked
because he cannot hear as we'll as ht
> used to- and when be asks 1t over agar
:, and the son hos to repeat 1t be bawls II
the cid mans ear, II hope you heal
: thatr' How long he must wear the ole