The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-09

what daniel W eDster said to him. and
how grandly Willard treated his father
in the white house. The old mans face
was illumined with the story until almost
the midnight. He had just been visiting
his son at the capitol. And I suppose it
was something of the same loy that
thrilled the heart of the old shepherd as
he stood in the palace of the prime minis
ter. II 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 cannot stay
many days, for they are little restless,
and especially al nightfall, because they
sleep better in their own bed; but while
they tarry you somehow feel there is
a benedlctlOn IN every room in the house.
They are little feeble and YOU make it
as easy as you can for them, and you real
ize they viii probably not visit you very
otten-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 appar-
atus for illumination. In the morning,
with real interest in their health, you ask
them how they rested all night. Joseph,
in the historical sense of the text, did not
think any more of his father than you do
of your parents. The probability is, be-
fore they leave your house they half spoil
your children with kindness Grand
father and grandmother are more lenient
and indutgent with your children than
they ever were with you. And'Vyhat won
ders Of revelation in the bonn bazine pocket
of the one and the sleeve of the other
Blessed is that home where Christian
parents come TO visit Whatever NAV
have been the style of the architecture
when they came, it is palace before they
leave. If they visit you fifty 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 remem-
Der just how they looked and where they
sat, and what they said, and at what fig
ure OF the carpet, and at what door sill
they parted with you, giving you the
final good-by. Do not be embarrassed if
your father come 10 town and he have the
manners of the shepherd, and if your
mother come to town and there be in her
hat no sign Of costly millinery. The wife
OF the Emperor Theodosius said a wise
thing when she said Husbands, remem-
Der what you lately were, and remember
what you are, and be thankful"
BY this time you all notice what kindly
provision Joseph made for his father
Jacob. Joseph did not say: II can't
have the old man around this place. How
clumsy he would look clint bling up these
marble stairs and walking over these
mOsaics. Then he would be putting his
hands upon some of these frescoes. Peo-
Pile would wonder where that old green
horn came from. He would shock all the
the Egyptian court with his manners at
table. Besides that, he might get sick on
my hands, and he might be duerulous and
he might talk to me as though / were
only a boy, when l am the second man in
all the realm. Ofcourse he unjust not suffer,
and If there is famine in his country
and hear there isl will send him some
provisions; tut can't take a man from
Padanarap1 and intro duce him into this
polite Egyptian court What a nuisance
II is 70 have poor relations!'
Joseph did not say that, but he rushed
oUy to met his father with perfect aban-
don of affection, and brought him up to
the palace, ana introduced him to the
emperor, and provided for all the rest of
the fathers days, and nothing was too
good for the old man while living: and
when he was dead, Joseph, with military
escort, took his fathers remains to tne
family cemetery. Would God all chill
dren were as kind to their parents.
If the father have large property, and
he be wise enough to keep it into his own
name he will be respected by the heirs ;
but how often is it when the son finds
his father in famine as Joseph found Jacob
in famine, the young people made it very
hard for the old man. They are so sur
prised he eats with knife instead of a
fork. They are chagrined at his antedi-
luvian habits. They are provoked because
he cannot hear as well as he used to,
and when he asks it over again
and the son has to repeat it, he bawls
in the old mans ear: Il hope YOU hear
that" How long he must wear the old
coat or 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! Seventy-fve years
and not gone yeti Eighty years and not
gone yet! viii he ever gos They think
it of no use TO have doctor in his last
sickness, and go up TO the drug store and
get dose of something that makes him
worse, and economic on coffin, and beat
the undertaken down to the last point,
giving note for the reduced amount,
which they never pay. l have officiated
at obsequies OF aged people where the
family have been so ipordinately resigned
to Providence that felt like taking nv
text from Proverbs: THE eve that mock
eth 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 migrate
out to have a lock of crows for pail
DNaAOAos YOU IL you nave
the honor of providing for aged parents.
The blessing of the Lord God of Joseph
and Jacob will be on you.
I rejoice to remem Der that though my
father lived in plain house the most Of
his days, he died in a mansion provided
by the tilial piety of a son who had
achieved fortune. There the octogen-
arian sat, and the servants waited on
him, and there were plenty of horses and
plenty of carriages to convey him, and a
bower in which to sit on long summer
afternoons, dreaming over the past; and
there was not a room in the house where
he was not welcome, and there were
musical instruments of all sorts to regale
him; and when life had passed. the
neighbors came out and expressed all
honor possible and carried him to the
village Machpelah, and put him down be-
| size the Rachel with whom he had lived
more than half century. Share your
| successes with the old people. The prob
| ability is that the principles they incul-
Gated achieved your fortune. Give them
Christian percentage of kindly consid-
GRAFTON. Let Joseph divide with Jacob
| the pasture fields of Goshen and the
! glories of the Egyptian court.
| And here l would like to sing the
| praises Of the sisterhood who remain I'M
married that they might administer 10
! aged parents. The brut al world calls
! these self-sacrifcing ones peculiar or an
| gular; but II you had mad as many annoy
| ances as they have had Xantippe Would