The Red Cloud chief., 1894-07-13

whCn jacob tOullt hlin-nctwcen tho
boy II years of agc and the man in mid.
life, his forehead developed with tho
great business of state-but Jacob was
glad to get back Joseph anyhow, and
II did not make much difference to the
old man whether the boy locked older
or looked younger. And it will be
enough Joy for that parent IL he can get
back that son, that daughter at the gate
of heaven, whether the departed loved
one shall come a chorub or in full grown
angelhood. There must be a change
wrought by that celestial climate and
by those supornal years, but it 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 ! want you to know 1t will
be gloriously bettered in that land where
there has never been q death and where
all the inhabitants will live on In the
great future as long rs God! Joseph
was Joseph, Notwithstanding the palace,
and your child will DO your child not.
withstanding all the raining splendors
Of everlasting noon.
A Great Day.
What q thrilling visit was that of
the old shepherd to the prime minister
JoseplA l see the old countryman seat
ed in the palace looking around at the
mirrors, and the fountains, and tho
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 housed "Oh,"
says tho old man within himself, II do
wish Rachel could be here to see all
this!" ! visited Mt the farmhouse Of tho
father Of Willard Fillmore when the
son was president of the United States,
and the ~octogenarian farmer entertain
cd mo until IL o'clock ut night, telling
me what great things no saw in his
sons house at Washington, and what
Daniel Webster said to him, and how
grandly Willard treated his father in
tho White House. The old mans face
was illumined with tho story until al
most the midnight. He had just been
visiting his son at the capital. And /
suppose it was something Of tho same
Joy that thrilled the heart Of tho old
shepherd IS he stood in the palace Of
the prime minister.
1t is q great day with you when your
old parents com 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 a little
restless, aud 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 tho house. They are q 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 il 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 tho 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 II and the sleeve Of the
other! Blessed is that homo where
Christian parents come to visit! What
ever may have been the style Of the
architecture when they came, it is a
palace before they leave. If they visit
you so 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 IL your father
come TO town and he have the manner
Of the shepherd, and if your mother
come to town and there be In her hat NJ
sign Of costly millinery. The wife o.
the Emperor Theodosius said n wist
thing when she said, Husbands, re
member what you lately were and re
member what you are and DO thank
full"
Joseph and Jacob.
BY this time you all notice wha
kindly provision Joseph made for hi
father, Jacob. Joseph did not say: 90
can't have the old man around thiI
place. How clumsy he would lool
climbing up these marble stairs ant
walking over these mosaics! Then HI
would be putting his hands upon SOM
Of these frescoes. People would wonde
where that old greenhorn came from
He would shock all the Egyptian cour
with his manner at table. Besides tina
he might get sick on my hands, and h
might be querulous, and he might tall
to me as though l were only a 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 q maj
from Padanaram and introduce hin
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