The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-13
PENIS GROVE. n. J.. FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1894.

fattfar and grandmother are more lenient and
indulgent to your children than they ever
were with you. Aud what wonders OF re-
violation In the bombazine pocket OF the one
and the sleeve OF the other Blessed Is that
home where Christian parents come to visit !
\ Whatever may have been the style OF this
architecture when they came, 1t Is a
| palace before they leave. II 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. anil you will
remember just how they %lootei. AMI whore
they sat, and what they said, and at what
figure of the carpet, and Mt what doorsill
they parted with you, giving you the final
goodby. Do not be embarrassed il your
father come to tow ami he have the man
! ners of the shepherd, AMI II youc mother
come to town AMI there ba in hes hat no
sign OF costly millinery. The wife Of the
| Emperor Theo losiu9 said a Wis thing when
she said, 'HusbInis, remember what you
lately were aud remember what you are and
be thankful."
By this time you all notice what kindly
provision Joseph male for his father, Jacob.
\ Joseph did not say ~ can't have the old
man around this place. Hsw clumsy he
would look climbing up these marble stairs
and walking over these mosaics! Then he
would be putting his hanis upon some OF
these frescoss. People would wonder where
thar OH RFe6uHOFu cams from. he WOutu
shock all the Egyptian court with his man
ners at table. Besides that he might get
sick on my hands, and he might be qusrulous,
and he might talk to me as though l were
only a boy, when I an the second man In
all the realm. OF course he must not suffer,
and II there Is famine In this country-and
I hear there isl will send him some pro-
visions, but I can't take a man from
Padanaram and Introduce him into this
polite Egyptian Court. What a ~nutsanceit
Is to nave poor relation"
Joseph did not SAY that, but he rushed out
to meet his father with perfect abando Of
affection, and brou sht him up to the palace
and introduced him to the emperor, and
provi led for all the rest OF the fathers days,
and nothing was too COOL for the old man
while living, and when he was dead Joseph,
with military escort, took his fathers re-
mains to the family cemetery. Would God
all children we're as kline to their parents
If the father nave large property, AMI he
be wise enough to keep 1t In his own name,
he will bs respected by the heirs, but how
often 1t Is when the son fin Is his father In
famine, as Joseph found Jacob in famine,
the young people make 1t very hard for the
old man They ara 80 surprised he eats
with q knife instead of a fork. They are
chagrined at his sntedlluvian habits. They
are provoked because he cannot hear as we'll
as he used to, n when he asks 1t over
again and the son has to repeat 1t he bawls
in the old mans ear, 81 hope you hear that -
How long he must wear the old coat or the
old hat before they get him a new one How
'chagrined they are at his Independence Of
the English GRAMMAR How long he hangs
onl Seventy years, n not gone yet!
Seventy-hve years, and not gone yet Eighty
years, and not gone yeti Will he ever go?
They think 1t OF no use to have a doctor in
his last sickness, and go up to the drug
store, and get o dose OF something that
makes him worse, and economics on a coffin,
and beat the undertaken down to the last
point, giving a note for the reiucei amount,
which they never pay. | hava OIL 1tatei at
~obsequles OF aged people where the family
have been so inordinately resigned to Provi-
denee that / felt like taking my text from
Proverbs, 1.-THE eye that mocketh at its father
ani refuseth to obey its mother, the ravens oil
the valley shall pick 1t out, and tho young
eagles shall eat IT." In other words, such
an migrate ought to have q flock OF crows
for pallbearers! l congratulate you II you
have the honor OF providing for aged par.
ents. The blessings OF the Lord God oil
Joseph and Jacob will be on you.
rejoics to remember that, though my
father lived in o plain house ths most OF h5
days, he died in a mansion provided by y
tllial piety ola soa who had achieved a f. :
tune. There the octogsnarian sat, and ~
servants waited or him, and there wscd
plenty of horses aud 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, an there wer,
musical instruments OF all sorts to regale
him, and when life had passed the ~neighbors
came out and expressed all honor possible
AMI carried him to the village Mschpslah
and put him down beside the RIchel with
whom he had lived more than hall a cen.
fury. Share your successes with the Old
people. The probability is that the principles
they inculcated achieved your fortune. Give
them a Christian percentage OF kin lily con.
sidaration. Let joseph divide with Jacobthe
pasture fields OF Goshen AMI tho glories OF
the Egyptian court.
And here I would liket to sing the praises
OF the sisterhooa who remain unmarried
that they might administer to sgsi parents.
The brutal world calls these sacrificing ONES
peculiar or angular, but II you have had rs
many ~annoyances as they have had Kan
tippe would have been an angel compared to
you. It Is easier to take care OF Ave rolltck-
ing, romping children than OF one childish
old man. Among the best women are thoss
who allowed the bloon otlite to pass away
while they were caring for their parents.
While other maidens wera souni asleep
they were soaking the old mans fest or
tucking up the covers around the invalid
mother. While other maidens were In the
cotillon they were dancing attendance upon
rheumatism and spreading plasters for the
Iame back OF the septenarlan and heating
catnip tea for insomnia.
In almost every circle OF our kindredthere
has been some queen OF self sacrlfceto whom
jeweled hand after jewelei hand was offered
in marriage, but who stayed on the old
place because OF the sense OF ftial Obligation
until the health was gone aud the attractive
ness of personal presence had vanished.
Brutal society may call such acne by a nick
-. yal Ill kaa 4 49, NhkaF IN haavan
calls her saint. an I call her domestic mar
tyr. A half dozen or iinary women have not
as much nobility as could be foun1 in the
smallest Joint OF the little anger OF her left
hand. Although the world has stool SOD
years, this Is the first apotheosts OF maiden
hood, although In the long line otthose n
have declined marriage that they might bs
qualified for some especial mission are the
names Of Anna Ross and Margaret BrecStn-
ridge and Mary shelton and Anna Etheridge
and Gsorgiana Wllletts, tho angels OF the
battlefelds of Fair OAKS an | Lookout Noun
tain and Chancellorsvllle, an Though single
life has been honored by the fact that the
three greatest men OF the Biole-Joah AMI
Paul and Chrlst-ware celibltes.
Let the ungrateful world sheer at the
maiden aunt, but God has o throne bur.
nished for her arrival, an on one side oil
that throne in heaven there is a vase con-
tanning two jewels, the one brighter than tins
kOhtnOOr OF LONDON rover dnu tue OtuoK
larger than any diamond ever found 10 the
districts OF G~olconda-the one jewel by the
lapldary of the palace cut with the words,
'Inasmuch as We did II to father J the other
Jewel by the Iapidary Of the palace cut with
the words, "~Inasmuoh as ye did II to moth
err" "0yer the Hills to the Poorhouse' is
the exquisite ballad OF viii Carleton, who
found an old woman who had been turned
of by her prosperous sons, but l thank God
/ may fud in my text "oyer the hills to the
palace"
As If to disgust us with unhlial conduct,
the Bible presents US the story OF Micah, WAC
stole the 100 shekets from his mother. an
the story or ANsaIom. VINO trte1 10 sstnroue
his father. But all history is beautiful, witt
stories OF flial fidelity. Epaminondas, tbs
warrior, found his chief delight in reeittne
to his parents his victories. There Roe;
Eneas from burning Troy, on his shoulder
Anchises, his father. TIL Athenians pun
ished with death any unAlial conduct. Their
goes beautiful Ruth escorting venerable
Naomi across the desert amid the howiingo o
the wolves and the barking OF the iackals'
Tohn 7 ou-anoa hurnad NJ tho stake in Col.