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

in the smallest Joint of the little
finger of the left hand. Although the
world has stood six thousand years, this
is the first apotheosis of maidenhood, al
though in the long line of those who have
declined marriage that they might De
qualified for some special mission are the
names of Anna Ross and Margaret
Rreckinridge. and Mary Shelton, aud
Anna Etheridge. and Mary Georgiana
Willetts, the angels OF the 6attlehelds OF
Fair Oaks. and Lookout Mountain, and
Charlottesville and though single lie
has been honored by the fact that the
grandest men of the Bible-John and
Paul and Christ-were celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer at the
maiden aunt, but God has throne
Furnished for her arrival, and on one side
of that throne in heaven there is a vase
containing two jewels, the one brighter
than the Kohinoor of London Tower, and
the other larger than any diamond ever
found in the districts of Golconda-the
one jewel by the lapidary of the palace
cut with the words: "Inasmuch as We did
it 10 father" the other jewel by the
lapidary Of the palace cut with the words:
''Inasmuch as We did il to mother" "Over
the Hills to the Poor House, is the ex-
quislte ballad Of VIII Carleton, who
found an old woman who had been turned
OF by her prosperous sons; but | thank
God / may find in my text "Oyer the Mills
to the palace"
AS if to disgust US with unflial con-
duct, the Bible presents us the story Of
Micah, who stole the LOO shekels from
his mother, and the story of Absalom,
who tried to dethrone his father. But
all his history is beautiful with stories Of
filial fidelity. Epaminondas, the warrior,
found his chief delight in reclting to his
parents his victories. There goes 4Eneas
from burning Troy, on his shoulders An
chises, his father. The Athenians pun
ished with death any untilial conduct.
There goes beautiful Ruth escorting ven
cradle Naomi across the5desert, amid the
bowling of the wolves and the barking of
the jackals. John Lawrence, burned at
tho stake in Colchester, was cheered in
the flames by his children, who said 20,
God, strengthen thy servant and keep
they promise" And Christ in the hour
of excruciation, provided for his old
mother. Jacob kept his resolution, Il
will 90 and see him before l die" and a
little while after we find them walking
the tesselated floor Of the palace, Jacob
and Joseph, the prime minister proud of
the shepherd.
may say in regard to most of you that
your parents have probably visited you
for the last time, or will soon pay you
such visit, and | have wondered If they
will ever visit you in the Kings palace.
oh" you say, Il am in the pit of sinn
Joseph was in the pit. cob" you say, Il
am in the prison of mine iniquity"
Joseph was once in prison. ooh" YOU
say, II didn't have a fair chance; 7 was
denied maternal kindness + Joseph was
denied maternal attendance. Oh" you
say, II am far away from the land of my
nativity" Joseph was far from home.
oh" you say, Il have been betrayed
and exasperated" Did not
Josephs brethren sell him to
passing Ishmaelitish caravan
Yet God brought him to that emblazoned
residence; and if you will trust his grace
in Jesus Christ, you, too, will be empal-
aced Oh. what day that will be when
the old folks come from an ad joining man
sion in heaven, and find you amid the ala
baster pillars of the throne-room, and
living with the Kingl They are coming
up the steps now, and the epauletted
guard of the palace rushed in and says:
Your fathers coming your mothers
comingl" And when under the arches of
precious stones and on the pavement of
porphyry you greet each other, the scene
will eclipse the meeting on the Goshen
highway. when Joseph and Jacob fell on
each others necks and wept a good
while.
But oh, how changed the old folks will
be! Their cheek smoothed into the flesh
of little child Their stopped posture
lifted into immortal symmetry Their
foot now so feeble, then with the spright-
illness of a bounding roe, as they shall say
to you: "a spirit passed this way from
earth and told US that you Were wayward
and dissipated after we left the world :;
but you have repented, our prayer has
been answered, and you are here; and we
used to visit you on earth before we died,
now we visit you in your new home after
our ascension" And father will say,
Mother, don't you see Joseph is
yet alivel" and mother will say,
'Yes, father, Joseph is yet alive" And
then they will talk over their earthly
anxieties in regard to you, and the mid
night supplications in your behalf, and
they will recite to each other the old
scripture passage with which they used
to cheer their staggering faith: Il will
be God to thee and thy seed after thee. "
Oh, the palace, the palace, the palace
That is what Richard Baxter called "The
Saints Everlasting Rest" That is what
John Bunyan called the Celestial City"
That is Young's Might Thoughts
turned into morning Civilizations. That is
Grays "Elegy in Churchyard" turned
to resurrection spectacle. That is the
"Cotter's Saturday Night exchanged for
the Cotter's Sabbath morning. That is
the shepherd of Salisbury Plains amid the
flocks on the hills of heaven. That is the
famine-struck Padanaram turned into the
rich pasture fields of Goshen. That is
Jacob visiting Joseph at the emerald
castle.