The Red Cloud chief., 1894-07-13
OLD FOLKS AT HOME.
TOUCHING AND eeRvlD SERMON ev
REV. OR. TAlMAGE.

While He Is at the Autipodes@-"The Rus
tic In the Palace"--Duty Of Children aud
Love of Parents.
BROOKLYN, July s.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who is now nearing tho antipo.
des OH his round the world journey,
has selected as the subject for his ser.
mon through tho press today THE Rus.
tic In the Palace" the text being taken
from Genesis xiv, 80, II will go and see
him before I die"
Jacob had long since passed the hun.
bred year milestone. In those times peo-
pie were distinguished for longevity.
In the centuries afterward persons lived
to great age. Galen, the most celebrat.
ed physician Of his time, took so little
OF his own medicine that he lived to
l40 years. A man Of undoubted veraci-
ty on the witness stand in England
swore that he remembered an event $50
years before. Lord Bacon speaks of O
countess who had cut three sets Of teeth
and died at 140 years. Joseph Crele OF
Pennsylvania lived 140 years. In 1857 q
book was printed containing the names
of 81 persons who lived lao years and
the names of IL persons who lived 100
years.
Among the grand old people of whom
we have record was Jacob, the shep-
herd Of the text. But he had q bad lot
of boys. They were jealous and ambi-
tious and every way unprincipled. Jo-
seph, however, seemed to be nh excep-
ton, but he had been gone many years,
and tho probability was that he was
dead. AS sometimes now in n house you
will find kept at the table a vacant
chair, a plate, q knife, o fork, for some
deceased member Of the family, SO ia
cob kept in his heart o place for his be.
loved Joseph, There sits the old man,
the flock Of 140 years in their flight
having alighted long enough to leave
the marks of their claw on forehead and
cheek and temple. His long beard SHOWS
down over his chest. His eyes are some-
what dim, and he can see farther when
they are closed than when they are open,
for he can SEQ clear back into the time
when beautiful Rachel, his wife, was
living and his children shook the ori.
entail abode with their merriment.
A Glorious Visit.
The centenarian Is sitting dreaming
over the past when he hears q wagon
rumbling to the front door. He gets up
and goes to the door to see who has ar
rived, and his long absent ons from
Egypt como III and announce to him
that Joseph instead Of being dead is liv-
ing in al Egyptian palace, with all the
investiture of prime minister, next to
the king in the mightiest empire Of all
the world! The news was too sudden
and too glad for the old man, and his
checks whiten, and he has q dazed look,
and his staff falls out of his hand, and
he would have dropped had not the sons
caught him and led him to q lounge and
put cold water on his face and famed
him a little.
In that half delirium the old man
mumbles something about his son 10
seph. He says: "You don't mean Jo'
seph, do you-my dear son who has
been dead so long? You don't mean Jo'
seph, do youy' But after they had fully
resuscitated him and the news was con-
armed the tears begin their winding
way down the crossroads Of the wrin'
kles, and the sunken lips Of the old mar
|, culver, and he brings his bent fingers
together as he says: Joseph is yet alive.
] will go and SEQ him before l die"
1t did not take the old nan q great
while to get ready, l warrant you. HI
put on the best clothes that tho shep
herds wardrobe could afford. He go'
? into the wagon, and though the aged
are cautious and like to ride slow the
wagon did not get along fast enough fol
this old man, and when the wagon with
the old man met Joseph's chariot com
I ing down to meet him, and Joseph go'
a out of tho chariot and got into the wag
/, Oh and threw his arms around his fa
theirs neck. 1t wa an antithesis O
royalty and rusticity, of simplicity an,
pomp, Of flial affection and paterna
love, which leaves us so much in doub
about whether we had better laugh q
cry that we do both. So Jacob KEEP
the resolution of tho text, II will 60 ant
see him before I die"
The Love OF Parents.
What q strong and unfailing thing 1
parental attachment! Wa it not almos
tl1ue IOT JuCOD W AoISCV ooSVph' AH
hot suns of many summers had blaze'
, on the heath; the river Nile had over
= flowed and receded, overflowod and re
coded again and again; the seed ha'
been sown and the harvest reaped; star
rose and set; years Of plenty and year
of famine had passed OH, but the love Q
e Jacob for Joseph in my text is over
whelmingly dramatic. Oh, that is
i cord that is not snapped, though pulle
on by many decades! Though when tn
little child expired the parents may nc
u have been more than 25 years Of age
and now they are rs, yet the vision c
the cradle, and the childish face, al
y the first u~tterances Of the infantile liz
are fresh today, in spite Of the passap
Of a half century. Joseph was as fires
in Jacobs memory as ever, though {
g. II years Of age the boy had disappeare
from the old homestead. ! found in on
!, family record the story Of an infant thu
!, had died so years before, and said
!. NV norcnts. "What ia this record, an