Connecticut western news., 1894-07-12

angular, but if you have had as many annoyances as they have had Xantippe would have been an angel compared to you. It is easier to take care of five rol- licking, rolnping children than of one childish old man. Among the best wo- men are those who allowed the bloom of life to pass away while they were caring for their parents. While other maidens were sound asleep they were soaking the old mans feet or tucking up the covers around the invalid moth CT. While other maidens were in the cotillon they were dancing attendance upon rheumatism and spreading plasters for the lame back of the septenarian and heating catnip tea for insomnia
 Women to Be Honored.
 In almost every circle of our kindred there has been some queen of self sacri- fee to whom jeweled hand after jewel ed hand was offered in marriage, but who staid on the old place because of the sense of filial obligation until the health was gone and the attractiveness of personal presence had vanished. Bru- tai society may call such a one by nickname. God calls her daughter, and heaven calls her saint, and l call her domestic martyr. A half dozen ordina- " women have not as much nobility as could be found in the smallest joint of the little finger of her left hand. Al though the world has stood 6, 900 years this is the first apotheosis of maiden hood. although in the long line of those who have declined marriage that they might be qualified for some especial mission are the names of Anna Ross and Margaret Breckinridge and Mary Shelton and Anna Etheridge and Geor- giana Willetts, the angels of the battle fields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Noun tain and Charlottesville, and though single life has been honored by the fact that the three grandest men of the Bi- ble-John and Paul and Christ-were celibates.
 Let the ungrateful world sheer at the maiden aunt, but God has throne bur nished for her arrival, and on one side of that throne in heaven there is 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
 
 cut with the words, "nasmuch as ye did it to father;' the other jewel by the iapidary of the palace cut with the words, ''Inasmuch as ye did it to meth er." "Over the Hills to the Poorhouse" is the exquisite ballad of Will Carle- ton, who found an old woman who had been turned off by her prosperous sons, but thank God I may find in my text "Over the hills to the palace"
 Jacobs Resolution.
 As if to disgust us with unfilial con- duct, the Bible presents us the story of Micah, who stole the l, 100 shekels from his mother, and the story of Absalom, who tried to dethrone his father. But all history is beautiful with stories of filial fidelity. Epaminondas, the war rior, found his chief delight in reciting to his parents his victories. There goes Eneas from burning Troy, on his shoul ders Anchises, his father. The Athen- ians punished with death any unfilial conduct There goes beautiful Ruth es- corting venerable Naomi across the des- ert amid the bowling of the wolves and the barking of the jackals. John Law renee, burned at the stake in Colches- ter, was cheered in the flames by his children, who said, 70 God, strength en thy servant and keep thy promisep' And Christ in the hour of excruciation provided for his old mother. Jacob kept his resolution. "I will go and see him before I die, <" and a little while after we find them walking the tessellated floor of the palace, Jacob and Joseph, the prime minister proud of the shep- herd.
 I may say in regard to the 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, '1 am in the pit of sinp' Joseph was in the pit. "Oh, you say,"I am in the prison of mine iniquityp' Joseph was once in prison. ''Oh, you say, 1T didn't have fair chance. I was denied ma ternal kindnessp' Joseph was denied maternal attendance. "Oh, {" you say, ''I am far away from the land of my nativityP Joseph was far from home. "Oh, you say, "I have been betrayed and exasperatedH Did not Joseph's brethren sell him to passing Ishmael- itish caravan? Yet God brought him to that emblazoned residence, and if you will trust his grace in Jesus Christ you, too will be empalaced.
 Oh, what day that will be when the old folks come from an adjoining mansion in heaven and find you amid the alabaster pillars of the throneroom and living with the Kingl They are coming up the steps now, and the epau- leted guard of the palace rushes in and says: "Your fathers comingl Your mothers comingp 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 neck and wept good while.
 Immortal Symmetry.
 But, oh, how changed the old folks will bel Their cheek smoothed into the flesh of little child Their stopped posture lifted into immortal symmetry. Their foot now so feeble, then with the sprightliness of 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 as 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 alive?" 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 midnight applications in your behalf, and they will recite to each oth- er the old Scripture passage with which they used to cheer their staggering faith, II will be God to thee and thy seed after thee" Oh, the palace, the palace, the palacei That is what Rich ard Baxter called 'srThe saints' eyerlast-