Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-11-13
love to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble grateful Drayer


Jhall there be no reward for such unpretenl |,
nS, Yet everlasting service?
Clear back in the country thers is a boy
Who wants to go to college aai get an eiu-
.ation. They call him a bookworm. Wher-
.ver they find him lin the barn or in the
iouse-he is rea ling book. "Wnat a pity
is. they say, ''that Ed cannot GET an eiu-
'atIon! His father, work aS hard As he
will, can no more than support the family
~ the product of the farm. One night
81 mas retired to his rOom and there is
: amiiy conference about him. The sisters
'ay: Father, L wish you would send
& to college. If you will. We will work
make our old dresses do The mother
says: Eyes; will get along without any
aired help. Although L an not as strong as
fused to be, think eau get along without
any hired help" The father says: "Well,
think by hu5king corn nights 1 can get
along without any assistance" Sugar is
banishel from the table, butter is banished
from the plate. That family is put down on
riSid-yes, suffering-economy that the bow
may go to college. Time passes on. COM
mencement day has come. Think not that,
l mention an imaginary case. God knows
1t happened. Com nencenent day has comeI
and the professors walk in on the stage in
their long gowns. The interest of the oc-
casion is passing on, and after awhile it
comes to IA climax of interest as the
valedictorian is to be intro iucei.
Ed has studied so hard and worked
so wei! that he has had the hon
or conferred upon him. There are rounds
Of applause, sometimes breaking into vo ,iferi
alton. 1t is great day for Ell. But away
back in the galleries are his sisters in theiI
plain hats and their faded shawIs, and tbs
old fashioned father and mother-1ear me,
she has not had new hat for six years; h.,
has not had a new coat for six years-aui
haN PAT md n,
and they laugh and they cry. and they sit
down, and they look pale, and then they ard
very much flushed. Ed gets the yarlands.
and the old fashioned group in the gallery
have their full share of the triumph They
have made thai scene possible. and in the
day when God shall more fully reward self
sacrifices made for others He will give grand
and glorious recognition. ''As his part is
that gceth down to the battle so shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff
There IS high encouragement in this sub
5eSe sSso for those who once wrought might
lily for Christ and the church, but through
sickness or collapse of fortune or advanced
years cannot now go to the front. These two
hundred men Of the text were veterans. Let
that man bare his arm and show how the
muscles were torn. Let him pull aside the
turban and see the mark Of battleax. Pull
aside the coat and see where the spear thrust
him. Would it have been fair for those men
crippled. weak and old by the brook Besor.
20 have no share in the spoils OF triumph?
] was in the Soldiers hospital in Paris and
] saw there some Of the men of the first
Napoleon, and / asked them where they had
fought under their great commander. One
man said, 'T was at Auster'itz." Another
man saic, 81 was at the Pyramids" Another
man said. tI was in the awful retreat from
Moscow Another man said, 81 was at the
bridge of Lodi" Some OF them were lame
they were all aged. Did the French Gov
ernmant turn off those old soldiers to die in
want? No. Their last DAYS were spent like
princes. Do you think my Lord is going to
turn off His old soldiers because they are
weak and worn and because they tainted by
the brook Besor? Are they going to get ne