The Penn's Grove record., 1896-05-29

can | nbsprb?" arc thu chief 1%uastions. Tney
feel about the common people ~ the Turks
felt toward the ASRD', o common soldiers.
oonsi iering tnen of no use except to I'LL u
the bitches with their dead Do1i-S while the
other troops walked over them to take the
fort. After awhile this princeof worldlysu
cess ia sick. The only interest society has in
his Illness is the eff set tint his p oSsibie de-
cegsa may hay on the m Iuey markets. At
Ter awhile he dies. Graat newspaper capi-
tails announce how ne "t trtel with nothing
and ended with ever, tliLg. Although for
sake of appearance soma people put hlrJl-
kerchiefs to the eve. thHre Is not one genuiGa
telr shed. The h3ir' sit up alt night wlen
ne lies in state, diScu sing what the oil fell
low has probahiy d1un with his money. II
takes all the livery stables within two
miles to furnish funeral equipagAs, AMI alt
the mourning stor IS ace kept busy in shlitnT
weeds OF grief. Tn stone cutters send in
proposals for "A m Dnnment The minister AZ
the obsequies reads of the resurrection
which makes tho hearers ts1r hist II the IN
scrupulous inancler does come up IN the
general rising he will try to get a CORNER
on tomtstones and graveyard fens =. All
good men are glad that the moral nuisance
has been removed. The Wall street specu-
lntors are glad because there is more room
far themselves. Tho heirs ar4 glai because
thew get possession of the long delayed in
heritnnce. Dropping every feather VI all his
plumes, every certificate of ali his stock,
every bond of all his investments. every dol
lar Of all his fortune, he departs, and AL ths
rolIiDgoi Dead March in " saul, ana an
the pageantry of his interment, and all we
pxunitaness of sa~rcophaguS, and all tho TX
~travaganc OF ~epitaphology. cannot hide the
Tnct that my text has come again to tre!nen
dDns fulnllment, "Men shall cap their hands
at him AMI shall hiss MIN out OF his place.
You see the ciarping come before the hiss.
The world cheers before 1t damns. So It Is
said the deadly asp tickies before ITS stings.
Going up, is he? Hnrrah! Stand back and
lot his galoplng horses dash by. a whirlwind
Of plated harness and tinkling healGear and
arHhei neck. Drink deep Of his mldeirn an
coguar. Boast OF how wall yOu know him.
Al hats off AZ he passes. Bask for days and
years IN tho sunlight OF his prosperity. Go
ing ,luwn, is he? Pretend 20 be nearaighted
So that you cannot see him as he walks pnst.
When men ask You If You know him, halt
aud hesii ate rs though you werh trying to
call M IA dim memory and say, "Well, y-e-s,
yes. / believe | ones did know him, but
nave not seen him for Il long while"
Cross n different ferry from the one where
you used to meet him lest he
ask for financial help. When you started
life. he spoke a good word for You ut the
bank. Talk down his credit now that his
fortunes are ~colIapsinS. He put his name
III lWb VI Nphl t''t'f7s i'ii iAilll iiIthl Wv
have changed your mind about sicll things,
and that you never indorsr. After awhile
his ma Iers come to a dead halt, AMI an as
signmGnt or suspension or sharlfTS Saie thk"1
place. You say: "He ought to have stopped
sooner. Just as | expected. He made too
big Il splash in the world, Glad tine balloon
has burst. Ha, hal AppinIs,. when he
went up, sibilant drrision Wien hc came
down. MEN shall clap their hands at him
and hiss him ont of his place So. high up
amid the crags, the eagle iicttor7 dust into
the eyes of the roebu"k, which then. with
eyes blinded, goes tumhling over the prtei-
pirr, the great antiers crashingo tine racks.
Now. compare some of these goins7 ont of
life with the departure of mou ant women
WAC in tue drA ma nf life TAXI tns part that
Go Assigned thrm and then wrnt away hon
ured OF mon and applaudel of tho lord Al
mighty. II is abont ttty years aga that ma
cumparativ sly small apartment ii tn" city a
newly married pair set up home The first
guest invited to that residence was the LORD
Jesus Christ, and the Bible given the bride
on the day of her esposual was the guide OF
that household. Days of SUNSHINE were fol-
lowed by days of shadow. Did you ever
know IA home that for fifty years had no w.
cissitude? The young woman who left her
fathers house for her young husbands homo
started out with a parental benedietion and
good advice she will never forget. Her
ulOtnbE SHlu ~ hB lit uhl bSlbtc nv illhl
riHge, "Now, my child, you are going away
from us. OF course, as long As your father
and I live yOn will feel that you can come
to us at any time. But your home will be
elsewhere. From long experience | find It
is best to serve God. 1t is very bright with
you now, my child, and you may think you
can get along without religion. nun the day
will come when you will want God, and my
advice is, establish a family altar, and, if
neei he. conduct the worship yourself"
The counse was taken, aud that young wife
consecrated every room in the house to
Col.
Years passed on and there were in that
home hilarities, but they were good and
healthful, aud sorrows, but they were com
forted. Marriages as bright as orange bios
SONS could make them. and burrials in
which all hearts wera riyen. They have n
family lot In the cemetery, bat all the place
is illuminated with stories of resurrection
and reunion. The children OF the household
that lived have grown up, and they are all
Christians, the fathar and mother leading
the way and the children following. WHAT
care the mother took of wardrobe and nriu-
cation, character and manners How hard
she sometimes worked! When the head of
the household was unfortunate in business,
she sewed until her fingers were numb and
bleeding at the tips. And h close cllcu-
lation of economics, and what ingenuity In
refitting the garments of the elder children
for the younger, and only God kept account
of that mothers sideaghes and nehdarhes
and heart aches AMI the tremulOus prayers
by the side of the sick child's cradle and by
the couch of this one fully grown.
The neighbors often noticed how tired
she looked, and old acquaintance
hardly knew her in the street. But
without complaint she waited ant toiled
and endured and accomplished all these
years. The children are out in the world
an honor to themselves md their parents.
After awhile the mothers last sickness
comes Children and grandchildren, sum
moned from afar, cone so .tiy into the room
one by one, for she is too weak to see more
than one at a time. She runs her dying
fingers lovingly through their hair and tells
them not to cry, and that she is going now,
but they will meet again in a little while in
a better world, and then kisses them goodby
and says to each, God bless and keep you,
my dear child" The day of the ~obsequles
comes, and the officiating clergyman tells
the story of wifely aud motherly endurance,
aud any hearts on earth and in heaven
echo the sentiment, and as she Is carried on
the stage of this NOR. al life there are cries
OF Faithful unto death" 'She hath done
what she could" while ~overpowering all the
voices of earth and heaven is the plaudit OF
the God who watched her from first TO last
saying, "Well done, good and faithful ser
vRnt; thou hast been faithful over q few
things, I will make thee ruler over many
things; enter b into the joy Of thy Lord!
But what became of the father of that
household He started as a young mar in
business and had a small income, and having
got a little ahead sickness in the family
swept 1t all away. He went through all the
business panies of forty years, met many
losses, and suffered many betrayals, but
kept right on trusting in God, whether bus
mess was good or poor, setting his children
H,g0oi example, n giving them tho best ol
counsel, and never a prayer did he otor Iol
all those years but they were mentioned in
1t. He Is old now and reali1 Is it cannot BE-
long before he must quit ali these scenes,
But he IL going to leave his children an in
hpritance of prayer and Christian PrIn'Lpl"
which all the dsiaicati1nS OF earth can mover
touch, and as he goeS out OF tho world the
church Of God blesses him ana the poor rin4
his doorhell TO see il he Is any better, ant
his grave is surrounded by a multi
Jude who went on foot aud stoo,
there before the procession OF carriages CANT
10. and some say, "Fhera wilt be no one Il
take his plase," and others say, Who vii
pity me now?" and others remark, "tlo sht'
be held In everlasting rem ,mbranee." And
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