Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-05-28

the mothet Lending the way, and chill.
d"cn following. What care the mother
took of wardrobe and education. char
actcr and manners How hard she
sometimes worked. When the head of
the household was unfortunate i'm
business she scwed until her fingers
were numb and bleeding ut the tips
( And what close calculation of economics
and what ingenuity in rctittiug the
garments of the elder children for the
younger, and only 'Iod ktpt account of
| THAT md'hei Sidcachcs aud headaches
End heartaches and the trcmulouS
| prayers by the side If the sick child's
cradle and 10y the couch of this ono
| fully grown The ncighbors often no.
ticcd how tired she looked, aud old ac.
quaintancrs hardly knew her in tie
street, IMt without complaint she
waited and tnilrd aud endured and AZ
rumplishcd all these years The chit
drru arc cut in the world an honor to
themselves and their parents. After
awhile the mothers last sickness comes.
Children and grandchildren, summoned
from afar, come softly 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
10 cry, and that she Is going now, but
they will meet again in a little " lille in
better wnrld, and then kisses them
gond'by and says Ia each: God bless
and keep you, my dear childI' The dav
nf the ubScquits comes, and the otliciat-
ing clergyman tells the story Of wifclv
! and motherly endurance, and many
hearts on earth and in Heaven echo
| the sentiment. and aS she is carried off
the stage of this mortal life there are
cries of: Faithful unto DEATH" She
hath done what she could" while over.
| towering all the voices of earth and
| Heaven is the plaudit of tod. who
watched her from first Ia last, saying
well done, good and faithful servant!
thou hast been faithful over a few
! things, ! will make thee ruler over
many things: enter thou into the joy of
! thy Lord
hut what became uf the father ot
| that household? lie started as Young
man In business and had small in
come, and. having got "A little ahead,
sickness in the family swept il all
away. lie went through ali the bust.
ness panics of 10 years. met many los,
SEES. and suffered many betrayals, hut
kept right on trusting In God. whet her
business was good or poor. setting his
children y good example and giving
them the hest Of counsel. and never "a
prayer did he offer for al those years
hut they were mentioned in il. lie i
old now, and realizes il can not I've long
before he must quit all these scenes
liut he i going Ia leave his children an
inheritance of prayer and Christian
principles which all the defnl cations of
earth can never touch. and as he
goes out of the world the church
of God blesses him and the poor
ring his door bell To see if he is any
better, and his grave is surround.
ed by multitude who went on
foot and stood there before the process
sion of carriages came up, and some
| say; There will he no ore tn take his
place" and others say: "Who will pity
me now?" and others remark: lie
shall be held in everlasting remem-
brance." And as the drama of his life
closes all the vociferatiun and braves
and encores that ever shook the amphi-
theaters of earthly spectacle wers
tame and feeble compared with, the
long, loud thunders of approval that
| shall break from the crowd of wit
nesscs in the piled-up gallery of the
heavens. Choose We between the life
that shall close by being Kissed off the
stage and the life that shall close amid
VACCINATIONS supernal and archangclic