The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-05-29

tickles before it stings. Going up, IS
he? Hurrahi Stand back and let his
galloping horses dash by, a whirlwInd
OF plated harness and tinkling head
gear II arched neck. Drink deep OF
his Madeira and cognac. Boast of how
well you knew him. All hats Off as he
passes. Bask for days and years in
the sunlight OF his prosperity. Going
down, is he? Pretend to be near
sighted so that you cannot see him as
he walks past. When men ask you IL
you knew him, halt and hesitate as
though you were trying to cali up a dim
memory and say: well. y-e-e-s. yes:
| belive | once did know him, but have
not seen him for a long while" Cross
a 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 at the
bank. Talk down his credit now that
his fortunes are collapsing. He put his
name on two of your notes: tell him
that you have changed your mind about
such things and that you never indorse.
After awhile his matters come to a dead
halt, and an assignment or suspension
or sheriff's sale takes place. You say:
He ought to have stopped sooner. Just
as | expected. He made too big a
splash in the world. Glad the balloon
has burst. Ha-hai" Applause when he
went up, sibilant derision when he came
Iour- sNIN. IaI -. .ta.- -.I,
at him and hiss MIN out of his place"
So, high up amid the crags. the eagle
tiutters dust into the eyes OF the roe
buck, which then, with eyes blinded,
goes tumbling over the precipice. the
great antlers crashing on the rocks.
Now, compare some of these goings
out of life with the departure of men
and women, who, in the drama of life.
take the Part that God assigned them
and then went away honored of men
and applauded OF the Lord Almighty. 1t
is about fifty years ago that in a COM
paratively small apartment of the city a
newly married pair set up a home. The
first guest invited to that residence was
the Lord Jesus Christ. and the Bible
given the bride on the day of her
espOuSal was the guide of that house
hold. Days of sunshine were followed
by days of shadow. Did you ever
know a home that for fifty years had
no vicissitude? The young woman
who left her fathers house for her
young husbands home started out with
a parental benediction and good advice
she will never forget. Her mother said
to her the day before the marriage:
Nov, my child, you are going away
from us. OF course. as long as your
father and I live you can feel that you
can come to us at any time. But you
home will be elsewhere. From long
experience | find it best to serve God. It.
is very bright for you now my child, and
you may think yOu can get along with
out religion, but the day will come when
You will want God, and my advice is.
establish a family altar, and. if need be,
conduct the worship yourself" The
counsel was taken, and the young wife
consecrated every room in the house to
God.
Years passed on and there were I'm
that home hilarities, but they were good
and healthful; and sorrows, but they
were ComfOrted. Marriages as bright
as orange-blOssoms could make them.
and burials in which all hearts we're
rivGn. They nave a family lot in the
cemetery, but all the place is illumi-
mated with stories of resurrection and
reunion. The children of the house
hold that lived have grown up and they
are all Christians, and father and
leading the way and the chill
dren following. What care the mother
took of wardrobe and education, char
acter and manners, How hard she
sometimes worked, When the head OF
the household was unfortunate in bust
ness she sewed until her fingers we're
numb and bleeding at the tips. And
what close calculation of economies and
what ingenuity in refitting the gar
ments of the elder children for the
younger, and only God kept account OF
that mothers sideaches and headaches
and ~heartachcs and the tremulOu3
prayers by the side of the sick child's
and by the couch of this II fully