Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-06-05

| ter awhile he dies. Great newspaper zap
tails announce how he started with notnlng
and ended with everything. Although Tor
sake of appearance some people put hanu-
| kerchiefs to the eye. there Is not one genuine
| tear shed. Tho heirs sit up all night wnen
| he lies In state discussing what the old fell
| low has probably done with his money. 1t
takes all tie Ivory stables within two
miles to furnish funeral equipages and all
the mourning stores are kept busy in selling
weeds Of grief. The stone cutters SEND IN
proposals for a monument. The minister at
the obsequies reads of the resurrection
which makes the hearers fear that II the un-
scrupulous fnancier does come up in the
general rising he will try to get a corner.
on tombstones and graveyard fences All
good men ale glad that the moral nuisance
has been removed. The Wall street specu-
lators are glad because there is mora room
for themselves. The heirs ara glad because
they get possession OF the long delayed in
heritance Dropping every feather OF all his
plumes, every certificate OF all his stock,
every bond of all his investments. every dol
lar OF all his fortune, he departs, aud all the
rolling OF dead March" in "Saul, and all
the pageantry OF bis interment, and all the
exquiteness of sarcophagus, and all the ex-
travagance of epitaphology, cannot hide the
fact that my text has come again to tremen-
at him and shall hiss him out of his place.
You see the clapping come before the Mss
The world cheers before it damns. So it il
said the deadly asp tickles before its stings.
Going up, is he? Hurrahl Stand back and
let his gailoping horses dash by. whirlwlnd
of plated harness and tinkling headgear and
arched neck. Drink deep Of his madeira and
cognac. Boast of how we'll you know him:
All hats off us he passes. Bask for days and
wears in the sunlight Of his prosperity. Go
ing down. is he? Pretend 20 be nearslgnted
so that you cannot see him as he walks past.
When men ask you If you know him, malt
and hesitate as though you wero trying 10
call I'D dim memory and say. "Well, Yes,
yes. / believe l once did know him, but
have not seen him for long while.
Cross a different ferry from the Aone where
Won used to meet him lest ne
ask for financial help. When you started
life. he spoke a good word for you at the
bank Talk down his credit now that MS
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 dead halt, and an as
| signment or suspension or sheriff sale taxes
place. You say; Gle ought to have stopped
sooner. Just as l expected. He made too
| big a splash in the world. Glad the balloon
has burst. Fla, ha" Applause when he
went up. sbilant derision when he came
down. "Men shall clap their hands at him
| aud hiss him out of his place" So, high up
amid the crags, the eagle futters dust into
| the eyes of the roe5uck, which then. with
ewes blinded, goes tumbling over the preci-
pice the great antlers crashing on the rocks
| Now, compare some of these going5 out OF
| life with the departure OF men and women
/ H. 4 20. t,a
God assigned them and thenwens away hon
ored Of men and applauded Of tho Lord AL
mightYap 1t is about fifty years ago that IN a
comparatively small apartment Of the city
newly married pair set up a home. The t1rst
| 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 home that for fifty years had no Vi
essitude? The young woman who lett her
fathers house for her young husband S nome
started out with q parental benedietion and
good advice she will never forget. Her
mother said to hQ the day before the mar
riage, "Now my child, you are going away
| from us. or course, as long as your father
and live you will feel that you can come
70 us at any time. But your nome Will be
elsewhere. From long experience lind IL
is hest to serve God. 1t is very bright with
YOU now, my child, and you may think you
can get along without religion, out the day
| will come when you will want God, and my
advice is, establish a family altar, and, II
| need be, conduct the worship yourself:
The counsel was takep,Rnd that young VIE
consecrated every Km III the mousse 70
Col.
Years passed on and there were In tnai
home hilarities, but they were good aud
healthful, and sorrows, but they were cVul-
forted. Marriages as bright as orange dos
SONS could make them. and burrlals III
which all hearts were riven. They nave q
family lot in the cemetery, but all the place
| is illuminated with stories OF resurrection
and reunion. The children Of the housenoid
that lived have grown up, and they are al
| Christians. the fatnar and mother leading
Inc way and the children following. WnaI
care the mother took of wardrobe and ecu,
cation. character and manners! HOW nara
she sometimes worked! When Inc neau Vi
the household was unfortunate IN business,
soe sewed until her fingers were numb ana
bleeding at the tips. And what close cslcu-
lation of economics, and what ingenuity IN
reatting the garments of the elder children
for the Younger. and only God kept account
of that mothers sideaches and headaches
and hear;aches and the tremulous prayers
bv the side of the sick child's cradle and oy
the couch of this one fully grown:
Tbe neighbors often noticed how tree
She looked, and old acquaintance
hardly knew her in the street. Bul
without complaint sho waited and tollee
and endured and accomplished all these
wears. The children are out in the world
an honor to themselves AM their parents.
After awhile the mothers last sickness
comes. Children and grandchildren. sum-
moned from afar, come so tly into the room
one by one, for she is too weak to see more
than one at time She runs her dying
fingers lovingly through their hair AMI tells
them not to cry, and that she is going now
but they will meet again in little While III
a better world and then kisses them goo1by
and saws to each, "God bless and keep you
nv dear child" The day OF the obseque!
comes. aud the officiating clergyman tsils
the story of wifely and motherly endurance
aud many hearts on eartd and in heaveL
echo the sentiment, and as she is carried OF
the stage OF this NOR a. life there are cries
OF "Faithful unto death" "She hath don'
what she could" while overpowering all thu
voices of earth and heaven Is the plaudIt o
/ the God who watched her from first to last
! saving. DWELL done, good and faithful ser
want: thou hast been faithful over lev
things, I will make thee ruler over man,
| things: enter thou into the Joy Of thy Lord!
) But what became of the father OF tina
household? He started as young man II
business aud had small income, and HAVING
cot O. little ahead sickness in the iamil
swept ii all away He went through all tn
business panics Of forty years, met man
! losses, and suffered many betrayals, ou