Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-03

for 50 years had ~, vicissitudsf7
The young woman who left her fa.h-
ers house for her young husbands
home started out with a parental
benediction and good advice she will
never forget. Her mother said to her
he day before the marriage: Now,
my child, you are going away from us.
vi course. as long as your father aud
i've you VIII feel that you can come TO
us ut any time. But your home will
DC elsewhere. From long experience
l md 1t Is best . Serve God. IL is very
bright with you rcw, my child. and
you may think you can get along with
out religion, but the day will come
when you will want God. and NV adj
vice is. establish q family altar. and. If
need be. conduct the worship YOUR
self The counsel was taken and that
young wife consecratcd every room in
the house to God.
Years passed and there were in that
home hilarities, but they were good
and healthful; and sorrows. but they
were comforted. Marriages Us bright
rs orange blossoms could make them,
and burials in which all hearts were
riven. They have family lot in the
cemetery, but all the place is illumin-
ated with stories of resurrection and
reunion. The children of the house,
hold that lived have grown up and
they are all Christians, the father and
the mother leading the way. and chill
dren 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 sewed until her fingers
were numb and bleeding at the tips
And what close calculation of economies
and what ingenuity in reftting the
garments of the elder children for tho
younger, and only God kept account OF
that mothers sideachcs and headaches
and hcartaches and the tremulous
prayers by the side OF the sick childs
cradle and by the couch of this one
fully grown. The ncighbors often no.
ticed how tired she looked, and old ac-
quaintanccs hardly knew her in the
street. But without complaint she
waited and toilcd and endured and ac.
complished al these years. The chill
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
to cry, and that She is going now, but
they will meet again in little while in
better world, and then kisses them
good-by and says TO each: God bless
and keep you, my dear childw The day
OF the obSequies comes, and the otiiciat-
ing clergyman tells the story of wifely
and mothcrly 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
powering all the voices of earth ano
Heaven is the plaudit of God, who
watched her from first to last, saying:
well done, good and faithful servant;
thou hast been faithful over a few
things, | viii make thee ruler over
many things; enter thou into the ioy of
thy Lord!'
But what became of the father OF
that household? He started as young
man in business and had ii small in
come, and. having got little ahead,
sickness in the family swept it all
away He went through all the BUSH
ness panics of 10 years, met many los
ses, and suffered many betrayals. but
kept right on trusting in God, whether
business was good or poor, setting hia
children a good example and giving
them the best of counsel, and"ncver "A
prayer did he offer for al those wears
but they were mentioned in it, lie is
old now. and realizes it can not be long
before he must quit all these scenes.
But he is going to leave his children an
inheritance of prayer and Christian
principles which all the defal cations of
earth can never touch, and as he
goes out of the world the church
of God blcsses him and the poor
ring his door bell to see if he is any
better, and his grave is surround
ed by a multitude who went on
foot and stood there before the process
sion OF carriages came up, and some
say: There will be no ore to take his
place and others say: WHO will pity
me now?' and others remark: He
shall be held in everlasting rcmcm.
brancc." And as the drama of his life
closes all the vociferatiVn and braves
and encorcs that ever shook the amphi-
theaters of earthly spectacle were
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 yc between the life
that shall close by being Kissed off the
stage and the life that shall close amid
acclamations supernal and archangclic-
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