The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-16

state; but Jacob was glad to get back
Joseph anyhow, and it did not make
much difference to the old man wheth.
err the boy looked older or looked
younger. And il will be enough Joy
fer that parent il he can get back that
son. that daughter, at the gate OF
Heaven, whether the departed loved
one shall come a cherub or in full-grown
angelhood. There must be n change
wrought by that celestial climate
aud by those supernal years, but ii
will only be from loneliness to more
loneliness, and from health to more
radiant health. Oh, parent, as you
think Of the darling painting and white
in membranous Group, want you to
know it will be gloriously bettered in
that land where there has never been a
death and where all the inhabitants
will live on in the great future as long
as God. Joseph was Joseph, notwith-
standing the palace. and your child will
be your child, notwithstanding all the
raining splendors Of everlasting noon.
What thrilling visit was that of the
old shepherd to the Prime Minister
Joseph! / see the old country
man seated in the palace, look
ing around at the mirrors and
the fountains and the carved
Rachel, his wife, was alive, and she
could have come with him to see their
son in his great house. Oh" says the
old man within himself, Il do wish
Rachel could be here to see all thisv
l visited the farm house of the father
of Willard Fillmore when the sor was
president of the United States, and the
octogenarian farmer entertained me
until IL o'clock at night telling me
what great things he saw in his sons
house at Washington, and what Daniel
Webster said to him, and how grandly
Willard treated his father in the White
House. The old mans face was illu-
minated with the story until almost the
midnight. He had just been visit
ing his son at the capital. And | sup
pose it was something of the same JOY
that thrilled the heart of the old shep-
herd as he stood at the palace of the
prime minister. 1t is great day with
you when your old parents come to
visit you. Your little children stand
around with great, wide-open eyes,
wondering how anybody could be SO
old. The parents can not stay many
days, for they are little restless, and
especially at nightfall, because they
sleep better in their own bed; but
while they tarry you somehow feel
there is benediction in every room in
the house. They are little feeble,
and you make il as easy as you can for
them, and you realize they will prob
ably not visit you very otten-perhaps
never again. You go to their room
after they have retired at night to see
if the lights are properly put out, for
the old people understand candle and
lamp better than the modern arpara-
tus for illumination. In the morning.
with real interest in their health, you
ask how they rested last night Joseph,
in the historical scene of the text, did
not think any more of his father than
you do of your parents. The proba bill
ity is, before they leave your house
they half spoil your children with
kindnesses. Grandfather and grand
mother are more lenient and indulgent
to your children than they ever were to
you. And what wonders of revelation
in the bombazine pocket of the
one aud the sleeve of the other.
Blessed is that home where Chris
tian parents come to visit! Whatever
may have been the style of the
architecture when they came, it is
palace they leave. II they visit you so
times, the two most memorable visits
will be the first and the last. Those
two pictures will hang in the hall Of
your memory while memory lasts, and
you will remember just how they
looked, and where they sat, and what
they said, and at what figure of the
carpet, and at what door sill they part
ed with you, giving you the final good
by. Do not be embarrassed If your IA
Their come to town and he have the
manners of the shepherd, and If your
mother come to town and there be IN
her hat no sign of costly millinery. The
wife of the Emperor Theodosius said
wise thing when she said: Husbands
remember what you lately were, and
remember what you are, and be thank
full"
BY this time you all notice what
kindly provision Joseph made for his
father Jacob. Joseph did not say: Il
can't have the old man around this
place. How clumsy he would look
climbing up these marble stairs, and
walking over those mosaics. Then, he
would be putting his hand upon some
of these frescoes. People would won
der where that old greenhorn came
from. He would shock ali the Egyp-
tian court with his manners at table.
Besides that, he might get sick on mn
hands, and he might be auerulous, and
he might talk to me as though l were
only boy, when am the second man
in all the realm. OF course. he must
not suffer, and if there is famine in his
country-and l hear there isl will
send him provisions; but can't take a
man from Padanaram and introduce
him into this polite Egyptian court
What nuisance it is to have poor re-
lationsw
Joseph did not say that, but he
rushed out to meet his father with per-