Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-10-14

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the boy looked older or looked
younger. And it will be enough joy
for that parent if 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 change
wrought by that celestial climate and
by those supernal years, but it will only
be from loveliness to more loneliness,
and from health to more radiant
health. o, parent, as you think of the
darling painting and white in membran-
GUS Group, l want you to know it will
be gloriously bettered in that land
where there has never been death
and where all the inhabitants will live
on in the great future as long as God!
Joseph was Joseph Notwithstanding 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 shep-
herd to the prime minister Joseph! l
see the old countryman seated in the
palace looking around at the mirrors
and the fountains and the carved pill
lars, and oh! how he wishes that
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, L do wish
Rachel could be here to see all this"
visited at the farm house of the father
of Willard Fillmore when the son was
president of the United States. and the
octogenarian farmer entertained me
until II 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 grand
ly Willard treated his father in the
White House. The old mans face was
illumined with the story until almost
midnight. He had just been visiting
his son at the capitol. And | suppose
1t was something of the same JOY that
thrilled the heart of the old shepherd
as he stood in the palace OF the prime
minister. 1t is a 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 par
ents cannot 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 benedic-
are little feeble, and you make it as
easy as you can for them, and you
realize they will probably not visit you
very often-perhaps never again. You
go to their room after they have retir-
ed at night to see if the lights are
properly put out for the old people un.
derstand candle and lamp better thar
the modern apparatus of 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 YOU
parents. The probability is, before they
leave your house they half spoil youl
children with kindnesses Grandfather
and grandmother are more lenient ant
indulgent to your children than the,
ever We're with you. And what won
ders of revelation in the bombazin,
pocket of the one and the sleeve of tn,
other! Blessed is that home wher
Christian parents come to VISIT What
ever may have been the style of tn
architecture when they came, it is
palace before they leave. If they visi
you fifty times, the two most mem "
able visits will be the first and the last
Those two pictures will hang in TIL
hall of your memory while memor.
lasts, and you will remember just hoy
they looked, and where they sat, an
what they said, and at what figure O
the carpet, and at what door sill the
parted with you, giving you the fina
good-by. Do not be embarrassed if you
father come to town and he have tn
manners of the shepherd, and if you
mother come to town and there be i
her hat no sign of costly millinery. TIL
wife of the Emperor Theodosius said
wise thing when she said: Husbands
remember what you lately were, an
remember what you are, and be thank
full
BY this time you all notice wha
kindly provision Joseph made for hi
father Jacob. Joseph did not say, "
can't have the old man around thi
place How clumsy he would loo
climbing up these marble stairs, an
walking over these mosaics! Their
he would be putting his hands upo
some of these frescoes. People woul
wonder where that old greenhorn cam
from. He would shock all the Egyp
tian court with his manners at table
Besides that, he might get sick on IN
hands, and he might be querulous,a an
he might talk to me as though l wer
only a boy, when l am the second ma
in all the realm. OF course, he mus
not suffer. and if there is famine i
his country-and l hear there is
will send him some provisions; but
can't take man from Padanaram an
introduce him into this polite EgyI
tian court. What nuisance it is
have poor relations!"
Joseph did not say that, but h
rushed out to meet his father with pei
feet abandon of affection, and brougl
him up to the palace, and introduce
him to the emperor, and provided fo
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