The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-08

1 am often asked as pastor-ahd
every pastor is asked the question
"Wil my children be children In |
heaven and forever children? Well, |
there was no doubt a great change IN
Joseph from the time Jacob lost him
and the time when Jacob found him
between the boy Of seventeen years OF
age and the man in mid-life, his fore
head developed with the great bust
ness of state; but Jacob was glad to get
back Joseph anyhow, and 1t did not
make much difference to the old man
whether the boy looked older or looked
younger. And 1t will be enough JOY
for that parent II 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 1t Will only
be from loneliness 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 | 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 GOO!
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, Il do wish
Rachel could be here to see all this!' l
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 l suppose
, it 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 arouno
= with great wide-open eyes, wondering
- how anybody could be so old. The par
:, ents cannot stay many days, for they
= are a little restless and especially al
: nightfall because they sleep better II
u their own bed; but while they tarry
;. YOU somehow feel there is benedic
- ton in every room in the house. The!
- are little feeble, and you make it a
;, easy as you can for them, and yol
i realize they will probably not visit you
=. very often-perhaps never again. Yol
=, 90 to their room after they have retir
:, ed at night to see If the lights ar
= properly put out, for the old people un
- derstand candle and lamp better thai
the modern apparatus Of illumination
l In the morning, with real interest il
their health, you ask how they restet
last night. Joseph, in the historical
% scene of the text, did not think an.
:, more of his father than you do of you
- parents. The probability is, before the.
. leave your house they half spoil you
. children with kindnesGes. Grandfathe
- and grandmother are more lenient ant
- indulgent to your children than the!
50 ever were with you. And what won
ders of revelation in the bomba in
y rocket of the one and the sleeve of tn
other Blessed is that home wher
u Christian parents come to visit! What
e ever may have been the style of tn
,, architecture when they came, it is
,. palace before they leave. If they visi
u you fifty times, the two most memor
&c able visits will be the first and the last
y Those two pictures will hang in tn
Il hall of your memory while memor,
u lasts, and you will remember just hov
IL they looked, and where they sat, ant
c what they said, and at what figure o
5 the carpet, and at what door sill the!
u parted with you, giving you the fina
d good-by. Do not be embarrassed if you
II father come to town and he have tn,
u manners of the shepherd, and if you
, mother come to town and there be il
e her hat no sign of costly millinery. Thu
wife Of the Emperor Theodosius said ;
wise thing when she said: Husbands
g remember what you lately were, anC
: remember what you are, and be thank
full"
By this time you all notice wha
u kindly provision Joseph made for his
. father Jacob. Joseph did not say, g
can't have the old man around thi:
!, place. How clumsy he would looh
. climbing up these marble stairs, ano
=. walking over these mosaics! Then
. he would be putting his hands upon
some of these frescoes. People would
, wonder where that old greenhorn came
from. He would shock all the Egyp-
tian court with his manners at table