The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-10-08

asleep they were soaking the old nlans
leet or tuclsing up the covers around
the invalid mother While other maid
ms were in The cotillon they were
iancing attendance upon rheumatism
and spreading plasters for the lame
back of the septenarian and heating
,atnip tea for insomnia
In almost every circle Of our kindred
there has been some queen Of self-sacri-
ice 10 whom jeweled hand after jew
sled hand was offered In marriage, but
who stayed on the old place because Of
the sense OF filial obligation until the
health was gone and the attractiyeness
Of personal presence had vanished.
Brutal society may call such one by
nickname God calls her daughter, and
heaven calls her saint, and call her
domestic martyr. A half dozen ordi-
nary women have not as much
nobility as could be found In the
smallest joint of the little finger
Of her left hand. Although the world
has stood 5000 years this is the first
apotheosis OF maidenhood, although in
the long line of those who have declined
marriage that they might be qualified
for some especial mission are the
names Of Anna Ross, and Margaret
breckenridge. and Mary Shelton, and
Anna Etheridge, and Georgiana Will
let's, the angels of the battlefields Of
Fair Oaks, and Lookout mountain, and
Chaneellorsville, and Cooper Shop hos
pital, and though single life has been
honored by the fact that the three
grandestmen In the Bible-John and
Paul and Christ-were celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer at
the maiden aunt, but God has q throne
FURNISHED for her arrival, and on one
side of that throne In Heaven there is
a vase containing two jewels,
the one brighter than the Koh-
moor OF London tower, and the
other larger than any diamond
ever found in the districts Of Col
conda-thc one jewel by the lapidary
of the palace cut with the words, I'm
asmuch as ye did it unto father" the
other jewel by the lapidary of the pal
ace cut with the words, "Inasmuch as
ye did It unto mother. '0ver the Hills
to the Poorhousen is the exquisite ball
lad Of viii Carleton, who found an
old woman who had been turned off by
her prosperous sons; but thank God
that may find in my next, "0ver the
hills TO the palace"
As il to disgust us with unfilial con-
duct. the Bible presents us with the
story of Micah, who stole the eleven
hundred sheckles from his mother, and
the story Of Absalom, who tried TO de-
throne his father. Rut all history is
beautiful with stories Of filial fidelity.
Epaminondas, the warrior, found his
chief delight in reciting to his parents
his victories There goes Aeneas
from burning Troy, on his shoul-
ders Anchises, his father. The
Athenians punished with death any
unfilial conduct There goes beau
tiful Ruth escorting venerable Naomi
across the desert amid the bowling OF
the wolves and the barking OF the jack
ais John Lawrence, burned at the
stake in Colchester, was chee=ed in the
flames by his children, who said: %
God, strengthen Thy servant and keep
Thy promiser And Christ in the hour
of cxcruciation provided for his old
mother. Jacob kept his resolution. Il
will go and see him before die, and a
little while after we find them walking
the tesselated floor of the palace, Jacob
and Joseph, the prime minister proud
of the shepherd.
may say in regard to the most Of
you that your parents have probably
visited you for the last time, or will
soon pay you such visit, and have
wondered il they will ever visit you in
the Kings palace. oh" you say, Il
am in the pit of sin!' Joseph was in
the pit "oh, you say. Il am in
the prison of mine iniquity!'
Joseph was once in prison. "oh, "
you say, Il didn't have fair chance;
was denied maternal kindness!'
Joseph was denied maternal attend.
ance. "oh, you say. II am far away
from the land Of my nativity~ Joseph
was far from home. ''0h, you say, Il
have been betrayed and exasperatedl'
Did not Joseph's brethren sell him TO 8
passing Ishmaelitish caravan? YET
God brought him TO that emblazoned
residence, and II you viii trust his
grace in Jesus Christ, Iyou, too, will
be empalaced. Oh, what day that
will be when the old folks come
from an adjoining mansion in Heaven,
and find you amid the alabaster pillars
of the throne room, and living with
the King They are coming up the
steps now, and the epauletted guard
of the palace PUSHES in and says
"Your fathers coming. your mothers
coming And when under the arches Of
precious stones and on the pavement o.
porphyry you greet each other, the
scene win eclipse the meeting on thG
Goshen highway, when Joseph ant
Jacob fell ON each others neck and
wept good while.