St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-11-06
THE STORY OF JOSEPH.
Rev. DR.. Taimage Draws Some Nov
Lessons From It.

Rev. DR.. Taimage Draws Some Nov
Lessons From It
} | 1hsUafa1lag oeroaGth u Parsatal Attach
, 0ssts-CAtarsa Ar Always Chnarsa
- Their Rarsats, No Mates
How Old They Grow.
The following sermon by Rev. I. Ok
Witt Talmage points out the manner il
which we ought TO treat old people
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win 20 and see him before Idie.-Geuesi
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Jacob had long since passed the lo(
year milestone. In those times peopl
were distinguished for longevity. Il
the centuries after. persons lived I
great age. Galen. the most celebrates
physician Of his time, took 20 little o
his own medicine that he lived to Il
years A man Of undoubted veracit,
on the witness stand in England swor
that he remembered m event $50 year
before. Lord Bacon speaks Of = coun
tess who had cut three sets Of teeth IN,
died 1t l4o yearA Joseph Crele, o
Pennsylvania, lived 40 ycars- In 1855
: book was printed containing tn,
names Of 81 persons who lived IL
years, and the names Of II persons VII,
lived $50 years.
Among the grand old people OF whom
We have record was Jacob. the shep
herd Of the text But he had bad to,
OF boys They were jealous and am
bilious and every way unprincipled
Joseph. however. seemed to Be m ex
ception; but he had been gone many
years, and the probability was that he
was dead. Al sometimes now in Z
mouse You will lind kept 1t the table 4
vacant chair, = plate, = knife. fork,
for some deceased member Of the fam.
| lily, 20 Jacob kept in his heart . place
for his beloved Joseph. There sits the
old man, the flock Of 40 years in their
flight having alighted long enough to
leave the marks Of their claw on fore
head and cheek and temple. His long
beard SHOWS down over his chest. His
eyes arc somewhat dim. and he can zee
farther when they are closed than
when they arc open. for he can see
clear back into the time when beauti-
full Rachel, his wife, was living, and
his children shook the oriental abode
with their merriment
The centenarian is sitting dreaming
over the past when he hears . wagon
rumbling to the front door. He gets
up and goes to the door to see who has
arrived. and his long absent sons from
Egypt come in and announce to him
that Joseph. instead OF being dead, is
living in m Egyptian palace, with al
the investiture Of prime minister, next
to the king, in the mightiest empire Of
Ill the world! The news was too
sudden and too glad for tho old man,
and his cheeks whiten. and he has =
dased look, and his star falls out Of
his hand. and he would have dropped
had not tho sons caught him and led
him to lounge and put cold water on
his face and famed him little.
In that half delirium the old man
mumbles something about his son Jo-
seph. He says: "You don't mean 10
seph. do you? my dear SON who has
been dead SO long9 You don't mean
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