St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-11-06

provided BY the hlial piety Of . son
who had achieved . fortune. There
the octogenarian at. and tie servants
waited on him, and there were plenty
Of horses and plenty of carriages "a
convey him, and . bower in which to
sit on long summer afternoons, dream
ing over the past: and there was not q
room in tho hoase where he. was not
welcome, and there were Musical in
struments Of all sorts to regale him;
and when life had passed, the neigh
bors came out and expressed oil honor
possible. and carried him to the village
Machpelah. and put him down beside
the Rachel with whom he had lived
more than half century. Share your
successes with the old people. The
probability is that the principles they
inculcated achieved your fortune. Give
them Christian percentage Of kindly
confederation. Let Joseph divide with
Jacob the pasture fields of Goshen and
the glories Of the Egyptian court
there has been some queen Of self-sacri-
flee to whom jsweled hand after jew
eled hand was offered in marriage,
but who stayed on the old place be-
cause Of the sense of filial obligation,
until the health was gone and the At
Effectiveness 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 ordinary women have not
Is 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, al
though 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 Willetts, the angels Of the
battle-felds of Fair Oaks. and Lookout
mountain, and Charlottesville. and
Cooper Shop hospital; and though sim
gle life has been honored by the fact
that the three grandest men of the
Bible-John and Paul and Christ
were celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer 1t
the maiden aunt but God has . throne
FURNISHED for her arrival, and ON one
side OF that throne in Heaven there il
= vase containing two jewels, the one
brighter than the Kohinoor of London
Tower. and the other larger than any
ever found in the districts OF
Golconda-the one jewel by the lapi-
Diary Of the palace cut with the words:
''Inasmuch IS ye did it to father" the
other jewel by the lapidary of the pal
nee cut with the wordr: "Inasmuch -
ye did it to mother" ..Over the Hills
to the Poor House" il the exquisite
ballad Of win Carleton. who found an
old woman who had been turned of
BY her prospered so1s; but / thank
God may find in my text: 'Over the
hills to the palace"
As il to disgust US with unnlial con-
duct. the Bible presents us with the
story Of Micah, who stole the l. 100
shekels from his mother, and the story
81 Absolom, who tried to dethrone his
father. But all history is beautiful
with stories of filial fidelity. Epami-
nondas, the warrior, found his chief |
ieliRht in reciting to his parents his
rictories There goes Aeneas from
burning Troy, on his shoulders An
:hises. his father. The Athenians pun
shed with death any unfilial conduct
There goes beautiful Ruth escorting
Naomi across the desert amid |
he bowling of the wolves and the |
PARKING of the jackals. John Law
ence, burned Mt the stake in Colches-
er, was cheered in the flames by his
hildren. who said: 70 God, strength
u thy servant and keek Thy promiser'
Ind Christ. in the hour Differentiation,
provided for His old mother. Jacob
;ept his resolution. II will 90 and see
lim before / die" and = little while
fter we find them walking the tes-
elated floor Of the palace, Jacob and
oseph. the prime minister proud Of
he shepherd.
Oh, what = day that will be when
he old folks come from IN adjoining
aansion in Heaven and find you amid
he alabaster pillars of the throne
Dom and living with the King! They
re coming mp the steps now. and the
pauletted guard Of the palace rushes
! and says: "Your fathers ccm,nR,
our mothers comingw And when
nder the arches Of precious stones
nd on the pavement OF porphyry you
rect each other, the scene will eclipse
he meeting ON the Goshen highway,
hen Joseph and Jacob fell ON each
theirs neck and wept . good while.
But, oh. how changed the old folks
ill be! Their cheeks smoothed into
10 flesh Of . little child. Their
.ooped posture lifted into immortal
Their foot now 30 feeble,
len with the sprightliness Of . bound
e roe. = they shall say to you: IA
brit passed this way from earth and
I'D us that you were wayward I
nd dissipated after we left the
orld; but you have repeuted,
ar prayer has been answered and ,
~ are here; and a. we used to visit (
ou on earth before we died. now we
sit You In your new home after our
'cension.n And father will say:
Mother. don't you see Joseph is yet
ive'" and mother will say: Eyes. IA
Ter, Joseph is yet alive" And then
10y will talk over their earthly
axieties in regard to you, and
e midnight supplicstions in
,ur behalf, and they will recite Z
each other the old Scripture passage Z
it'll which they used to cheer their
faith: II will be . God to I
ZEE and thv seed after thee.n oh. thu :