The Monitor-register., 1897-10-08

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r. V. Pierce. Buffalo. N. Y.
martyr. A half dozen ordinary 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 8 5000 years, this is the
first apotheosis of maidenhood, although
in the long line Of those who have de-
clined marriage that they might bequali-
fed 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 battlelelds Of Fair
Oaks and Lookout Mountain and Chan
cellorsville and Cooper Shop hospital,
and, though single life has been hon.
ored by the fact that the three grandest
men Of the Bible, John and Paul and
Christ, were celibates.
"Over the Hills to the Palace"
Let the ungrateful world sheer at the
maiden aunt, but God has q throne
burning for her arrival, and on one side
Of that throne in heaven there is a vase
containing two jewels, the one brighter
than the Kohinoor of London Tower
and the other larger than any diamond
ever found in the districts of Golconda
the n jewel by the lapidary Of the
palace cut with the words, "Inasmuch
as ye did it to father" the other jewel
by the lapidary of the palace out with
the words, "Inasmuch as We did 1t to
mother" cover the Hills to the Poor
house" is the exquisite ballad of Will
Carleton, who found an old woman who
had been turned off by her prospered
sons, but l thank God l may find in my
text, "Over the hills to the palace"
AS if to disgust US with unflial con-
duct, the Bible presents us with the
story of Micah, who stole the l, 100
shekels from his mother, and the story
of Absalom, who tried to dethrone his
father. But all history is beautiful with
stories of dlial fidelity. Epaminondas,
the warrior, found his chief delight in
reciting to his parents his victories.
There goes Aneas from burning Troy,
on his shoulders Anchises, his father.
The Athenians punished with death any
unfilial conduct. There goes beautiful
Ruth ~escorting venerable Naomi across
the desert amid the bowling of the
wolves and the barking of the jackals
John Lawrence, burned at the stake in
Colchester, was cheered in the flames
by his children, who said, ooh, God,
strengthen thy servant and keep thy
promise" And Christ in the hour Of
excruciation provided for his old moth
er. Jacob kept his resolution, 81 will
go and see him before 1 die, and a
little while after we find them walking
the tessellated floor of the palace, Jacob
and Joseph, the prime minister proud
of the shepherd.
you that your parents have probably
visited you for the last time or will
o pay you such a visit, and I have
wondered If they will ever visit you in
the kings palace. "Oh," you say, 81
am in the pit of sin!" Joseph was in
the pit. "Oh," you say, 81 am in the
prison of mine iniquityl" Joseph was
once in prison. "Oh," you say, Il
didn't have a fair chancei l was denied
maternal kindness" Joseph was denied
maternal attendance. "Oh," you say,
81 am far away from the land of my
nativity" Joseph was far from home.
"Oh," you say, 81 have been betrayed
and exasperatedl" Did not Joseph's
brethren sell him to q passing Ishmael-
itish caravan? Yet God brought him to
that emblazoned residence, and If you
will trust his grace In Jesus Christ you,
too, will be empalaoed. Oh, what a day
that will be when the old folks come
from an adjoining mansion in heaven
and find you amid the alabaster pillars
Of the throneroom and living with the
kingl They are coming up the steps
now, and the epauleted guard of the
palace rushes in and says, "Your IA
theirs coming, your mothers comingl"
And when under the arches of precious
stones and on the pavement Of porphyry
you greet each other the scene will
eclipse the meeting ON the Goshen high.
way, when Joseph and Jacob fell on
each others neck and wept a good
while.
The Reunion.
But, oh, how changed the old folks
will bel Their cheek smoothed into the
flesh Of a little child, their stopped pos
ture lifted into immortal symmetry,
their foot, now 20 feeble, then with the
sprightliness of o bounding roe, as they
shall say to you, "a spirit passed this
way from earth and told us that you
were hayward and dissipated after we
left the world, but you have repented,
our prayer has been answered, and you
are here, and as we used to visit you on
earth before we died now we visit you
in your new home after our ascension"
and father will say, Mother, don't you
see Joseph is yet alive?" and mother
will say. Eyes, father, Joseph is yet
alive" and then they will talk over
their earthly anxieties in regard to
You, and the midnight applications in
your behalf, and they will recite to
each other the old Scripture passage
with which they used to cheer their
staggering faith, 81 will be q God to
thee and thy seed after thee" Oh, the
palace. the palace, the palacei That is
what Richard Baxter called "The
Saints Everlasting Rest" That is
what John Bunyan called the "Celes-
tial City" That is Young's "Night
Thoughts turned into morning exulta-
lions. That Is Gray's "Elegy In O
Churchyard" turned to resurrection
spectacle. That Is the "Cotter's Satur-
day Night" exchanged for the c~otter's
Sabbath morning. That Is the shepherd
of Salisbury plains amid the looks on
the hills Of heaven. That is the famine
struck Padanaram turned into the rich
pasture field Of Goshen. That is Jacob
visiting Joseph at the emerald castle.
THE MONOTONE.