Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-04

by his children, who said, ''Oh, 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 [ 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
l 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 l have
wondered if they will ever visit you in
the kings palace. ooh, you say, 81
am III the pit Of sinH' Joseph was in
the pit. "Oh, . you say, 81 am in the
prison of mine inignity - Joseph was
once in prison. cob, you say, 81
didn't have fair chance! [ was denied
maternal kindness. Joseph was denied
maternal attendance. 'FOh' you say,
Il am far away from the land of my
nativityP' Joseph was far from home.
ooh, you say, 81 have been betrayed
and exasperated!" Did not Joseph's
brethren sell him to passing Ishmael-
1tlsh caravan? Yet God brought him to
that emblazoned residence, and if you
will trust his grace in Jesus Christ you,
too, will be enpalaced. 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 throneroom and living with the
king They are coming up the steps
now, and the epauleted guard of the
palace rushes in and says, 'Your IA
theirs coming, your mothers coming -
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 good
while.
The Reunion.
But, oh, how changed the old folks
will be! Their cheek smoothed into the
flesh Of little child, their stopped pos.
ture lifted into immortal symmetry,
their foot, now so feeble, then with the
sprightlinesS Of 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 supplications 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 God TO
thee and thy seed after thee" Oh, the
palace, the palace, the palace! That is
what Richard Baxter called 1.-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 a
Churchyard" turned to resurrection
spectacle That is the "Cotter's Satur-
day Night exchanged for the cotter's
Sabbath morning. That is the shepherd
of Salisbury plains amid the flocks 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.