The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-13

in Jacobs memory as ever, though at
seventeen years Of age the boy had dis
from. the old homestead. Ill
found in our family record the story.
of an infant that had died fifty years
before, and / said to my parents: What
is this record, and what does it mean?"
Their chief answer was a long, deep
sigh. It was yet to them a very ten
der SORROW Whatedo that all mean?
Why, it means our children departed
are ours yet, and that: cord Of attach
ment reaching across the. years will
hold us until it brings us together in
the palace, as Jacob and Joseph were
brought together. That is one thing i
that makes old people die happy. They
realize it is reunion with those from.
whom they have long, been separated
I am often asked as pastor-and
every pastor is asked the. question
Will my children be children in
heaven and forever children?" Well,
there was no doubt a great change in
Joseph from the time Jacob lost him
and the time when Jacob found him
between the boy of seventeen years of
age and the man in mid-life, his fore
head developed with the great busi-
ness Of state; but Jacob was glad to get
back Joseph anyhow; and it did not
make much difference to$the old man
whether the"boy looked older or looked
younger And it will be enough joy
for that parent if he can get back
that son, that daughter, at the gate of.
heaven, whether the departed loved one
shall come cherub or in full-grown
:angelhoods' There. must be a change
wrought by that celestial climate and
by those; e;supernalye years, ,5but it will only
be from loveliness to more loveliness,
and from health to more radiant
health. O, parent, as you. think of the
darling painting and white in emembran-
GUS croup,,I want you to know it will
be gloriously bettered in that land
where there has never been death
and where all the inhabitants will live
on in the: :.sgreat future as long as God!
Joseph was Joseph notwithstanding the
palace, and your child will be your
child Notwithstanding all the raining
splendors of everlasting noon What a
thrilling visit was that of the old shep-
herd to the prime minister Joseph! I
see the old countryman seated in the
palace looking around at the mirrors
and the fountains and the, carved pill
4Iars;i and i oh .ss5 how he wishes that
Rachel, his wife,, was alive and she
could have come with him to see their
son in his great house. "Oh," says the
old man within himself, II do wish
Rachel could be here to see all thisr' !
visited at the farm house of the father
Of Mil1ard, Fillmore when the son was
president Of the United States, and the
octogenarian, farmer entertained me
until H. o'clock at night: telling me
what great things he saw in his. sons
house at Washington, and what Daniel
Webster, said to him, and how grand
ly MiElard treated his father. in the
White House. The old mans face was
iuumined with the story until almost
midnight. He had just been visiting
his SON at the capitol. And I suppose
it was Something of the same. joy that
thrilled the heart Of the old shepherd
as he stood ins the palace of the prime
minister. 1t is great day with you
when your old parents: come to visit
you. Your little children stand around
with great wide-open eyes, wondering
how anybody could be so old. The par
ents cannot staN many days;ssfor they
are a little restless, and especially at
n1ghtfall, because they sleep better in
their own ybed; but while they tarry
:you somehow feel there is benedic-
tionE in every~room in the house. They
ares a: little feeble, sand you make it as
easy as you, can for them, and you
realize they will probably not visit YOU
very often n-perhaps never again. Ytn,
go to their room after they have retir-
ed at night to see If the sights are
properly put out, for the old people ls, un-
derstand Candle and lamp. better than
the modern e. "a apparatus r::ef illumination.
in lathe he morning, with, real interest in
their health, tyou ask how they rested
last night. Joseph, in the historical
scene of the stext, did not: think any
more of his father than YOU dos Of e;ll yolr
parents. THE proba bility isssbefore thew
]: leaye:yodr house they half spoil your
children chi 4. e. with kindnesaesH Grandfather
and grandmot ther"are. more lenient and
E:lnldn1gent rl to. your. children than they lev
! ! ever, were, with you: And what won.
derss :of sTevel lation 8 in the bombazine
4 pocket Of the one and the sleeve of the
ether Blesssd is. that horne where
L christiap parents come rs. Wis visit. what.
/ ever may may have beer the style Of the
ll archite lecture when they came, & ii is q
1 they leave. IF they visit
'|ssy6u fifty times, the two most memo or
4 sable:Wisits will beithe first and the : last.
1 Those two pictures viii hang iii the
/ / 81 hall Of your memory, while memory
lasts, and y you will remember just how
they Looked, and Where they sat. and
4 what they said, and at what fig ureaof
/ the carpet, and at what door sill they
! parted with you, giving you the final
good.by. Do not be embarrassed If your
father come to town and he have the
manners Of the shepherd, and if your
mother come to town and there be In
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