Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-10-13

a. Godl JoScp was Joseph notwith
standing the palace, and your ohils
will b. your child Notwithstanding nj
the raining splcndors Of everlasting
noon. What thrilling visit was thai
of the old shepherd to the prime minis
ter Joseph, l see the old countrymar
seated in the palace looking around al
the mirrors and the fountains and tn,
carved pillars, and OH how he wishc,
that Rachel, his wife. was alive and she
could have come with him IL see thci,
son in his great house. ''oh." says the
old man within himself. IL do wish
Rachel could be here To see all thisl'
l visited at the farm house of the father
Of Willard Fillmore when the son was
president of the United States. and the
octogenarian farmer entertained me
until IL o'clock at night telling me
what great things he saw in his sons
house in Washington, and what Daniel
Webster said To him, and how grandly
Willard treated his father i'm the white
house. The old mans face was illnm-
mated with the story until almost mid
night. lie had just been visiting his
son at the capitol. And | suppose il
was something of the same 10y that
thrilled the heart of the old shepherd
as he stood in the palace of the Prime
Minister. IL il 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 bc So old The parents
can not stay many days, for they are "a
little restless, and especially at night
'all, because they sleep better in their
own bed; but while they tarrv Won
somehow feel there is bcncdiction in
every room i'm the house. They arc n
httle feeble and you make il ms easy
rs you can for them, and you realize
they will probably not visit Won very
often-pcrhaps never again. You 20
To their room after they have retired
at night To see il the lights are proper
ly put out, for the old people under
stand candle and lamp better than the
modern apparatus for illumination.
In the morning, with real interest in
their health. YOU ask how they rested
last night Joseph. in the historical
scene OF the text, did not think any
more of his father than Won do of your
parents The probability is, before
they leave your house they half spoil
your children with kindness. Grand
father and grandmother are more
lenient and indulgent To your children
imam they ever were with You.
And what wonders OF revelation
in the bombazine pocket of the one
and the sleeve of the other. blessed is
that home where Christian parents
come To visit! Whatever may have
been the style of the architecture when
they came, il is n palace before they
leave. IL they visit you 30 times. the
two most memorable visits will be the
first and the last. Those two pictures
Will hang In the hall of your memory
while memory lasts, and YOU will re-
member just how they looked. and
where they sat, and what they said,
and at what figure of the carpet.
and at what door sill they parted
with You, giving you the final good-by.
DO not be embarrassed IL your father
come To town and hc have the manners
of the shepherd, and IL your mother
come to town and there be in her hat
no sign of costly millinery. The wife
of the Emperor Thcodosius said IA wise
thing when she said Husbands.
remember what You lately were. and
remember what you are, and be thank
full.
by this time YOU all notice what
kindly provision Joseph made for his
father Jacob. Joseph did not say: II
cant nave the old man around this
place. How clumsy he would look
climbing up these marble stairs, and
walking over those moSaics! Then. he
would be putting his hands upon some
of these frcscoes. People would won
der where the old grcenhorn came
from. He would shock all the Egvpt-
ian court with his manners at table.
Besides that, he might get sicl;
on my hands, and he might be q,:cru.
lous, and he might talk to me as though
/ were only boy, when | am tn, sec
ond man in all the realm. or cotrs,
he must not suffer, and If there is fam
Inc in his country-and hear there is
i will send him some provisions. but
] can't take man from Padanaram and
introduce him into this polite Egyptian
court. What nuisance il is to have
poor relations"
Joseph did not say that, but he rush.
cd out To meet his father with perfect
abandon OF affection, and brought him
up To the palace and introduced him TO
the emperor and provided for all the
rest of the fathers days, and nothing
was too good for the old man while liv-
ing; and when ne was dead Joseph.
with military escort. took his fathers
remains to the family cemetery. Would
God all children were as kind 20 their
parents.
If the father have large property.
and he be wise enough 20 keep IL in his
own name. lac will be respected by the
heirs; but how often IL is when the son
finds his father in famine. as Joseph
found Jacob in famine the young PEG
pie make ~ very hard for the old man.
They are 50 surprised he eats with
a knife instead OF a fork. They are
chagrincd at his antcdiluvian hab-
its. They are provoked because he
can not hear as well as he used 10. and
when he asks il over again. and tho
son has 10 repeat IL, he bawls in the
Did mans cars, II hope you hear
that How long he must wear the
old coat or the old hat before they get
him q new one, how chagrincd they are
at his independence Of the English
grammar, How long he hangs on,
Seventy years, and not gone yet, Sew
cnty-five years and not gone vet
Eighty years and not gone vet, WIN
he ever crOp They fhtuL - a. ~, ,,.. . -