The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-04

fountains ana Ine carved pillars, ana on.
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. Il do
wish Rachael could be here 10 e all thls!'
I 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
II 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 grandly Willard
treated his father in the white house.
The old mans face was illumined with
the story until almost the midnight.
He had just been visiting his
son at the capitol And suppose
it was something of the same
joy that thrilled the heart of the old shep-
herd as he stood in the palace of the
prime minister 1t il a great day with you
when your old parents come to visit you.
Your little children stand around with
great wide-open eyes, wondering how any
body could be so old. The parents can
not stay many days, for they are little
restless, and especially at nightfall, be-
cause they sleep better in their own bed;
but while they tarry you somehow feel
there is a benediction in every room in
The house. They are little feeble, and you
make it as easy as you can for them, and
YOU realize they will probably not visit
you very often-perhaps never again.
You go to their room after they have re-
tired at night to see if the lights are prop
erly 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
you do of your parents. The probability
is, before they leave your house they half
spoil your children with kindnesses.
Grandfather and grandmother are more
lenient and indulgent to your children
than 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 Chris
tan parents come to visit! Whatever may
have been the style of the architecture
when they came, il is palace before they
leave. If they visit you fifty times, the
two most memorable visits will be the
first and the last Those two pictures will
hang in the han of your memory while
memory lasts and you will remember 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 If your father come
to town and he have the manners of the
shepherd and if your mother come to town
millinery The wife of the Emperor Theo-
dosius said a wise thing when she said
Husbands, remember what you lately
were, and remember what you are, and be
thankful"
BY this time you all notice what kindly
provision Joseph made for his father ia
cob. Joseph did not say: II can't have
the old man around this place. How clum-
sy he would look climbing up these mar
BILE stairs, and walking over those mosa-
les! Then, he would be putting his hands
upon some of these frescoes. People
would wonder where that old greenhorn
came from, He would shock all the
Egyptian court with his manners at Ia
bic. Besides that, he might get sick on
my hands and he might be querulous, and
he might talk TO me as though l were
only boy, when | am the second man
in all the realm. OF course, he must not
suffer, and If there is famine In his coun-
try-and l hear there isl will send him
some provisions; but can't take a man
from Padanaram and introduce him into
this polite Egyptian court. What a null
sance it is to have poor relations!
Joseph did not say that, but he rushed
| out to meet his father with perfect aban-
don 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 living; and
when he was dead, Joseph with military
escort, took his fathers remains to the
family cemetery. Would God all chill
dren We're as kind to their parents!
If the father have large property, and
he be wise enough TO keep it in his own
name, he will be respected by the heirs
but how often it is when the son finds his
father in famine, as Joseph found Jacob
in famine the young people make 1t very
hard for the old man. They are so sur
a a q Wi nj inst oah Of q
fork They are chagrined at his antedilu-
Wan habits. They are provoked because
he cannot hear as well as he used to, and
when he asks IL over again, and the son
has to repeat it, he bawls in the old mans
ear: 81 hope you hear THAR How long
he must wear the old coat or the old hat
before they get him a new one! How
| chagrined they are at his independence of
the English grammar! How long he hangs
on! Seventy years and not gone yeti Sew
| enty-five years and not gone yet! Eighty
| years and not gone yeti VIII he ever go?
| They think it of no use to have a doctor
| in his last sickness, and go up to the drug
| store and get something that makes him
worse, and economize on a coffin, and beat
the undertaken down to the last point,
giving a note for the reduced amount
| which they never pay! 1 have officiated at
obsequies of aged people where the family
| have been so inordinately resigned to
L
| from Proverbs 1.-THE eye that mocketh
at his father, and refuseth TO obey it's
| mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick
| it out and the young eagles shall eat it,"
| In other words such an migrate ought to
| have a flock of crows for pall-bearers! /
| congratulate you if you have the honor
| of providing for aged parents. The bless
ing of the Lord God of Joseph and Jacob
| will be on you.
l rejoice to remember that though my
| father lived in plain house the most of
| his days, he died in mansion provided by
| the filal piety of son who had achiev-
| ed a fortune. There the octogenarian sat,
| and the servants waited on him, and there
| were plenty of horses and plenty of car
riages to convey him and bower in which
| to sit on long summer afternoons, dream
| ing over the past; and there was not a
! room in the house where he was not well
| come, and there We're musical instru-
ments of all sorts to regale him; and when
| life had passed, the neighbors came OUT
I ! 1.