Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-10

woven OI river plants anu nduo Wator-tiSHs
with asphaltum, carrying its one passen-
ger? Did she not put all the ages of time
and of a coming eternity under obligation
when she defended her helpless brother
from the perils aquatic, reptilian ana
ravenous? She it was that brought that
wonderful babe and its mothertogether, SO
that he was reared to be the delfverer Of his
nation, when otherwise, II saved at oil from
the rushes of the Nile, he would have been
only one more Of the God-defying Pha-
roahs; for Princess Thermutis, OF the bath
ing house, would have inherited the crown
of Egypt; and, as she had no child of her
own, this adopted child would have come
to coronation. Had there been no Miriam
there would have been no Moses. What
garland for faithful sisterhood!
Miriam was the oldest OF the family;
Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were
younger. Oh the power of the elder sister
to help decide the brothers character for
usefulness and for heaven! She can keep
off from her brother more evils than Miriam
could have driven back waterfowl or croco-
ollie from the ark of bulrushes. The older
sister decides the direction in which the
cradle boat shall sail. BY gentleness, by
good sense, by Christian principle she can
turn 1t toward the palace, not OF wicked
Pharaoh, but OF holy God and brighter
princess than Thermutis should lift him out
OF peril, even religion, whose ways are
ways of pleasantness and all her paths are
peace. The older sister, how much the
world owes herl Born while yet the family
was in limited circumstances, she had to
hold and take care of her younger brothers.
And If there is anything that excites my
sympathy, it is a little girl Juggling around
II great fat child aud getting her ears
| boxed because she can not keep him quiet!
| By the time she gets to young womanhood
| she is pale and worn out, and her attrac-
| tiveness has been sacrificed on the altar of
| sisterly fidelity and she is consigned to
| celibacy, and society call her by an unfair
name; but in heaven they call her Miriam.
Let sisters not begrudge the time and
care bestowed on brother. 1t is hard to
believe that any boy that you know so we'll
| very useful. Well, he may not be Moses.
There is only one Of that kind needed for
six thousand years. But 1 tell what your
brother will be-either blessing or
curse to society, and candidate for happi-
ness or wretchedness. He will, like Moses.
| have the choice between rubies and living
Goals, and your influence will have much
to do with his decision. He may not, like
Moses, be the deliverer Of q nation, but he
may, after your father and mother are
gone, be the deliverer of a household.
What thousands Of homes to-day are piloted
| by brOthers There are properties now
well invested and yielding income for the
support of sisters and younger brothers
because the older brother rose to the
leadership from the day the father lay down
to die. Whatever you do for your brothers
will come back to you again.
| Don't snub him. Don't depreciate his
| ability. Don't talk discouragingly about
| his future. Don't let Miriam get down off
| the bank of the Nile and wade out and upset
the ark Of bulrushes. Dou't tease him.
Don't let jealousy ever touch sisters
SOUL as 1t so often does, because her brother
gets more honor or more means. Even
Miriam, the heroine Of the text, was struck
by that evil passion of jealousy. She had
possessed unlimited influence over Moses,
and now he marries, and not only so, but
marries black woman from Ethiopia; and
Miriam is so disgusted and outraged at
Moses, first because chad marriedat all and
| next because he had practiced misce~
| tion, THAT she Is drawn into frenzy, and
then begins to turn white, and gets white
as corpse, and then whittier than corpse.
Her complexion is like chalk, the fact is,
she has the Egyptian Ieprosy. And now
the brother whom she had defended on the
Nile comes to her rescue in prayer that
brings her restoration. Let there be no
room in all your house for jealousy either
to sit or stand. 1t is a leprous abomina-
tion. Your brothers success, o sisters, is
your success. His victories will be your
victories.
If you only knew it, your interests are
identical. OF all the families of the earth
that ever stood together, perhaps the most
conspicuous is the family Of the Roths-'
| about TO die in 1919 he gathered his chill.
| dren about bim-Anselm Solomon Nathan
Charles and James-and made them promise
| that thew would aIwavs he united on
| 'Chnnpe. Obeyino that iniunction thew
| have been the mightiest commercial power
| their scenter nations have risen or fallen
That Illustrates how much. on a large scale
and for selfish purposes. a united family
NAV achieve. Tsnt suppose that instead 81
| a magnitude of dollars ns the object n he
| doing good and making salutarv i'm nres-
/ sion and raisjno this snnken world how
mucb more ennohlinoI sister Won do
your mart and brother will do his part. If
| Miriam will Iovinoiv watch the hoat on tbe
| Nile Moses will helm her when lenrons dis.
Ganarai Rare- q, tho Russ;a, oavo,rv
had in early life wandered of In tbe army
and the family snnnosed he was dead AZ,
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