The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-09

a corpse. HerS complexion is like
chalk, the fact is, she has the Egyp-
tian leprosy. And now the brother
whom she had defended on the Nile
comes to her rescue in a 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
abomination. Your brothers success,
o sister, is your success. His victo-
ries will be your victories. For while
Moses, the brother, led the vocal music
after the crossing of the Red sea,
Miriam, the sister, with two sheets of
shining brass uplifted and glittering
in the sun, led the instrumental music,
clapping the cymbals till the last
frightened neigh of pursuing cavalry
horse was smothered in the wave, and
the last Egyptian helmet was under.
How strong it makes a family when
all the sisters and brothers stand to-
gether, and what an awful wreck when
they disintegrate, quarreling about
fathers will and making the surro-
gates Office horrible with their wran-
gle! Better, when you were little chill
dren in the nursery, that with your
playhouse mallets you had accidentally
killed each other fighting across your
cradle, than that, having come to the
age of maturity and having in your
veins and arteries the blood of the
same father and mother, you fight
each other across the parental grave in
the cemetery.
When father and mother are gone
and they soon will be, if they have not
already made exit-the sisterly and
fraternal bond will be the only liga-
ment that will hold the family together.
How many reasons for your deep and
unfaltering affection for each other!
Rocked in the same cradle, bent over
by the same motherly tenderness,
toiled for by the same fathers weary
arm and aching brow, with common in
heritance of all the family secrets, and
with names given you by parents who
started you with the highest hopes for
your happiness and prosperity, charge
you be loving and kind and forgiving.
If the sister sees that the brother
never wants sympathizer, the brother
will see that the sister never wants
an escort. Oh, if the sister of
household knew through what terrific
and damning temptations their brother
goes in city life they would hardly sleep
nights in anxiety for his salvation! And
if you would make holy conspiracy
of kind words and gentle attentions
and earnest prayers, you might save
his soul from death and hide a multi
tude of sins. But let the sister dash off
in one directin in discipleship of the
world, and the brother flee off in an
other direction in dissipation, and it
will not be long before they will meet
again at the iron gate of Despair, their
blistered feet in the hot ashes of con-
sumed lifetime. Alas! that brothers
and sisters, though living together for
years, very often do not know each
other, and that they see only the i'm
perfections and none of the virtues.
Brother and sister, you need as much
of an introduction to each other as
they did. You do not know each other.
You think your brother is grouty and
cross and queer, and he thinks you are
selfish and proud and unlovely. Both
wrong! That brother will be prince
in some ones eyes, and that sister a
queen in the estimation of some man.
That brother is magnificent fellow,
and that sister is a morning in June.
Come, let me introduce you: "Moses,
this is Miriam" Miriam, this is
Noses" Add rs per cent. to your present
appreciation of each other, and when
you kiss good morning do not stick up
your cold cheek, wet from the recent
washing, as though you hate to touch
each others lips in affectionate caress.
Let it have all the fondness and cordi-
atty of loving sisters kiss.
Make yourself as agreeable and help
full to each other as possible, remember
ing that soon you part. The few years
of boyhood and girlhood will soon slip
by, and you will go out to homes Of your
own, and into the battle with the world,
and amid ever-changing vicissitudes,
and on paths crossed with graves, and
up sleeps hard to climb, and through
shadowy ravines. But, o my God and
my Saviour! may the terminus of the
journey be the same as the start
namely, at fathers and mothers knee,
if they have inherited the kingdom.
Then, as in boyhood and girlhood days,
we rushed in after the days absence
with much to tell of exciting adventure,
and father and mother enjoyed the re-
cital as much as we who made it, so we
shall on the hillside of Heaven rehearse
to them all the scenes of our earthly
expedition, and they shall welcome us
home, as we say: Father and mother.
we have come and brought our chill
dren with u.s." The old revival hymn
described it with glorious repetition:
Brothers and sisters there will meet
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
VIII meet to part no more.
read of a child in the country wLo
was detained at neighbors house ON
stormy night by some fascinating
stories that were being told him, an6
then looked out and saw it was SO dark
he did not dare go home. The incident
impressed me the more because in my
childhood had much the same experi-
ence. The boy asked his comrades to
go with him, but they dared not. 1t
got later lad later-7 o'clock. So'clock,
o o'clock. "0h," he said, II wish l