The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1898-02-11

Don't snub him. DON 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. Dom
tease him. Brothers and sisters do not
consider it any harm to tease. That
spirit abroad in the family is one of the
meanest and most devilish. There is a
teasing that is pleasurable and is only
another form of innocent raillery, but
that which provokes and irritates and
makes the eye flash with anger is to be
reprehended. 1t would be less blame.
worthy to take bunch of thorns and
draw them across your sisters cheek or
to take knife and draw it's sharp edge
across your brothers. hand till the blood
spurts, for that would damage only the
body, but teasing is the thorn and the
knife scratching and decorating the dis.
position and the soul. 1t is the curse Of
innumerable households that the broth.
ers tease the sisters and the sisters the
brothers. Sometimes it is the color OF
the hair or the shape of the features Oh
an affair of the heart. Sometimes it is
by revealing secret or by suggestive
look or a guffaw or an "Ahem p Tease
tease, teasel For mercy's sake, quit iii
Christ says, "He that hateth his brother
is a murderer. 4" Now, when you by
teasing make your brother or sister
hate, you turn him or her into a muir,
derer or murderess.
Beware of Jealousy.
Don't let jealousy ever touch sis.
ter's soul, as it 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 mar,
ries, and not only so, but marries a
black woman from Ethiopia, and Miriam
is so disguised and outraged at Moses,
first because he had married at all and
next because he had practiced miscegen.
alton, that she is drawn into frenzy,
and then begins to turn white and gets
white as corpse and then whittier than
a corpse. Her complexion is like chalk
The fact is she has the Egyptian lepro.
sy. And now the brother whom she had
defended on the Nile comes to her res
cue in a prayer that brings her restora
tion. Let there be no room in all you1
house for jealousy either to sit or stand
1t is leprous abomination. Your broth
er's success, o sisters is your success.
His victories 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 went under.
How strong it makes family when
all the sisters and brothers stand to-
gether, and what an awful wreck when
they disintegrate, quarreling about IA
theirs will and making the surrogate S
office horrible with their wranglel Bet
ter when you were little children 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.
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 Rothschilds AS Mayer Anselm
Rothschild was about to die in 1912 he
gathered his children about him-An-
selm, Solomon, Nathan, Charles and
James-and made them promise that
they would always be united on
Change. Obeying that injunction, they
have been the mightiest commercial
power on earth, and at the raising or
lowering of their scepter nations have
risen or fallen. That illustrates how
much, ON large scale and for selfish
purposes, a united family may achieve,
But suppose that instead of magnitude
of dollars as the object, it be doing good
and making salutary impression and
raising this sunken world how much
more ennobling! Sister, you do your
part and brother will do his part. If
Miriam will lovingly watch the boat on
the Nile, Moses will help her when lep-
rous disasters strike.
When father and mother are gone
and they soon will be if they have not
already made exit-the sisterly and fra
ternal bond will be the only ligament
that will hold the family together How
many reasons for your deep and unfal-
tering 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 inheritance of all
the family secrets, and with names Civ
en- 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
see that the brother never wants a sym
pathizer, the brother will see that the
sister new er wants an escort. Oh, if the
sisters of a 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 a holy conspiracy of kind words
and gentle attentions and earnest pray