Connecticut western news., 1898-02-10

as sho had no child Ct her own thlS adopted child would have come to eoro. nation. Had there been no Miriam there would have been no Moses. What gar land for faithful sisterhood. For how many lawgiver. and how many hero, and how many deliverer, and how many a saint are the world snd tho church indebted to watohfni, loving, faithful, godly sister, Come up out of the farmhouses, come cp out of the iE conspicuous homes, come up from the banks of the Hudson, and Psnobscot, and the Savannah. and the Mobile, and the Mississippi, aud all the other Nile, of America, and let us see you, tine Mir Jams who watched and protected tho leaders in law, and medicine, and mer- chspdise. and art. and agriculture, and mechanics, and relieioni If should ask all physicians, and attorneys, and mer- chants, and ministers of religion, and successful men uf all professions and trades who ars indebted to an elderly sister for good influences and perhaps for an education or a prosperous start to let 1t be known, hundreds would tes tify. God knows how many of our Greek lexicons and how much of our schooling were paid for by money thas would otherwise have gone for the re- plenishing of sister s wardrobe. While the brother sailed off for resounding sphere the sister watched him from the banks of self denial.
 The Rider Sisters Infiuencs.
 Miriam was the eldest of the family. Moses aud Aaron, her brothers, were younger. On, the power of the elder sister to help decide the brothers char acter for usefulness and for heaven! She can keep off from her brother more evils than Miriam could have driven back waterfowl or crocodile 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 it to- ward the palace not of wicked Pha- raoh. but of holy God, and Q 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 her! Born while yet the family was in limited cir cumstances. she had to hold and take care of her younger brothers. And if there is anything that exoites my sym pathy it is little girl lugging round a great fat child and getting her ears boxed because she cannot keep him quiet. By the time she gets to young womanhood she Is pale and worn out, and her attractiveness has been sacri- feed on the altar of sisterly fidelity, and she is consigned to oelibacy, and society calls her by an unfair name, but in heaven they call her Miriam. In most families the two most undesirable places in the record of births are the first and the last-the first because she Is worn out with the cares of a home that cannot afford to hire help and the last because she is spoiled as pet. Among the grandest equipages that sweep through the streets of heaven will be those occupied by sisters who sacrificed themselves for brothers. They will have the finest of the Apocalyptic white horses, and many who on earth looked down upon them will have to turn out to let them pass. the oharioteer crying: "Clear the way! A queen is coming!"
 Let sisters not begrudge the time and care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to believe that any boy that you know % well as your brother can ever turn ont anything very useful. We'll, he may not be a Moses. There is only one of that kind needed for 6. 900 years. But l tell you what your brother will be- either blessing or curse to society and candidate for happiness or wretch edness. He will. like Moses, have the choice between rubies and living coals. and your influence will have much to do with his decision. He may not, like Moses, be the deliverer of 8 nation, but he may after your father and mother are gone ba the deliverer of a household. What thousands of homes today are piloted by brothers! There are proper ties now we'll invested and yielding in como 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. What ever you do for your brothers will come back to you again. If you set him an i'll natured, Censorious, unaccommodating example, it will recoil upon you from his own irritated and despoiled nature. If you by patience with his infirmities and by nobility of character dwell with him in the few years of your compan- ionship. you will have your counsels re- fiected back upon you some day by his
 splendor of behavior in some crisis
 where be would have failed but for yen.
 Don't snub him. Don't depreciate his ability. Don't talk discouragingly about his future. Don't let Miriam get down of the bank of the Nile and wade out and upset the ark of bulrushes. Don 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 railiery, but that which provokes and irritates and makes the eye flash with anger is to be repreheBded. It 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 lacerating the dis. position and the soul. It is the curse O, innumerabse households that the broth. CTS tease the sisters and the sisters the brothers. Sometimes it is the color oi the hair or the shape of the features O, an affair of the heart. Sometimes 1t il by revealing a secret or by suggestive look or a guffaw or an "Ahem! !'' Tease
 tease, teasel For mercy's sake, quit it Christ says, "He that hateth his brother is murderer. Now, when. you by
 teasing make your brother or sister hate. you turn him or her into a mur. derer or murderess.
 Beware of Jealousy.
 Don't let jealousy ever touch a sis ter's soul, as it so often does, becaust
 her brother gets more honor or more means Even Miriam, the heroine of tn, text, was struck by that evil passion ot