The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-07

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and how many a hero. and how many a
dellverer and how many a saint are the
world and the church indebted 10 a watch
full loving, faithful godly sister? Come
Up out of the farm-houses, come I'D out
of the inconspicuous homes, come up from
the banks of the Hudson, and Penobsco5
and the Savannah, and the Mobile and
the Mississippi, and all the other Niles
of America, and let us see you. the Mir
Jams who watched and protected the
leaders in law, and medicine, and mer-
chandise, and art and agriculture. and
mechanics, and relgioni If 1 should ask
all physicians and attorneys. and mer-
chants, and ministers of religion, and sue
cessful men of all professions and trades.
who are indebted to an elder sister for
good influences and perhaps for an educa-
ton or prosperous start, to let it be
known, hundreds would testify God
knows how many Of our Greek lexicons
and how much Of our schooling was paid
for by money that would otherwise have
gone for the replenishing of a sisters
wardrobe. While the brother sailed off for
n resounding sphere the sister watched
him from the banks of self-denial.
Miriam was the eldest of the family:
Moses and Aaron, her brothers were
younger. Oh, the power of the elder sis
ter 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 water
fowl or crocodile from the ark of bull
rushes. The older sister decides the di-
rection in which the cradle boat shall sail
BY gentleness by good sense, by Chris
tan principle she can turn it toward the
palace, not of a wicked Pharaoh. but of a
holy God; and a 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 circumstances, she had to hold
and take care of her younger brothers
And If there is anything that excites my
sympathy it is little girl Juggling round
q great fat child and getting her ears box
ed because she cannot 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 calls her by an un-
fair 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 occu-
pied by sisters who sacrificed themselves
for brothers They will have the finest
of the Aposalyptic white horses, and many
who on earth looked down upon them will
have to turn out to let them pass, the
charioteer crying: Clear the way! A
queen is comingn'
Let sisters not begrudge the time and
care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to
believe that any boy that you know so
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anything very useful. Well he may not
be a Moses. There is only one of that
kind needed for six thousand years. But
tell you what your brother will be-either
blessing or a curse to society, and can
didate for happiness or wretchedness. He
will, like Moses, have the choice between
rubles and living Goals, and your infiu-
ence will have much to do with his decis-
ion. He may not, like Moses be the de-
liverer of a nation, but he may, after
your father and mother are gone, be the
deliverer of a household. What thou
sands of homes to-day are piloted by
brothers! There are properties now well
invested and yielding income for the sup
port of sisters and younger brothers be-
cause the older brother rose to the leader
ship from the day the father lay down to
die. Whatever you do for your brothers
will come back to you again. If you set
him an ill-natured, cenSorious, unaccom-
modating example it will recoil upon you
from his own irritated and despoiIed ma
ture. If you, by patience with his in
firmities and by nobility OF character
dwell with him, in the few years of your
compaionship, you will have your coun-
sells reflected back upon you some day by
his splendor of behavior in some crisis
where he would have failed but for you
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 Don't
tease him. Brothers and sisters do not
consider 1t any harm to tease. That
spirit abroad in the family is one of the
meaneSt and most devilish- There is a teas
ing that is pleasurable and is only another
form of innocent raillery; but that which
provokes and irritates and makes the eve
fash with anger Is to be reprehended 1t
would be less blameWorthy to take a
bunch of thorns and draw them across
your sisters cheek, or to take a knife and
draw Its sharp edge across your brother
hand till the blood spurts, for that would
| damage only the body; but teasing Is the
thorn and the knife scratching and LAGER
ating the disposition and the soul 1t ia
| the curse of innumerable households that
| the brothers tease the sisters, and the sis
| ters the brothers. Sometimes II is the
| color of the hair, or the shape of the feat
| ures, or an affair of the heart. Sometimes
| 1t is by revealing a secret of by a sugges-
! tive look. or a guffaw, or an "Ahemp'
! Tease! Tease! Tease! For mercy's sake,
| quit it. Christ says HE that hateth his
| brother is a murderer" Now, when you
| by teasing, make your brother or sister
hate, you turn him or her into murderer
or murderess
Don't let jealousy ever touch sister q
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 marrieS 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 miscegenation, that she is
drawn into frenzy, and then begins &c
turn white, and gets white as a corpse
and then whittier than a corpse. Her COM
| plexion is like chalk, the fact is, she has
the Egyptian leprosy. And now the brother
whom she had defended on the Nile comes
to her rescue in prayer that brings hei
restoration. Let there be no room in al
| your house for jealousy either tn sit ~