Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-10

ter? Come up out of the fatmhuuScs,
come up out of the inconspicuouS
3 homes, come up from the banks of the
] Hudson, and Pcnohscot, and the Savan-
nah, and the Mobile, and the Mi,sis-
sippi, and all the other Niles of Amer
lea, and let rs src yuu the MIriams who
watched and protected the leaders in
law,and medicine, and merchandise and
art and agriculture, and mechanics,
and rrhEiun' IL | should aS, all phvSi-
cIanN and attorneys and merchants aud
ministers of religion, and successful
men of all professions and trades. who
are indebted To- an elder sister for GOOD
influences and perhaps for an cduca.
ton ar a prosperous start. To- let IL bc
known, hundreds would testify. tod
knows how many of our Greek lcNicuns
and how much of our schooling WAS
paid for 10y money that would 9th
rrwlsc have gone for the rcplrnishing
I of sisters wardrobe. While the
brother sailed oil for resembling
spree the sister watched him from the
banks of sclf-dcnial
/ Miriam was the eldest 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 water fowl or
| crockodilc from the ark of bulruShcS
/ The older sister decides the direction
! IN which the cradle boat shall sail Hv
| gcntlrncSS. 10y good sense, 10y Christian
/ principle she can turn it toward the
{ palace, not of wicked Pharaoh but of
holy Cod and a brighter princes, than
| Thcrmutis should lift him out of peril,
even Religion, whose ways are ways of
! plcaSantncsS 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 cNcitcS my sympathy, it i Il little
| girl Juggling around great fat child
and getting her ears boxed because she
can not keep him quiet! Iiv the time
/ she gets To young wOmanhOOd she is
| pale and worn ont. and her attract
| ivcnesS has been sacrificed ON the
altar of sisterly fidelity. and she is
consigned Ia celibacy. and society calls
her by an unfair name; but in Heaven
they call her Miriam. In most
| families the two most undcsir-
able places in the record of
! births are the first and last; the first
because she is worn out with the cares
| of home that can not afford
| to hire help. and the last because she
| is spoiled as pet. Among the grand
est cquipagcS that sweep through the
streets of Heaven will he those occu-
| pied 10y sisters who sacrificed them
| selves 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 chariotccr CRYING:
Clear the way! a Queen is coming"
Let sisters not bcgrudgc the time
and care bestowed ON a brother. 1t is
hard tn believe that any boy that you
know SO well as your brother can ever
turn out anything very useful Well
he may not be Moses There is only
one of that kind needed for q. 900 wears
But | tell you what your brother will
| bc-either blessing or curse tn So
| cirty, and a candidate for happiness or
| wretchcdnc>S. lie will, like Moses.
have the choice between rubics and liv-
| ing Goals. and your influence will have
much to do with his decision. lie may
| not like Moses, he the dclivercr of a
nation, but he may, after your father
and mother are gone, be the deliverer
| of hAl hot thAnGnnIS Of
homes to-day are piloted by brothers.
There are properties now well vested
and yielding income for the support
| of sisters and younger brothers be-
cause the older brother rose to the
lea lership from the day the father lay
down ~ die. Whatever you do for
your brothers will come back to you
again. If you set him an ill-natured,
ccnSoriouS, accommodating exam
Pile, it will rccoil upon you from his
own irritatcd and dcspoiled nature.
If you, by patience with his infirmitics
and by nobility of character, dwell
with him, in the few years of your
compauionship, you will have your
counsels reflected back upon you some
day by his splcndor of behavior in some
|
| 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 it any harm To tease.
| That spirit abroad in the family is one
| of the mcanest and most devilsh. There
is teasing that is pleasurable, and is
only another form of innocent railery;
but that which provolles and irritates
and makes the eye flash with anger is
to he rcprehendcd. 1t would be less
blameworthy to take a bunch of thorns
and draw them across your sisters
check. or to take knife and draw its
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 disposition
of the soul. 1t is the
curse of innumerable house
holds that the brothers tease the sis
tiers and the sisters the brothers.
Sometimes it is the color of the hair,
or the shape of the features, of an af-
fair of the heart. Sometimes it is by
revealing n secret or by suggestive
look, or n guffaw, or an "Ahem!"
Tease. Tease. Tease! For mcrcy's
sake, quit it. Christ says: lie that
hateth his brother is n murderer"
Now, when you, by teasing, make your
brother or sister hate, you turn him or
her into a murderer or murdcrcss.
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 pas
sion of jealousy. She had possessed
unlimited influence over Moses, and
now he marries, and not only so,
but marries n black woman from
Ethiopia, and Miriam is so disguised
and outraged at Moses, first be-
cause he had married at all, and
next because he had pracuced misce-
genation, that she is drawn into n