Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-05-10

you were home again on the cool grass
or the rag carpeted hall of the farm
house, through which there came The
breath of new mown hay or the bios
som of buckwhcat.
You may have in your windows now
beautiful plants and flowers brought
from across the seas, but not one OF
them stirs in your soul so much charm
and memory as the old ivy and the vel
low sunflowcr that stood sentinel along
the garden walk and the forgct-mc-nots
playing hide and seek mid the long
grass. The father who used To- come
in sunburned from the field and sit
down on the doorsill and wipe the
sweat from his brow may have gone &c
his everlasting rest. The mother who
used To sit at the door n little bent over
cap and spectaclcS on, her face mellow
ing with the vicissitudes of many years
may have put down her gray head or
the pillow in the valley. but forget that
home YOU never will. Have YOU thanked
God for it? Have YOU rehearsed al
these blessed "reminiscences? oh. thanh
! God for Christian father! Thank God
| for a Christian mother! Thank God FOR
an early Christian altar ut which YOU
were taught To knccl! Thank God foi
an early Christian home.
l bring to mind another passage in
the history OF your life. The day cam,
/ when YOU set up YOUR own household
/ The days passed along i'm quiet bless
! ednCss. You twain sat at the tabl,
morning and night and talked over
| tHt ~ ft,t
| insignificant affairs i'm your life bccam,
! the subject of mutual consultation and
| adNiscmcnt. You were SO happy Not
! felt YOU never could Ice amy happier
! One day dark cloud lowered over your
! dwelling, and il got darker and darker
! but out of that cloud the shining mes
| scnTcr OF God descended TO incarnat,
/ an immortal spirit. Two little fee
| started on an eternal journey, and yoI
| were 10 lead them gem to fash II
! Heavens corunct. and YOU TO polish il
! Eternal ages OF light and darkness,
watching The starting out OF newly
created creature. You re- ioiccd and vol
| trcmblcd at IN" responsibility that II
| your possession an immortal trcasur,
was placed You prayed and re ioicct
/ and wept and wondered. You were ear
nest in your supplication that yot
| might lead il through life into Tn,
! kingdom Of God. There vns q trcmoi
! in your carncstucs. There was {
! double intcrcs: about that home. Their,
was an additional interest why vor
should stay there and bc faithful. anc
| when in II few months your house wa,
filled with thc music Of your child
laughter YOU were struck through will
the fact that you had stupcndous mis-
| sion.
Have YOU kept that VOW? Have yo
neglected amy Of these duties? X Won
home as much 10 YOU as it used to bc
UaNc those anticipations been graf
fled? God help YOU i'm your solcm
"Reminiscences. and let His mercy ia
upon your soul. IL your kindness Ina
been i'll requitcd. God have mercy q
'hc parent on the wrinkles of who,
race Is written the story of n child
sin. God have mercy on the mothc
who. in addition 10 her other panp,
has the pang of n chiid's iuiquitv. Oh
there arc many. many sad sounds i'm thi
| sad world, but the saddrst sound tina
is ever heard is the breaking OF a moth
or's heart
! find another point i'm your life his
tory You found one day you wcr,
in the wrong rond You could not slccI
Mt night; there was just one word tina
seemed TO sob through your bankin.
house or through yolxAgilicc or you
shop or your bcdroo lat wor,
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