Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-12
washington. Jan. 1-tcOpyright. 1880.

and the entrance of another year are
she practical suggestions which Dr. Tai
mage puts in this discourse, which pro-
pose a different mode of measuring
time from that ordinarily employed;
text, Genesis 47:s: How old art thou?'
The Egyptian capital was the focus
of the worlds wealth. In ships and
barges there had been brought to 1t
from India frankincense and cinnamon
and ivory and diamonds; from the
north marble and iron; from Syria,
purple and silk; from Greece, some of
the finest horses of the world and some
of the most brilliant chariots, and from
all the earth that which could best
please the eye and charm the ear and
crafty the taste. There were temples
afiame with red sandstone, entered by
the gateways that were guarded by
pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics
and wound with brazen serpents and
adorned with winged creatures-their
eyes and beaks and pinions glittering
with precious stones. There were mar
BILE columns blooming into white flower
beds. There were stone pillars, at the
tus when in full bloom.
Along the avenues, lined with sphinx
End fame and obelisk there were
princes who came in gorgeously uphol-
stored palanquins, carried by servants
In scarlet or elsewhere drawn by We
hcles. the snow white horses, golden
bitied and six abreast, dashing at full
run. On the floors of mosaic the glo-
ries of Pharaoh were spelled out in let
tiers OF porphyry and beryl and flame.
There were ornaments twisted from
the wood of tamarisk, embossed with
silver breaking into foam. There were
footstools made out of a single precious
stone. There were beds fashioned out
of crouched lion in bronze. There
were chairs spotted with the sleek hides
of leopards. There were sofas footed
with the claws of wild beasts and
armed with the beaks of birds. AS you
stand on the level beach of the sea on
a summer day and look either way,
and there are miles of breakers, WIN e
with the ocean foam, dashing shore
ward, so 1t seemed as II the sea of the
worlds pomp and wealth in the Egyp-
tian capital for miles and miles flung
itself up into white breakers of marble
temple, mausoleum and obelisk.
II was to this capital and the palace
of Pharaoh that Jacob. the plain shep-
herd, came to meet his son Joseph, who
had become prime minister, in the roy
al apartment. Pharaoh and Jacob met,
dignity and rusticily, the gracefulness
Al. a q L., Ias,, Of
the field The king. wanting to make
the old countryman at ease and see
ing how white his beard is and how
feeble his step, looks Familiarity into
his face and says to the aged man:
@'How old art thou?"
Last night the gate of eternity opened
10 let in, amid the great throng of de
parted centuries. the soul of the dying
year. Under the twelfth stroke of the
Grazen hammer of the city clock the
patriarch fell dead, aud the stars of the
right were the funeral torches II Is
most fortunate that on this ROAD of life
there are so many milestones. on which
Sve can read just how fast we are goin%
toward the journeys end. | feel that n
as not an inappropriate question that
ask to-day when | look into your faces
and say. as Pharaoh did to Jacob, tie
patriarch: 'IIow old art thou -
People who are truthful on every
other subject lie about their ages, Sd
that | do not solicit from you any l.,
eral response to the question ! hav-
asked. would put no one under temp
sation; but | simply want this morning
20 see 10y what rod it is we are measur-
ing our earthly existence. There is n
right way and wrong way of measur-
ing our earthly existence. There is Il
right way and u wrong way of measur-
7ug a door, or wall. or an arch, or a |
v0wer. and so there is a right way and \ |
wrong way of measuring our earthly |
existence. 1t is with reference tn th.S |
higher meaning that confront you this
uuruiug with the stupendous question
If the text. and ask; How oh art
thou?"
Again, remark that there are man,
who estimate their life on earth hy their
SORROWS and misfurtuneS. Through
gieat many of your lives the plowshare
hath gone very deep, turning up ter
f9Dlt iuTfON. lou nave Oeen betrayed
and misrepresented and set upon am
slapped OF impertinence and pound,
Of misfortune. The brightest hle mus.
have its shadows and the smoothes,
path its thorns. On the happiest brood
the hawk pounces. No escape froi.
trouble of some kind. While glorious
John Milton was losing his eyesight he
heard that Salmasius was glad of it,
While Sheridan's comedy was being en-.
acted in Drury Lane theater, London,
his enemy sat growing at il in the
stage box. While Bishop Cooper was
surrounded by the favor of learned men
ais wife took his lexicon manuscript. |
the result of long life of anxiety and |
toll. and threw il into the fire. Misfor- |
tune, trial, vexation for almost every |
one. Pope, applauded of all the world. |
has stoop in the shoulder that annoyS
him so much that he has tunnel dug |
so that he may go unobserved from gar /
den TO grotto and from grotto 70 gar
den. Cano. the famous Spanish artist.