Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-01

him. He said: ooh, faithful servant
you have builded for me palace You
builded it in the hearts of my people.
You have builded it's white walls cut
Of the tombstones which you have
erected over the graves of the dead.
You have jeweled it with the tears
you have wiped away. You have made
my palace echo with the sweetest Of
songs; for those songs are the echoing
sobs which you have stilled." So, like
the king of old, who sent his messen-
ger into the far country, God sends us
forth as parents on a most important
mission. By our examples and self
sacrificing love, we are to build the
palace Of purity in the hearts of our
children. What we do invariably de-
cides how our children shall live and
die; it decides their eternal welfare
The influence Of noble Christian par
ents upon the lives of their children
cannot be described better by me in
closing than by telling the history of
my old home, the home of my boyhood!
My father and mother had large
brOod-we were seven. | never knew
any one Of those seven children to have
more indulgence than the others. Each
had the full measure of parents love.
When troubles came to that home, and
many troubles did come, we always
found that father and mother had
divine strength given to them to bear
those troubles. Way back in the dim
past, long before I was born, they had
set up the family altar. was carried
to that sacred altar when so young
that l sometimes used to fall asleep
during the prayers. My father and
mother were not bound together so
much by ties of law as by unbreakable
ties of love. The first question father
always asked when he entered the
home was, "Where is your mother?"
| The first question mother asked when
| she came home was, where is your
| father" They were side by side at
the marriage aAtar. They were side by
side in the Christian training of their
| children. Hand in hand as partners
| they spread two tables for their chill
| dren. The one was for the sacred COM
munion of family worship; the other
| was the dining table, where we chill
! dren were taught to love one another
| Christ was asked to sit at both tables
That parental influence in the home
| of my childhood was a blessed one. IN
my college days | used to cherish the
hope that that influence might be con-
tinued i'll my own home by the earthly
| presence of my father and mother
| who l hoped would pass the twilight
of their lives by my own freside. But
| God Willed it otherwise. On Aug. 5,
1895, the death angel came to summon
one of that living twain. On April Il.
| 1902, the same messenger came and
called the other. They have passed
into the glorious presence where duty
well done receives it's reward. To me
is left only the hallowed memory of
their wise and tender training, which
will remain with me an influence and
an example to the end Of my life By
my own experience | commend to you,
o fathers and mothers, this duty of
| parental care and solicitude May God
help you to perform it SO efficiently
that when you pass from earth into
the glories of heaven your children
may rise up to call you blessed May
God answer this prayer of an anxious
father to keep US one and all from
committing the parental sins which
everywhere beset US and which so
easily may destroy us and jeopardize
the eternal welfare of our loving, trust
full children.
Copyright, 1902 by Louis Klopsch1