Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 12 July 1894 — Page 3

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PREMIER JOSEPH. -f f-t

His Munificent Kindness to Ja f, -1 cob. ?.

Fhfl Egyptian Chancellor l)id Not Go Back on His Poor Relations—Dr. Talinag«'s Sermon.

sv The Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now nearing tbe antipodes

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his round-

the-world journey, selected as the subject for his sermon through the press last Sunday, "The Rustic in the Palace," the text being taken from Genesis xlv, 28, "I will go and see him before I die."

Jacob had long sinee passed the hundred-year milestone. In those times people were distinguished for longevity. In the centuries afterward persons lived to great age. Sralen, the most celebrated physician of his time, took so little of his own medicine that he lived to 140 years. A. man of undoubted veracity on the witness stand in England swore that tie remembered an event 140 years |yf Defore. Lord Bacon speaks of a lountess who had cut three sets of =eeth and died at 140 years. Joseph

Urele, of Pennsylvania, lived 140 Vi /ears. Among the grand old people of !!jf *rhom we have record was Jacob,the ihepherd of the text. But he had a 5ad lot of boys. They were jealous 15 Jiid ambitious and every way unprincipled. Joseph, however, seemed ft 'o be an exception, but he had been ifone many years, and the probabiiiwas that he was dead.

The centenarian is sitting dream f" .ng over the past when he hears a wagon rumbling to the front door. iJe gets up and goes to the door to see who has arrived, and his long ibsent sons from Egypt come in and innounce to him that Joseph, instead of being dead, is living in an

Egyptian palace, with all the investture of prime minister, next to the •ring in the mightest empire of all he world.

It did not take the old man a great vhile to get ready, I warrant you. 3e put on the best clothes that the hepherd's wardrobe could afford. 2e got into the wagon, and though .he aged are cautious and like to ride hi -.low the wagon did not get along ast enough for this old man, and vhen the wagon with the old man ,v' net Joseph's chariot coining down jo meet him, and Joseph got out of 7 ,he chariot and got into the wagon md threw his arms around his father, i«*'s neck, it was an antithesis of 'oyalty and rusticity, of simplicity vitnd pomp, of filial affection and paternal love, which leaves us so much doubt about whether we had beter laugh or cry that we do both. jo Jacob kept the resolution of the ext, "I will go and see him before I lie."

I am often asked as pastor, and ^very pastor is asked the question, 'Will my children be children in leaven and forever children?" Well, .here was no doubt a great change HV* Joseph from the time Jacob lost jptiim and the time when Jacob found pv' lim—between the boy of seventeen Wi

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of age and the man in midlife,

1^- lis forehead developed with the If *reat business of state, but Jacob vas glad to get back Joseph anyhow,

md it did not make much difference the old man whether the boy ooked older or looked younger. 0 parent, as you think of the daring panting aud white in membraneous croup, I want you to know it vill be gloriously bettered in that and where there has never been a leath and where all the inhabitants vill live on in the great future as ong as God! Joseph was Joseph lotwithstanding the palace, and your thild will be your child notwith5tandingall the raining splendors of *verlasting noon. What a thrilling nsit was that of the old shepherd to ihe prime minister, Joseph! I see he old countryman seated in the jalace looking around at the mir--ors, and the fountains, and the jarved pillars, and, oh, how he wishes that Rachel, his wife, was •live and she could have come there •with him to see their son in his Treat house! "Oh," says the old nan within himself, "I do wish Ranel could be here to see all this!" 1 visited the farmhouse of the 'ather of Millard Fillmore when she son was President of the United States, and the octogenarian farmer entertained me until 11

o'clock

at night, telling me what

jreat things he saw at his son's house ,it Washington, and what Daniel

Webster said to him, and how grand

Millard treated his father in the White House. The old man's face was illumined with the story until almost midnight. He had just been visiting his son at the capital. And suppose it was something of the game joy that thrilled the heart of the old shepherd as he stood in the palace of the prime minister.

Joseph, in the historical scene of the text, did not think any more of flis father than you do of your parents. The probability is before they leave your house they half spoil your shildren with kindness. Grandfather and grandmother are more lenient ,, ,ind indulgent to your children than they ever were with you. And what wonders of revelation in the bombasine pocket of the one and the sleeve of the other. Blessed is that home where Christian parents come to visit! Whatever may have been the style of the architecture when they came it is a palace before they leave. §ffcf they visit you fifty times the most ^memorable visits will be the first and the last. Those two pictures 'will hang in the hall of your memory while memory lasts, and you will ^remember just how they looked, and Jfwhere they sat, and what they said, Ir and at what figure of the carpet and

at what doorsill they parted witfc you, giving you the final good-by. If the father has large property and he be wise enough to keep it in his own name, he will be respected by the heirs. But how often is it when the son finds his father in famine, as Joseph found Jacob in famine, the young people make it very hard for the old man. They are so surprised he eats with a knife instead of a fork. They are chagrined at his ancient and antediluvian habits. They are provoked because he can not hear as well as he used to. and when he asks it over a/ain and the son has to repeat it, he bawls in the old man's ear, "I hope you heard that!" How long must he wear the old coat or the old hat before they get him a new one! How chagrined tney are at his independence of the English grammar! How long he hangs on! Seventy years and not gone yet! Will he ever go? They think it of no use to have a doctor in his last sickness, and go up to the drugstore and get a dose of something that makes him worse, and economize on a coffin, and beat the undertaker down to the last point, giving a note for the reduced amount, which they never pay.

I rejoice to remember that, though my father lived in a plain house the most of his da\Ts, he died in a mansion provided by the filial piety of a son who had achieved a fortune Thera the octogenarian sat, and the servants waited on him, and there were plenty of horses and plenty of carriages to convey him, and a bower in which to sit on long summer afternoons, dreaming over the past, and there was not a room in the house where he was not welcome and there were musical instruments of all sorts to regale him, and when life had passed the neighbors came out and expressed all honor possible and carried him to the village Macpelah and put him down beside the Rachel with whom he had lived more than half a century.

Let the ungrateful world sneer at the maiden aunt, but God has a throne burnished for her arrival, and on one side of that throne in heaven there is a vase containing two jewels, the one brighter than the Kohinoor of London Tower, and the other larger than any diamond ever found in the districts ot Golconda--the one jewel by the lapidary of the palace cut with the words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to father the other jewel bv the lapidary of the palace cut with the words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to mother." "Over the Hills to the Foorhouse" is the exquisite ballad of Will Carleton, who found an old woman who had been turned off by her prosperous sons, but I thank God I may find in my text, "Over the hill to the palace."

As if to disgust us with unfilial conduct the bible presents us the story of Micah, who stole the 1,100 shekels from his mother, and the story of Absalom, who tried to dethrone his father. But all history is beautiful with stories of filial fidelity. Epaminondas, the writer, found his chief delight in reciting to his parents his victories. There goes JLneas from burning Troy, on his shoulders Anchises, his father. The Athenians punished with death any unfilial conduct, There goes beautiful Ruth escorting venerable Naomi across the desert amid the howling of the wolves and the barking of the jackals. John Laurence, burned at the stake in Colchester, was cheered in the flames by his children, who said, "O God, strengthen thy servant and keep thy promise!"

Oh, what a day that will be when the old folks come from an adjoining mansion in heaven and find vou amid the alabaster pillars of the throne room and living with the King! They are coming up the steps now, and the epauleted guard of the palace rushes in and says. "Your father's coming, your mother's coming!" And when under the arches of precious stones and on the pavement of porphyry you greet each other the scene will eclipse the meetinsr on the Goshen highway, when Joseph and Jacob fell on each others neck and wept a good while.

But, oh, how changed the old folks will be Their cheek smoothed into the flesh of a little child. Their stooped posture lifted into immortal symmetry. Their foot now so feeble, then with the sprightliness of a bounding roe, as they shall say to you, "A spirit passed this way from earth and told us that you were wayward and dissipated after we left the world, but you have repented, our prayer has been answered, and you are here. And as we used to visit you on earth before we died now we visit you in your new home after our ascension." And father will say, "Mother, don't you see Joseph is yet alive?" and mother will say, "Yes, Joseph is yet alive." Then they will review their anxieties regarding you, the midnight suppl'cations in your behalf, and they will recite to each other the old scripture passage with which they used to cheer their staggering faith, "I will be a God to thee and thy seed after thee." Oh. the palace, the palace, the palace! That is what Richard Baxter called "the saints' everlasting rest." That is what John Bunyan called the "Celestial City." That is Young's "Night Thoughts" turned into morning exultations. That is Gray's "?Slegy In a Churchyard" turned to resurrection spectacle. That is the "Cotter's Saturdav Night" exchanged for the cotter's Sabbath morning. That is the shepherd ol Salisbury plains amid the flocks on the hills of heaven. That is the famine struck Padanaram turned into the rich pasture fields of Goshen. That is Jacob visiting Jo^epfc at the emerald castle.

THE CAMPAIGN.

Something For Democrats to Remember Our Suffering Industries.

The Sugar Traitor*.

Lzidiiiuapolis Sentinel. The sugar traitors: Gorman, of Maryland.

Brice, of Ohio. Smith, of New Jersey. Cafferv, of Louisiana. Hill, of New York. Senator Vest has named them. Let no Democrat ever forget one of those names.

All Industries Suffer Alike. Indianapolis Journal. During the first Cleveland administration the present chief of the Bureau of Statistics, a mugwump, held dowu some office fib which a salary was attached,, which afforded him opportunity to count the number of people employed by the socalled protected industries. He made the number very small, but his performance attracted little attention beyond the free trade press. Now, six years after, Senator Allen, Populist, of Nebraska, is bothering the Treasury Department to furnish the same figures to him. It is supposed the imaginative Senator believes he has struck a new lead, and that in the campaign he will repeat the stale performance of Mugwump Worthington in 188S) to his audiences.

Protected industries, forsooth! How many industries, b}r being interlaced and woven together are not protected? Scores of industries, some of them the most extensive and the best paid, have the prohibitory protection of the ocean. The mass of men who build houses, that is,put them together, have prohibitory protection by the ocean for the reason that no building can be shipped here fully constructed. There are the thousands of men and women employed as retail salesmen, bookkeepers, in all the departments of transportation, from the railroad engineer to the truckman, who are protected by locality. Add to these the many thousands who are local blacksmiths, painters, all the newspaper and job printers, repairers of furniture, shoes, carriages and machinery, market men, and so on. These are all protected by the ocean and distance.

The day after the Presidential election, anticipating the tariff revolution to which the victorious party was pledged, business men who had ordered machinery for new enterprises canceled their orders. One firm withdrew an order for paper mill machinery for $400,000, and the factory began to discharge men. The falling off kept up quietly, but steadily, all along the line of the protected industries. By August of last year 3,000,000 workers had been turned to idleness. They began to leave the iron, woolen, cotton, machinery making factories—the protected industries—by thousands. The falling off in production!? touched the earnings of railroads, and the managers turned thousands of men in the nonprotected industries, so-called, to idleness. Every thousand of workers discharged meant that a* thousand people had nothing with which to buy. They must either keep along

DEATH OF THE WILD CATW-P

New Versionof an Old Story—Through the connivance of an able assistant the tail was cut off close to the ears.—Inter Ocean.

on accidental employment or live with friends. Thousands of menj worked on half or two-thirds time, and they had but half or two-third& the money tn spend at the groceries and in the dry goods and clothing, stores. Soon the grocer and the' retailer in manufacturing localities found a third of their trade gone.Then clerks were discharged and another army of the unemployed recruited. Next, people could not pay rents, the houseowners had their incomes cut down, and consequently more people were discharped. Stagnation may begin with the so-cslled protected industries, but when they fall down the othex's will go with them. None will escape the shrinkage process in a greater or less decree, except, perhaps, the person whose sign is the thi-ee balls.

If the Populist Senator had watched the results of the present industrial paralysis he would have seen that it crept to every part of the system, protected and nonprotected, alike but he has not desired to see consequently the cap and bells are on his head by asking for the number engaged in the protected industries.

Poor Mr. Voorhees!

New York Sun. For the second time within about thirty days we have bad a striking illustration of the value of Senator Voorhees's statements and denials as to what is going on in and around the committee of which he is the respected chairman.

The first illustration was when Mr, Vooi'hees denied, with iteration, emphasis and a noble show of personal indignation, that he knew anything about the four hundred and odd McKinlevish amendments of the Senate's finance committee's tariff bill.

The second case is quite as interesting. When the Philadelphia Press published the story that Mr. Carlisle had taken a hand in the construction of a sugar schedule, and that there existed in the Secretary's own handwriting a memorandum of the changes which he proposed, Mr. Voorhees pulled out his denial stop and sounded forth as follows: "Mr. Voorhees was asked to-day-by a correspondent of the New York Times if he had received such a memorandum, and if it was true that Mr. Carlisle had urged him to give consideration to the sugar trust.

Mr. Voorhees replied that the entire story was false that he had never received auy such memorandum from Mr. Carlisle, and that Mr. Carlisle had never asked him to favor the sugar trust. He was entirely willing, he added, that the files of the finance committee should be examined, and, so far as he was personally concerned, it would please him to have everything connected with the sugar schedule made the suoject of a rigid investigation. If there had been any corruption, it ought to be exposed.",

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At the present writing the Hon. Denial W. Voorhees holds the record. Abate the Check ltein.

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