The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-11
MOVING AND CHANGING.
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cities, but fewer TINS year lndh allnOoe
any other year, VINO Will tOnoi tO-nlolIQM
move into smaller houses, The pathetic
,eause in many cases will be that the
family has dwindled in size, and less
rOOms are needed. Marriage takes away
some to build their own houses, and
death removes the others, and after
awhile father and mother wake up 10
find their family the same size as wheh
they started. The two would De lone
some and lost in a large residence.
Hence they move tomorrow. Under
Such circumstances moving day is
great saddener to all those whom the law
of association has much sway. we are
apt to name rooms by those who occupy
them. 1t is so in my house. suppose
it is so in yours. Then there Is the
dining room, where all the halloWed
festivities took place. There is the sit
ting room, where the family nightly
gathered. And there are rooms sacred,
for Just there life began or life ended,
the Alpha and Omega of some earthly
existenees, the scenes of meeting ana
of parting, of cOngratulatlOn and OF
heart break. Every dOOr-knOb, every
mantel, every corner, every freseO, every
window every heart, every register every
ilOOr-sill means that to you which II can
mean to no other. When moving out OF
houses l have always, after everything
had gone, entered each room and thought
over the past, and bade mute goOd-Dy.
There will be good many falling tears
tomorrow that the cart-man Will not be
able to undersland. 1t is solemn, and
touching, and overwhelming thing TO
leave forever the places where we nave
struggled, and wept, and suffered, and
parted, and anXiOusly watched, and
prayed, and sang, and agonlzed. On,
what a strange mixture of honey and
gall life is made up of! Weddings and
burials, and midnight and midnOOn
clash, and every home is lighthouse
against which the billOws of many seas
tumble.
Thank God this thing will not go on
forever, else the nerves could not endure
the rack, and the brain would founder
in such agony as King Lear suffered
when COTdelia came to medicine her
fathers domestic calamity.
Others will move into smaller houses
because of the reversal of fortune. They
must sell their house, or the balllH sells
it for them, OF they must pay less rent,
because they have less income. Such
persons ought first to remember that
ones happiness is not dependent on the
size of the house they live in. Some
people have enjoyed a small heaven N
two rooms, while others have suffered
pandemOnium in twenty. There IS as
much happiness in small house as in a
large one. There has been as much
chandelier with all the burners full
blazing. Who was the happier, John
Bunyan in Bedford JAIL or Belshazzar at
the Saturnalia? COGtentment is some
thing that you can neither rent nor pur-
chase. 1t is not extrlnslc, but intrinsic.
There are always mitigating circum-
stances. Are there fewer rooms? You
have less to take care of. Is it stove
instead of furnace or register? All the
doctors say the modern modes OF warm
ing houses are unhealthy. Is 1T less
pier mirror? Not so much temptation
to your vanity. Is it Old-fashiOned
toilet instead of water pipes all through
the hOuseP Less to freeze and burst
when you can't get plumber. No car
riage? More chance for robust exercise.
Less social position? Fewer people who
want to drag you down with their jeal-
Ousies. No large fortune to leave in
your last will and testament? Less
prospect of spelling your children. A
little deaf? Do not hear so many things
disagreeable. Not so much market
money? Less prospect of running the
health of the family with pineapple and
lobster salad. l meet you at the door of
your new house tomorrow about twelve
O'Clock, and after helping you over the
banisteT with the clothes closet that the
cartman, red in the face, is trying to
transport to its new destination, | con-
this year the best time you have had in
long while. Only take God with you,
and the religion of Jesus Christ, and
you will be gTandly happy. God in the
parlOT that will sancitify your sOciali-
ties. God in the nursery that will save
your children. God in the dining-rOom
that will make the plainest meal an i'm
perial banquet. God in the morning
that will launch the day Alright from the
dry-dOcks. God in the evening that will
safely sail it into the haTbOr.
And take all of you joy lat the thought
that if we love God and trust Him we
shall all have grand moving day by
and by. Paul gives you picture of the
new residence. We know that if our
earthly house of this tabernacle is dis
solved, we have a building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens. How much rent? Why,
we are to own it. How many thousand
dollars must we pay, leaving the rest on
mortgage? 1t is to be a Fathers gift.
When shall we move into it? We are
moving already. Heads of families on
moving day are apt to wait and see
every thing off. They send ahead the
children. They send ahead their Valu-
ables. They send ahead their treasures.
/ remember moving day in the country
in childhood as a. jubilatiOn. We the
children were sent on ahead with al
mOSG gl6 HTSG lOduJ anu we dTTlNeu WlGu
shout and laughter, and in an hour we
had ranged thrOuge all the rooms of the
house and barn and granary. Then to-
ward night, in about the last wagon,
father and mother would come, looking
very tired. But we would go clear down
the lane to meet them, and tell them
about all that we had discovered in the
new place; and then, the last wagon un-
loaded and the candles lighted, all the
neighbors who had helped at the moving
would sit down at the table, on which
would be crowded all the luxuries that
could be thought of. Well, the dear
Lord knows that some of US, for some
time, have been moving toward the
"hoGse not made with hands," We have
sent many of our valuables before
US. We have sent portions of our fami-
lies ahead. We can not go quite yet, fOr
there is work for us to do, but after
awhile it will be toward night, and we
will b9 very tired, and we will start for
our new home; and those who preceded
us will see us approaching, and they will
come down the lane 10 greet us and tell
us of what they have found out by
ran0ino all thrOuOh the hOuap Of many