Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-01
Or. TaImage's 8 Sermon at the Brook,
Iyn Tabernacle, Yesterday.
Growth of Modern Homes From Small Be-
ginnings-Lack Of Permanancy-IhOse
Who Moye-The Ups and Downs
of Life, Endingin
A "HoUsE NOT MADE WITH HANDS.
Special 10 the Register.

yourself TO all circumstances? Did you
really learn the art of going up without
pride aud down without evaporation?
Teach us all the same lesson. AT this sea-
sen OF the year vast population changes
residences. Having been born in a house
and all our lives lived in house, We do
not understand what house is. 1t took
thousands of years to grow. First the
worlds population lived under trees and in
the cleft of rocks. The wild beasts moving
out of the cayerns and human families
moving in. To this day shepherds live
thus and robbers. The TroglOdytes are
tribe that prefer the cave to another style
of residence. Indeed it is dry, it is roomy,
it is healthy and less subject TO the climatic
changes of heat and cold. Next came the
Lodge or tree branches twisted together Tor
abode. Then came the tent. 1t was large
round pole in the center and skins OF AMI
mails extending therefrom, the floor covered
with mats on which the people sat. After
long ages had passed in the attempt to
make the aboie OF man comfortable, the
house appeared, or space OF ground sur
rounded by broad stones and with earth
heaped against them from the outside. The
roof was made Of chalk, gypsum ashes,
Goals and stones pounded together. Then
the gate was born and then the porch.
After a while and in the nth century, the
Modern Chimney
for the first time appeared. The old He
brews had openings in their houses where
the smoke might escape If II preferred to
do so, but it had no iuducement to leave,
as in the case of the modern chimney.
Wooden keys opened the door or the key
hole was large enough to allow the finger
inserted for the lifting of the slide. The
houses having no windows were dependent
for light on lattice work over which in
winter time wells were let down. Window
glass, so late as two or three hundred years
ago, was in England and Scotland luxury
which only the very wealthiest people could
afford. The handmill and an oven, leathern
bottles and a few rude pitchers and plates
were the chief equipments of the culinary
department. But the home planted at the
beginning of the world at the mouth OF a
cave or at the foot OF tent pole, grew and
enlarged and spread abroad till we have
the modern house with all its branches and
roots and vast girth and height and depth
of comfort and accommodation.
The architecture of other days busted it.
self in planting and building triumphal
arches. hasilicas. temples, hippOdrOmes,
mausoeums, naumachias and columns,
while ii let the people for residence
BurrOw Like Rats,------~--
in holes. st. Sophia's of Constantinople,
St. Mark at Venice, st. Peters at Rome,
are Raphaeled walls against which lean the
squalor and pauperism OF nations. | am
glad to know that while our architects give
us grand capitals to legislate in, and grand
court rooms in which TO administer justice,
and grand churches in which to worship
God. they are giving much of their time to
studying how to make the private houses
of the nation restful and attractive for our
tired population. am not so much inter
eSted in the arch of Titus at Beneventium,
as that every man and woman in America
shall have q good shelter; or in the temple
of Jupiter Olympus at Athens, as that
every house. shall have an altar for the
worship of the true God; or in the science
of ceramics, which gets crazy over twisted
Jar or queer handled jug of three thousand
years ago. or pitcher out of which the
ancient Pharoahs poured their drunken
debauch, as | am in the plain plate that is
set on the table of the private dining room,
that it may be full of heathful food, and
attacked by an appetite strong enough to
conquer it and a digestion competent to
digest it.. Thank God for the house and all
modern advantages indeed for the many
houses YOU have occupied. You will be
surprised if after you go home you Calcu
late
How MANY Houses
Have you lived in since YOU have started
your earthly existence here? There man
lives in the house where he was born and
where his father was born. and his graud
father, and his great. grandfather; but that
is not one case out OF the thousand. NV
life has not been more perambulatory than
that OF most people. but have had twenty
one residences. Talk about permanent
residences; there is no such thing. rode
in private vehicle. and not in the rail
car, from which you see but lit tie up the
banks of the Hudson. From New York to
GonkerS and Tarrytown, is the finest ride
on the planet, II you want to see palatial
residences and fascinating scenery. 1t was
early in the season and before the citizens
of New York had gone out to their count
~ seats on the Hudson. rode into the
grounds and admired the gardens, and by
SOHN tisdtiOn viii luc SudIuldH VI lut pldCc,
| found in every instance that either the
place was for sale or had been sold. All
the mansions and palaces were changing
hands. In some cases the fortune had fled
and they were obliged to sell. In some
cases the wives refused to stay at the coun-
try place, because the husband did not
come home at night, having so many en-
gagements in town every night of the week,
being obliged to see a man. In some cases
they had been shaken out by chills and
fever. In some cases death had made the
place distasteful. But in all cases where
made inquiry the mansion had changed oc-
cupants or was about to change. Take the
New York directory and see how few peo.
pie live on Fifth avenue or Madison avenue
who lived there fifteen years ago. Take the
Brooklyn directory and make the same in
quiry about the Heights of Brooklyn, OF
what is called the Hill. Show me
The Permanent Residence
of this city Recently | saw Montecello
Thomas Jefferson's residence, and Mont
pelier, President Monroes residence and
the Whitehouse, President Harrison's resi-
dence, President Tylers residence, Presi
dent Liucoln'S residence, President Gar
fields residence. Show me the permanent
residence, if you can find any.
The race is nomadic. So determined art
they OF one place to get into another place
that they invent railroads and steamboat:
which are the inventions TO get people rap
idly into some other place than that in
which they are. Perhaps the race is not sc
much nomadic as immortal, living on and
moving on. We whip up the horses til
the hub of the front wheel shoyes againS
the tombstone and We are pitched headlong
into the only permanendresidence on eartt
the grave. But even that stay is limited
for blessed be God, for the prospect OF a
resurrection.
Tomorrow, the lst of May, the long pro
cession of furniture carts and trucks and
draws will fill the streets. Hard day FOL
the horses, They will be overloaded. Hart
day for laborers! They will over-lift be
fore they get the family furniture out o
one house and into another. Hard day TO
housekeepers, to see the furniture scratched
and the crockery broken, and the carpet
misfit, and the movables dashed with sud
den shower Hard day for landlords, HarC
day for tenants!
Especial Grace Is Needed for Moving
Day.
Many a mans religion has been fearfull.
strained between the immature breakfas
of 1st of May and the hour when at nigh
he rolled himself into an eKtemporizet
couch The breaking of his fayorite bits
I'm m I'm ra NEARLY rasultai in the braakini