The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-11
MOVING AND CHANGING
The Shifting Scenes Incident to
May Day.
Especial Grace Needed for Moving Day
A Fearful Strain on a Mans
Stock of Religion.
BY T. DEWITT TALMAGE.
BY T. DEWITT TALMAGE.l
Opening hymn:
Come sc dscOnsOlate where e'eT ye langulsh,
Come to the mercy seat fervently kneel"
sUBJECT-"UP AND DOWN" "

both how to be abased and how to
abound"
Happy Paul! Could you thus accom-
mOdate yourself to all circumstances?
Did you really learn the art of going up
without pride and down without exas-
peratiOn? Teach us all the same les
son. AT this season of the year vast
population changes residence. Having
been born in 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 popu-
latiOn 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 a tribe
that prefer the cave to another style of
residence. Indeed, it is dry, it is rOOmy,
1T is healthy and less subject to the eli
matte changes of heat and cold. Next
came the lodge, or tree branches twisted
together for abode. Then came the tent.
1t was large round pole in the center,
and skins of animals extending there
from, the floor covered with mats on
which the people sat. After long ages
had passed in the attempt to make the
abode Of man comfortable the house ap-
peared, or space of ground surrounded
by broad stones, 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 while and in the fourteenth CEN
tuTy the modern chimney for the first
time appeared. The old Hebrews had
openings in their houses where the
smoke might escape if it preferred to do
so. But it had no inducement to leave,
as in the case of the modern chimney.
Wooden keys opened the door, or the
| keyhOle 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, a luxury which
only the very wealthiest people could
afford. The hand-mill and an oven,
leathern bottles and 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
| itself in planning and building trium-
phal arches, basilicas, temples, hippo
| drOmes, mausOleums, naumachias and
columns, while it let the people for resi-
dence burrOw like rats in holes. St.
| SOphia's, of COnstantinOple; st. Marks,
| 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 CapitOls to legislate in,
| nd hIph q l.
minister Justice, and grand churches in
which to worship God, they are giving
much of their time to studying how to
| make the private homes of the nation
| restful and attractive for our tired pOpu-
latiOns. | am not so much interested
in the arch of Titus at Beneventum as
that every man and woman in America
| shall have good shelter; or in the Tenn
pie 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 apitcheT
out of which the ancient PhaTOahs
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 healthful food, and at
tackled by an appetite strong enough to
COuuutI
digest it. Thank God for the house and
ali modern advantages; indeed, for the
many houses you have occupied.
You will be surprised if .after you go
home you calculate how many hOus as
you have lived in since you have stP. .rted
YOUR earthly existence. Here an Il there
a man lives in the house where he was
born and where his father Vas born and
| his grandfather and his great-grand-
father, but that is net 0ne case out of
the thousand. My life has not been more
perambulatory than that of most peO-
| pie, bnt l have had tWenty-One resi-
dences. Talk about permanent resi-
| dence-there is no such thing. l rode
in private vehicles, and not in the rail-
car, from which you see but little, up
the banks of the Hudson from New York
to YOnkers and TarrytOwn, the finest
ride on the planet if you want to see
palatial residences amid fascinating
scenery. 1t was early in the season, and
before the citizens OF, New York had
gone out to their country seats on the
Hudson. | rode into the grounds and
admired the gardens, and by cOnversa-
tiOn with the guardian of the place [
found in every instance that either the
place was for sale or had been sold. All
the mansions and palaces were chang
ing hands. In some cases the fortune
had fled, and they were obliged to sell.
In some cases the wives refused to stay
at the country place because the hus-
band did not come home at night, hay
ing so many engagements 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 distaste-
full. But in all cases where made in
quiry the mansion had changed occu-
pants OF was about to change. Take
the New York Directory and see how few
people live on Fifth avenue or Madison
avenue who lived there fifteen years ago.
Take the Brooklyn Directory and make
the same inquiry about the Heights of
Brooklyn, or what is called the Hill.
Show me the permanent residents of
this city. Recently / saw Monticello,
Thomas JeffeTson's residence, and Mont
pelier, President Monroe's residence, and
the White House, President Harrison's
residence, President Tyler's residence,
President LincOln's residence, President
Garfeld's residence. Show me the per-
manent residence, if you can findany
The race is nOmadic. So determined
are they if in one place to get into
another place that they invented rail
road and steamboat, which are the in