The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-03-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Eighth Sermon Of the Series on the
Marriage Ring.
Hotel and Boarding House VS.. Home Life.
The True Realization Of the Family
Relation Impossible Except
Under the Home Roof.

T In his seventh discourse Of the Marriage
Ring" series, Rev. T. Dewitt, Talmage
drew q strong picture Of contrasts between
the hotel and boarding house life, now
getting SO common, and that Of life under
the home roof. The text was:
And brought him to ar inn, and took care
ef him. And on tho morrow, when he de.
parted, he tooR out two.pence and gave
them to the host, and said unto him. Stake
care OF him, and whatsoever thou spendest
more, when come again will repay thee"
LIKE K, "a and 80. trtHF 6tE
This Is the good Samaritan paying the
hotel bill Of man who had been robbed
and almost killed by bandits. The good
Samaritan had found the unfortunate on
lonely, rocky road, where to this very day.
depredations are sometimes committed
upon travellers, and had put the injured
man into the saddle, while this merciful
and well .to-do man had walked till they
got TO the hotel and the wounded man was
put to bed and cared for. 1t must have
been very superior hotel in Its accommo-
dations, for, though In the country, the
landlord was paid at the rate of what in
our country would be four or five dollars a
day, penny being then days wages,
and the two pennies paid in this case about
two days wages. Moreover, it was one of
those kind d-hearted landlords who are
wrapped up in the happiness Of their
guests, because the good Samaritan leaves
the poor wounded fellow to his entire care,
promising that when he came that way
again he would pay all the bills until the
invalid got well.
Hotels and boarding houses are necessi-
ties. In very ancient times they were un-
known, because the world had compare
lively few inhabitants, who were not
much given to travel, and private hospi-
tality met all the wants of sojourners; as
when Abraham rushed out at Mamre to
invite the three men to SIT down to din
ner of veal; as when Lydia urged the
apostles to accept of her home; as when
he people were positively commanded to
be given TO hospitality; as in many Of the
places in the East these ancient customs
are practiced to-day. But we have now
hotels presided over by good landlords,
and boarding houses presided over by ex-
cellent host or hostess, In all neighbor-
hoods, villages and cities, and it is our
congratulation that those Of our land sur
pass all other lands. They rightly be-
come the permanent residences Of many
people, such as those who age without
families, such as those whose business
keeps them migratory, such as those who
usrhN 10. oriot Of ar
popularity of circumstances, take upon
themselves the cares Of housekeeping.
There never has been time when so
many families, healthy and abundantly
able to support and direct homes Of
their own, have struck tent and taken
permanent abode in these public estab-
lishments. 1t is an evil wide as Chris
tendon, and by voice and through the
newspaper press / utter warning and
burning protest, and ask Almighty God
to bless the word, whether in the hearing
or reading.
In these public caravansaries the de-
mon of gossip Is apt to get full sway.
All the boarders run daily the gantlet
of general inspection = how they look
when they come down in the morning
g. and when they get in at night, and what
they do for a living, and who they re-
ceive as guests In their rooms, and what
they wear and what they do not wear, and
how they eat and what they eat, and how
much they eat and how little they eat.
The whole house goes into the detective
business. They must find out about him.
.....A a. a o..& oko,,N hf,,, rf.
II heleave his door unlocked by accident
he will find that his rooms have been in
spected, his trunks explored, his letters
folded differently from the way they were
folded when he put them away.
Who Is he: is the question asked with
intenser interest until the subject has be =
come monomania.
II a man proposes in such place to be
isolated and reticent and alone, they
will begin 10 guess about him. Who is
Of Where did he come from? How
long is he going sto stay? Has he paid
his boardi How much does he payi Per-
haps he has committed some crime, and
does not want TO be known; there must
be something wrong about him or he
would speak. 1
The simple fact Is, that he is nobody In
particular, but minds his own business.
The best landlords and landladies can not
sometimes hinder their places from be-
coming pandemonium Of whispers, and
regulations are torn TO tatters, and evil
suspicious are aroused and scandals start
( cd, and the parliament Of the family is
blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who
was not caught In time, as was his En-.
glish predecessor Of gun-powdery reputa'
tion. I.NtI4 .I
The reason Is, that while In private
homes families have so much TO keep then
busy, In these promiscuous and multi
tudinous residences there are so many who
have nothing TO do, and that always maksi
mischief. They gather in eacs Others
rooms and spend hours In consultation
about others. II they had TO walk hall
mile before they got. TO the willing ear Of
some listener TO detraction, they would ge
out Of breath before reaching there, and no
feel In full glow Of animosity. or slander
or might, because OF the distance, not 20 al
all. But rooms 20, 2l, %, 2S, ~ and 25 are
on the same corridor, and when one car
rion crow goes "eawl cawlp all the othei
hear II and hock together over the SAM
carcass. iIfsTIe 8ftN .
Those Of US who were brought up in th,
country know that the old fashioned hatch
ing Of eggs In the hay-mow required fou
or Eve weeks of brooding, but there ar
new modes Of Matching by machinery
n a. a.