St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-01
DR.. Talmage breaches Powerful Sermon
on Hotel and Boarding House Life
VS.. Home Life.
Myriad Evils Surround General HostelrieS
Which Should be Put Away From
the Home. s
Young Married Men Advised to own
Their Hearthstones, Mortgaged,
II Need be.
The Greatest and Most Essential Com
fort or the Home the savior,
Jesus Christ.
DIR. Talmage,s Sermon.

home Lie. Inc text was Luke X, ST ana
80: "And brought him 10 an inn, and took
care of him. And on the morrow when he
departed, he took out two pence, and gave
them 10 the host, and said unto him, Take
care OF him, and whatsoever thou spendest
more, when l come again, l will repay
thee" DIR. Talmage said: This Is the
good Samaritan paying the hotel bill of a
man who had been robbed and almost killed
by bandits. The good Samaritan had
found the unfortunate on q 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 supe-
rior hotel in its accommodations, for
though In the country, the landlord was
paid at the rate of what In our country
would be 81 or SIS day, penny being
then days wages and the two pennies
paid In this case about two days wages,
Moreover, 1t was one of those kind-hearted
landlords who are wrapped up in the happi-
ness Of their guests. because the good Sa-
marltan 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
clearinghouse are necessities. In very
ancient times they were unknown, because
the world had comparatively few inhabi-
tants, who were not much given to travel.
and private hospitality met all the wants of
sojOurners; as when Abraham rushed out at
Mamre to invite the three men to sit down
10 dinner of veal; as when Lydia urged
the apostles TO accept of her home; as when
the people were positively commanded to
be given to hospitality; as in many OF the
places in the East these ancient customs
are pTacticed to-day. One of the worst
damages that comes from the herding of
many people into clearinghouse and FAM
lily hotels is inflicted upon children. 1t is
only another way of bringing them up on
the commons. While you have your own
private house you can for the most part
control their cOmpanionship and where
abouts, but by II years of age in these pub
lie resorts they will have picked up ali the
bad things that can be furnished by the
prurient minds of dozens of people. They
will Overhear blasphemies, and see quar-
rels, and get precOclOus in sin, and what the
bartender does not tell them the porter or
hostler or bell boy will. Besides that, the
children will go out into this world without
the restraining, anchOring, steadying and
all-contrOlling memory OF home. From
that none of US who have been blessed of
such memory have escaped.
1T GRIPS 4 MAN
for eighty years, if he lives so long. It
pulls him back from doors into which he
otherwise would enter. 1t smites him with
cOntritiOn in the very midst of his dissipa-
tiOns. As the fish already surrounded by
the long wide net swim out to sea think
ing they can go as far as they
please. and with gay toss of silvery scale
they defy the sportsmen on the beach, and
after awhile the fishermen begin TO draw I'm
the net, hand over hand aud hand over
hand. and IL is long while before the cap
tured fins begin to feel the net and then
they dart this way and that hoping to get
out, but find themselves approaching the
shore and are brought I'D to the very feet
of the captors, so the memory of an early
home sometimes seems to relax and let men
out further and further from God and fur
Their and further from shOre-ive years,
ten years, twenty years, thirty years; but
some day they lind an irresistible mesh
drawing them back. and they are compelled
to retreat from their prOdigality and wan
dering. and though they may make desper-
ate efforts TO escape the impression. and try
to dive deeper down in sin, after while
are brought clear back and held upon the
Rock OF Ages. If IL be possible. . father
and mother! let your sons aud daughters go
out into the world under the semi-Omnipo-
ent memory of good, pure home. About
your two or three rooms in a boarding
house, or family hotel, you can cast no
inch glorious sanctity. They will think of
these
PUBLIC CARAvANSARIEs
ac nm ri LODI ,,-f4l
old yictuals, cOffees perpetually steaming
and meats IN everlasting stew or broil. the
air surcharged with carbonic acid. and cor
ridOrs along which drunken boarders come
staggering at o'clock in the morning, rap
ping at the door till the affrighted wife lets
them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrilege
or blasphemy OF calling such Il place
home. A home is four walls enclosing
one family with identity of interest. and a
privacy from outside inspection so complete
that 1t is world in itself, no one entering
except by permission; bolted and barred
and chained against all outside lnquisitiye-
ness. The phrase so often used in law
books and legal circles IS nightly sugges-
tive-every mans house Is his castle AS
much so as though it had drawbridge, port
cullis, redoubt, bastion aud armed turret.
Even the officers of the law may not enter
rily opened unto him; burglary, or the inva-
sion of it, crime so offensive that the law
clashes its iron jaws on any one who
attempts it. Unless it be necessary to stay
for longer or shorter time in family hotel
or boarding hOuse-and there are thousands
OF instances in which it Is necessary, as |
showed you at the beginning-unlCss in this
exceptional case. let neither wife nor huS-
band consent to such permanent residence.
The probability is that the wife will have
to divide her husbands time with
PUBLIC SMOKING
or reading room, or with some cOquettish
spider in search of unwary flies, and if you
do not entirely lose your husband il will be
because he Is divinely protected from dsas-
tiers that have whelmed thousands of hus-
bands with as good intentions as yours.
Neither should the husband, without i'm
perative reason, consent TO sucl life UNI
less he Is sure his wife can withstand the
temptation of social dissipation which
sweeps across such places with the force of
the Atlantic ocean when driven by Sep
TENDER equinox. Many wives give up their
homes for these public residences SO that
they may give their entire time TO operas,
theaters, balls. receptions and levees and
they are in perpetual whiTl like a whip
top spinning round and round and round,
very prettily until it loses its equipoise and
shoots of into tangent. But the differ
ence Is, In one case it is top and in the
other SOUL. Besides this there is an asSid-
Gus accumulation of little things around the
private home which in the aggregate make
a great attraction. while the denizen of one
of these public residences is apt to say:
What Is the use? have no place to keep
them II should take Them" Mementoes,
hria hot
cosy lotnge. upholsteries. pictures and a
thous.nd thiurS that accreta i'm n home a re