Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-01

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keep them il should take them" Me-
mentoes, brie-a-brac, curiosities, quaint
chair or cosey lounge. upholsteries, PIC
lures, and a thousand things that accrete
in a home are discarded or neglected be-
cRuse there is no homestead In which 10
arrange them, And yet they are the case
In which the pearl OF domestic happiness
is set. You can never become as attached
to the appointments of clearinghouse
or family hotel as to those things that you
can call your own and are associated
with the different members OF your
or with scenes OF thrilling
Blessed is that home in which
for a whole lifetime they have been gath
ering, until every figure Ia the carpet,
aud every panel OF the door, and every
easement OF the window has chirogra-
ply Of its own, speaking out something
about father or mother, or son or daugh-
ter, or friend that was with Us while.
What a sacred place it becomes when one
Can say: In that room such one was
born; in that bed such "A one diedi IN that
chaIE l sat on the night heard such
one had received great public honor; by
that stool my child knelt ier her last
evening PRAYER; here | sat TO greet my
son as he came back from sea voyage;
that was fathers cane; that was mothers
rocking chair. What a joyful and pa
thetic congress Of "reminiscences
The public residence of hotel and board
ing house aholishes the grace Of hospi-
tality. Your guest does not want to come
to such a table. No one wants TO run
such gauntlet OF acute and merciless
hy ypercriticism Unless you have home
of your own you will not be able to exer-
cise the best rewarded OF all the graces.
For exercise OF this grace what blessing
came to the Shunammite in the restoration
of her son to life because she entertained
Elisha, and TO the widow OF Iarephatk in
the perpetual oil well of the miraculous
cruise because she fed hungry prophet,
ana TO Rahab In the preservation OF her
lite at the demolition OF Jericho because
she entertained the spies, and to Laban
in the formation OF an interesting
family relation because Of his enter
tainment of Jacob, and to Lot In his
rescue from the destroyed city because OF
his entertainment of the angels, and to
Mary and Martha and Zaccheus 10 spirit
ual blessing because they enter aimed
Christ, and TO Publus in the island of
Melita In the healing of his father because
of the entertainment of Paul, drencned
from the shipwreck, and OF innumerable
houses throughout Christendom upon
which have come blessings from genera
tion to generation because their doors
swung easily open in the enlarging, en-
nobling, irradiating and divine grace OF
hospitality. do not know what your ex-
perence mas been, but / have had men
and women visiting at my house who lett
a benedioti0n on every room--ln the
blessing they asked at the table, Ia the
prayer they offered at the family altar, in
the good advice they gave the children, in
the gospelizatlon that looked out from
every lineament of r.countenances-
and their departure was the sword of be-
reavement.
The Queen OF Norway, Sweden and
Denmark had royal cup of ten curves or
lips. each one having on it the name of
the distinguished person who had drank
from it. And that cup which we offer TO
others in Christian hospitality, though it
be of the plainest aarthenware, is royal
cup, and God can read on all its sides the
names OF those who have taken from it re-
fres6ment. But all this is impossible
unless you have home OF your own. 1t
is the delusion as to what is necessary for
a home that hinders so many from estab-
fishing one. Thirty rooms are not neoes-
sary, nor 20, nor 10, nor 10, nor i've, nor
three. In the right way plant table. and
couch, and knife and fork, and cup, and
a chair, and you can raise young para
small q scale, and it will grow. When
King Cyrus was invited TO dire with an
humb g friend tue King made the one con-
ditiOn of his coming that the only dish be
one LOAF OF breed. and che most Imperial
satisfactons have sometimes banquetted
on the plainest fare.
Do not be caught in the delusion of
many thousands in postponing a nome
until they can have an expensive one.
men and women innumerable who will
never have any home at all. Capitalists
OF Americai build plain homes for the peO-
pie. Eet this tenement house system, in
which hundreds OF thousands of the peo-
pie of our cities are wallowing in the
mire, be broken up by small homes, where
people can have their own hresides and
their own altar. In this great continent
there is room enough Tor every man and
woman TO have home. Morals aud civil
lzation and religion demand 1t.
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdett-Coutts
did in England, and some OF the large
manufacturers of this country have done
for the villages and cities, IN building
small houses at cheap rents, so tnat the
middle classes can have separate homes.
They are the only class not provided for.
The rich have their palaces, aud the poor
have their p00rhOuses, and criminals
have their jails; but what about the hon.
est middle Glasses, who are able and will
ing to work and yet have small incOmef
Let the capitalists, inspired Of God and
pure patriotism, rise and build whole
streets OF small residences. The lab0rer
may have, at the close OF the day, to walk
or ride further than is desirable TO reach
it. but when he gets TO his destination in
the eventide, be will ind something wor-
thy OF being called by tnat glorious, and
impassioned, and heayen-descended word,
'shOme."
Young married man, as soon as you
can, buy such place, even II you have
10 put on II n mortgage reaching from
base 70 capst0ne. The much-abused
mortgage, which ~ ruin 70 a reckless
man, 70 one prudent and proyident, is the
beginning OF competency and fortune,
for the reason that he VIII not be salts
fled until be has paid IL of, and all the
household are put on stringent economies
until then. Deny yourself all superfui-
ties and all luxurles until you can say,
"Everything in this house IL mine, thank
God every timber, every brick, every
foot OF plumbing, every d0Or-sill." Do
not have your children born IN
boarding house, and do not your
self be buried from one. Have n
place where your children can shout, and
sing, and romp, without being oyerhauled
for the racket. Have a kitchen where you
can do something toward the reformation
OF evil cookery and the lessening OF this
nation ofdyepepics. AS Napoleon lost one
Oi hia great battles bv an attack of indiges-