The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-04-01
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.

Under the Home Roof
In his seventh discourse of the Marriage
RinRu series, Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
drew 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:
OF him And on the morrow, when he de-
parted, he took out two pence and gave
them to the host, and said unto him. "rake
care Of him, and whatsoever thou spendest
4 more. when come again will repay thee"
Luke Z, "a and IS.
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
day, q penny being then days wages,
and the two pennies paid in this case about
two days wages. Moreover, it was one of
those kind-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
the 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
hotelspresided 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-
como the permanent residences of many
people, such as those who are without
families, such as those whose business
keeps them migratory, such as those who
ought not, for various reasons of health or
peculiarly of circumstances, take upon
themselves the cares Of housekeeping.
There never has been q 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 gauntlet
of general inspection - how they look
when they come down in the morning
and when they get in at night, and what
they do for q 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.
They must find out about him right away.
II heleave his door unlocked by accident
he win 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 man proposes in such place to be
isolated and reticent and alone, they
win begin to guess about him. Who is
hes Where did hs come from low
long is he going sto stay? Has Sc Maid
his board? How much does he pay? 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.
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 70 atoms by some Guy Fawkes who
was not caught In time, as was his En-.
glish predecessor Of gun-powdery reputa-
tion.
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 80 many whs
have nothing to do, and that always make.
mischief. They gather in each 9th err.
rooms and spend hours In consultation
about others II they had to walk . hal
mile before they got to the willing ear O
some listener to detraction, they would ge
outo of breath before reaching there, and no
feel In full glow Of animosity or SANDER
o. might, because Of the distance, not 20 a
Al. Bat rooms 20, 81, q, Is, "a and % are
on the same corridor, and when one car.
rion crow goes s'caw! cawn all the othe,
hear Il and ncck together over the sam,
carcass.
Those Of M who were brought up in tn.
country know that the old fashioned hatch
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