The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-07-19

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curiosoties, quaint chair or cozy lounge
upholsterie3, pictures and a thousand
things that accrete in home are dis
carded or neglected because there is no
homestead in which to 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 ap-
pointmentS Of a boarding house or fam
lily hotel as to those things that you
can call your own and are associated
with the different members Of your
household or with scenes of thrilling
import in your domestic history. Bless
ed is that home in which for whole
lifetime they have been gathering until
every figure in the carpet and every
panel Of the door and every easement of
the window has cbirography of its
own, speaking out something about
father or mothe, or son or daughter or
friend that was with US awhile. What
sacred place it becomes when one can
say: In that room such a one was
born; in that bed such one died; in
that chair I sat on the night | heard
such one had received great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt for
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 JOY
full and pathetic congress Of reminis-
cences
The public residence of hotel and
boarding house abolishes the grace Of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such table. No one wants
to run such gantlet of acute and mer-
ciless hyperciticism. Unless you have
home of your own you will not be able
to exercise the best rewarded Of all the
graces. For exercise of this grace what
blessing came to the Shunammite in
the restoration Of herson TO life because
she entertained Elisha, and to the vid-
ow of Zarephath in the perpetua] oil
well of the miraculous cruise because
she fed hungry prophet, and to Ra-
hab in the preservation of her life at
the demolition Of Jericho because she
entertained the spies, and to Laban in
the formation of an interesting family
relation because of his entertainment
of Jacob, and to Lot in his rescue from
the destroyed city because of his enter
tainment Of the angels, and to Mary and
Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual
blessing because they entertained Chris.
and to Publius in the island of Melita
in the healing of his father because Of
the entertainment of Paul, drenched
from the shipwreck, and Of innumer-
able houses throughout Christendo :"
upon which have come blessings Fl Il
generation to generation because tn II
doors swung easily open in the enla-g-
ing, ennobling, irradiating and divine
grace of hospitality do not know
what your experience has been, but |
have had men and women visiting at
my house who left benediction on
every room-in the blessing they asked
at the table, in the prayer they offered
at the family altar, in the good advice
they gave the children, in the gospeli-
zation that looked out from every line
ament Of their countenances, and their
departure was the sword Of bereave-
ment. The queen Of Norway, Sweden
and Denmark had a royal cup OF
ten curves, or lips, each one having
on it the name of the distinguished
person who had drunk from It. And
that cup which We offer to others in
Christian hospitality, though it be OF
the plainest earthenware, Is royal cup,
and God can read on all sides the
names Of those who have taken from il
refreshment, but all this is impossible
unless you have home Of your own.
It is the delusion as to what is ne,
cessary for a home that hinders sc
many from establishing one. Thirty
rooms are not necessary, nor 20, nor Is,
nor 10, nor 5, nor 8. In the right way
plant table, and couch, and knife,
and fork, and a chair, and you can
raise a young paradise. Just start a
home on however small scale, and II
will grow. When King Cyrus was in
vited to dine with a humble friend, the
king made the one condition Of his
coming that the only dish be one LOAF
of bread, and the most imperial salts
factions have sometimes banqueted or
the plainest fare. Do not be caug ht il
the delusion of many thousands IL
postponing home until they can have
an expensive one. That idea is the
devils trap that catches men and wo'
men innumerable who will never have
any home at all. Capitalists Of Amerl
ca, build plain homes for the people,
Let this tenement house system, II
which hundreds Of thousands OF the
people Of our cities are wallowlog II
the mire, be broken up by small homes.
where people can have their own ire
sides and their own altars. In this
great continent there is room enough
for every man and woman to have
home. Morals and civilization and re.
ligion demand it. We want done al
over this land what George Peabody
and Lady Burdett- -Coutts did in Eng
land and some Of the large manufacture
ers Of this country have done for the
villages and cities in building small
houses at low rents, so that the middle
classes can have separate homes. They
are the only class not provided for. The
rich have their palaces. and the poor
have their poorhouses, and criminals
have ieir jails, but what about the
honest middle classes, who are able
and willing to work and yet have small:
income? Let the capitalists. inspired
op God and nurn natriOtism. rise anC