Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
HAVE A HOME LOST, LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
And Brought Him to Inn and Took
Care of Him, and On the Morrow
When He Departed. Said L Will Repay
Thee''-Lui<e 10: 1886.

fortunate ON a lonely, rocky road,
are sometimes committed upon traV-
elers, and had put the injured man in
to 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 a very superior hotel in its
accommodation, 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 a 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 be
came that way again he would pay all
the bills until the invalid got we'll.
Hotels and clearinghouse are ne
ceSsities. In very ancient times they
were unknown, because the world had
comparatively few inhabitants, and
those 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 to dinner OF veal;
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 hotels presid-
ed over by good landlords. and board
lighthouses presided over by excellent
host or hostess, in all neighborhoods,
villages and cities. and it is our con-
graduation that those of our land sur
pass all other lands. They rightly be-
come the permanent residences OF
many people. such as those who are
without families. such IS those whose
business keeps them migratory, such az
those who ought not, for various
reasons of health or peculiarly of cir
cumstances, to take upon themselves
the cares of housekeeping.
Many man falling sick in one of
these clearinghouse or hotels has
been kindly watched and nursed; and
by the memory OF her own sufferings
and losses the lady at the head of such
a house has done all that mother
could do for a sick child, and the slum-
berless eye of God sees and appreci-
ates her sacrifices in behalf of the
stranger. Among the most marvellous
cases of patience and Christian fidelity
are many of those VINO keep boarding
houses. enduring without resentment
the unreasonable demands o. their
guests for expensive food and atten-
tiOns for which they are not willing
to pay an equivalent-a lot of cranky
men and women who are not worthy
TO tie the shoe of their queenly caterer.
The outrageous way in which boarders
sometimes act to their landlords and
landladies shows that these critical
guests had bad early rearing, and that
in the making-up of their natures all
that constitutes the gentleman and
lady was left out Some of the most
princely men and some of the most
elegant women that | know of today
keep hotels and boarding-houses.
But one of the great evils of this
day is found IN the fact that a large
population of our towns and cities are
giving up and have given I'D their
homes and taken apartments. that they
may have more freedom from domestic
duties and more time for social life.
and because they Ike the whirl of pub
licity better than the quiet and privacy
of a residence they can call their own
The lawful use of these hotels and
clearinghouse as for most people
while they are intransit; but as a ter
izatiOn, utter and complete. That is the
point at which families innumerable
have begun TO disintegrate. 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 per-
manent abode III 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 hear
ing or reading.
One of the worst damages that
comes from the herding of SO many
people into observation-disclosures 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 cOmpan-
lonship and their whereabouts; but by
twelve years of age in these public re-
sorts, they will have picked up all the
bad things that can be furnished by
the prurient minds of dozens of people.
They will overhear blasphenlies. and
and what the bartender does not tell
them the porter or hostler or bel.-boy
Will
Besides that, the children will go out
into this world without the restraining
anchOring, steadying, and all-contrOl-
ing memory of a home From that
none Of us who have been blessed OF
such memory have escaped. 1t grips a
man for eighty years, if he lives SC
long. Ii pulls him back from doors
into which he otherwise would enter
1t smites him with cOntritiOn in the