Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-07-20
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
7 HAVE A HOME LOST. LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
And Brought Him to an Inn and Took
Care of Him. and ON the Morrow
When He Departed, Said L wEl Repay
o Thee"-Luke 10: $3.50.

The good Samaritan had found the I'M
fortunate on lonely, rocky road.
where, to this very day. depredations
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. a 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
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 ne
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 a 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 as those whose
business keeps them migratory, such as
those who ought not. for various
reasons of health or peculiarly of cir
cumstanccs, to take upon themselves
| WV N'i 20 vi 'iouSChGSpiLS.
Many a man falling sick in one Of
| these boarding houses 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
! house has done all that a mother
could do for 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 who keep boarding.
/ houses, enduring without resentment
the unreasonable demands of their
! guests for expensive food and atten-
| tons 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
| houa
duties and more time for social life,
and because they like the whirl of pub
licity better than the quiet and privacy
OF residence they can call their own
The lawful use of these hotels and
boarding houses is for most people
while they are intransit; but as a ter
mius they are in many cases democrat
iZation utter and complete. That is the
point at which families innumera BILE
have begun to disintegrate. There
never has been a 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 in these public estab-
lishments. 1t is an evil wide as Chris
tendon, and by voice and through the
newspaper press l 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 boarding houses 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-
iOnship 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 blasphemies. ana
see quarrels, and get precocious 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-control-
ing memory of 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 so
long. 1t pulls him back from doors
into which he otherwise would enter
1t smites him with contrition in the
very midst of his designations. As the
fish already surrounded by the long