The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-07-14
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t., privacy from OUTSIDE lnSpectlOn SO cOui-
plcte that it is a world in itself, no one
entering except by permissicn-bolted
| and barred and chained against all out
| side inquisitiveness. The phrase so
often used in law books and legal circles
is nightly uggestiye-every man s
house is his castle. AS much as though
it had drawbridge, portcuilis, redoubt,
| bastion and armed turret. Even the CT
ficer of the law may not enter to serve
Il writ except the door be voluntarily
opened! unto him. Burglary or tie inva-
| sion of it is a crime so offensive that the
| law clashes its iron jaws on anyone who
| attempts it. Unless it be necessary 10
stay for longer or shorter time in fam
| lily hotel or boarding house-and there
! are thousands of instances in which it
! is necessary, as ] showed you at
the begnning-unless this exceptional
case, let neither wife nor husband COLI
sent to such permanent residence.
The probability is that the wife will
! have to divide her husbands time with
public smoking or reading-room or with
some coquettish spider in search of un-
wary flies, and if you do not entirely
lose your husband it will be because he
is divinely protected from the disasters
. that whelmed thousands of husbands
with as good intentions as yours.
! Neither should the husband without
| imperative reason consent to such
| life unless he is sure his wife can with
stand the temptation of social dissipa-
! ton which sweeps across such places
| 4l, u, e A IN n
when driven by a September equinox.
| Many wives give up their homes for
| these public residences so that they
NAV give their entire time to operas.
| theaters, balls, receptions and levee',
f, and they are in a perpetual whiri. Aie-
a whiptop spinning round and round
! and round very prettily, until it loses
| its equipoise and shoots off into tan
| gent But the difference is, in one case
| it is top and in the other soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous ac-
emulation of little things around the
private home, which in the aggregate
make a great attraction, while the den
T1zen of one of these public residences
| is apt to say: "NVhat is the use? /
have no place to keep them if should
| take them" Mementos, bric-a-brac, Gu
riosities, quaint chair or coZy lounge.
upholsteries, pictures and a thousand
! things that accrete in a home are dis
| carded or neglected because there is no
| homestead in which to arrange them.
And yet they are the case in which tEe
pearl of domestic happiness is set. You
can never become as attached to the
appointments of boarding house or
family 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.
Blessed is that home in which for a
whole lifetime they have been gather
ing until every figure in the carpet and
every panel of the door and every case
ment of the window has chirography
of its own, speaking out something
about father or mother or son or daugh-
ter or friend that was with us awhile.
What a sacred place it becomes when
one can say: ''In that room such a one
was born; in that bed such a one died;
in that chair l sat on thenight heard
such one had received a great public
honor; by that stool my child Lnelt for
her last evening prayer; here 1 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 pathetic congress of remi-
niscences!
The public residence of hotel and
boarding house abolishes the grace of
hospitality. Your guest does not want
to come to such a table. No one wants
to run such a gantlet of acute and mer-
ciless hypercriticism. 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 her son to life because
she entertained Elisha, and to the wild
ow of Zarephath in the perpetual 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 of his
entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in
his rescue from the destroyed city be-
cause of his entertainment of the an
gels, and to- Mary and Martha and
Zaccheus in spiritual blessing because
they entertained Christ, and to Publius
in the island of Melita in the healing of
his father because of the entertain
ment of Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and of innumerable houses
throughout Christendom upon which
have come blessings from generation
to generation because their doors
nobling, 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 a 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 gospelization
that looked out from every lineament
of their countenances, and their depar-
ture was the sword of bereavement.
The queen of Norway, Sweden and Den
mark had 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 earthen-
ware, is a royal cup, and God can read
on all sides the names of those who
have taken from it refreshment, but
all this is impossible unless you have
a home of your own.
1t is the delusion as to what is neces-'
sary for 2 home that hinders so many
from establishing one. Thirty rooms
are net necessary, nor 90, nor IS, nor
fen Sor FIVE nor three In the right