The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-07-21
I'ALMAGE'S SERMON.
HAVE A HOME LOST, LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
and Brought Him TO an Inn and Took
Care of Him, and On the Morrow
When lie Departed, Said L WIN Repay
Thee"-LulKe 10; 1896.

The good Samaritan had found the un-
fortunate on a 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
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 clearinghouse are re-
cessities. In very ancient times they
WIZ uAhAONu, DOCGuSt the MOIlu udN
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 peighborhoods,
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
cumstances, to take upon themselves
the cares Of housekeeping.
Many a man falling sick in one or
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 n 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
Iandladies 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 I..st
princely men and soma of the most
elegant women that l knew OF today
keep hotels and boarding-houses
But one OF the great evils of this
day is found in the fact that large
population of our towns and cities are
giving up and have given up their
homes and taken apartments, that they
may have more freedom from domestic
duties and more time for social life,
and hnanncn fbaN lilo no f,1 Of, n
LEFTY better than the quiet and privacy
OF a 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 innumerable
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. II
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, and
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 a home. From that
none of us who nave been blessed of
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