Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-05-03

" residence. But. bless God, even that
stay is limited, for we shall have resur-
rection.
\ day this spring the streets will he
filled with the furniture carts and the
drays and the trucks. 1t will be a hard
day for horses, because they will he
overloaded. 1t will be "A hard day for
laborcrs, for they will ovcrlift before they
get the family furniture from one house
to another. II will be hard day for
housckccuprs to see their furniture
scratched, and their crockcry broken,
and their carpets misiit, and their fur
niturc dashed of the sudden showers 1t
will be hard day for lnndlords 1t
will be n hard day for tenants. Especial
grace is needed for moving day. Many
II mans religion has suffered a fearful
strain between the hour on the morning
Of the first Of May, when he took his
immature breakfast, and the hour at
night when he rolled into his cXtempo-
rizcd couch. The furniture broken somc-
times will result in the breaking of the
Ten Commandments. There is no more
fearful pass than the hall of n house
where two families meet, one moving
out and the other moving in. The salu-
tation is apt to be more vehement than
complimentary. The grace that will he
sufficient for the LIST of January and the
1st of February and the LIST of March
and the LIST of April will not be sufficient
for the LIST of May. Say your prayers
that morning if you find nothing better
to knccl down by than a coal scuttle, and
say your prayers at night though your
knee comes down on n paper of carpet
taciS. You will want supernatural help
if any of You move. Help in the morning
to start out Alright on the days work.
Help ut night to repent. There will be
enough annoyanccs to make n Nantippe
out of Il Frances Ridley Havcrgal. |
have again and again been in crises of
moving day, and l have stood appalled,
and amazed and helpless in the ship
wreck taking MS well as | could those
things that tloatcd ashore from the break
ers. and | know how to comfort and
how to warn and how to encourage the
people, so | preach this practical May
day sermon. All these troubles will soon
be gone. and the bruises will heal and
the stiffcned joints will become supple,
and your rufTled temper will be smoothcd
of it's wrinkles. and order will take the
place OF disorder and you will sit down
in your new home seriously to contem-
plate.
Big Houses and Pride.
My first word. then. in this part of my
discourse is to all those who move out Of
small houses into larger ones. Now We
will see whether, like the apostle, you
know how to abound. DO not, because
your new house has two more stories
than the old one, add two stories to your
vanity or make your brightly polished
silver doorplate the coffin plate to your
buried humility. Many persons moving
into larger house have become arrogant
and supercilious. They swaggor where
once they walked. they shipper where
once they laughed. they go about with an
air which seems to say, Let all smaller
craft get out of these waters If they don t
want to be run over by n regular Cunard-
! err" | have known people who were kind
and amable and Christian in their small
er house-no sooner did they 20 over the
doorsill of the new house than they be-
came a elorihed nuisance. They were
the terror of dry goods clerks and the
amazement of ferry boats into which they
! swept, and if compelled to stand mo-
ment with condemnatory glance turning
all the people seated into criminals and
/ convicts. They began to hunt up the
! family coat OF arms, and had lion couch
! ant or unicorn rampant on the carriage
I door; when, if they had the appropriate
/ coat of arms, it would have been but
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