The Grit-advocate., 1900-05-04

they get the family furniture from one
house to another. 1t will be hard day
for housekeepers to see their furniture
scratched, and the crockery broken,
and their carpets misfit, and their fur
niture dashed of the sudden showers.
1t will be hard day for landlords. 1t
will be hard day for tenants. Espe-
cial grace is needed for moving day.
Many mans religion has suffered
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
extemporized couch. The furniture
broken sometimes will result in the
breaking OF the Ten Commandments
There is no more fearful pass than the
hall OF a house where two families
meet, one moving out and the other
moving in. The salutation is apt to
be more vehement than compliment
tary. The grace that will be sufficient
for the first OF January and the first
OF February and the first of March
and the FIRST Of April will not be sum-
cient for the first of May. Say your
prayers that morning il you find moth
ing better to kneel down by than a
coal scuttle, and say your prayers at
night though your knee comes down
on paper Of carpet tacks. You will
want supernatural help If any Of you
move. Help in the morning to start
out Alright on the days work. Help
at night to repent. There will be
enough Of annoyance to make a Kan
tippe out Of a Frances Ridley Haver-
gal. l have again and again been in
crises Of moving day, and l have
stood appalled, and amazed and help
less in the shipwreck, taking as we'll
as l could those things that aoated
ashore from the breakers, and know
how to comfort and how to warn, and
how to encourage the people, so I
preach this practical May day sermon.
All these troubles will soon be gone,
and the bruises will heal. and the stiff
fened joints will become supple, and
your rufiled temper will be smoothed
OF its wrinkles. and order will take
the place Of disorder, and you will sit
down in your new home seriously to
contemplate.
Reversss Of Fortune.
But there are others who will move
out Of large residences into smaller
through the reversal of fortune. The
property must be sold or the bailiff
will sell 1t. or the income is less and
you cannot pay the house rent. First
Of all, such persons should understand
that our happiness is not dependent
on the size of the house we live in. l
have known people enjoy small heav-
en- in two rooms and other suffer a
pandemonium in twenty. There is as
much happiness in a small house as in
large house. There is as much sat
isfaction under the light of a tallow
candle as under the glare of chandc-
1ier, all the burners at full blaze Who
was the happier. John Bunyan in Bed
ford Jail or Belshazzar in the saturna-
liza? Contentment is something you
can neither rent nor purchase. 1t is
not extrinsic; it is intrinsic Are
there fewer rooms in the house to
which you move? You will have less
to take care Of. Is it to be stove in
stead Of furnace? All the doctors say
the modern modes of warming build
ings are unhealthy. Is it less pier
mirrors? Less temptation to your
vanity. Is it old-fashioned toilet in
stead of water pipes all through the
house? Less to freeze and burst when
you cannot get a plumber. Is it less