Connecticut western news., 1900-05-03
OUR FATHERS HOUSE
DIR. TALMAGE TEACHES A LESSON OF
 PATIENCE.

DR. | AlMAGE ItSCTES H lESoON OF
 PATIENCE.
 With Moving Day For a Theme. Warns Us Not to Re Pufed Up With Transitory Earthly Grandeur.
 WASHINGTON, April 29. - This dis course of Dr. Talmage is pertinent at this time of year, when many people are moving from house to house, and it teaches lessons of patience and equi- boise in very trying circumstances; text, Philippians iv, F. Il know both how to be abased. and know how to abound"
 Happy Paul. Could you really ac- commodate yourself to all circum- stances in life? Could you go up with out pride, and could you come down without exasperation? Teach the same lesson to us all
 We are at season of the year when vast populations in all our cities are changing residence. Having been born in house and having all our lives liv ed in house, we do not have full ap- preciatlon of what house is. It is the growth of thousands of years. The human race first lived In clefts of rocks, the beasts of the field moving out of the caverns to let the human race move in. The shepherds and the robbers still live in caverns of the earth. The troglodytes are a race which to this day prefer the caverns to & house. They are warm; they are are less subject to violent changes of heat and cold. We come on along down in the history of the race. and we come to the lodge, which was a home built out of twisted tree branch G; we come farther on down in the his tory of the race, and we come to the tent, which was a home built with a round pole in the center and skins of animals reaching out in all directions, mats on the floor.
 Time passed on, and the world, after much invention, came to build house, which was space surrounded by broad stones, against which the earth was heaped from the outside. The roof was made of chalk and gypsum and coals and stones and ashes pound ed together. After awhile the porch was born, after awhile the gate. Then hundreds of years passed on, and in the fourteenth century the modern chimney was constructed. The old He brews had openings in their houses from which the smoke might escape if 1t preferred, but there was no induce ment offered for it to leave until the modern chimney. Wooden keys open ed the door, or the keyhole was large enough to allow the finger to be insert ed for the lifting of the latch or the sliding of 1t. There being no windows, the people were dependent for light upon latticework, over which a thin veil was drawn down in time of winter to keep out the elements. Window glass was, so late as POO or 300 years ago, in England and Scotland so great a luxury that only the very wealthiest could afford 1t. A hand mill and an oven and a few leathern bottles and some rude pitchers and plates made up the entire equipment of the culinary department.
 Modern Architecture.
 Architecture in other days busted it. self chiefly in planning and building triumphal arches and basilicas and hip podromes and mausoleums and col umns, while they allowed the people for residence to burrow like muskrats in the earth. St. Sophia's of Constan- tinople, St. Marks of Venice, St. Pe- ter's of Rome, are only the Raphaeled walls against which lean the squalor and the pauperism of many nations. rejoice that, while our modern archi- legislate and grand courthouses in which to administer justice and grand churches In which to worship God, they also give much of their time to the planning of comfortable abodes for our tired population. I have not so much interest In the arch of Trajan at Beneventum as have in the wish that all the people may have comfortable shelter, nor have I so much interest in the temple of Jupiter Olympus at Ath- ems as I have In the hope that every man may have an altar for the worship of the true God in his own house, and I have not so much interest in the sci- ence of ceramics, which goes crazy over twisted vase or queer handled jug in use 5000 years ago or a pitcher out of which the ancient pharaohs poured their drunken debauch, as I have that every man have on his table <a xrvfkh y,Ia <xF f,,I and an appetite to attack 1t.
 Thank God for your home, not mere ly the house you live in now, but the house you were born in and the many houses you have resided in since you began your earthly residence. When you go home today, count over the number of those houses in which you have resided, and you will be surpris. ed. Once in awhile you will find a man who lives in the house where he was born and where his father was born and his grandfather was born and his great-grandfather was born but that is not one out of a thousand cases. I have not been more perambu latory than most people, but I was amazed when I came to count up the number of residences I have occupied The fact is there Is in this world nc such thing as permanent residence.
 A NomadIc Race.
 In private vehicle, and not in raj car, from which you can see but little l rode from New York to Yonkers ant Tarrytown, on the banks of the Hud son, the finest ride on the planet for I man who wants to see palatial resi- dences in fascinating scenery. It wa: in the early spring and before the gen tlemen of New York had gone out tt their country residences. rode Int the grounds to admire the gardens and the overseer of the place told me and they all told me that all th' houses had been sold or that the! wanted to sell them, and there was lit eraIly no execution although I called