Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-09


upset Is sickening.
But must have a word with those who
In this Mayday time move out oflarger res.
licences into smaller. Sometimes the pa
thetic reason Is that the family has
dwindled In size, and so much room Is not
required, SO they move out into small
apartments. know there are such cases.
Marriage has taken some of the members
Of the family, death has taken other MEM
bers OF the family, and after awhile father
and mother wake up to find their family
lust the size 1t was when they started, and
they would be lonesome and lost in large
house; hence they move out OF 1t. Moving
day is great sadness to such II they have
the law of association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ
snr members OF the family. I suppose
It Is so In all your households. 1t is SO
In mine. We name the rooms after the
persons who occupy them. And then
there is the dining hail where the festivi-
ties took place, the noIIday festivities; there
Is the sitting room where the family met
night after night. and there is the room sa-
cred because there life started or LIE
stopped-the Alpha and the Omega of
some earthly existence. Scene OF meeting
and parting, of congratulation and heart
break, every doorknob, every fresco, every
mantel, every threshold, meaning more to
you than II can ever mean to any one else.
When owing ont OF a house, have always
been in the habit, after everything was
gone, of going into each room and bidding
t mute farewell. There will be tears
cunning down many cheeks In the May
lime moving that the carmen Will not be
able to understand. 1t is a solemn and
:ouching and an overwhelming thing
20 leave places forever-places where we
nave struggled and toiled and wept and
sung and prayed and anxiousiy watched
and agonized. Oh life is such a strange
mixture OF honey and OF gall, weddings
and burials. midnoon and midnight
Flashing! Every home a lighthouse
against which the billows OF many seas
:umble. Thank God thar such changes
are not always going to continue; other
wise the nerves would give out and the
brain would founder on dementia like
hat of King Lear when his daughter
Corde,ia came to medicine his domestic
calamity.
But there are others who will move out
of large residences into smaller through
:he reversal OF fortune. The property
must be sold or the baliff will sell it, or the
income is less and you cannot pay the
house rent. First OF all, such persons
should understand that our happiness Is
aot dependen: on the size OF the house We
i've in. l have known people enjoy Il
small heaven in two rooms and others SUI
Ter a pandemonium In twenty. There Is
As much happiness in small house as In
arge house. There Is us much satisfaction
lnder the light of a tallow can lie as under
The glare Of chandelier, all the burners at
tull blaze. Who was the happier-John
Bunyan in Bedford Jail or Belshazzer I'm
:he saturnalia? Contentment Is something
you can neither rent nor purchase. 1t is not
sxtrinsic; it Is intrinsic. Are there fewer
rooms in the house to which you move?
You will have less to take care OF. Is 1t
20 be stove instead OF furnace? All the
1octors say the modern modes of warming
buildings are unhealthy. Is it less mir
cors? Less temptation to your vanity. Is
Il old fashioned toilet instead Of water
pipes all through the house? Less to freeze
, and burst when you cannot get plumber.
Is 1t less carriage? More room for robust
exercise. Is it less social position2 Fewer
people who want to drag you down by
| their jealousies. Is it less fortune to leave
| IN your last will and testament? Less to
| spoil your children. Is it less money for
he health of your family with pineapples
and indigestible salads. Is 1t n little deaf?
| Not hearing so many disagreeables.
meet you this springtime at the door OF
your new home, and while Ihelp you lift
| khe clothesbasket over the banisters and
| the carman Is getting red in the face try
| Ing to transport that article OF furniture
to some new destination / congratulate
| you. You are going to have better time
| this year, some of you, than you ever had.
You take God and the Christian religion In
your home and you will be grandly happy.
| sociablities; God In the nursery-that
| protect your children: God in the DIM
hall-that will make the plainest meal
imperial banquet; God In the morning
that will launch the day brightly from IT,
| drydock4; God In the evening-ttat win
sail the day sweetly into the harbor.
And get Joy, one and all of you, whether
| you move or do not move; get Joy out OF
the thought that we are soon all going to
have a grand moving day. Do you want a
picture of the new house into which you
| will move? Here 1t is, wrought with the
hand of a master: "We know that, II our
earthly house OF this tabernacle were dis
| solved, we have building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens" How much rent will We
I own it. How much must We pCy for
itp How much, cash down, and how
much left on mortgage? Our father is
| going to give it as a free gift. When are
| we gcing to move into 1t? We are moving
now. On moving day heads of families
they have seen everything of. They send
ahead the children, and they send ahead
the treasures and the valuables. Then
after awhile they will come themselves.
I remember very we'll in the country that
In boyhood moving day was a jubilation.
On almost the first load we, the children,
were sent on ahead to the new house, and
we arrived with shout and laughter and
In an hour we had ranged through every
room in the house, the barn and the gran
ary. Toward night, and perhaps in the
last wagon, father and mother would come
looking very tired, and We would come
| down to the foot Of the lane to meet
them and tell them of all the wonders
we discovered in the new place, and
then, the last wagon unloaded, can
dies lighted, our neighbors who had
helped US to move-for in those times
neighbors helped each other-sa. down
| with US at Il table on which there was
every luxury they could think c.. Well
my dear Lord knows that some OF u
| have been moving good while. We
have sent our children ahead. We have sent
many of our valuables ahead, sent many
treasures ahead. We cannot go yet. There
Is work for US to do, but after awhile 1t viii
be toward night, and we will be very tired
and then we will start for our new home
and those who have gone ahead OF US
they will see our approach, and they will
come down the lane to meet US, and they
will have much to tell US OF what they
have discovered in the "house OF many
mansions and of how large the rooms ar
and OF how bright the fountains. Ant
then the last load uni oaded, the table viii
be spread, and our celestial neighbor
will come in to sit down with our reunited
families, and the chalices will be full, no
with the wine that sweats In the vat o
earthly intoxications, but with "the nev
wine of the kingdom" And there for th
} first time we will realize what fools W
were on earth when we feared to die, sine
death has turned out only to be the movi nj
from a smaller house into larger one an
the exchange OF a pauper's hut for
princes castle and the going up stair
from q miserable kitchen to a glorious par
Ior. o house of God not made with hands
eternal In the heavens!
Obstinacy looks well enough in a mul
or a gate post, but it is neither orna
mental or useful in man.
! Midway between poverty and richie
is a genial cline, named contentmer