Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-04
OUR FATHERS HOUSE
Or. TALMAGE TEACHES a LESSON OF
PATIENCE.


WASHINGTON. April -. This dis
course OF DR.. Talmage is pertinent at
this time OF year, when many people
\ are moving from house TO house, and 1t
teaches lessons OF patience and equi-
poise In very trying circumstances;
text, Philippians ~. II, II know both
how to be abased, and l know how TO
abound"
Happy Paul. Could you really &C
commodate yourself TO all circum-
stances In life? Could you go up with
out pride. and could you come down
without evaporation? 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
I'm house and having all our lives liv-
ed i'm a house. we do not have full APP
probation of what house is. 1t 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 10 let the human
race move In. The shepherds and the
robbers Still live I'm caverus of the
earth. The troglodytcs are race
which to this day prefer the caverns to
a house. They are warm; they are
large; they are very comfortable; they
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 n
home built out of twisted tree branch
es; we come farther on down in the his
tory of the race. and we come TO the
tent, which was n home built with n
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 Goals and stones and ashes pound
cd 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
IL preferred. but there was no induce
ment offered for il to leave until the
modern chimney. Wooden keys open
cd 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 II. There being no windows.
the people were dependent for light
upon latticework, over which n thin
veil was drawn down in time of winter
Enpu no oil
glass was. so late as 200 or 800 years
ago, in England and Scotland so great
luxury that only the very weaIthiest
could afford it. \ hand mill and an
oven and 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
triumphnl arches and baslicas and hip
podromes and mausoleums and col
umns, while they allowed the people
for residence TO burrow like muskrats
In the earth. st. Sophias of Constan-
tinop!e. st. Marks OF Venice, st. Pc
ter's OF Rome, are only the Raphaeled
walls against which lean the squalor
and the pauperism OF many nations. l
rejoice that, while our modern archi-
tects give us grand capItols In which TO
iegislate and grand courthouses in
which TO administer justice and grand
churches in which TO worship God.
they also give much OF their time 10
the planning Of comfortable abodes for
our tired population. I have not so
much interest in the arch OF Trajan ut
Beneventrm as have I'm the wish that
all the people may have comfortable
shelter. nor have ! so much interest In
the temple or Jupiter Olympus Mt Ath-
ems as ] have in the hope that every
man may have an altar for the worship
OF the true God in his own house. and
have not so much interest in the sci
ence OF ceramics. which goes crazy
over n twisted vase or n queer handled
jug In use 5000 years ago or n pitcher
out or which the ancient pharaohs
poured their drunken dehauch, as |
nave that 'every man have on his table
plate with plenty OF healthful food
and an appetite 10 attack II.
Thank God for your home. not moro
iy the house you live in now. but the
house you were born In and the MANY
houses you have resided in since Won
began your earthly residence. When
you go home today. count over the
number or those houses in which you
have resided. and you will be surpris-
ed. Once In awhile you will find
man who lives I'm 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 n Thousand
cases. have not been more perambu-
iatory than most people. but | was
amazed when | came 10 count ND the
number OF residences have occupied.
Inc fact Is there is in this world no
such thing rs permanent residence.
NomadIc Race.
In private vehicle. and not In n rail
car. from which you can see but little
i rode from New York to Yonkers ard
Tarrytown. on the banks of the Hud-
son. the finest ride on the planet for q
man who wants to see palatial resi-
dences In fascinating scenery. Ii was
In the early spring and before the GEN
tlemen of New York had gone out to
their country residences. rode into
the grounds to admire the gardens.
and the overseer OF the place told me
and they all told me-that all the
houses had been sold or that they
wanted to sell them, and there was 1T
orally no exception, although called
at many places. just admiring the gar-
dens and the grounds and the palatial
residences. Some wanted to sell or had
sold because Of financial misfortune or
because their wives did not want to
reside in the summer time in those
places while their husbands tarried In
town In the night. always having some
business on hand keeping them away.
From some houses the people had been
shaken out. by chills and fever. from
some houses they had gone because
death or misfortune had occurred. and
all those palaces and mansions had Ell
Their changed occupants or wanted to
change. Take up the directory of any
city OF England or America and see
how few people live where they lived |