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

Timely Discourse In which the
Need of Patience and Eauipoisc Is
Set Forth-NoyinH Into the Fn-
TIERS House.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-This discourse
:f DIR. Talllagc is pertinent at this time
of year. when many people are moving
from house to house. and it teaches les
sons of patience and equipoiSe in very
trying circumstances; text, Philippians
iv, II. II know both how to be abased,
and | know how to abound
Happy Paul, Could You really ac-
commodatc yourself to all circumstances
in life? Could you go mp without pride,
and could you come down without eXas-
pcration? 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 a house, and having all our lives lived
In n house, we do not have full apprc-
riation of what a house is. 1t is the
growth of thousands of years. The hui
man race first lived in clcfts Of rocks, the
beasts OF the field moving out of the
cavcins TO let the human race move in.
The shepherds and the robbers still live
dytcs are race which to this day prefer
the cavcrns to a house. They are warm,
they are large, they are very comfort
able 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 Il
home built out of twisted tree branches.
We como further on down in the history
of the race. and we come to the tent.
which was a home built with round
pole in the center and skins OF animals
reaching out in all directions, mats on
the floor for the people to sit on.
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 heap
ed from the outside. The roof was made
of chalk and gypsum and Goals and
stones and ashes pounded together. Aft
or 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 Hebrews had openings in their
houses from which the smoke might es-
cape if it preferred, but there was no in
ducement offered for it to leave until the
modern chimney Wooden keys opened
the door, or the kcyholc was large enough
TO allow the finger to be inserted for the
liftngof the latch or the sliding Of it. There
being no windows, the people were de-
pendent for light upon lattcework, over
which a thin veil was drawn down in
time of winter to keep out the elements.
Window glass was, so late as two or
three hundred years ago, in England and
Scotland SO great luxury that only the
very wealthiest could afford it. A hand
mill and an oven and few leathern
bottles and some rude pitchers and plates
made UP the entire equipment of the cut
linary department. But the home planted
in the old cave or at the foot of tent
pole has grown and enlarged and spread
abroad until we have the modern house
with its branches and roots and vast
girth and height and depth of comfort
and accommodation.
Good Houses to Live In.
Architecture in other days busted itself
chiefly in planning and building triumph
al arches and basilicas and hippodrome'
and mausoleums and columns, while they
allowed the people for residences to bur
row like muskrats in the earth. st
Sophia's of Constantinoplc st. Mark
Of Venice, st. Peters of Rome are only
the Raphaeled walls against which lear
the squalor and the pauperism of many
| nations. | rejoice that, while our modern
architects give us grand capitols in which
to legislate and grand courthouses il
| which to administer justice and CRANE
| churches In which to worship God, the.
! also give much of their time 10 the plan
ming of comfortable abodcs for our tireC
/ population. ] have not so much interes
! in the arch of Trajan at Beneventun
as | have in the wish that all the peopl
| may have n comfortable shelter, nor hay,
| so much interest in the temple o
Jupiter Olympus at Athens as | hav
! in the hope that every man may hav
an altar for the worship of the true Go,
in his own house And | have not s.
much interest in the science OF ceramics
which goes crazy over twisted vase, o
Il queer handled jug in use 5000 year
ago. or a pitcher out of which the an
cicnt pharaohs poured their drunken de
| bauch as l have that every man hav
IN his table n plate with plenty of health
full food and an appetite to attack it.
Thank God for your hOme-not merel
the house you live in now, but the hous
you We're born in and the many house
you have resided in since you began you
earthly residence. When you go HON
today, count over the number OF thos
houses in which yau have resided, an
=. YOU will be surp. .sed. Once in awhil
you will find a man who lives in tn
house where ne was born and where hi
father was born and his grandfather wa
born and his great grandfather was borI
but that is not one out of thousan
cases. | have not been more perambr