The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-06-07
LESSONS OF MOVING,
Dr.. Talmage breaches a Timely
Sermon.
Discourse In Which the Need Of
Patience and EQuipose In Set
E0rth-MOving Into the
Fathers House.
Copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.]

tlnent at TINS time OF year, Wnen many
people are moving from house to house,
and it teaches lessons of patience and
equipoise in very trying circumstances.
Text, Philippians, 4:12: II know both
how to be abased, and 1 know how to
abound"
Happy Paul! Could you really ac-
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
in house, and having all our lives
lived in a house, we do not have full
appreciation 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 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 large, they
are very comfortable, they are less sub
ject 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 home built out of twisted
tree branches. We come further on
down in the history of the race, and we
come to the tent, which was home
built with a 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 a 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 pounded to-
gether. After awhile the porch was
born, after awhile the gate. Then hum
dreds of years passed on. and in the
fourteenth century the modern chim-
ney was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings in their houses from
which the smoke might escape if it pre-
ferred, but there was no inducement
for it to leave until the modern CHM
ney. Wooden keys opened the door, or
the keyhole was large enough to allow
the finger to be inserted for the lift
ing of the latch or the sliding of it..
There being no windows, the people
were dependent for light upon lattice
work, over which a thin veil was drawn
down in time of winter to keep out the
elements. Window glass was, so late
as 200 or 800 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 equip
ment of the culinary 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 it's
branches and roots and vast girth and
height and depth Of comfort and ac-
commodation.
Thank God for your home-not mere
" 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 to-day, count over the
number of those houses in which you
have resided, and you win be surprised.
Once in awhile you will find 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. ] have
not been more perambulatory than
most people, but was amazed when I
came to count up the number Of resi-
dences I have occupied. The fact is.
there is in this world no such thing al
permanent residence.
In private vehicle and not in rail
car, from which you can see but little,
I rode from New York to Yonkers and
Tarrytown, on the banks of the Hud-
SOu"tuc uACSt I1OC Vu SAC HldACt 4OI
man who wants to see palatial resi-
dences in fascinating scenery. 1t 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 Lit,
orally no exception, although I called
at many places, just admiring the gar.
dens and the grounds and the palatial
residences. Some wanted to sell ol
had sold because their wives did moi
want to reside in the summer time II
those places while their husbands tar
ried in town in the night, always hay
ing some business on hand keeping
them away.
From some houses the people hat
been shaken out by chiils and fever
from some houses they hsd gone be