Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-30

: 2r3Ily no exception, IlCnOuSn cdLIeU
! at many places, just admiring the gar
yiens 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.
4 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
! 10 years ago. There is no such thing
] as permanent residence. l saw Mon
ticello, in Virginia, President Jeffer-
sons residence, and l saw on the same
day Montpelier, which was either Mad
] sons or MOnrOe'S residence, and saw
also the White House, which was Pres
ident Tay1or's residence and President
LincOln's residence and President Gar
fields residence. Was it a permanent
residence in any case? l tell you that
the race is nOmadic and no sooner gets
in one place than it's wants to change
for another place or is compelled to
/ change for another place, and so the
race invented the railroad and the
steamboat in order more rapidly to get
into sons other place than that in
which it was then. Aye, instead Of
being nomadic, it is immortal, moving
n11f tTn xxvl1i
horses and lxasten on until the hub of
the front wheel shivers on the tomb
stone and tips us headlong into the
grave, the only permanent earthly resi-
dence.
Time For Prayer.
A day this spring the streets will be
filed with the furniture carts and the
drays and the trucks. 1t will be hard
day for horses, because they will be
overloaded; it will be a hard day for
laborers, for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
house to another; it will be hard day
for housekeeperS to see their furniture
scratched, and their crOckery broken,
and their carpets miStit, and their fur
niture dashed of the sudden showers;
it will be hard day for landlords; it
will be hard day for tenants. ESpe-
cial grace is needed for moving day.
Many a mans religion has suffered
fearful strain between the hour on the
morning of the LIST of May, when he
took his immature breakfast, and the
hour at night when he rolled into his
eXtemporized couch. The furniture
broken sometimes will result in the
breaking of the Ten Commandments.
There is no more fearful pass than the
hall of a house where two families
meet, one moving out and the other
moving in! The salutatiOn is apt to be
more vehement than complimentary.
The grace that will be sufficient for the
LIST Of January, and the LIST of Febru-
ary and the 1St of March, and the 1st
of April will not be sufficient for the
LIST of May. Say your prayers that
morning if you find nothing better to
kneel down by than coal Scuttle and
say your prayers at night though your
knee comes down on a paper of carpet
lacks! You will want supernatural
help if any of you mOve-help in the
morning to start out Alright on the
days work, help at night to repent.
There will be enough annoyances to
hldAC IL -NdhtIppS Jul VI a. iUhNOo
Ridley Havergal. 1 have again and
again been in crises of moving day,
and l have stood appalled, and amazed
and helpless in the Shipwreck, taking
as well as | could those things that
foated ashore from the breakers, and
l know how to comfort and how to
warn and how to encourage the peO
pie; so l preach this practical Mayday
sermon. All these troubles will soon
be gone, and the bruises will heal, and
the stiffened joints will become supple,
and your ruff1ed temper will be smooth
ed of it's wrinkles, and order will take
the place of disorder, and you will sit !
down in your new home.
The New House.
Ny first word then, in this part Of
my discourse is to all those who move
out of small houses into larger ones.
Now, we will see whether, like the |
apostle, you know how to abound. Do
not, because your new house has two !
more stories than the old one, add two
stories to your vanity or make your !
brightly polished silver doorplate the |
coffin plate to your buried humility.
Many persons moving into larger
house have become arrogant and SUI
perciliOuS. They SWagger where once
they walked; they shipper where once
they laughed; they go about with an
air which seems to say, Let all small
er craft get out of these waters if they
don't want to be run over by a regular
Cunarder." l have known people who
were kind and amiable and Christian
in their smaller house. No sooner did
they go over the dOOrSiU of the new
house than they became a glorified
mi Nlar no drrxr