The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-03

house; hence they move out OF &c. Moving
day Is great sadness to such II thoy have
the law OF association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ.
ent members OF the family ] suppose
1t is so in all your households, 1t is So
In mine. We name the rooms after tho
persons who occupy them. And then
there Is the dining hall where the festivi-
ties took place, the holiday festlvities there
is the sitting room whore tho family met
night after night, and there Is the room sa-
cred because there life started or a life
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 moan to any one else.
Whom loving out of q house, have always
been in the habit, after everything was
gone, OF going into each room and bidding
it II mute farewell There will be tears
running down many cheeks in the May
time moving that tbs carmen will not bo
able to understand. It Is u solemn and u
touching and an overwhelming thing
to leave places forever-places where we
have struggled and tolled and wept and
sung and prayed and anxlously watched
and agonized. Oh, life Is such II strange
mixture of honey and of gall, weddings
and burials, midnoon an. midnight
cashingl Every home lighthouse
against which tho billows OF many seat
tumble. Thank God that such changes
are not always going to continue; other.
wise the nerves would give out and the
brain would founder on Il dementia like
that of King Lenr when his daughter
Cordeiia came " medicine his domestic
calamity.
But there are others who will move out
OF large residences into smaller through
the reversal OF fortune. The property
h, hog Mill ID
income Is less and you cannot pay the
house rent. First Of ali, such persons
should understand THAI our happiness is
not dependent on tho size of the house wo
live In. l have known people enjoy II
small heaven in two rooms and others suf-
fer II pandemonlum in twenty. There Is
as much happiness in u small house as In "A
large house. There is as much satisfaction
under the light OF talIow candle as under
the glare OF n chandelier. ali the burners Mt
full blaze. Who was the happier--J ohm
Buny0n in Bedford jail or Bclshagzer In
the saturnalia2 Contentment is something
you can neither rent nor purchase. IT is not
extrlnsic 1t is intrinsic. Are there fewer
rooms in the house to which you move?
You will have less to take caro- of. Is 1t
to be stove instead OF furnace? All the
doctors say the modern modes OF warming
buildings are unhealthy. Is 1t less mir
rors? Less temptation to yoIr vanity. Is
pipes all through the h -'se? Less to freeze
and burst when you cannOt get plumber.
Is It less carriage? More room for robust
exercise. Is II less social position? Fewer
people who want to drag you down by
their ioalOusies. Is IL less fortune to leave
in your last will and testament? Less TO
spoil your children. Is it less money for
the marketing? Less temptation to ruin
the health of your family with pineapples
aud tndigestible saiaGs. IL 1t little deal?
Not hearing so many disagreeabes.
meet you this sprlngtime at the door Of
your new home, and while Ihelp you lift
the clothesbasket over the banst6rs and
the carman is getting red In tho face try
ing to transport that article OF furniture
to some new destination l 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.
God in the parlor-that will sanctify your
sociabities God in the nursery-that will
protect your children: God in tho dining
hall-thnt will make the plainest meal an
imperial banquet; God in the morning
that will launch the day brightly from the
drydockS; God In the evenng-tt0t will
sail the day sweotly 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 arc soon all going to
have a grand moving duy. d. you want II
picture of tho new house into which you
will move? Here It Is, wrought with the
hand of master: ''we know that, il our
earthly house Of this tabernacle were dis
solved, we have n building OF God,
house not made with hands eternal in
the heavens" How much rent will we
have to pay for It? We are going to
own it. How much must we pay for
itp How much, cash down, and how
much left on mortgage2 Our father is
going TO give 1t rs free gift. When are
we gcing to move into 1t? We C,e moving
now. On moving day heads Of families
are very apt to stay in the old house until
they have seen everything off. They send
ahead the children, and they send ahead
the treasures and the valuables. Then
after awhile they will come themselves
| remember very well 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 a"1 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
ihen, the last wagon unloaded, can
dies lighted, our neighbors who had
helped us to move-for In those times
nolghbors helped each other--sat down
with us at Il table on which thero was
every luxury they could think of. Well,
my dear Lord knows that soilc OF us
have been moving u 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 will
be toward night, and we will be vcfy tired
and then We will start for our now home,
and those who have Rono ahead OF us,
they will see our approach, aud they will
come down the lane to meec us, and they
will have much to tell rs OF what they
have discovered In the "house OF many
mansions" and OF how large the rooms arc
and of how bright the foCntains. And
then the last load uni oaded, the table will
be spread, and our celestial neighbors
will come in to sit down with our reunited
families, and the challces will be full, not
with the wine that sweats In the vat OF
earthly intoxcations, but with "the new
wlno OF the kingdom" And there for the
first time we will realize what fools we
were on earth when we feared to die, since
death haI turned out only to be the ng
from smaller house into II larger one and
the exchange OF n pauper's hut for "A
princes castle and the going up stairs
from miserable kitchen to n glorious par
lor. o house of God not made with hands
eternal In the heavensl