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

lUe ltITlllt IRONY llfN utu the Iobll' WINE
Timon pursued them with his anath-
cna, calling them fools of fortune,
dcstroycrs of happiness under mask,
hurting ut the same time the pitchers ana
the chaliccs after them. oh, my friends,
would not want TO make you ovcrsus-
picious in the day of your success, but |
want you to understand right well there
is n vast difference between the popu-
larty of Timon the prosperous and Ii
mon the unfortunate. | want you to
know there is vast difference in the
number Of people who admire n man
when he is going up and the number of
people who admire him when he is going
down.
Moving Into Smaller Houses.
But | must have a word with those
who in this Mayday time move out of
larger residences into smaller. Some
times the pathetic reason is that the
family has dwindled in size and so much
room Is not required, so they move out
into smaller apartments. | know there
are such cases. Marriage has taken
some of the members of the family, death
has taken other members of the fami =,
and after awhile father and mother wake
up TO find their family just the size 1t
was when they started, and they would
be lonesome and lost in a large house,
hence they move out of it. Moving day
is great sadness TO such if they have
the law of association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the different
members of the family. | suppose it is
so in all your households. 1t is so in
mine. We name the rooms after the
persons who occupy them. And then
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tiles took place, the holiday festivities;
there is the sitting room where the fam
lily met night after night, and there is
the room sacred because there Il life
started or life stopped, the Alpha and
the Omega of some earthly existence.
Scene of meeting and parting, Of con-
graduation and heartbrcak. Every
doorknoh. every fresco, every mantcl,
every threshold meaning more to You
than it can ever mean to any one else.
When moving out OF house, | have al
ways been in the habit. after everything
was gone, of going into each room and
bidding it a mute farewell. There will
be tears running down many cheeks in
the Maytme moving that the carmen
will not be able to understand. 1t is A
solemn and touching and an over
places where we have struggled and toll
ed and wept and sung and prayed and
anxiously watched and agonized. Oh,
life is such strange mixture of honey
and of gall. weddings and burials, mid
noon and midnight clashing, Every home
n lighthouse against which the pillows Of
many seas tumble! Thank God that
such changes are not always going to
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give out and the brain would founder on
n dementia like that of King Lear when
his daughter Cordela came to medicine
his domestic calamity.
Reverses of Fortune.
But there are others who will move out
OF large residences into smaller through
the reversal of fortune. The property
must be sold or the bailiff will sell it, or
the income is less and you cannot pay
the house rent. First of all, such per-
sons should understand that our happi-
ness is not dependent on the size Of the
house we live in. ! have known people
enjoy n small heaven in two rooms and
others suffer a pandemonium in 20. There
is as much happiness in n small house as
in large house. There is as much salts
faction under the light of tallow can
die as under the glare Of chandelier, all
the burners at full blaze. Who was the
happier, John Bunyan in Bedford Jail OF
BelshaZzar in the saturnaia! Content
ment is something you can neither rent
nor purchase 1t is not eXtrinsic il is in
trinsic. Are there fewer rooms in the
house to which you move! You Will
have less to take care of. Is it TO be
stove instead of furnace? All the doe
tors say the modern modes Of warmii :
buildings are unhealthy. Is it less pier
mirrors? Less temptation to your vanity
Is 1t old fashioned toilet instead of water
pipes all through the house? Less &c
freeze and burst when you cannot get O
plumber. Is it less carriage: More room
for robust exercise. Is il less social po
sition? Fewer people who want to drag
you down by their jealousies. Is it les,
fortune to leave in your last will and
testament? Less to spoil your children
Is it less money for marketing? Less
temptation to ruin the health of youl
family with pineapples and indigestiblC
salads. Is it II little deaf? Not hearing
so many disagreeables.
l meet you this springtime at the door
OF your new home, and while ! help yor
lift the Clothesbasket over the banisterS
and the carman is getting red in the face
in trying to transport that article Of fur
niture to some new destination | con
graduate you. You are going to have 4
better time this year, some of you thar
you ever had. You take God and the
Christian religion in your home, and yol
will be grandly happy. God in the par
lor-that will sanctify your sociabilities
God in the nursery-that will protec
your children. God in the dining hall
that will make the plainest meal an i'm
pcrial banquet. God in the morning
that will launch the dag brightly from
the drydocks. God in the evening-tha
will sail the day sweetly into the har
Dor.
And get joy, one and all Of you, wheth
er you move or do not move. Get jo
out Of the thought that we are sen a
going 10 have grand moving day. u
you want Il picture of the new house int
which you will move! Here il is, wrough
with the hand Of master, I'VE know
that, if our earthly house of this tabel
naclc were dissolved, we have buildn
OF God, house not made with hands
eternal in the heavens" How much rem
will we have to pay for it? We are sc
ing to own it. How much must we pa
for it? How much cash down, and hoy
much left on mortgage? Our Father
going to give it as free gift. Whe
are we going to move into it? We ar
moving now. On moving day heads {
families are very apt to stay in the oil
house until they have seen everythin
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