Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-30
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weddings and buriaIs, midnOon and
midnight clashing! Every home light
house against which the pillows of
many seas tumble. Thank God that
such changes are not always going to
continue; otherwise the nerves would
give out and the brain would founder
on a dementia like that of King Lear
when his daughter Cordelia came to
medicine his domestic calamity.
How to BE Happy.
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 persons should understand
that our happiness is not dependent on
the size of the house we live in. 1 have
known people enjoy a small heaven in
two rooms and others suffer a pande-
monium in 20. There is as much hap
piness in a small house as in large
house. There is as much satisfaction
under the light of a tallow candle as
under the glare of q chandelier, all the
burners at full blaze. Who was the
happier-JOhn Bunyan in Bedford Jail
or BelShaZZar in the Saturnalia? Con-
tentmen& 81 something you can neither
rent nor purchase. 1t is not eXtrinsic;
it is intrinsic. 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
doctors say the modern modes of
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it less mirrors! Less temptation to
your vanity. Is it old fashioned toilet
instead of water pipes all through the
house? Less to freeze and burst when
you cannot get a plumber. Is it less
carriage? More room for robust exer-
else. Is it less social position? Fewer
people who want to drag you down by
their jealousies. Is it less fortune to
leave in your last will and testament?
Less to spoil your children. Is it less
money for the marketing? Less temp
tation to ruin the health of your fam
lily with pineapples and indigestible
salads. Is it little deaf? Not hear
ing SO many disagreeables.
| meet you this springtime at the
door of your new home, and while l
help you lift the clothesbasket over
the banisters and the carman is get
ting red in the face in trying to trans
port that article of furniture to some
new destination 1 congratulate you.
You are going to have a 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 sociabilities;
God in the nursery-that will protect
your children; God in the dining hall
that will make the plainest meal an
imperial banquet; God in the morning
that will launch the day brightly
from the drydocks; God in the evening
that will sail the day sweetly into
the harbor.
Our Fathers House.
And get joy, one and all of you,
whether you move or do not move;
get joy out of the thought that we are
soon all going to have a grand moving
day. Do you want a picture of the
new house into which you will move?
Here it is, wrought with the hand of a
master: 1--WE know that, if our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dissoIv-
ed, we have a building of God, a 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
it? How much, cash down, and how
much left on mortgage? Our Father
is going to give it as q free gift. When
are we going to move into it? We are
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
yaluables. Then after awhile they will
come themselves. | remember very
we'll in the country that in bOyhood
moving day was a jubilation.
On almost the first load we, the chill |
1ren, were sent on ahead to the new
house, and we arrived with shout and |
laughter, and in an hour we had rang |
ed through every room in the house,
he barn and the granary. Toward |
hight, and perhaps In the last wagon, |
-ather and mother would come, look |
ng very tired, and we would come |
Town to the foot of the lane to meet |
hem and tell them of all the wonders |
We discovered in the new place, and
hen, the last wagon unloaded, the can
lies lighted, our neighbors who had |
Helped us to move-for in those times
leighbors helped each other-sat down
With us at table on which there was
very luxury they could think of. Well,
ny dear Lord knows that some of us
AVE been moving a good while. We
AVE sent our children ahead, we have
ent many Of our valuables ahead,
ent many treasures ahead. We can
lot go yet. There is work for us to
10, but after awhile it will be toward