St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-06-02
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tnem away
From some houses the people ha,
been shaken out by chillS and fever
from some houses they had gone be
cause death or misfortune had oc
CURED, and all those palaces and man
sions had either changed occupants ol
wanted to change. Take up the direct
ory of any city Of England or Amer
lea and see how few people live where
they lived Is years ago. There is ne
such thing as permanent residence.
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson's residence, and saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and
saw also the white house, which was
President Taylor's residence and Pres.
ident Lincoln's S residence and President
Gartield's residence. Was it perma-
nent residence in any case. / tell you
that the race is nomadic, and no sooner
gets in one place than it wants to
change for another place or is com
PEELED to change for another place, and
so the race invented the railroad and
the steamboat in order more rapidly to
get into some other place than that in
which it was then. Aye. instead Of be-
ing nomadic it is immortal. moving on
and moving on. We whip up our horses
and hasten on until the hub of the front
wheel shivers on the tombstone and
tips us headlong into the grave, the
only permanent earthly residence.
But. bless God, even that stay is linn
tied. for we shall have a resurrection.
A day this spring the streets will
be filed with the furniture carts and
the drays and the trucks. 1t will be
a hard day for horses, because they
will be overloaded. It viii be hard
day for laborers, for they will overlift
before they get the family furiture
from one house to another. 1t will
be a hard day for housekeepers to see
their furniture scratched, and their
crockery broken, and their carpets
misfit, and their furniture dashed OF
the sudden showers. It will be hard
day for landlords. It will be hard
day for tenants. Especial grace is
needed for moving day. Many a maas .
religion has suffered . fearful strain
between the hour ON the morning of
the 1st Of May, when he took his im-
mature breakfast, and the hour at
night when he rolled into his extempo-
rized couch. The furniture broken
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 We
hement than complimentary. The
grace that will be sufficient for the
1st of January and the 1st Of Febru-
ary and the 1st of March and the l..
of April will not be sufficient for the
1st of May. Say your prayers that
morning il you find nothing better
to kneel down by than a coal scuttle,
and say your prayers at night though
your knees come down on q paper of
carpet tacks. You will want super
natural help if any of You move. Help
in the morning to start out Alright ON
the days work. Help at night to re-
pent. There will be enough annoy
ances to make Xantippe out of
Frances Ridley Havergal. ! have again
and again been in crises of moving
day, and ! have stood appalled, and
and helpless in the shipwreck,
taking as well as could those things
that foated ashore from the break
,rs, and know how to comfort and
how to warn and how to encourage
The people, so preach this practical
May day sermon. all these troubles
will soon be gone, and the bruises
will heal. and the stiffened joints win
become supple, and your ruff1ed tenn
,er will be smoothed Of it's wrinkles.
md order will take the place of dis
order. and you will sit down in your
,ew home seriously to contemplate.
My first word, then, in this part of
ny discourse is to all those who move
'ut of small houses into larger ones.
Vow we will see whether, like the
lpostle, you know how to abound.
DO not, because your new house has
wo more stories than the old one,
ldd two stories to your vanity or
make your brightly polished silver
loorplate the coffin. plate to your
'uried humility. Many persons NOV
ng into larger house nave become
'rrogant and supercilious. They
wager where once they walked.
hey simper where once they laughed.
hey 60 about with an air which
GEMS to say: Let all smaller craft
.et out of these waters if they don't
want to be run over by q regular Gu
Iarder." have known people who
we're kind and dsamiable and Christian
a their smaller house-no sooner did
hey go over the doorsill of the new
ouse than they became a glorified |
Iuisance. They were the terror of |
ry goods clerks and the amazement |
t ferryboats inta which they swept,
nd il compelled to stand a momeut |
nth condemnatory glance turning
II the people seated into criminals
nd convicts. They began to hunt ur
he family coat of arms, and had lion |
ouchant or unicorn rampant on the |
arriage door; when. il they had the
ppropriate coat of arms, it would
ave been a butter firkin or shoe
ast or a plow or trowel. Instead
I being like all the rest of us, made
ut of dust, they woald have you
hink that they were trickled out Of
[eaven ON lump Of loaf sugar. The
rst thing you know of them, the
ather will fail in business, and the
aughter will run on with a French
ancing master. A woman spoiled by
finer house is bad enough, but q
ian SO upset is sickening. The laven-
cred fool goes around so dainty and
, precise and SO affected in the roll
I his eyes or the whirl Of his cane or
,e clicking Of the ivory handle
gainst his front teeth or his ehemi-
ate langnor. and his conversation 50
lterlarded with 'oh's" and "ah's"
lat he is to me q dose Of ipecacu-
mia. Now, my friends, if you move
ito q larger house, thank God for
ore room-for more room to hang
,ur pictures, for more room in which
} gather your friends, for mofE room
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