The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-05
LESSONS OF MOVING.
Or. Talnagc breaches a Timely
Sermon.
Discourse I'm which the Need of
Patience and EIuipOse IL Set
FOrth-MOving Into the
Fathers House.
Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch,l
Washington

| people are moving from HOust W Houa'
$ and it teaches lessons of patience an
equipoise in very try ing circumstances
Text, Philippians, 4:l2: II know bot
how to be abased, and know how /
. abound"
Happy Paul. Could you really &C
commodate yourself to all circum
stances in life? Could you go up with
out pride, and could you come dow
without evaporation? Teach the sam
lesson to us all.
We are at season of the year wheI
vast populations in all our cities ar,
changing residence. Having been borr
in a house, and having all our live:
lived in house, we do not have full
appreciation of what house is. 1t is
the growth of thousands of years
The human race first lived in clcfts ol
rocks, the beasts of the field moving
out of the caverns to let the human
race move in. The shepherds and the
robbers still live in caverns of the earth
| The troglodytes are a race which to
this day prefer the caverns to house.
They are warm, they are large, they
are very comfortable, they are less sub
iect to violent changes of heat and cold.
| We come on along down in the history
of the race, and we come to the lodge,
which was a home built out of twisted
tree branches. We come further on
down in the history of the race, and we
come to the tent, which was home
built with round pole in the center
and skins of animals reaching out in all
directions, mats on the floor for the
people to sit on.
Time passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to build house,
which was space surrounded by broad
stones, against which The earth was
heaped from the outside. The roof
was made of chalk and gypsum and
Goals and stones and ashes pounded to-
gether. After awhile the porch was
born, after awhile the gate. Then hun
dreds of years passed on. and in the
fourteenth century the modern chin
ney was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings in their houses from
which the smoke might escape if it pre-
ferred, but there was no inducement
for it to leave until the modern Chin
ney. Wooden keys opened the door, or
the keyhole was large enough to allow
the finger to be inserted for the lift
ing of the latch or the sliding of it.
There being no windows, the people
were dependent for light upon lattice
work, over which thin veil was drawn
down in time of winter to keep out the
elements. Window glass was. so late
as 200 or 300 years ago, in England and
Scotland so great luxury that only
the very wealthiest could afford it. A
hand mill and an oven and few
leathern bottles and some rude pitchers
and plates made up the entire equip |
ment of the culinary department. But |
the home planted in the old cave or at
the foot of tent pole has grown and
enlarged and spread abroad until we
have the modern house, with its |
branches and roots and vast girth and |
height and depth of comfort and ac-
self chiefly in planning and building
triumphal arches and basilicas and
and mausoleums and col
INNS, while they allowed the people
for residences to burrow like mushrats
n the earth. st. Sophia's, of Constan-
tinople, ST. Marks, of Venice; St.
Peters, of Rome, are only the
Raphaeled walls against which lean the
'qualor and the pauperism of many ma
ions. l rejoice that, while our mod
I'm architects give us grand capitols
n which to legislate and grand court
houses in which to administer justice
md grand churches in which to wor-
hip God, they also give much of their
line to the planning of comfortable
lbodes for our tired population. have
lot SO much interest in the arch of
rrajan at Beneventum as have in the
wish that all the people may have
comfortable shelter, nor have l so
much interest in the temple of Jupiter
olympus at Athens as l have in the
Iope that every man may have an altar
or the worship of the true God in his
wn house. And l have not so much
interest in the science of ceramics,
which goes crazy over twisted vase, or
queer handled jug in use 5000 years
go, or pitcher out of which the an
lent pharaohs poured their drunken
ebauch as L have that every man
ave on his table plate with plenty
f healthful food and an appetite to at
Rck it.
Thank God for your home-not mere
the house you live in now, but the
ouse you were born in and the many
ouses you have resided in since you 7
cyan your earthly residence. When
on go home to-day, count over the ,
lumber of those houses in which YOU
ave resided, and you will be surprised. ]
nee in awhile you will find man who
yes in the house where he was born /
nd where his father was born and his {
was born and his great {
was born, but that is not {
ne out of thousand cases. l have 7
ot been more perambulatory than {
ost people, bat L was amazed when $
lme to count up the number of resi- c
ences l have occupied. The fact is, t
Iere is in this world no such thing as q
residence.
In a private vehicle and not in rail i
If, from which you can see but little, t
rode from New York to Yonkers and a
lrrytown, on the banks of the Hud- i
n-the finest ride on the planet for 4
an who wants to see palatial resi- V
noes in fascinating scenery. It was t
the early spring and before the gen. il
emen of New York had gone out to a
cir country residences. 1 rode into b
c grounds to admire the gardens, "