The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-09
LESSONS OF MOVING
o.. Talnage Peaches on Spring
Sine Changes Of Residence
ATlMELY DISCOURSE
In Which the Need Of Patience
anI Equipoise is Set ro'Sn'
Moving into the sa-
theirs House.

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This discourse, Of Dr.. Talmage is
pertinent at this time Of year when many
people ar. moving from house 20 house,
Srd j: teaches lessons of patience and
equipoise in very trying circumstances;
text, Philippians iv, y, Il know both
low to be sbased, and know how TO
abound"
Happy Paul! Gould you really &C
connodate yourslf to all circumstances
iplife? Could you 20 up without pride,
and could you come down without exas-
nerstion? Teach the same lesson to US
ell.
We are at season of the year when
vast populations in all our cities are
changing residence. Having been born
in a house, and having all our lives
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 clefts Of rocks,
the beasts of the field moving out Of
the cayerns to let the human race move
in. The shepherds and the robbers
still live in caverns Of the earth. The
troglodytes are race which to this day
prefer the caveIns to house. They
arewarm, they are large, they are very
comfortable, they are less subject 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 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 a round pole in the center
snd 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 flom 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 chimney
was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings in their houses from
which the smoke might escape if it pre-
ferred, but there was no inducenent
offered for it to leave until the modern
chimney. Wooden keys opened the
door, or the keyhole was large enough
to allow the finger to be inserted for the
lifting 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 vas, so late
as two or three hundred years ago, in
England and Scotland so great luxury
that only the very weslthiest could
afford it. A hand mill and an oven and
6 few leathern bottles and some rude
pitchers and plates made up the entire
equipment Of the culinary department.
But the home planted in the old cave
or at the foot Of a 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 snd ac-
connodssion.
Thank God for your hone-not
merely the house you live IN now, but
the house you were born in and the
many houses you haze resided in since
you began your earthly residence.
When you 60 home today, count ever
the number Of those houses in which
you have resided. and you will be sur
p1ised. Once in awhile you will find a
man who lives in the house where he
was born and where his father was born
and hls grandfather was bora and his
great grandfather was born, bat that is
not one out Of thousand cases.
have not been more persmbuiatory than
most people, but l was amazed when I
came to count up the number Of resi-
Gences I have occupied, The fact is,
shere is in this world no such thing as
permanent residence.
From some houses the people had
been shaken out by chills and fever
from some houses they had gone be-
cause death or misfortune had occur
red, and all those palaces and mansions
had either changed occupants or wanted
to change. Take up the directory Of
any city Of England or America and see
how few people live where they lived
Is years ago. There is ne such thing
as permanent residence. I saw Monti-
cello, in Virginia, President Jefersen's
residence, and saw on the same day
Montpelier, which was either Madisons
or Monroe's residence, and I saw also
the White House, which was
President Tsylor's residence and Presi-
dent Lincoln's residence and President
Ga,Held's residence. Was it perma-
nent residence in any case? / tell you
that the race is nomadic and DO sooner
getsin one place than it wants to change
for another place or is compelled to
change for another place, aud 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
being nomsdic 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 tomb
stone and tips US hesdlong into the
grave, the only permanent earthly resi-
dence. But, bless God, even that stay
is limited, for We shall have resur-
rection.
My first word, in this part Of my dis
course is to all those who move out of
small houses into larger ones. Now We
will see whether, like the apostle, you
know how to abound. Do not, because
your new house has two more stories
than the old one. add two stories to