The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-05-03
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
TIE EMINENT DIvINEs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.

Subject: Our Fathers House - a Lesson
of Patience--An Impressive warning
Against Being Pnhed Up with Tran
sitOry Earthly Grandeur.
Copyright la0ol
WASHINGTON, ID. @. - This discourse OF
DR.. Talmage is pertinent ut this time of
year, whom many people are moving from
house to house, and 1t teaches lessons of
patience and equpoise in very trying cir.
cumstances; text, philippians w., ~, "I
know both how TO DO Obnsed, and know
how to abound"
Happy PAUL Could you really accom-
modnto yourself to all circumstances in
life? Gould you so up without prido, and
could you come down without exaspera.
ton? Teach the same Lesson to us ali.
We are at n season OF She year when vast
populations in all our cities are changing
residence. Having been born IN house
and having NIL our lives lived in n house.
we do not have full appreciation of what a
house Is. IL is the growth of thousands of
years. Tho human race llrsl lived in colts
OF rocks, the beasts OF the Held moving
out of the cavorns TO let tho human race
move in. The shepherds aud tho robbers
still live In caverns OF the earth. The troy.
lodytcs arc race which to this duy ore.
Ter the covcrns to house. They are warm;
they are lurge; they aro very comfortable
they are less subject to violent changes OF
heat aud cold. We come on along down in
the history Of the race, and we come TO the
lodge, which was homo built out Of
twisted tree branches; we come farther on
down In the history OF the race, and wo
come to the tent, which was n home built
with round pole I'm tho centre and skins
OF animals renching out ia all directions,
mats on the floor.
Time passed on, ana the world. after
much Invention, came to build u house.
which was II space surrounded by broad
stones, against which the earth wns heaped
from the outside. The roof was made OF
chalk and gypsum and coal and stones and
ashes pounded together. After awhile the
porch was born, after awhile the gate.
Then hundreds 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 III 1t preferred but
there was no inducement offered for 1t to
leave until the modern chimney. Wooden
keys opened the door, or the keyhole was
large enough to allow the finger to be in.
serted Tor the lifting OF the latch or the
sliding of 1t. There beng no windows the
people were dependent for light upon lat
tcework, over which thin veil was drawn
down in time OF winter to keep out the ele.
ments. Window glass was, so late as 200
or 300 years ago, In England and Scotland
so great luxury that only the very wealth.
TEST could afford 1t, A hand mill and an
rude pitchers and plates made up the en-.
tire equipment of the culinary department
Thank God for your home, not merely
the house you live in now but tho house
you werO born In and the many houses you
have resided in since YOU began your
earthly residence. When you 80 home
to-day, count over the number of those
houses in which you have resided, and you
will be surprised. Once in awhile you will
find man who lives in a house wnere he
was born and where his father was born
and his grandfather was born and his
great grandfather was born, but that Is
not one out OF thousand cases. l have
not been more perambulatory than most
people, but L was amazed when | came to
count up tho number OF residences have
occupied. The fact is there is in this
world no such thing as permanent resi-
dence.
In private vehiclc. and no. in n rail
car, from which you can see but little
! rode from New York to Yonkers and Tar
rytown, on the banks OF the Hudson, the
finest ride on the planet for man whL
wants to see palatial residences in fasci
mating scenery. 1t was in the early spring
and before the gentlemen OF New York
had gone out to their country residences
rode into the grounds to admire the
gardens, and the overse er OF the place
told me-und they ull told me--that
all the houses had been sold or that
tney Wahteu 10 sell thcm, ana tnero
was literally no exception, although
| called at many places, just admiring the
gardens and grounds and the palatial resi-
dences. Some wanted to sell or had sold
because OF financial misfortune or because
their wives did not want to reside In the
summon time in those places while their
husbands tarried in town In the night,
always having some business on hand
keeping them awny. From some houses
the people had been shaken out by chills
and fever, from some houses they had
gone because death or misfortune had oc-
CURED, and all those palaces and mansions
had either changed occupants or wanted
to change.
Take up the directory OF any city oil
England or America and see how few
people live where they lived fifteen years
ago. There is no such thing as permanent
residence.
l saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson's residence, and l saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madlson's or Monroe's residence, and l
saw also the White House, which was
President Tayior's residence and President
Lincoln's residence and President Gar
fields residence. Was 1t permanent
residence in any cAse? tell you that thu
race is nomadic and no sooner gets In one
plac than it wants to change for another
place or Is compelled to change. for another
place, and so the raco invented the rail.
road and the steamboat in order more
rapidly to- get into some other place than
that In which 1t wns then.
Aye, instead OF being nomadic, IL Is i'm
mortal, moving on and moving on! We
whip up our horses and hasten onuntl the
hub OF the front wheel shivers on the tomb
stone aud tips us headlong into the grave,
the only permanent earthly residence.
A day this spring tho reefs will be filled
with the furniture carts and the drays and
the trucks. 1t will be II hard day TO-
horses, because they will be overloaded; IL
will be II hard day for laborers, for they
will oyerlift before they get the family fur
niture from one house to another; II will
be hard day for housekeepers to see their
furniture scratched, and their croekery
broken, and their carpets msnt, aud their
furniture dashed OF the sudden showers; it
VIII bo Il hard day for landlords; II Will be
! "a hard day Tor tennnts,
Especial grace Is needed for moving day.
Many n mans religion has sulle. cd II fear
full strain between tue hour on tho morn
ing OF the first OF May, when he took his
| immature breakfast, and tho hour at night
| when he rolled into his eStemDOrized couch,
! The furniture broken sometimes will result
| in the breaking OF the Ten Commandments.
My first word, then, in this putt of my
| discourse is to all those who move out Of
small houses into larger ones. Now, we
will see whether, like the apo tie, you know
| how to abound. .
Do not, because your new house has two
| more stories than the old one, Gdd two