The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-04

that all the houses had been sold or
that they wanted to sell them, and
there was literally no exception, al
though | called at many places, Just
admiring the gardens and the grounds
and the palatial residences. Some
wanted to sell or had sold because
their wives did not want to reside in
the summer time in those places while
their husbands tarried in town in the
night, always having some business on
hand keeping them away.
Change OF Residence.
From some houses the people had
been shaken ont by chllls and fever,
from some houses they had gone be-
cause death or misfortune had occur
red, and all those palaces and man
sions had either changed occupants or
wanted to change. Take up the direc-
| tory of any city of England or Ameri-
ca and see how few people live where
| they lived Is years ago. There is no
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 Taylors residence, and Pres
| ident Lincoln's residence, and President
| Garfleld's residence Was it a perma-
nent residence in any case? | tell you
that the race is nomadic and no soon
er gets in one place than it wants to
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 1t was then. Aye, instead OF
being nomadic it Is immoral, 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 headlong into the
grave, the only permanent earthly res
idence. But. bless God. even that stay
| is limited, for we shall have a resur-
rection.
A day this spring the streets will be
| filled with the furniture carts and the
drays and the trucks. 1t will be hard
day for horses. because they will be
| overloaded. 1t will be hard day for
laborers, for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
house to another. 1t will be hard day
| for housekeepers to see their furniture
scratched, and the crockery broken,
and their carpets misfit, and their fur
niture dashed of the sudden showers.
| 1t will be hard day for landlords. 1t
will be hard day for tenants. Espe-
cial grace is needed for moving day.
Many a mans religion has suffered a
fearful strain between the hour on the
morning of the first of May, when he
took his immature breakfast, and the
hour at night when he rolled into his
extemporized couch. The furniture
! broken. sometimes 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
be more vehement than compliment
tary. The grace that will be sufficient
| for the first of January and the first
of February and the first of March
and the first of April will not be suffi-
cient for the first of May. Say your
prayers that morning if you find moth
ing better to kneel down by than
coal scuttle, and say your prayers at
night though your knee comes down
on a paper of carpet tacks. You will
want supernatural help if any OF you
move. Help in the morning to start
out Alright on the days work Help
at night to repent. There will be
enough Of annoyance to make Kan
tippe out of Frances Ridley Haver-
gal. I have again and again been in
crises of moving day, and have
stood appalled, and amazed and help
less in the shipwreck, taking as we'll
as l could those things that floated
ashore from the breakers, and know
how to comfort and how to warn. and
how to encourage the people, so l
preach this practical May day sermon.
All these troubles will soon be gone,
and the bruises will heal. and the stiff
fened joints will become supple, and
your ruffled temper will be smoothed
of its wrinkles, and order will take
the place of disorder, and you will sit
down in your new home seriously to
contemplate.
Reverses Of Fortune.
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 l., 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. I
have known people enjoy a small heay-
en- In two rooms and other suffer a
pandemonium in twenty. There is as
much happiness in a small house as in
a large house. There is as much sat-
isfaction under the light of a tallOW