Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-24
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being like all the rest OF US, made out OF
dust, they would have you think that they
were trickled out OF heaven on a lump OF
loaf sugar. The first thing you know OF
them the father will fail in business and
the daughter will run Off with n French
dancing master. woman spoiled by u
finer house is bad enough, but man SO
upset Is sickening.
But must have q word with those who
In this Mayday time move out of larger res
licences into smaller. Sometimes the pa
thettc reason Is that the family has
dwindted in size, and 80 much room Is not
required, so they move out into small
apartments. know there are such cases.
Marriage has takon some OF the members
OF the family, death has taken other mem.
bers OF the family, and after awhile father
and mother wake up TO lnd their family
lust the size 1t was when they started, and
they would bo lonesome and lost In n large
house; hence they move out OF 1t. Moving
day is great sadness to such II they have
the law of association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ
enr members OF the family. suppose
1t IS so IN oil your households. 1t is SC
In mine. We name the rooms after the
persons who occupy them. And then
there Is the dining hall where the festivi-
ties took place, the holiday festivities; there
is the sitting room where the family met
night after night, and there is the room sa.
cred because there Il life started or life
stopped--the Alpha and tho Omega OF
some earthly existence. Scene OF meeting
and parting, OF congratulntion and heart.
break, every doorknob, every fresco, eyery
mantel, every threshold, meaning more to
you than 1t can ever mean to any one else
When moving out OF house, have always
been In the habit, after everything was
gone, Of going into each room and bidding
it n mute farewell There will be tears
running down many cheeks in the May.
ttmo moving that the carmen will not be
able to understand. II Is u solemn and
touching and an overwhelming thing
to leave places forever-places where we
have struggled and toilcd and wcpt and
sung aud prayed and anHiously watched
and agonized. Oh, life is such strange
mixture of honey and of gall, weddings
and buriais. mdnoon and midnight
clnshing! Every home lighthouse
tumble. Thank God that sucl chuuce:
arc not always going to continue; other.
wise tho nerves would give out and the
brain would founder on dementa like
that of King Lear when his daughter
Corde!ia came to medicine his domestic
calamity.
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 Is 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. / have known people enjoy
small heaven in two rooms and others suf-
fer u pandemonium in twenty. There is
rs much happiness In n small house AS In q
large house. There Is as much satisfaction
under the light of tallow candle as under
the glare of a chandelier, all the burners at
full blaze. Who was the happier--John
Bunyen in Bedford jail or Delshazzer in
the saturnalia? Contentment is something
you can neither rent nor purchase. 1t is not
extrinsic; 1t is intrinsic. Are there fewer
rooms in tho house to which you move?
You will have less to take care OF. Is it
to be stove instead of furnace? All tho
doctors say the modern modes Of warming
buildings arc unhealthy. Is it less mir
rors? Less temptation to your vanity. IL
it old fashioned toilet Instead of water
and burst when you cannot get a plumber.
Is it less carriage? More room for robust
exercise. Is 1t less social position? Fewer
people who want to drag you down by
their jealousies. Is 1t less fortune to leave
in your last will ana testament? Less to
spoil your children. Is it less money for
the marketing? Less temptation to ruin
the health of your family with pineappes
and indigestible salads. Is 1t a little deaf?
Not hearing 50 many disagreeables.
meet you this springtine at the door OF
your new home, and while help you lift
the clothesbasket over the banisters and
the carman is getting red In the face try
ing to transport that article OF furniture
to some new destination I congratulate
you. You are going to have better time
this year, some OF you, than you ever had.
You take God and the Christian religion In
your home and you will be grandly happy.
God in the parlor-that will sanctify your
sociablties; God in the nursery-that will
protect your children: God in the dining.
hall-thut will make the plainest meal an
I'M ri n hn In ho rt,fr
that will launch the day brightly from the
drydocks; God in the evenlng-ttat will
sail the day sweetly into the harbor.
And get joy, one and all OF you, whether
you move or DO not move; get JOY out OF
the thought that we are soon ali going to
have grand moving day. Do you want a
picture of the new house into which you
will move? Here 1t is, wrought with the
hand OF master: ''We know that, il our
earthly house of this tabernacle we're dis.
solved, we have building of God, II
house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens" How much rent will we
have to pay for iti We are going to
own it. How much must we pay for
it? How much, cash down, and how
much left OF mortgage? Our father is
we gcing to move into it? We are moving
now. On moving day heads of families
are very apt to stay in the old house until
they have seen everything of. They send
ahead the children, and they send ahead
the treasures and the valuables. Then
after awhile they will come themselves.
I remember very well in the country that
In boyhood moving day was jubiation.
On almost the first load we the children,
were sent on ahead to tue now house, and
We arrived with shout and laughter, and
In an hour we had ranged through every
room in the house, the barn and the gran.
ary. Toward night, and perhaps in the
last wagon, father aud mother would come,
looking very tired, and We would come
down to the foot OF the lane to meet
them and tell them of all the wonders
We discovered in the new place, and
then, the last wagon unloaded, can
iles lighted, our neighbors who had
helped US to move-for In those times
neighbors helped each other-sat down
with US at table on which there was
every luxury they could think Of. Well,
NY denr Lord knows that some OF us
have been moving good while. We
nave sent our children ahead. We have sent
many OF our valuables ahead, sent many
ahead. We cannot so yet There
8 work for US to do, but after awhile 1t will
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