The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-05

, been shaken out by chills and fever
from some houses they had gone be
cause death or misfortune had oC
CURED, and all those palaces and man
sions had either changed occupants o
{ wanted to change. Take up the direct
DRY OF any city of England or Amer
lea and see how few people live wher
they lived Is years ago. There is IL,
such thing as permanent residence.
saw Monticello, In Virginia, Presiden
Jeiferson's residence, and | saw on tn,
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and
saw also the white house, which wa.
President Taylor's residence and Pres
ident Lincoln's residence and President
Garfield's residence. Was it perma
nent residence in any case. / tell yoI
that the race is nomadic, and no sooner
gets in one place than it wants tc
change for another place or is com.
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 it was then. Aye, instead of be-
ing nomadic 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 tombstone and
tips us headlong into the grave, the
only permanent earthly residence.
But, bless God, even that stay is lin
tied. for we shall have resurrection.
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 furiture
from one house to another. 1t will
be hard day for housekeepers to see
their furniture scratched, and their
crockery broken, and their carpets
misfit, and their furniture dashed of
the sudden showers. 1t will be hard
day for landlords. 1t will be hard
day for tenants. Especial grace is
needed for moving day. Many a man
religion has suffered fearful strain
between the hour on the morning of
the 1st of May, when he took his i'm.
mature breakfast, and the hour at
night when he rolled into his extempo-
rized 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 moving in.
The salutation is apt to be more We
hement than complimentary. The
grace that will be sufficient for the
1st of January and the 1st of Febru-
airy and the 1st of March and the IL
of April will not be sufficient for the
1st of May. Say your prayers that
morning if you find nothing better
to kneel down by than a coal scuttle.
and say your prayers at night though |
your knees come down on a paper of |
carpet tacks. You will want SUPER
natural help if any of you move. Help |
in the morning to start out Alright Oil |
the days work. Help at night to re.
pent. There will be enough annoy
ances to make Xantippe out of a
Frances Ridley Havergal. have again
and again been in crises of moving
day. and 1 have stood appalled, and
and helpless in the shipwreck,
taking as well as / could those things
that fioated ashore from the break
ers, and | know how to comfort and
how to warn and how to encourage
the people, SO l preach this practical
n In a 4,,1, III |
will soon be gone, and the bruises
will heal, and the stiffened joints will
become supple, and your ruff1ed tenn
per will be smoothed of it's wrinkles.
and order will take the place of dis
order, and you will sit down in your
new home seriously to contemplate.
My first word, then, in this part of
my discourse is to all those who move
)ut 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
i'd two stories to your vanity or
make your brightly polished silver
loorplate the coffin plate to your
buried humility. Many persons NOV
ng into larger house nave become
rrogant and supercilious. They
wager where once they walked.
hey shipper where once they laughed.
hey go about with an air which
GEMS to say: "Let all smaller craft
'et out of these waters if they don't
want to be run over by regular Gu
larder." l have known people who
we're kind and anna BILE and Christian
n their smaller house-no sooner did
hey go over the doorsill of the new J
ouse than they became a glorified
uiSance. They were the terror of 9
ry goods clerks and the amazement
f ferryboats into which they swept,
nd if compelled to stand moment
18th condemnatory glance turning
Il the people seated into criminals q
nd convicts. They began to hunt up 2
he family coat of arms, and had lion I
ouchant or unicorn rampant on the
arriage door; when, if they had the l
ppropriate coat of arms, it would Il
ave been a butter firllin or a shoe v
Ist or a pillow or a trowel Instead o
being like all the rest of us, made d
ut of dust, they would have you n
link that they were trickled out Of a
eaven on lump of loaf sugar. The !! !,
rst thing you know of them. the d
lther will fail in business, and the D
aughter will run off with a French 81
ancing master. A woman spoiled by II
L = |
an so upset is sickening. The laven- q
cred fool goes around so dainty and n
} precise and so affected in the roll u