Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-05-04
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DrvINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.


Subject: Our Fathers House - A Lesson
OF Paticnce-An Impressive Warming
Against Being Puffed Up With Tran.
STORY Earthly Grandeur.
copyright 1901
WASHINGTON, d. G. - This discourse oil
DR.. Talmage is pertinent at this time OF
year, when many people are moving from
house to house. and it teaches lessons oil
patience and equipoise In very trying cir.
cumstances, text, Philippians w., II, 81
know both how to be abased, and / know
how to abound"
Happy PAUL. Could you roally accom-.
modate yourself to all circumstances 10
life? Could you go up without pride, and
could you come down without exaspera.
ton? Teach the same lesson to us all.
We are at a season OF the year when vast
populations in all our cities are changing
residence. Having been born In house
and having all our lives lived in house.
we do not have full appreciation Of what q
house is. 1t is the growth of thousands OF
years. The human race first lived in clefts
of rocks, the beasts OF tho field moving
out OF the caverns to let the human race
move in The shepherds and the robbers
still! live in caverns Of the Garth. The frog
lodytes are race which to this day pre-
fer the caverns to house. They are warm
they are large; they are very comfortable
they are less subject to violent changes oil
heat and cold. We come on along down In
the history OF the race, and we come to the
lodge, which was u home built out oil
twisted tree branches; we come farther on
down in the history Of the race, and we
come to the tent, which was home built
with round pole In the centre and skins
Of animals reaching GU. In all directions,
mats on the floor.
Time passed on and the world after
much invention, came to build a house,
which was a space surrounded by broad
stones. against which the earth was heaped
from the outside. The roof was made oil
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 IL 1t preferred, but
there was no inducement offered for 1t tc
leave until the modern chimney. Wooden
KEYS opened the door, or the keyhole was
large enough to allow the finger to be In
serted for the lifting Of the latch or the
sliding OF 1t. There being no windows the
people were dependent for light upon lat
ticework, over which thin veil was drawn
down in time of winter to keep out the ele'
ments. Window glass was, go late as 2O1
or 800 years ago, in England and Scotland
so great luxury that only the very wealth
lest could afford 1t. hand mill and an
oven and few leathern bottles and some
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 the house
you were horn in aud the many houses you
have resided in since you began your
earthly residence. When you go 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 III house whore 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 / was amazed when came to
count up the number OF residences l have
occupied. The fact is there Is In this
world no such thing as permanent resi-
dence.
In private vehicle, and not in rail
ear, from which you can see but little,
| rode from New York to Yonkers and Tar.
rytoWn, on the banks OF the Hudson, the
wants to see palatial residences In fascl.
Mating scenery. 1t was In the early spring
and before the gentlemen OF New York
had gone out TO their country residences.
I rode into the grounds to admire the
gardens, and the overse er OF the place
told me-and they all told me-that
nil the houses had been sold or that
they wanted to sell them, and there
was literally no exception, although
called at many places. just admiring the
gardens and grounds aud 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
GUNNER time in those places while their
husbands tarried In town in the night,
always having some business on hand
keeping them away. From some houses
the people had been shaken out by chills
and fever, from some houses they had
gone because death or misfortune had &C.
Cured, aud all those palaces and mansions
had either changed occupants or wanted
10 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.
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefrerson's residence, and l saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and
saw also the White House, which was
President Taylor's residence and President
Lincoln's residence and President Gar
fields residence. Was 1t a permanent
residence In any case? tell you that the
race is nomadic and no sooner gets In one
place than it wants to change for another
place or is compelled to change for another
place, and so the race invented the rail.
road 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, 1t is i'm.
mortal, 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 residence.
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 fur.
niture from enc house to another; 1t will
BE q 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; II
will be a hard day for landlords; 1t will be
u hard day for tenants.
Especial grace Is needed for moving day
Many mans religion has suffered fear
full strain between the hour on the morn
ing 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 ofthe Ten Commandments
MY first word, then, in this part OF my
discourse 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 your vanity or make your bright
ly polished silver doorplate the coffin plate