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

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manservants and maidseryants came IL
to prayers. The proprietor of thu
estate read the Scriptures, gave out thu
| hymn, his daughter at the organ start
ed the music, and then, the music over
| the proprietor of the estate kneeleC
down and commended all his guests, all
his family, all his employees, to the Lord
Almighty. God can trust such man
as that with large estate. He knows
how to abound. He trusted God, and
God trusted him. And | could call off
the roll of so merchant princes as
mighty in worldly successes. All, my
friends, do not be pulled up by any OF
the successes of this life. do not be
spoiled by the number of liveried coach
men that may stop at your door or the
sweep of the long trail across the Inn
ported tapestry. Many of those who
come to your house are fawning para
sites. They are not so much in love
with you as they are in love with your
house and your successes. You move
down next year to 800 Low Water Mark
street and see how many of their car
riages will halt at your door.
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 bailff 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 to enjoy small heaven
in two rooms and others suffer pande-
monium in 20. There is as much hap
piness in a small house as in large
house. There is as much satisfaction
under the light of tallow candle as UNI
der the glare of a chandelier. all the
burners at full blaze. Who was the
happier, John Bunyan. in Bedford jail,
or Belshazzar, in the saturnalia? Con-
tentment is something you can neither
rent nor purchase. 1t is not exc
trinsic; 1t is intrinsic. Are there fewer
rooms in the house to which you move?
You will have less to take care of. Is
it to be stove instead of furnace? All
the doctors say the modern modes of
warming buildings are unhealthy. Is
t less pier mirrors? Less temptation
20 your vanity. Is it old-fashioned toi-
ct instead of water pipes all through
he house? Less to freeze and burst |
when you cannot get plumber. Is it |
css carriage? More room for robust |
exercise. Is it less social position? |
Few people want to drag you down by
heir jealousies. Is it less fortune to
cave in your last will and testament?
less to spoil your children. Is it less
money for marketing? Less tempta-
ion to ruin the health of your family
With pineapples and indigestible salads.
S it little deaf? Not hearing so many
l meet you this springtime at the
Ioor of your new home, and while |
elp you lift the clothes basket over
he banisters and the carman is getting
ed in the face in trying to transport
hat article of furniture to some new
estimation | congratulate you. You
re going to have better time this
ear, some of you, than you ever had.
ou take God and the Christian reli-
ion in your home, and you will be
randy happy. God in the parlor-
lat will sanctify your sociabilities.
cd in the nursery-that will protect
our children. God in the dining hall
nat will make the plainest meal an
nperial banquet. God in the MORN
lg-that will launch the day brightly
ON the drydocks. God in the even
lg-that will sail the day sweetly into
lie harbor.
And get joy, one and all of you,
neither you move or do not move.
ct joy out of the thought that we
e soon all going to have great NOV
g day. Do you want a picture of /,
lie new house into which you will
owe? Here it is, wrought with the
and of master: 1--WE know that, if =.
IL earthly house of this tabernacle
ere dissolved, we have building Of :
cd, a house not made with hands, -.
ernal in the heavens" How much
mt will we have to pay for it? We
e going to own it. How much must
e pay for it? How much cash down, !,
I'd how much left on mortgage? Our
lther is going to give it as free gift.
hen are we going to move into it?
e are moving now. On moving day
ads of families are very apt to stay t.
the old house until they have seen v
erything off. They send ahead the S
ildren, and they send ahead the a
easures and the valuables. Then, aft b
awhile, they will come themselves. O
very we'll in the country n
at in boyhood moving day was a
bilation. u
On almost the first load we, the chill o
en-, were sent on ahead to the new 81
use, and we arrived with shout and S,
lighter, and in an hour we had ranged r,
rough every room in the house, the #
IN and the granary. Toward night, is
d perhaps in the last wagon, father d.
d mother would come, looking very Ell
ed, and we would come down to the D.
1T of the lane to meet them and tell H
I'm of all the wonders we discovered III
the new place, and then, the last W
gon unloaded, the candles lighted, h,
r neighbors, who had helped us to A
've-for in those times neigh bors 81
ped each other-sat down with us hi
table on which there was every tt
Jury they could think of. Well. my bl
If Lord knows that some of us have 81
N moving a good while. We have 81
It our children ahead, we have sent Y
ny of our valuables ahead. We can
go yet. There is work for us to
but after awhile it will be toward as
hit, and we will be very tired, and TO
n we will start for our new home,