The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-05-05
LESSONS OF MOVING.
Dr.. Talmage Preachtj q Timely
Ssrmon.
pIsoourse In which the Need Of
Patience and EauipOse IL set
FOrth-MOVInE late h
Fathers House.
[Copyrisht. 1870. by Louis Klopsch-l
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Fathers House,
[Copyrisht. 100 by Louis Klapsch-l
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This scou OF DR.. Talmage is per-
tineut at this time Of year, when many
people are moving from house to house,
and it teaches lessons of patience and
eauipoise in very try ing circumstances.
Text, Philippians, 4;l2; Il know both
how TO be abased, and | know how 10
abound
Happy Paull Could you really se-
commodste yourself to ali cireum-
stances in life? Could you 90 up with
on, pride, and could you come down
without evaporation? 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 a house, and having all u lives
lived in a house, we do not have full
appreciation Of what a house is. II is
the growth of thousands Of years.
The human race nrst lived in clefts OF
rocks. the beasts Of the field moving
out Of the eayerns TO let the human
race move in. The shepherds and the
robbers still live in caverns of the earth.
The troglodytes are a race which TO
this day prefer the eaverns to a house.
They are warm. they are large. they
are very comfortable, they are less sub
iect TO violent changes Of heat and cold.
We come on along down In the history
Of the race, and we come to the lodge,
which was a home built out of twisted
tree branches. We come further on
down in the history of the race. and We
come to the tent, which was a home
built with a round pole in the center
and skins of animals reaching out in all
directions. mats on the floor for the
people 10 sit on.
Time passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to build a house.
which was Il space surrounded by broad
stones, against which The earth was
heaped from the outside. The roof
was made Of chalk and gypsum and
Goals and stones and ashes pounded to-
sether. After awhile the porch was
born. after awhile the gate. Then hun
dreds Of years passed on, and in the
fourteenth century the modern chin
ney wal constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings in their houses from
which the smoke mightescapeifit pre-
ferred, but there was no inducement
for II TO leave until the modern Chin
ney. Wooden keys opened the door. or
the keyhole wss large enough to allow
the finger to be inserted for the lift
ing Of the latch or the sliding OF il.
There being no windows, the people
we're dependent for light upon lattice
work. over which q thin veil was drawn
down in time Of winter TO keep out the
elements. Window glass was. so late
as 200 or 400 years ago, in England and
Scotland so great a luxury that only
the very wealthiest could afford IL. A
hand mill and an oven and a few
leathern bottles and some rude pitchers
and plates made up the entire equip
ment Of the culinary department. But
the home planted in the old cave or at
the foot of a tent pole has grown and
enlarged and spread abroad until We
have the modern house, with its
branches and roots and vast girth and
height and depth of comfort and ac-
commodation.
Architecture in other days busted it.
self chiefly in planning and building
triumphal arches and basilicas and
hippodromes and mausoleums and col
umns, while they allowed the people
for residences to burrow like muskrati
in the earth. ST. Sophia's, of Constan
tinople, st. Marks, Of Venice; st
Peters, Of Rome, are only thu
Raphaeled walls against which lean thu
squalor and the pauperism Of many ma
tions. | rejoice that, while our mod
ern architects give us grand capitoli
in which to legislate and grand court
houses in which TO administer justice
and grand churches in which TO wor
ship God, they also give much Of thei
= time to the planning Of comfortabl
Z abodes for our tired population. lhay
not so much interest in the arch o
= Traian at Beneventum as | have in tn
wish that all the people may have
: comfortable shelter, nor have ] s
: much interest in the temple Of Jupite
= Olympus at Athens as | have in tn
hope that every man may have on alta
! for the worship Of the true God in hi
own house. And | have not so mue
= interest in the science OF ceramic
Z which goes crazy over a twisted vase, G
: 8 queer handled jug in use 5000 year
ago, or a pitcher out Of which the al
! cient pharaohs poured their drunke
debauch, as l have that every ma
! have on his table a plate with plent
Z Of healthful food and an appetite 10 a
! tack II.
Thank God for your hOme-not mer
" the house you live In nov, but II
4 house you were born in and the man
houses you have resided in since yC
: began your earthly residence. Wh'
you 20 home to-day. count over Il
number Of those houses in which "
lave resided. and you will be surprise
! Once In awhile you will find a man wi
lives in the house where he was Dol
and where his father wal born and B
grandfather was born and his gree
grandfather was born. but that Is n
n one out OF a thousand cases. | ha
A. not been more perambulatory TIL
most people. but ! was amazed wher
came to count up the number Of N
dencrs / have occupied. The fact
there is in this world no such thing
permanent residence.
In a private vehicle and not In a r
car. from which you can see but lit
rode from New York 10 Nonkers a
Tarrytowu, on the banks Of the Nv
iei son-the finest ride on the planet 70
IaI man who wants 10 see palatisl re
dences IN fascinating scenery. II "
in the early spring and before the g
tlemen Of New York had gone out
their country residences. | rode il
the grounds to admire the garde
and the oyerseer Of the place told
and they all told me-thst all
houses had been sold or that u
D. wanted TO sell them, and there was
i orally no exception, although cal
al many places, just admiring the &
dens and the grounds and the pala'
residences. Some wanted to sell
had sold because their wives did
want TO reside In the summer tim
those places while their husbands
ried in town in the night, always /
ing some business on hand keep
them away.
From some houses the people
been shaken out by chills and fe
- from some houses they had gone
cause death or misfortune had
CURED, and all those palaces and II
sions had either changed occupant
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