The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-05-05
LESSONS OF MOVING.
DR.. Talmage breaches a Timely
Sermon.
Discourse in Which the Need of
Patience and EquipOse Is Set
Forth-MOvang Into the
Fathers House.
copyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l

tinent at this time of year, when many
people are moving from house to house,
and it teaches lessons of patience and
equipoise in very trying circumstances.
Text, Philippians, 4:12: 81 know both
how to be abased, and l know how to
abound"
Happy Paul! Could you really &C
commodate yourself to all circum-
stances in life? Could you go up with
out 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 our lives
lived in a house, we do not have full
appreciation of what a house is. 1t is
the growth of thousands Of years.
The human race first lived in clefts OF
rocks, the beasts of the field moving
out of the caverns to let the human
race move in. The shepherds and the
robbers still live in caverns of the earth.
The t~roglodytes are a race which to
this day prefer the caverns to a house.
They are warm, they are large, they
are very comfortable, they are less sub
ject to violent changes of heat and cold.
w 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, ana 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 to sit on.
Time passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to build a house,
which was aspace 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-
gether. After awhile the porch was
born, after awhile the gate. Then hun
dreds of years passed on, and in the
fourteenth century the modern CHM
ney was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings in their houses from
which the smoke might escapeif it pre-
ferred, but there was no inducement
for it to leave until the modern CHM
ney. Wooden keys opened the door, or
the keyhole was large enough to allow
the finger to be inserted for the lift
ing of the latch or the sliding of 1t.
There being no windows, the people
were dependent for light upon lattice
work, over which a thin veil was drawn
down in time of winter to keep out the
elements. Window glass was, so late
as 200 or 800 years ago, in England and
Scotland so great a luxury that only
the very wealthiest could afford it. y
hand mill and an oven and a few
aeathern 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 muskrats
in the earth. st. Sophia's, of Constan-
tinople. St. Marks, of Venice; st
Peters, of Rome, are only the
Raphaeled walls against which lean the
squalor and the pauperism OF many ma
tons. | rejoice that, while Il mod
ern architects give us grand capitols
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 thei1
time to the planning of comfortable
abodes for our tired population. Ihave
not so much interest in the arch OF
Trajan at Beneventum as l have in the
wish that all the people may have q
comfortable shelter, nor have l sc
much interest in the temple of Jupiter
Olympus at Athens as | have in the
hope that every mar may have an altar
for the worship of the true God in his
own house. And l have not so much
interest in the science of ceramics
which goes crazy over a twisted vase, OF
a queer handled jug in use 1000 years
ago, or a pitcher out of which the an
cient pharaohs poured their drunken
debauch, as l have that every mai
have on his table a plate with plenty
of Eealthful food and an appetite to at
tack it.
Thank God for your home-not mere
ly the house you live in now, but TIL
house you were born in and the man,
houses you have resided in since yol
began your earthly residence. Whe1
you go home to-day, count over tn
number of those houses in which you
have resided, and you will be surprised
Once in awhile you will find a man VIII
lives in the house where he was borI
and where his father was born and hi
grandfather was born and his great
grandfather was born, but that is no
one out of a thousand cases. / hav,
not been more perambulatory thar
most people. but / was amazed when