The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-05-10
). REV. DR.. TALMAGE
Z DISCOURSE EY ~HE EMINENT d.
VINE LAST SUNDAY
Subject: Our Fathers House - a Lesson
of Pat1ence-An Impressive Warning
Against Being Puffed Up With Tran
eiiory Earthly Grandeur.
Copyright 1901


DR. Talmage is pertinent at this time Of
year, when many people are moving from
house to house, and it teaches lessons Of
patience and equipose in very trying cir
cumstances; text, Philippians w., II, Il
know both now to be abused, and l know
how to abound"
Happy PAUL. Could you really accom-
modate yourself to all circumstances in
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 n 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 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 troy
lodytes are a race which to this day pre-
fer the caverns to a house. They are warm;
they are large; they are very comfortable
they are less subject 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 u home built out OF
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
mats on the floor.
Time passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to brild a house,
which was space surrounded by broad
stones. against which the earth was heaped
from the outside. The roof was made Of
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 odern chin
ney was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings in their houses from which
the smoke might escape II it preferred, but
there was no inducement offered for it to
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 it. There being no windows the
people were dependent for light upon lat
tcework, over which thin veil was drawn
down in time OF winter to keep out the ele'
ments. Window glass was, so late as 200
or 800 years ago, in England and Scotland
80 great a luxury that only the very wealth
lest could afford it. A hand mill and an
-6yen and o 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 born in and 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
flnd a man who lives in house where 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. 1 have
not been more perambulatory than NEST
people, but was amazed when came to
count up the number of residences have
occupied. The fact is there is in this
world no such thing as permanent resi-
dence.
In Il private vehicle, and not in a rail
~ from which you can see but little,
10 from New York to Yonkers and Tar
.cFvn on the banks OF the Hudson, the
est ride on the planet for a man who
ats to see palatial residences in fasci-
ing scenery. 1t was in the early spring
.nd before the gentlemen of New York
had gone out to their country residences.
rode into the grounds to admire the
gardens, and the overse er OF the place
told me--and they all told me-that
all the houses had been sold or chat
they wanted to sell them, and there
was literally no exception, although
called at many places, just admiring the
gardens and grounds and 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
summer time in those places while their
husbands tarrled 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 oc-
Cured, and all those palaces and mansions
either changed occupants or wanted
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