Connecticut western news., 1900-05-03

into some other place than that in which it was then. Aye, instead of being nomadic. 1t is immortal, 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 resi- dence.
 Time For Prayer.
 A day this spring the streets will be filled with the furniture carts and the drays and the trucks. It will be hard day for horses, because they will be overloaded; it will be a hard day for laborers, for they will overlift before they get the family furniture from one house to another; it will be hard day for housekeepers to see their furniture scratched, and their crockery broken, and their carpets mistit, and their fur l niture dashed of the sudden showers; it will be q hard day for landlords; it will be hard day for tenants. Espe- cial grace is needed for moving day. Many a mans religion has suffered a fearful strain between the hour on the morning of the 1st 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 of the Ten Commandments. ! There is no more fearful pass than the hall of a house where two families | meet, one moving out and the other moving in! The salutation is apt to be t1n, afNli littlnr 1tGlf The grace that will be sufficient for the 1st of January, and the 1st of Febru- | ary, and the 1st of March, and the 1st of April will not be sufficient for the 1st of May. Say your prayers that morning if you find nothing better to kneel down by than a coal scuttle and | say your prayers at night though your | knee comes down on paper of carpet | tacks! You will want supernatural | help if any of you move-help in the I morning to start out alright on the | days work, help at night to repent. | There will be enough annoyances to | make q Nantippe out of Frances | Ridley Havergal. l have again and again been in crises of moving day, and have stood appalled, and amazed | and helpless in the Shipwreck, taking as well as 1 could those things that | foated ashore from the breakers, and 1 know how to comfort and how to warn and how to encourage the peo- | pie; so I preach this practical Mayday | sermon. All these troubles will soon be gone, and the bruises will heal, and | the' stiffened joints will become supple, | nd un,1,. r,, ffiod topnar will ha SO1optb- ed of its wrinkles, and order will take the place of disorder, and you will sit l down in your new home. | The New House. | My first word, then, in this part of my discourse is to all those who move l out of small houses into larger ones. | Now, we will see whether, like the | apostle, you kIow how to abound. Do not, because your new house has two more stories than the old one, add two l stories to your vanity or make your | brightly polished silver doorplate the | coffin plate to your buried humility. Many persons moving into a larger house have become arrogant and su- | percilious. They swagger where once they walked; they simper where once ] they laughed; they go about with an air which seems to say, Let all small | CT craft get out of these waters if they | don't want to be run over by a regular l Cunarder." I have known people who were kind and amiable and Christian | in their smaller house. No sooner did | they go over the doorsill of the new 1 house than they became a glorified nuisance. They were the terror of dry | goods clerks and the amaZement of | ferryboats into which they swept and. | if compelled to stand a moment. with | condemnatory glance turning all the people seated into criminals and con- l victs. They began to hunt up the fam l fly coat of arms and had lion couchant | or unicorn rampant on the carriage | door when, if they had the appropriate coat of arms, it would have been a butter firkin, or shoe last, or blow, or a trowel. Instead of being like all
 the rest of us, made out of dust, they
 would have you think that they were
 trickled out of heaven on a lump of loaf sugar. The first thing you know
 of them the father will fail in business
 and the daughter will run off with a
 French dancing master. A woman
 spoiled by a finer house is bad enough,
 but man so upset is sickening The | lavendered foot goes around so dainty
 and so precise and so affected in the ] roll of his eyes. or the whirl of his
 cane, or the clicking of the ivory han
 dle against his front teeth, or his eff
 feminate languor, and his conversat ton | int A h,
 that he Is to me dose of ipecacuanha.
 Now, my friends, if you move into a
 larger house thank God for more room for more room to hang your pictures,
 for more room in which to gather your
 friends, for more room in which to let
 your children romp and play, for more
 room for great bookcases filled with
 good reading or wealth of bric-a- -brac.
 Have as large and as fine a house as
 you can afford to have, but do not sac
 rifice your humility and your. common
 sense; do not lose your balance; do not
 be spoiled by your successes.
 Trust In God.
 Years ago we were the guests in an
 English manor The statuary, the fern
 cries, the botanical and horticultural
 genius of the place had done all they
 could do to make the place attractive.
 For generations there has been an
 amassing of plate and costly surround
 ings. At half past 9 o'clock in the
 morning the proprietor of the estate
 had the bell rung, and some 20 or 30
 manservants and maidservants came
 in to prayers. The proprietor of the es-
 tate read the Scriptures, gave out the
 hymn, his daughter at the organ start
 ed the music, and then, the music over,
 the proprietor of the estate kneeled
 down and commended all his guests.
 all his family, all his employees, to the
 Lord Almighty. God can trust such a l man as that with a large estata He