Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-24
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
5uMDAY's DISCOURSE eY THE NOTED
DIVINE
Subject: Our Fathers nouse "A Lesson
of Patience-An Impre ssive Warning
Against Being Pulled up With Tram
STORY Earthly Grandeur.
copyright laOU.l

tCopyright 1901
WASHINGTON, D. @. - This discourse OF
DR.. Tnlinage Is pertinent at this time of
year, when many people are moving from
house to house, and 1t teaches lessons OF
patience and equipoise in very trying cir
cumstances; text, philippians w.. 12, IT
know both how to be abased, aud know
low to abound"
Happy Paul! Could you really accom-
modate yourself to all circumstances in
life? Could you go up without pride, and
couhi you come down without exaspe:a-
tion? Teach the same lesson to us ali.
We are at 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 a house,
wo do not have full appreciation of what u
house Is. 1t Is the growth OF thousands OF
years. The human race first lived in clefts
OF rocks, the BEASTS OF the fieldi moving
out OF the caverns to let the human raco
move In. The shepherds and the robbers
still! live In caverns OF the earth. The troy
lodytes are race (which to lthis day pre-
Ter the caverns to house. They are warm;
they are large; they are very comfortable;
they are less subject. to violent changes Of
nent and cold. We come on along down in
the history Of the race, and we come to the
lodge. which was II home built out Of
twisted tree branches; we como farther on
down in the history OF the race, and we
come to the tent, which was n homo built
with II round pole in the centre and skins
OF animals reaching out in all directions,
mats on the floor.
Timo passed on, and the world, afler
much invention, came to build IL house,
which was space surrounded by broad
| stones, against which the earth was heeped
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 tho gate.
Then hundreds OF years passed Oh. ana IN
| hp ~ i, k,1r nt,;
ney was constructed. The old hebrews
had openings in their houses from which
the smoke might escape IL 1t preferred, but
there was no inducement offered for IL to
leave until tho modern chimney. Wooden
keys opened the door, or the keyhole was
large enough to allow the fnger 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
ticework, 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
| so great luxury that only the very wealth.
lest could afford it. A hand mill and an
oven and o few leathern bottles and some
! rude pitchers and plates made up the ell.
tire equipment ofthe culinary department.
Thank God for your homo, not N erely
| 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
to-day, count over the number of those
| houses in which you have resided, and you
! will be surprised. Once in awhile you will
| find Il man who lives In house where he
was born and where his father was born
| and his grandfather was born and his
| great-graudfather was born, but that is
not one out OF u thousand cases. I have
| not been more perambulatory than most
| 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-
denee.
In q private vehicle, and not In rail
car, from which you can see bur little,
i rodo from New York to Yonkers and Tar
rytowp, on the banks Of the Hudson, the
finest ride on the planet for man who
wants to see palatial residences in fasci-
mating scenery. 1t was in the early spring
and before the gentlemen of New York
had gone out to their country residences.
i 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 shat
they wanted to sell them, and there
was literally no exception, although
l called ut 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 tarried 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
had either changed occupants or wanted
to change.
Take up the directory Of any city of
England or America and see how few
people live where they lived fifteen years
ago. There is no such thing rs permanent
residence.
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson's residence, and l saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and I
saw also the White House, which was
President Taylor's residence and President
Lincoln's residence aud President GAR
fields residence. Was 1t n permanent
residence in any case? tell YOU that the
race is nomadic and no sooner gets In one
plac e than 1t wants to change for another
place or is compelled to change for another
place, and so the race invented the rail-
road and the steamboat in order more
rapidly to get into some other place than
that in which it was then.
Aye, instead OF being nomadic, it is i'm
mortal, moving on and moving on! We
whip up our horses and hasten on until the
hub OF the front wheel shivers ON the tom b.
stone and tips US headlong into the grave,
A day this spring the streets will be filed
with the furniture carts and the drays and
the trucks. 1t will be hard day for
horses, because they will be overloaded; it |
will be u hard day for laborers, for they
will overlift before they get the family fur
niture from one house to another; 1t will |
be hard day for housekeepers to see their |
furniture scratched, and their crockery |
broken, and their carpets misft, and their |
furniture dashed OF the sudden showers; it |
will be hard day for landlords; it will be |
hard day for tenants.
Especial grace Is needed for moving day. |
Many a mans religion has suffered u fear |
full strain between the hour on the morn
ing ofthe first 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.
My first word, then. In this part of my
discourse is to all those who move out OF
small houses into larger ones. Now, we
will see whether, like the apostle. you know
how to abound.