Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-04

drays and the trucks. IL will be hard
day for horses. because they will be
overloaded; IL will be a hard day for
laborcrS. for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
house TO another; IL will DC hard day
for housekeepers To see their furniture
scratched. and their crockery broken.
and their carpets misfit. and their fur
niture dashed of the sudden showers;
il will be hard day for landlords: il
will be q 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 LIST 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 i'm the
breaking OF the Ten Commandments.
There is no more fearful pass than the
hall of house where two families
meet, one knowing out and the other
moving in! The salutation Is apt to be
more vehement than complimentary.
The grace that will he sufficient for the
lSt of January. and the LIST of Febru-
AIRY, and the LIST OF March. and the 1st
OF April viii not be sufficient for the
LIST of May. Say your prayers ihat
morning if YOU find nothing better 10
krcel down 10y than coal scuttle and
say your prayers 1t night though your
knee comes down on paper of carpet
tacks, You will want supernatural
help If any of you move-help in the
morning to start out Alright on the
days work. help at night TO repent.
There will be enough annoyances 10
make u Nantippe out of a Frances
Ridley HaverSal. | have again and
again been i'm crises of moving day,
and have stood appalled, and amazed
and helpless i'm the shipwreck. taking
as well as 1 could those things that
foated ashore from the breakers, and
l know how TO comfort and how to
warn and how TO encourage the peo-
pie: so preach this practical Mayday
sermon. All these troubles will soon
be gone. and the bruises will heal. and
the stiffened joints will become supple,
and your rufiled temper will be smooth
ed of its wrinkles. and order will take
the place of disorder, and you will sit
down in your new home.
The New House.
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. Do
not. because your new house has two
more stories than the old one. add two
stories TO your vanity or make your
brightly polished silver doorplate the
coffin plate to your buried humility
Many persons moving into n larger
house have become arrogant and su-
perciliouS. They swagger where once
they walked: they shipper where once
they laughed; they 20 about with an
air which seems TO say, Let all small
er craft get out Of these waters IL they
don't want TO bc run over 10y a regular
Cunardcr." | 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
house than they became n gloritied
nuisance. They were the terror OF dry
goods clerks and the amazement of
terryboats into which they swept and.
If compelled TO stand n moment. with
condemnatory glance turning all the
people seated into criminals and con-
victs. They began TO hunt up the fam
lily coat OF arms and had lion couchant
or unicorn rampant on the carriage
door when. IL they had the appropriate
coat OF arms. IL would have been n
butter tirkin. or shoe last. or n plow.
or trowel Instead OF being like all
the rest OF us. made out OF dust they
would have you think that they were
tricklcd out OF heaven on n lump of
loaf sugar The first thing you know
Of them the father will fail in business
and the daughter will run or with a
French dancing master. A woman
spoiled by finer house Is bad enough.
but man so upset is sickening The
lavcndered foot goes around so dainty
and SO precise and so affected In the
roll OF his eyes. or the whlrl OF his
cane. or the clicking OF the ivory han
die against his front teeth. or his CT
Terminate languor. and his conversation
so interiarded with "oh'sr and "Ah'sr'
that he is 10 me dose OF ipecacuanha.
Now, my friends. If you move into n
larger house thank God for more room
FOR more room To hang your pictures,
Tor more room In which 10 gather your
friends, for more room In which TO Lot
your children romp and play, for more
room for great bookcases filed with
good reading or wealth OF bric-a-brac.
Have as large and as fine n house as
you can afford TO have, but do not sac
rince 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 IN
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
or plate and costly surround.
ings. At half past o'clock in the
morning the proprietor OF the estate
had the bell rung, and some 20 or so
nanservants and mnidservants came
In to prayers. The proprietor of the es-
tate read the Scriptures, gave out the
hymn, his daughter ut the organ start
eel 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 n
man as that with large estate. He
knows how TO abound. He trusted
God. and God trusted him. And /
could call off the roll OF 90 merchant
princes as mighty for God as they are
mighty in worldly successes. All, nv
friends. do not be puffed up by any OF
The successes Of this life; do not be
spoiled by the number of liveried
coachmen that may stop at your door
Or the sweep OF the long trail across
the imported tapestry! Many of those
who come TO your house are fawning
parasites. They are not so much in
love with you as they are in love with
your house and your successes. You
move down next year to 800 Low Wa
ter Mark street and see how many of
their carriages will halt at your doorl
Timon of Athens was wealthy lord
and all the mighty men and women OF
the land came and sat at his BANQUET
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