The Yale expositor., 1900-05-04

| that they wanted to sell them, and
there was literally no exception, al
though / called at many places. just
sdmiring the gardens and the grounds
and the palatial residences. Some
wanted to sell or had sold 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.
Change or Residence.
From some houses the people had
| been shaken out by chills and fever,
from some houses they had gone be-
cause death or misfortune had occur
red, and all those palaces and man
sions had either changed occupants or
wanted to change. Take up the direc-
tory of any city of England or Ameri-
ca and see how few people live where
they lived 15 years ago. There is no
such thing as permanent residence.
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jeffersons residence. and saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
| Madison's or Monroe's residence, and
| saw also the white house, which was
! President Taylor's residence, and Pres
| ident Lincoln's residence and President
Garfield's residence. Was it a perma-
nent residence in any case? | tell you
that the race is nomadic and no soon
er gets in one place than it wants to
change for another place or is COM
PEELED to change for another place, and
so the race invented the railroad 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 immoral. moving
on and moving on. We whip up our
horses and hasten on until the hub of
| the front wheel shvers on the tomb
stone and tips us headlong into the
grave, the only permanent earthly res
idence. But. bless God. even that stay
is limited, for we shall have a resur-
rection.
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. 1t will be a hard day for
laborers, for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
house to another. 1t will be hard day
for housekeepers to see their furniture
scratched, and the crockery broken,
and their carpets misfit, and their fur
niture dashed of the sudden showers.
1t will be hard day for landlords. 1t
will be a hard day for tenants. Espe-
cial grace is needed for moving day.
Many mans religion has suffered a
fearful strain between the hour on the
morning of the 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.
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 more vehement than compliment
tary. The grace that will be sufficient
for the first of January and the first
of February and the first of March
and the first of April will not be suffi-
cient for the first of May. Say your
prayers that morning If you find moth
ing better to kneel down by than a
coal scuttle, and say your prayers at
night though your knee comes down
on a paper of carpet tacks. You viii
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 of annoyance to make a Kan
tippe out Of Frances Ridley Haver-
gal. have again and again been in
crises of moving day, and l have
stood appalled, and amazed and help
less in the shipwreck, taking as well
as could those things that floated
ashore from the breakers, and l know
how to comfort and how to warn, and
how to encourage the people, so
preach this practical May day sermon.
All these troubles will soon be gone,
and the bruises will heal. and the stiff
fened joints will become supple, and
your rufiled temper will be smoothed
of its wrinkles, and order will take
the place of disorder, and you will sit
down in your new home seriously to
contemplate.
Keverses of Fortune.
But there are others who will move
out of large residences into smaller
through the reversal of fortune. The
property must be sold or the bailiff
will sell it, or the income is less and
you cannot pay the house rent. First
of all, such persons should understand
that our happiness is not dependent
on the size of the house we live in. l
have known people enjoy a small heav-
en- in two rooms and other suffer a
pandemonium in twenty. There is as
much happiness in a small house as in
a large house. There is as much sat
isfaction under the light of tallow
candle as under the glare OF chandc-
lier, all the burners at full blaze. Who
was the happier John Bunyan in Bed
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