The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-05-05

the drsys aud the trucks. 1t will be =
q hard day for h0rses, because they :
will be overloaded. IL will be q hard !
day for laborers, for they will oVerlift l
before they get she family furture
from one house to another. IL wall :
be a hard day for housekeepers to see
their furniture scratched, and their
crockery broken. and their carpets
misht, and their furniture dashed Of
the sudden showers. 1t will be a hard
day for landlords. IL will be a hard
day for tenants. Especial grace 10
needed for moving day. Many a a .
religion has suffered a fearful strain
between the hour on the morning OF
the lst Of May, when he took his i'm
mature breakfast, and the hour ut
night when he rolled into his extempo-
rized couch. The furniture brokea
sometimes will result in the breaking
of the Ten Commandments. There il
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 ve-
hement than complimentary. The
grace that will be sufficient for the
list OF January and the Ist OF Febru-
airy and the lst Of March and the Is:
Of April win not be sufficient for the
LIST Of May. Say your prayers that
morning IL you hnd nothing better
to kneel down by than o coal scutte.
and say your prayers at night though
your knees come down on q paper of
carpet tacks. You will want super
natural help il any of you move. Help
in the morning to start out Alright on
the days work, Help at night to re-
pent. There will be enough annoy
ances to make a Xantippe out Of a
Frances Ridley Hsvergal. l have again
and again been in crises Of moving
day. and l have stood appalled, aud
amazed and helpless in the shipwreck,
taking as well as l could those things
that 1oated ashore from the break
ers, and | know how to comfort aud
how to warn and how to encourage
the people, so ! preach this practical
May day sermon All these troubles
will soon be gon aud the bruises
will heal, and the stiffened joints will
become supple, and your rufied tenn
per will be smoothed Of its wrinkles,
and order will take the place Of dis
order, and you will sit down in your
new home seriously to contemplate.
Ny first word, then. in this part Of
my discourse Is TO all those who move
out of small houses into larger ones.
Now W. 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 10 your vanity or
make your brightly polished silver
doorplate the coffin plate to your
buried humility. Many persons NOV
ing into q larger house nave become
arrogant and supercilious. They
swagger where once they walked.
they simper where once they laughed,
they go about with an air which
SEEM 10 say: "Let all smaller craft
get out Of these waters II they dom,
want TO be run over by a regular Gu
harder" l have known people who
were kind and amiable and Christian
in their smaller house-no sooner did
they go over the doorsiI Of the ne~
house than they became q giorihed
nuisance. They were the terror Of
dry goods clerks and the amazement
of ferrybosts into which they swept
and II compelled to stand a moment
with condemnstory glance turning
a all the people seated into criminals
and convicts. They began to hunt W
!. the family coat Of arms. and had lior
2 couchant or unicorn rampant on th'
e carriage door; when, II they had thu
appropriate coat Of arms, 1t woult
have been a butter frkin or a sho'
Is last or a pillow or a troweL InStea,
OF being like all the rest Of us, mad
out OF dust, they would have yoI
r think that they were trickled out .
Heaven on a lump Of loaf sugar. Tn
first thing you know Of them. tn
father will fail in business, and III
II daughter will run of with Q Frencl
dancing master. A woman spoiled b
a . hner house 10 bad enough. but
man 90 upset is slckening. The lsVeu
II dered fool goes around so dainty an
10 so pre- else and 40 affected in the ro'
If Of his eyes or the whiri OF his cane o
is the clicking Of the ivory hand
h again 81 his front teeth or his eftem
nate langhOr. and his conversations q
OF intsIiarded with 'oh's" aud "ah'i
rs that he is TO me Q dose Of ipeeae'
n anna. Now, my friends, IL you mo'
m into Il larger house, thank God II
IN mora noom-for more to bar
ty your pktures, for more room In whis
It. TO gather your friends, for o roo
in which TO let your children ron
C. and play, for more room for gre
he bookcases allied with good reading
M wea It'll Of bric-a-brac. Have as lart
on and as fine a house as you can snoI
en- to II ave, but do not sacrifice your b
he milRty and your common sense;
GU not lose your balance; do not
ID. spoiled by your successes.
no Years ago We were the guests In
m English manor. The stAtuary, 3
bis ferpsries, the botanical and hortisl
at turzl genius Of the place had done
lot they could TO make the place ~sttraett'
we For generations there had been
an amasring Of plate and costly surrouI
ings. At half past nine o'clock In I
.si. morning the proprietor Of the estS
is. had rbe bell rupg, and some 20 or
A. mansarNants and maidssrvsnts came
TO prayers. The proprietor OF I
all estate read the Scriptures, gave out I
lie. hymn. his daughter at the organ sta
md ed the music, and then, the music ov
nd. the proprietor OF the estate knee
n down ausi commented all his guests,
his family. all his employees, to the L.
vas Almighty. God can trust such . N
en-. a. that with a large estate. He kno
IN how TO abound. He trusted God,
nto God trunted him. And l could call
ms. the roll Of ~ merchant princes
me mighty in worldly successes. All.
the friends, do not be puied up by any
hey the AucceAtth OF thlb we. 10 nut
m. spoiled by the number Of Inverted Goa
lied men that may stop at your door or
sweep Of the long trail across the
tisl ported tapestry. Many Of those '
or come to your house are fswning pa
not sites. They are not so much In
2 in with you 81 they are in love With y
lar. house and your successes. You N
down next year 70 $50 Low Water N
,ipg street and see how many Of their
risgss will halt at your door.
had / meet you this sphng,ime At
,yer. door Of your new home, aud viii
be. help you lift the elothet basket {
oc. the oanDters aud the carmen IL get
IAN. red in the face In trying to trahsI
is or that article of furniture to some
rect. destination I congratulate you.
n are going to have a better time