The Leon reporter., 1900-05-03
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Timsly Discourse In which the
Need OF Patience and Equipolse Is
sst Forth-Moving Into the Fathers
House.
ICopyright, 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l
Text, Philippians iv., IL: Il know
both how to be abased, and know
how to abound"
Happy Paul! Could you really ac-
commodate yourself to all circum-
stances in life? Could you go up with
out pride, and could you come down
without evaporation?
We are at season of the year when
vast populations in all our cities are
changing residence. Having been born
In a house. and having all our lives
lived In house. we do not have full
appreciation of what house is. 1t is
the growth of thousands of years. The
human race first lived in clefts of
rocks, beasts Of the field moving out of
the caverns to let the human race
move IN. The shepherds and the rob-
bers still live in caverns of the earth.
The troglodytes are a race which to
this day prefer the caverns to house.
They are warm, they are large they
are very comfortable, they are less SUBJ
1ect to violent changes of heat and
cold. We come on along down in the
history of the race, and we come to
the lodge, which was home built out
OF twisted tree branches. We come
further on down in the history of the
race. and we come to the tent. which
was home built with round pole in
the center, and skins of animals reach
Ing out in all directions. mats on the
hoof for the people to sit on.
Time passed on, and the world. after
much invention, came to build house,
which was space surrounded by
broad stones, against which the earth
was heaped from the outside. The roof
was made os chalk and gypsum, and
Goals and stones and ashes pounded to-
gether. After awhile the porch was
born, after awhile the gate. Then hun
dreds Of years passed on. and in the
fourteenth century the modern CHM
brews had openings in their houses
from which the smoke might escape if
1t preferred, but there was no induce
ment offered for it to leave until the
modern chimney. Wooden keys opened
the door, or the keyhole was large
enough to allow the finger to be in
serted for the lifting of the latch or
nf + hot wi,
dows, the people were dependent for
light upon latticework. over which a
thin veil was drawn down in time of
winter to keep out the elements Win
dow glass was, so late as two or three
hundred years ago, in England and
Scotland, so great a luxury that only
the very. wealthiest could afford it. A
hand mill and an oven and few leath-
ern bottles and some rude pitchers and
plates made up the entire equipment
of the culinary department. But the
home planted in the old cave or at the
foot of a tent pole has grown and en-
larged and spread abroad until we have
tho tbs. aEpodern- house with its branches
and roots and vast girth and height
and depth of comfort and accomms
tion
Good Houses to Live In.
Architecture in other days busted it.
self chiefly in planning and building
triumphal arches and basllicas and
hippOdromes and mausoleums and col
umns. while they allowed the people
for residences to burrow like muskrats
in the earth. St. Sophia's of Constan-
tinople. St. Marks of Venice, St. Pc
ter's of Rome are only the Raphaeled
walls against which lean the squalor
and the pauperism of many nations.
rejoice that, while our modern archi-
-.tects give us grand capitols in which
to legislate and grand courthouses in
which to administer justice and grand
churches in which to worship God they
also give much of their time to the
planning of comfortable abodes for our
tired population. l have not so much
interest in the arch of Trajan an
Beneyentum as have in the wish that
all the people may have a comfortable
shelter, nor have | so much interest in
the temple of Jupiter Olympus at Ath-
ems as l have in the hope that every
man may have an altar for the wor-
ship of the true God in his own house
And ! have not SO much interest in the
science of ceramics, which goes crazy
over twisted vase, or queer handled
jug in use 5000 years ago. or pitcher
out of which the ancient pharaohs
poured their drunken debauch, as
have that every man have on his table
plate with plenty of healthful food
and an appetite to attack it,
Thank God for your home-not mere
ly the house you live in now, but the
house you were born in and the many
houses you have resided in since yoa
began your earthly residence. When
you go home today, count over the
number of these houses in which you
have resided, and you will be surpris-
ed. Once in awhile you will find man
who lives in the house where he was
born and where his father was born
and his grandfather was born and his
great grandfather was born. but that is
.>not one out of thousand cases.
a have not been more perambulatory
than most people, but l was amazed
when came to count up the number