The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-05-16
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE
Subject: Our Fathers Rouse "A Lesson
OF Patience-An Impressive Warning
Against Being Pulled Up With Tram
STORY Earthly Grandeur.
Copyright 1901

sltory Earthly Srauoeur.
Copyright 1sUOl
WASHINGTON, u. C. - This discourse OF
DR.. Tulmage is pertinent at this time OF
year, when many people are moving from
house to house, and it teaches lessons OF
cumstances; text, Philippians iv.. II, II
know both how to DO abased, and l know
how to abound"
Happy Paul! Could you really accom-
modate yourself to ali circumstances IN
life? Could you go up without pride, and
could you come down without exaspera-
tion? Teach the same Lesson to US all.
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 house,
we do not have full appreciation OF what Il
house is. 1t is the growth OF thousands OF
wears. The human race first lived IN cleftS
OF rocks, the beasts OF the Held moving
out Of the carerns to let the human race
move in. The shepherds aud the robbers
still live In caverEs OF the earth. The troy
lodytes are race wnteh 70 TINS uay pre-
fer the caverns to house. They are warm;
they are lurge; they are very comfortable;
thew are less subject 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 farther on
down in the history OF the race, and we
come to the tent, which was home built
with round pole In the centre and skins
otanimals reaching out In all directions,
mats on the floor.
Time passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to build house,
which was q space surrounded by broad
stones, against which the earth was heaped
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 the gute.
Then hundreds Of years passed on, and IN
the fourteenth century the modern Chin
new was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings In their houses from which
the smoke might escape II it preferred, but
there waa no inducement 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 the
sliding OF 1t. 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, go late as zoo
or 800 years ago, in England aud Scotland
so great luxury that only the very wealth.
lest could afford it. A hand mill and an
oven and few leathern bottles and some
tire equipment Of the culinary department.
Thank God for your home, not merely
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
earthly residence. When you 20 home
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 man who lives In q 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 q thousand cases. I have
not been more perambulatory than most
people, but was amazed when I cameto
count up the number OF residences have
occupied. The fact Is there Is in this
world no such thing as permanent resi-
dence.
In private vehicle, and not In rail
oar, from which you can see but little,
rode from New York to Yonkers and Tar
rytown, on the banks OF the Hudson, the
finest ride on the planet for man who
wants 10 see palatial residences In fascf-
mating scenery. It was in the early spring
and before the gentlemen OF New, York
had gone out to their country residences.
Irode into the grounds to admire the
gardens, and the oyerse or OF the place
told me-and they all told me-that
ali the houses had been sold or that
they wanted to sell them, and there,
was literally no exception, although
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 tarrled in town in the night,
always having some business on hand
keeping them away. From some houses
the heople had been SHAKEN out BY chils
and efever, from some houses they had
gone because death or misfortune had oc-
CURED, and all those palaces and mansions
lad either changed occupants or wanted
to change.
Take up tt, directory OF any city of
England or America aud see how few
people live where thcy lived fifteen years
ago. There is no such thing as permanent
residence.
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson's residence, aud | saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Alonroc's residence, and l
saw also the White House, which was
President Taylcr's residence and President
Lincoln's residence ard President Gar
FIELDS residence. Was it a permanent
residence in any case? tell you that the
race is nomadic and no sooner gets In one
place 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 70 get into some other place than
that in which 1t was then.
Aye, instead OF beinS nomadic, It Is i'm
mortal, moving on and moving oni We
whip up our horses and hasten on until the
hub OF the froEt wheel s4!yers on the tomb
stone aud tips us headio%S into tho grave,
the only permanent earthly residence.
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 vii! be overloaded; 1t
will be hard day for laborers, for they
Fill overliit before they got the family fur
niture from one house 20 another; 1t Will
be hard day for nousekeepers to see their
furniture scratched. and their crockery
broken, ard their carpets misilt, ana their
furniture dashed Of the sudden showers; 1t
will be bard day for landlords; it Will be
hard day for tenants.
Especial grace is needed for moving day.
Many mans religion has suffered fear
full strain between the hour on tue morn
ing Of the first Of May, when be took his
Immature breakfast, aud tue hour at night
when he rolled into his eXtemporized couch.
The furniture broken sometimes will result
in the breaking ofthe Ten Commandments.
My first word, then, in this part OF my
discourse Is to all those who move out or
small houses into larger ones. Now, we
will see whether, like the apostle. you know
how to abound.
Many persons moving into larger house
have become arrogant and supercilious.
They swagger where once they walked;
they simper where once they laughed; they
20 about with an air which seems to say,
"Let all Smaller craft get out OF these wa
ters II they don't want to be run over by a
regular Cunarder."
have known people who were kind an
amiable aud Christian iu their smaller
house Nc sooner did they 20 over the