The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-06-02
TALMAGE SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE ABLE DI.
VINE
subJcc': Our Fathers nousc 4 - ssor
OF iatience-An Impressive Wnroin
against Bein. Puf!el Up Win Tram
STORY Earthly Grandeur,

against Bein. Pnfe;l Up Win Tran
STORY Earthly Grandeur.
lCogYrght lapcI
| WASHINGTON, ID. c. - This discOnrsa O
DR.. IaimaSe is pertinent at this time o
year, when many people are moving from
house to house, and it teaches lessons o
patience and eqpipoise III very trying cir
cumstances; text, philipr ans iv., II, 81
know both how to be al; ;.sed, ard knox
| how to abound"
Happy PAUL. Could you really accom-.
nodate yourself to all circumstances in
hiet Could you 80 up without pride, and
| could You como down without exaspera.
tlon? Hcach the same lesson to us ali.
| we are at Il 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 Il house.
We do not have full appreciation of what a
house Is. 1t Is the growth of thousands of
years. The human race first lived in clefts
OF rocks, the beas,s OF the field moving
out OF the caverns to let the human race
move In. The shepherds and the robbers
Still live IN caverns OF the earth. The troy
| louyteS are n raco whica to this dny ora
Ter ;he caverns to- house. They are warm.
they are large; they are very comfortable:
| they are less subject to violent changes OF
heat and cold. We come on along down In
| the history OF the race, ana we come to tho
| lodge, which was homo built out OF
| twisted tree branches; we come farther on
| down IN the history OF the race, and we
| ceme to the tent, which was 4 home built
with round pole IA the centre and skins
OF animals reaching out in all directions.
| mats On the floor.
| Time passed on, aud the wdrld. nlter
| much invention, came to build a house.
| winch was space surrounded bv 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 gate
| Then hundreds OF years passed on, and in
the fourteenth century the MODERN chim-
| ney was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings - their houses from which
the smoke might escape il it preferred, but
there was no inducement offered for it to
leave until the modern chimney Wooden
keys opened the door, or the keyhoe was
large enough to allow the finger to be in
serted for the lifting OF the latch or the
sliding OF it. There being no windows the
people were dependent for light upon lat
ticework, over which thin veil was drawn
down III time OF winter to keep out the ele.
ments. Window glass was, so late as 200
or 800 years ago. in England and Scotland
so great luxury that only the very wealth
lest could afford 1t. hand mill and an
oven and few leathcrn bottles and some
rude pitchers and plates made up the en-
tire equipment Of the culinary department,
Thank God for your home, no: merely
the house you live in now, but the house
you were born in and the many house. you
have resided in since you began your
earthly residence. When you 90 homo
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 a house where he
was born and where his father was born
and his grandfather was born and his
great-SraRdfather was born, but that is
not one out OF thousand cases. l have
not been more perambulatory than most
people, but was amazed when IcanetO
count up the number OF residences have
occupied. The fact is there is In this
world no such thing rs permanent resi-
dence.
In private vehicle, and not In rail
car. from which you can see but little,
l 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 to see palatial residences In fasci-
mating scenery. It was in the early spring
and before the gentlemen OF New York
had gone out to their country residences.
rode into the grounds to admire the
gardens, and the overse er Of the place
told me-and they all told me-that
they wanted to sell them, and there
was literally no exception, although
called ut many places, just udmiring 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 tarried in town in the night,
always having some business on hand
keeping them sway. From some houses
the people had been shaken out by chilIs
and fever, from some houses they had
gone because death or misfortune had oc-
CURED, and all those palaces and mansions
had either changed occupants or wanted
to change.
Take up the directory OF any city OF
England or America and see how few |
people live where they lived fifteen years
ago. There is no such thing as permanent
residence.
I cav Monticello, In Virginia, President
Jef1erson's residence, and l saw on the |
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and I |
saw also the White House, which was
President Taylor's residence and President
Lincoln's residence and President Gar
fields residence. Was it a permanent
residence in anv case? tell you that the
race 1s 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 to get into some other place than
that in which 1t was then.
Aye, instead OF being nomadic, it is i'm
mortal, moving on and moving on! We
whip up our horses and hasten on until the
hub OF the front wheel shivers on the tomb
stone and tips us headlong into the grave,
The only permanent earthly residence.
A day this spring the streets will be filled
With the furniture carts and the drays and
he trucks. 1t will be 4 hard day for
lorses, because they will be overloaded; it
will be hard day for laborers, for they
will overlift before they get the family fur
liture from one house to another; it will |
,e hard day for housekeepers to see their
urniture scratched, and their crockery
broken, and their carpets misEt, and their
urnture dashed Of tho sudden showers; it
will be hard day for landlords; 1t will be
! hard day for tenants.
Especial grace is needed for moving day.
Iany a mans religion has suffered fear
ul strain between the hour on the morn
ng of the first OF May, when he took his
immature breakfast, and the hour at night
vi en- he rolled into his extemporized couch.
The furniture broken sometimes will result
Il the breaking Of the Ten Commandments.
My first word, then, in this part OF my
iscourse is to all those who move out OF
mall houses into larger ones. Now, we
Fill see whether like the apostle, you know