The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-06-02
FRANKLIN, La, SATURDAY, JUNE ?, 1900

II Your aur.c'l humility.
Many persons moving into n larger house
Eav" become arrogant and surcrciiOHs.
They ewa-g"r where onco they walked:
they smrrr where once they laughed; they
20 about with an air which seems to say
| "IPI all smaller craft grt ont of these WI :
tors if they don't want to be nun over by "
| IeGular Cunar4er."
| | have known people who were kind an Z
amiable and CAristian in their smaller
house. Ne sooner did they 80 over the
doorsiIl Of the new house than they be-
came II gioriiiel nuisance. They were the
terror OF dry goods clerks and the amaze
ment of terrybo1ts into Which they swept
and. II compelled to stuusi 4 moment. with
condemnhtory glance turning oil the reo-
PIE seated into criminals and c0nvicts
| Ihey began to hunt up the family coat O.
arms and had lion couchant or unicorn
| rampant on the carriage door when 4
| they iad the appropriate coat OF arms l.
| would have been butter fir!lin, or Il shoe
iast, or u plow, or Il trowel. Instead o.
| being ike all the rest OF us, made out OF
dust, they would have yOu think that tEey
were trickled out OF heaven on a lunp O.
loaf sugar. The first thing you know O.
| them the father will fail in business and
| the daughter will run of with FrencA
dancing master. A woman spoiled by q
| inner house Is bad enough, but u man SC
| upset is sickening.
| But must have word with those who
IN tnlS Nayday time move ont Of larger res.
licences into smaller. Sometimes the pa
| thetfc reason Is that the family has
dwindled Ia size, and so much room is not
required, 80 they move out into small
apartments. l know there are such cases.
Marriage has taken some OF the member.
OF the family, death has taken other mem.
ber5 OF the family, and after awhile father
and mother wake up to find their family
lust the size 1t was when they started. and
they would be lonesome and lost in a large
house; hence they move out Of it. Moving
uay Is great sadness to such II they have
the law OF association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ.
ent members OF the family. / suppose
1t IS so in all your households. 1t is so
In mine. We name the rooms after the
persons who occupy them. And then
there is the dining hail where the festivi-
ties took place, the holiday festivities; there
is the sitting room where the family met
night after night and there is the room sa-
cred because there Il life started or a life |
stopped-the Alpha and the Omega OF |
some earthly existence. Scene OF meeting |
"ad parting, OF congratulation and heart
break, every doorknob, every iresco, every |
mantel, every threshold, meaning moro to |
You than 1t can ever mean to any one else. |
When moving out Of a house, have always |
been IN the habit, after everything was !
gone, OF going into rach room and bidding
1t mute farewell. There will be tears
running down many cheeks in the May
time moving that The carmen will not 10
able to understand. 1t is a solemn and .
touching and an overwhelming thing
to leave places foreTer--places where we
have struggled and toled and wept and
sung and prayed and anxiously watched
and agonized. Oh, life is such strange
ard and bu7ials; minoon and midnight
against wli.i, he Jilows Of many ma Seas seas
tumble. Thank God that such changes
are not always going to continue; other.
wise the nerves would give out and tho
brain would founder on a dementia like
that of King Lear when his daughter
Corde!ia came to medicine his domestic
calamity.
But there are Others who will move out
OIL large residences into smaller through
the reversal OF fortune. The property
must be sold or the balllT will sell it, or the
income is less and you cannot pay the
should understand that our happiness is
not dependent on the size OF the house We
live In. l have known people enjoy
small heaven in two rooms and others snf-
Ter pandemonum in twenty. There is
as much happiness in u small house as in q
large house.. There is as much satisfaction
under the light of a taliow camille as under
the glare OF a chandelier, all the burners at
full blaze. Who was the happier-John
Bunyan in Bedford Jail or Belshazzer in
the saturnalia? Contentment Is something
you can neither rent nor purchase. 1t is not
extrinsic; 1t Is intrinsic. Are there fewer
rooms In the house to which you move?
You will have less to take care Of. Is 1t |
to be stove instead OF furnace2 All the
doctors say the modern modes OF warming
buildings are unhealthy. Is it less mir
rors? Less temptation to your vanity. Is
al RDr %@Iln
pipes all through the house? Less to freeze
and burst when you cannot get a plumber.
Is it less carriage? More room for robust
exercise. Is it less social position? Fewer
,ieople who want to drag you down by
tteir jealousies. Is 1t less fortune to leave
In your last will and testament? Less to
spoil your children. Is it less money for
the health Of your family with pineapples
an & indigestibe salads. Is it a little deaf?
H1earing so many disagreeables. ,
meet you this springtime ut the door OF
your new home, aud while | help you lift :
the clothesbasket over tho banisters and
the carman IS getting red in the face try
ing to transport that article Of furniture
to some now destination l congratulate
you. You are going to have a better time
this year, some OF you, than you ever had.
You take God and the Christian religion in
your home and you will be grandly happy.
UOu Ill tue pdTlOE-LuaC Will Sauctlly YOUR
God in the nurserY-that will
protect your children: God in the dining
will make the plainest meal an
imperial banquet God in the morning
hat will launch the day brightly from the
lrydocks; God in the evening-tEat will
sail the day sweet!y into tho harbor.
And get joy, one and all OF you, whether
you move or do not move; get Joy out OF ~
he thought that we are soon all going to y
have a grand moving day. Do you wanta a
picture OF the new house into which you -
will move? Here it is, wrought with the h
land OF master: ''We know that, il our !,
earthly house OF this tabernacle We're dis y
solved, we have building OF God, a :
house not made with hands, eternal in !.
he heavens" How much rent Will we !,
lave to pay for it? We are going to -
,wn it. How much must we pay for :,
t? How much, cash down, and how
much left on mortgage? Our father is q
.oing to give it as q free gift. When are =,
We gcing to move into Il? We are moving "
low. On moving day heads OF families -
re very apt to stay In the old house until :.
hey have seen everything off. They send =
head the children, and they send ahead l.
he treasures and the vnluables. Ihen ;,