Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-30
OUR FATHERS HOUSE
DR.. TALMAGE TEACHES A LESSON OF
PATIENCE

Prenches an Impressive Sermon,
With Moving Day For Theme.
Warns Us Not to BE Pulled Up With
Transitory Earthly Grandeur.
WASHINGTON, April 20. - This dis
course of DR.. Talmage is pertinent at
this time of year, when many people
are moving from house to house, and it
teaches lessons of patience and eQui-
poise in very trying circumstances;
text, Philippians iv, u, Il know both
how to be abased, and 1 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? Teach the same
lesson to us ali.
We are at a season Of the year when
vast populations in all our cities are
changing residence. Having been born
in house and having all our lives lfv-
ed in a house, we do not have full ap-
probation Of what q house is. 1t is
the growth Of thousands of years. The
human race first lived in clefts of
rocks, the beasts 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 troglodytes are a race
which to this day prefer the caverns to
a 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, and
we come to the lodge, which was q
home built out of twisted tree branch
es; we come farther on down in the his
tory of the race, and we come to the
tent, which was a home built with a
round pole in the center and skins Of
animals reaching out in all directions,
mats on the floor.
Time passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to build a house,
which was a space surrounded by
broad stones, against which the earth
was heaped from the outside. The
roof was made of chalk and gypsum
and Goals and stones and ashes pound
ed together. After awhile the porch
was born, after awhile the gate. Then
hundreds of years passed on, and ia
the fourteenth century the modern
chimney was constructed. The old He
brewS had openings in their houses
from which the smoke might escape if
il preferred, but there was no induce
ment offered for it to leave until the
modern chimney. Wooden keys open
ed the door, or the keyhole was large
enough to allow the finger to be insert
ed for the lifting of the latch or the
the people were dependent for light
upon latticewOrll, over which a thin
veil was drawn down in time of winter
to keep out the elements. Window
glass was, so late as 200 or 300 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 n few Ieathern bottles and
some rude pitchers and plates made
up the entire equipment of the culinary
department
Modern Architecture.
Architecture in other days busted it.
self chiefly in planning and building
triumphal arches and basilicas and hip
pOdromes and mausoleums and col
umns, while they allowed the people
for residence 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. L
rejoice that, while our modern archi-
tects give us grand capitols ia which to
legislate and grand cOurthOuses in
which to administer justice and grand
churches in which to worship Cod
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 at
Beneventum as l have in the wish that
all the people may have 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 worship
of the true God in his own house, and
L have not so much interest in the sci
ence of ceramics, which goes crazy
over twisted vase or a queer handled
jug in use 5000 years ago or a pitcher
out of which the ancient pharaohs
poured their drunken debauch, as
have that every man have on his table
a 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 you
began your earthly residence. When
you go home today, count over the
number of those houses in which you
have resided, and you will be surpris-
ed. Once in awhile you will find a
man who lives in the house where he
was born and where his father was
born and his prandfather was horn