The Penn's Grove record., 1900-05-04
DR.. TALMAGES SERMON,
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE
Subject: Our Fathers House = A Lesson
OF Patience-An Impressive Warning
against Being Pulled Up With Tram
sitory Earthly Grandeur.
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OF Pattence-An impressive Warming
against Being Pulled Up With Tran.
STORY Earthly Grandeur.
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WARRINGTON, d. o. This discourse o,
Dr.. Talmage is pertinent at this time OF
year, When many people are moving from
nouse 70 house, and 1t teaches lessons OIL
patience and equipoise In very trying cir.
cumstances; text, philippians w., IL, 81
how to abound"
Happy PAUL. Gould you really accom-.
modate yourself to all circumstances In
liIes Gould you go up without pride, and
couiu you come down without ~exaspera-
tion9 Teach the same lesson to us ali.
We are at 2 season OF the year when vast
populations In all our cities are changing
residence. Having been born In a house
anon having all our lives lived In a house,
We do not have full appreciation OF what a
hous Is: It 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
stiil i've IN caverns Of the ca eth, The troy
iodytes are q race which t6ttA0D day pre-
Ter the caverns to q 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
iodge, which was a home built out Of
twisted tree branches; we come farther on
down In the history of the race, and we
with q round pole In the centre and skins
OF animals reaching out In ali directions.
mats on the floor.
m passed on, and the world, after
much invention, came to build q house,
which was Q space surrounded by broad
stones, against which the eaYth was heapsd
ron the outside. The ROD was made Of
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 CHIN
ney was constructed. The old Hebrews
had openings In their houses from which
the smoke might escape II it preferred, but
there was no inducement offered for it to
leave until the modern chimney. Wooden
Keys opened the door, or The keyhole was
large enough to allow TIN finger to be in
serted Tor the lifting OF the latch or the
sliding OF 1t. There being no windows the
people were dependent fog light upon lat.
ticework, over which q thin veil was drawn
down In time OF winter to keep out the ele-
ments. Window glass was, so late as 200
or 800 years ago, In England and Scotland
80 great q luxury that only the very wealth.
lest cerild afford 1t. A hand mill and an
oven Nd q few leathern bottles and some
u d pitchers and plates made up the en-.
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
houses In which you have resided, and you
will be surprised. Oncei In awhile you will
lind q 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 a thousand cases. I lave
not been more perambulatory than most
people, but l was amazed when I CAM to
count up the number of residences I have
occupied. The fact is there is In this
world no such thing as permanent resi-
dence.
In q private vehicle. and not In a rail
car, from which but little,
| rode from New York to Yonkers and Tar
rytown, on the banks OF the Hudson. the
wants to see palatial residences In fasci-
mating scenery. It was in the early spring
Ind before the gentlemen OF New York
had gone out t. their country residences.
| rode into the grounds to admire the
gardens, and the overse or OF the place
told me-and they all told me-that
all the houses had been sold or that
was literally no exception, although
| called at many places, just admiring the
gardens and grounds and the palatial resi-
1ences. 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,
nIVHn rA nrtA n>~~@ ~~-l--- - -
Keeping them away. 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 whore they lived fifteen years
ago. There Is no such thing as permanent
residence.
I saw Monticello, In Virginia, President
Jeherson's residence, and ! 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
heid,s residence. Was It a permanent
residence In any case? I tell you that the
race Is nomadic and no one gets In one
place than It 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 n moving oni 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 filed
with the furniture carts and the drays and
the trucks. 1t Will be q hard day for
horses, because they will be overloaded; it |
will be a hard day for laborers, for they
will overlift before they get the family fur
niture from one house to another; It. will
be a hard day for housekeepers to see their
furniture scratched, and their crockery |
broken, and their carpets misft, and their
furniture dashed OF the sudden showers; 1t
will be q hard day for landlords; it will be /
. hard day for tenants.
Especial grace Is needed for moving day. /
Many q mans religion has suffered a fear |
full strain between the hour on the morn
ing Of the first of May, when HI took his
immature breakfast, n the hour at night
when he rolled into his extemporized couch. |
b furniture broken sometimes will result
In the breaking ofthe Ten Commandments. |
u uL6t WOIuy bu0As l. lulS QAEI Oh my
discourse is to all those who move out OF
small houses into larger ones. Now, we
will see whether, like the apostle. you know
how to abound.
Many persons moving into a larger house |
have become arrogant and supercilious. |
They swagger where once they walked: |
they shipper where once they laughed; they |
go about with an air which seems to say. |
Let all smaller craft get out OF these wa
tiers II they don't want to be run over by q
regular Cunarder."
/ have known people who were kind and |
amiable and Christian In their smaller |
house. Nc sooner did they 70 over the |
doorsill Of the new house than they be-
came a glorifed nuisance. They were the
terror of dry goods clerks and the amaze-
ment OF ferryboats into which they swept |
and, II compelled to stand a moment, with
condemnatory glance turning all the peo-.
pie seated into criminals and conyicts.
They began to hunt up the family coal of |
arms and mad lion couchant or unicorn
rampant on the carriage door when. IL
they had the appropriate coat OF arms. 1t
would have been a butter 1rkin, or q shoe |
last. or q pillow, or 9 trowel. Instead Of
being like all the re Grove. Apsde out Of |
s 1sss t1lsy, S9o ont e os vs,s,;pchss az that ,n.s they !,
loaf sugar. The f1fst thInkd tot know Of
them the father will fall ID Dizziness and |
the daughter will run on WithS>a French