The Penn's Grove record., 1900-05-04
GROVE, n. j., FRIDAY, NAY 4, 1900.

whom be had banqueted and to whom Ii,
nad given large sums OF money. Lucullus
Luclus, Sempronlus and Ventldias-did
those lords send any help to him? oh. no
Lueullus said, when he was applied to,
"Well, I thought that Timon would come
aoWn. He was too lavish. Let him suffer
ior his recklessness.n Lucius said. II would
pc very glad to help Timon, but I have
maze large purchases, and my means are
all absorbed" And one lord sent one 81.
cuse, and another lord sent another *.
cuse. But, to the establishment oil every.
body, after awhile Timon proclaimed an.
other feast. Those lords said to them.
selves, "Why. either Timon has had a good
U OF furtune or he has been deceivinx
US, testing our love-" And SO they ali
Hooked to the banquet apologize for seem.
Ing iukewarmness. The guests were all
seated at the table. and Timon ordered the
covers lifted. The covers lifted, there was
nothing underthem but smoking hot water.
Then Timon said to his guests, "Dogs. lap.
lap, d0gsl" And under the terrific fronv
they ned b room, while Timon pursued
them with his anathema, calling them
fools OF fortune, destroyers OF happiness
under q mask, hurting at the same time
the pitchers and the chaIices after them.
Oh. my friends, / would not want to make
you oversuspiclous in the day OF your sue
cess, but ! want you to understand right
well there Is q vast difference bet ween Thu
popularity OF Timon the prosperous and
I1m0n the unfortunate; / want you to know
there IS q vast difference in the number OF
people who admire a man when he is going
up and the number o. people who admire
him when he is going down.
But ! must have a word with those who
IN this Mayday time move out Of larger res.
n into smaller. Sometimes the pa.
thetic reason Is that the family has
dwindied In size, and 40 much room is not
required, so they move out Into small
apartments. I know there are such cases.
Marriage has taken some Of the members
OF the family, death has taken other MANI
bers OF the family, and after awhilefafher
n mother wake up to dnd their family
lust the size It was when they started, and
they would be lonesome and lost In a large
house; hence they move out OF it. Moving
day is a great sadness to such II they nave
the law Of association dominant. There
are the rooms named after the differ
enr members OF the family. / suppose
1t Is 30 In all your households. It Is SO
In mine. We name the rooms after tina
persons who occupy them. And then
there is the dining hall where the festfvi-
ties took place, the holiday festivities; thers
Is the sitting room where the family met
night after night, and there is the room sg-
cred because there q life started or a lie
~stopped-the Alpha and the Omega "
earthly existence. Scene OF meeting
and parting, of con%gratulation aud heait-
break, every doofknob. every fresco, eve.y
mantel, every threshold, meaning more to
you than 1t can ever NEAR to any one else.
When moving out Of a house, I have always
been In The habit, after everything 'sas
gone, OF going into each room and bidding
1t q mute farewell. There will be tears
running down many cheeks In the May
moving that the GARNER will net be
able to understand. It is a solemn snd a
TO cave places forever-places whe5e we
have struggled and toiled and weps and
sung and prayed and %anxiously wstched
and agonized. Oh, life Is such a strange
mixture OF honey n Of gall, weddings
and buriais. midnoon and midnight
clashtng! Every home a lighthouse
against which the pillows of maay seas
tumble. Thank God that such changes
are not always going to continue; other.
wise the nerves would give out and the
brain would founder on a dem ontla like
Of KIM Lear when his daughter
Corde!ia came to medicine his domestic
calamity.
But there are others who will move out
large residences into smaller through
the reversal of fortune. The property
must be sold or the bailif will sell 1t, or the
income Is less and you cannot pay the
house rent. First OF all, such persons
should understand that our happiness is
not dependent on the size Of the house We
live In. I have known people enjoy a
heaven In two rooms and others suf-
fer a pandemonium In twenty. There Is
as much happiness In a small house as in a
large house. There is as much satisfaction
nnder the light of a tallow candle as under
glare OF q 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
in the house to which you move?
You will have less to take care of. Is 1t
to be stove instead OF furnace? All the
doctors say the modern modes of warming
buildings are unhealthy. Is It less mir
rors? Less temptation to your vanity. Is
1t old fashioned toilet instead Of water
pipes all through the house2 Less to freeze
and burst when you cannot get q plumber.
1t less carrlagep More room for robust
Is 1t less social position? Fewer
people who want to drag you down by
their j~ealousfes. Is 1t less fortune to leave
In your last will ana testament? Less 70
spoil your children. Is 1t less money for
The marketing7 Less temptation to ruin
he health Of your family with p~inaapples
and indigestible salads. Is 1t a little deaf2
Not hearing so many dfsagreeables.
I meet you this springtime at the door OF
your new home, and while Ihelp you lift
the clothesbasket over the banisters and
the carman Is getting red In the face try
to transport that article OF furniture
some new destination I 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
God In the parlor-that will s~anctify your
God In the nursery-that will
your children: God In the dining
will make the plainest meal an
banquet; God In the morning
that will launch the day brightly from the
drydocks; God In the evening-ttat will
sail the day sweetly into the harbor.
And get JOY, and all Of you, whether
you move or do not move; get Joy out Of
The thought that we are soon all going to
have q grand moving day. Do you want q
OF the new house into which you
will mover Here 1t Is, wrought with the
hand OF q master: 1--WE know that, IL our
house of this tabernacle were dis
solved, we have a building of God, a
not made with hands. eternal in
the heavens" How much rent will we
have to pay for 1t? We are going to
own 1t. How much must We pay for
t2 How much, cash down, and how
left on mortgage9 Our father Is
to give 1t as q free gift. When are
going to move into It? We are moving
now. On moving day heads OF families
are very apt to stay in the old house until
have seen everything of. They send
ahead the children, and they send ahead
the treasures and The v%aluables. Then
awhile they will come themselves.
[ remember very we'll in the country that
In boyhood moving day was q iubilation.
On almost the first load we, the children,
we're sent ON ahead to the new house, and
We arrived with shout and laughter, and
an hour We had ranged through every
room in the house, the barn and the gran
ary. Toward night, and perhaps in the
wagon, father and mother would come.
very tirsd, and we would come
down to the foot OF the lane to meet
Them and tell them Of all the wonders
discovered In the new place, and
then, the last wagon ~unloaded, can
dies lighted, our neighbors who had
helped us to moyc-for In those times
neighbors helped each other-sat down
with us at a table on which there was
every luxury they could think Of. Well,
my dear Lord knows that some OF us
have been moving q good while. We
have gent ourchildran ahead Wa have aanf