The Grit-advocate., 1900-05-04
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
breaches ON MAY CHANCES
OF RESIDENCE.
1tDaly Diseoarss In which the
Hssd of Patience and Equipoiss Is
Set Forth-MovinG Into the Fathers
House.


both how to be abased. and 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 exasperation!
We are at season of the year when
vast populations in all our cities are
changing residence Having been born
In house, and having all our lives
lived in house, We do not have full
appreciation of what house is. 1t Is
the growth Of thousands of years. The
human race first lived In clefts of
rocks. beasts Of the neld moving out Of
the caverns to let the human race
move IN. The shepherds and the rob-
bers 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 sub
1ect 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 home built out
Of twisted tree branches. We come
further on down In the history of the
race, and we come to the tent, which
was home built with a round pole in
the center, and skins Of animals reach
ing out In all directions, mats on the
floor for the people to sit on.
Ao
much invention, came to build 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 pounded to-
gether. After awhile the porch was
born, after awhile the gate. Then hun
dreds of years passed on, and in the
fourteenth century the modern chin
ney was constructed. The old He
brews had openings in their houses
from which the smoke might escape II
it preferred. but there was no induce
ment offered for it to leave until the
modern chimney. Wooden keys opened
the door, or the keyhole 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 win
dows. the people were dependent for
light upon latticework, over which a
thin veil was drawn down In time OF
winter to keep out the elements. Win
dow glass was, so late as two or three
hundred 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 few leath-
.ern bottles and some rude pitchers and
plates made up the entire equipment
Of the culinary department. But the
home planted In the old cave or at the
foot Of tent pole has grown and en-
larged and spread abroad until we have
the modern house with its branches
and roots and vast girth and height
and depth Of comfort and accommoda-
ton.
Good Houses to Live In.
Architecture in other days busted it.
self chiefly in planning and building
triumphal arches and basilicas and
hippodromes and mausoleums and col
umns, while they allowed the people
for residences 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.
rejoice that, while our modern archi-
tects give US grand capitols In which