The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-06-07


wanted to change. Take up the direct
ory of any city of England or Amer
lea and see how few people live where
they lived Is years ago. There is no
such thing as permanent residence. /
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jefferson'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 Pres
ident Lincoln's residence and President
Garfield's residence. Was it a perma-
nent residence in any case. / tell you
that the race is nomadic, and no sooner
gets in one place than it wants to
change for another place or is COM
PEELED to change for another place, and
SO the race invented the railroad and
the steamboat in order more rapidly to
get into some other place than that in
which it was then. Aye, instead of be-
ing nomadic it is immortal, moving on
and moving on. We whip up our horses
and hasten on until the hub of the front
wheel shivers on the tombstone and
tips us headlong into the grave, the
only permanent earthly residence.
But, bless God, even that stay is linn
tied. for we shall have aresurrection.
A day this spring the streets will
be filled with the furniture carts and
the drays and the trucks. It will be
a hard day for horses, because they
will be overloaded. It will be hard
day for laborers, for they will overlift
before they get the family furi.ure
from one house to another. 1t will
be hard day for housekeepers to see
their furniture scratched, and their
crockery broken, and their carpets
misfit, and their furniture dashed OF
the sraaen showers. 1t will be hard
day for landlords. It will be hard
day for tenants. Especial grace is
needed for moving day. Many man S
religion has suffered fearful strain
between the hour on the morning Of
the 1st OF May, when he took his i'm
mature breakfast, and the hour at
nightwhen he rolled into his extempo-
rized couch. The furniture broken
sometimes will result in the breaking
of the Ten Commandments. There is
no more fearful pass than the hall Of
a house where two families meet. one
moving out and the other moving in.
The salutation is apt to be more ve-
hement than complimentary. The
grace that will be sufficient for the
1st OF January and the 1st of Febru-
ary and the 1st Of March and the Is.
Of April will not be sufficient for the
1st of May. Say your prayers that
morning if you find nothing better
to kneel down by than coal scuttle,
and say your prayers at night though
your knees come down on paper Of
carpet tacks. You will want super
natural help if any of you move. Help
in the morning to start out Alright on
the days work. Help at night to re-
pent. There will be enough annoy
ances to make q Xantippe out of a
Frances Ridley Havergal. have again
and again been in crises of moving
day, and have stood appalled, and
amazed and helpless in the shipwreck,
taking as well as could those things
that foated ashore from the break
ers, and know how to comfort and
how to warn and how to encourage
the people, so preach this practical
May day sermon. All these troubles
will soon be gone, and the bruises
will heal, and the stiffened joints will
become supple, and your rufiied tenn
per will be smoothed Of it's wrinkles,
and order will take the place Of dis
order. and you will sit down in your
new home seriously to contemplate.
My first word, then, in this part Of
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.
Do not, because your new house has
two more stories than the old one,
add two stories to your vanity or
make your brightly polished silver
doorplate the coffin plate to your
buried humility. Many persons NOV
ing into larger house have become
arrogant and supercilious. They
swagger where once they walked,
they simper where once they laughed,
they go about with an air which
seems to say: 'Let all smaller craft
get out Of these waters if they don't
want to be run over by regular Gu
narder." I have known people who
were kind and amiable and Christian
in their smaller house-no sooner did
they go over the doorsill Of the new
house than they became q glorified
nuisance. They were the terror of
dry goods clerks and the amazement
Of ferryboats into which they swept.
and if compelled to stand . moment
with condemnatory glance turning
all the people seated into criminals
and convicts. They began to hunt up
the family coat Of arms, and had lion
couchant or unicorn rampant on the
carriage door; when, If they had the
appropriate coat Of arms, it would
have been q butter firkin or q shoe
last or plow or q trowe1. Instead
of being like all the rest of US, made
out OF dust, they would have you
think that they were trickled out ..