Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-09
SERMON
Rev. Or. CaIlflaes

.V. U. CdI111dge
Subject: Our Fathers House - A Lessor
of Patience-An Impressive Warming
Against Being Pulled Up With Tran.
sitory Earthly Grandeur.
ICopyright 1901
WASHINGTON, u. G. - This discourse O.
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 equipoise in very trying cir
cumstances; text, Philippians iv.. IL, ~
know both how to be abased, and l know
how to abound
Happy Paul! Could you really accom-
modate yourself to all circumstances in
life? Could you go up without pride, and
could you come down without exaspera-
tion? Teach the same Lesson to us all.
We are at a season of the year when vast
populations in all our cities are changing
residence. Having been born in a house
and having al! our lives lived in a house,
we do not have full appreciation of what a
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
lodytes are race which to this day pre-
fer the caverns to 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 a home built out of
twisted tree branches; we come farther on
down in the history of the race, and we
come to the tent, which was a home built
with Il round pole In the centre 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 house,
which was space surrounded by broad
stones, against which the earth was heaped
from the outside. The roof was made OF
chalk and gypsum and coal and stones and
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 If it preferred, but
there was no inducement offered for 1t 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 windows the
people were dependent for light upon lat
ticework over which a 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
so great luxury that only the very wealth
lest could afford it. A hand mill and an
oven and few leathern bottles and some
rude 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 go home
to-day, count over the number of those
houses in which you have resided, and you
will be surprised. Once in awhile you viii
find man who lives in house where he
was born and where his father was borr
and his grandfather was born and his
great-grandfather was born, but that i:
not one out of u thousand cases. L have
not been more perambulatory than most
people, but I was amazed when came to
count up the number of residences have
occupied. The fact is there is in thi:
world no such thing as permanent resi-
dence.
In a private vehicle, and not in a raj
car, from which you can see but little
I rode from New York to Yonkers and Tar
rytown, on the banks of the Hudson the
finest ride on the planet for u man who
wants to see palatial residences in fasci
mating scenery. 1t was in the early spring
had gone out to their country residences
I rode into the grounds to admire tn,
gardens, and the overse er of the plac'
told me-and they all told me-tha
all the houses had been sold or tha
they wanted to sell them, and there
was literally no exception, although
I called at many places, just admiring th
gardens and grounds and the palatial resi-
dences. Some wanted to sell or had sold
because of financial misfortune or becaus,
their wives did not want to reside in th
summer time in those places while thei
husbands tarried in town in the night
always having some business on hanC
keeping them away From some house
the people had been shaken out by chilli
and fever, from some houses they ha,
gone because death or misfortune had oc-
CURED, and all those palaces and mansion
had either changed occupants or wante,
to change.
Take up the directory of any city o
England or America and see how fey
people live where they lived fifteen year
ago. There is no such thing as permanen
residence.
saw Monticello, in Virginia, President
Jederson's residence, and 1 saw on tn,
| same day Montpelier, which was eithe
Madison's or Monroe's residence, and
saw also the White House, which wa
President Taylor's residence and Presiden
Lincoln's residence and President Gar
| fields residence. Was 1t n permanen
residence In any case? 1 tell you that tn
race is nomadic and no sooner gets in on
| plac than it wants to change for anothe
| place or is compelled to change for anothe
| place. and so the race invented the rail
| road and the steamboat in order NOR
| rapidly to get into some other place tina
| that in which it was then.
| Aye, instead of being nomadic, 1t is i'm
mortal, moving on and moving onl W
whip up our horses and hasten on until tn
hub of the front wheel shivers on the tom /
| stone and tips US headlong into the grave
the only permanent earthly residence.
| A day this spring the streets will be file
| with the furniture carts and the drays an
I the trucks. 1t will be a hard day 70
| horses, because they will be overloaded;
will be a hard day for laborers, for the
! niture from one house to another; it wi
/ be hard day for housekeepers to see thei
| furniture scratched, and their crocker
| broken, and their carpets misiit, and thei
! furniture dashed OF the sudden showers;
/ will be a hard day for landlords; it will b
| o hard day for tenants.
| Especial grace is needed for moving day
| Many a mans religion has suffered fear
| full strain bet ween the hour on the morn
| ing of the first of May, when he took h
| immature breakfast, and the hour at nigh
when he rolled into his extemporized coucl
The furniture broken sometimes will resu
| in the breaking of the Ten Commandment
My first word, then, in this part of m
discourse Is to all those who move out {
small houses into larger ones. Now, "
| will see whether, like the apostle, you kno
| how to abound.
| Do not, because your new house has tw
more stories than the old one, add tw
stories to your vanity or make your bright
lv polished silver doorplate the coffin plat
| to your buried humility.
Many persons moving into larger hous
| have become arrogant and superciliou
They swagger where once they wake,
they simper where once they laughed; the
go about with an air which seems to sa,
! "Let all smaller craft get out of these WI
| ters IL they don't want to be run over by
regular Cunarder."
l have known people who were kind an
| amiable and Christian in their smallt
| house. No sooner did they go over IL
| doorsill OF the new house than they b'
came a gIorifi sd nuisance. They were Il