The Leon reporter., 1900-05-03
ehanre Of Re.,d once.

cause death or misfortune had occur
sions had either changed occupants or
wanted to change. Take up the direc-
tory of any city of England or Ameri-
ca and see how few people live where
they lived Is years ago. There is no
such thing as permanent residence. l
saw Monticello, in Virginia. President
Jefferson's residence. and saw on the
same day Montpelier, which was either
Madisons or Monroe's residence, and |
saw also the white house, which was
President Taylor's residence, and Pres
ident Lincoln's residence, and President
Garfield's residence. Was it perma-
nent residence in any case? tell you
that the race is nomadic and no soon
er 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
being nomadic, it is immoral moving
on and moving on. 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 res
| idence. But. bless God. even that stay
| is limited, for we shall have resur-
rection.
| A day this spring the streets will be
| filled with the furniture carts and the
| drays and the trucks. 1t will be hard
day for horses. because they will be
overloaded 1t will be hard day for
laborers, for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
house to another. 1t will be hard day
for housekeepers to see their furniture
scratched, and the crockery broken,
and their carpets misfit, and their fur
niture dashed of the sudden showers.
1t will be hard day for landlords 1t
will be hard day for tenants. Espe-
cial grace is needed for moving day.
Many mans religion has suffered a
fearful strain between the hour on the
morning of the first of May, when he
took his immature breakfast, and the
hour at night when he rolled into his
eXtemporized couch. The furniture
broken sometimes will result in the
breaking of the Ten Commandments.
There is no more fearful pass than the
hall of house where two families
meet. one moving out and the other
moving in. The salutation is apt to
| hn
tary. The grace that will be sufficient
for the first of January and the first
of February and the first of March
and the first of April will not be sufl-
cient for the first of May. Say your
prayers that morning if you find moth
coal scuttle, and say your prayers at
night though your knee comes down
on paper of carpet tacks. You will
want supernatural help if any of you
move. Help in the morning to start
out Alright on the days work. Help
at night to repent. There will be
enough of annoyance to make Kan
tippe out of Frances Ridley Haver-
gal. / have again and again been in
crises of moving day. and l have
stnod.appalled and amazed and help
less i'll
as l couN
ashore from the breakers, Ind / Sflow
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 stiff
fened joints will become supple, and
your ruff1ed temper will be smoothed
of its wrinkles, and order will take
the place of disorder, and you will sit
down in your new home seriously to
contemplate.
Reverses Of Fortune.
But there are others who will move
out of large residences into smaller
through the reversal of fortune. The
property must be sold or the bailiff
will sell it, 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. l
have known people enjoy a small heav-
en- in two rooms and other suffer a
pandemonium in twenty. There is as
much happiness in a small house as in
| a large house. There is as much sat
isfaction under the light of tallow
candle as under the glare of chando-
lier, all the burners at full blaze. Who
was the happierJohn Bunyan in Bed
ford jail or Belshazzar in the saturna-
| liza? Contentment is something you
can neither rent ntr purchase. 1t is
not extrinsic; it is intrinsic Are
there fewer rooms in the house to
which you move? You will have less
to take care of. Is it to be stove in
stead of furnace? All the doctors say
the modern modes of warming build
ings are unhealthy. Is it less pier
mirrors? Less temptation to your
vanity. Is it oldfashioned toilet in
stead of water pipes all through the
| house? Less to freeze and burst when
! you cannot get plumber. Is it less
carriage? More room for robust ex-
ercise. Is it less social position? Few
er people who want to drag you down
by their jealousies. Is it less fortune
to leave in your last will and tes. "a
ment? Less to spoil your children. Is
it less money for marketing? Less
temptation to ruin the health of your