Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-03

tney ilFeu 10 years ago. mere Is uO
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 Monroes 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 1t a perma-
nent residence in any case? | tell you
that the race is nomadic and no soon
er gets in one place than 1t 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 1t 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 a 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 a hard day for
laborers, for they will overlift before
they get the family furniture from one
hons IN Il mil h. IN,
for housekeepers to see their furniture
scratched. and the crockery broken,
and their carpets misft, and their fur
niture dashed of the sudden showers
1t will be hard day for landlords. 1t
will be hard day for tenants. Espe-
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 a house where two families
meet, one moving out and the other
moving in. The salutation is apt to
| be more vehement than compliment
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 suffi-
cient for the first of May. Say your
prayers that morning II you find moth
ing better to kneel down by than a
coal scuttle, and say your prayers at
night though your knee comes down
on a 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. l have again and again been in
crises of moving day. and | have
stood appalled, and amazed and help
less in the shipwreck, taking as well
as | could those things that fioated
ashore from the breakers. 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 stiff
fened joints will become supple, and
your ruffled temper will be smoothed
of it's 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. |
have known people enjoy 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 a tallow
candle as under the glare of a chando-
lier, all the burners at full blaze. Who
was the happier John Bunyan in Bed
ford Jail or Belshazzar in the saturna-
liza? Contentment is something you
can neither rent ncr 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 old-fashioned toilet in
stead OF water pipes all through the
house? Less to freeze and burst when
you cannot get a 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 tesla
ment? Less to spoil your children. Is
it less money for marketing? Less
temptation to ruin the health OF your
family with pineapples and indigesti-
BILE salads. Is it little deaf? Not
nearing so many disagreeables.
l meet you this springtime at the
door OF your new home, and while |
help you lift the clothesbasket over
the banisters and the carman is get
ting red in the face in trying to trans
port that article of furniture to 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