Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1899 — Page 6

A WORLDWIDE EVIL. REV. DR. TALMAGE CONDEMNS RESIDENCE IN HOTELS. (ontr»»U It With the Wholesome Influences That Surround Life In a Private Home — Children Get Into Bad Company. [Copyright. Lou’s Klopsch, ISOD.J Washington, July 9. — Home life versus hotel life is the theme of Dr. Talmage's serm m for today, the disadvantages Os a li f e spent at more or Jess temporary stopping places being sharply contrasted with the blessings that are found in the real home, however humble. The text is Luke x. 34. 35: "And brought him to au iun and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two lienee and gave them to the host and said unto him. Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when 1 cotne again I will repay thee." This is the good Samaritan paying the hotel bill of a man who had been robbed and almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had found the unfortunate on a lonely, rocky road, where to this very day depredations are sometimes committed upon travelers. and had put the injured man into the saddle, while this merciful and well to do man bad walked till they got to the hotel, and the wounded man was put to bed and cared for. It must have been a very superior hotel in its accommodations, for. though in the country, the landlord was paid at the rate of what in our country would be $4 or $5 a day. a penny being then a day's wages and the 2 pennies paid in this case about two days’ wages. Moreover, it was one of those kind hearted landlords who are wrapped up in the happiness of their guests, because the good Samaritan leaves the poor, wounded fellow to his entire care, promising that when he came that way : again he would pay all the bills until , the invalid got well. Hotels and boarding houses are ne- j cessities. In very ancient times they | were unknown, because the world had ■ comparatively few inhabitants, and those were not much given to travel. ; and private hospitality met all the wants of sojourners, as when Abraham rushed out at Mamre to invite the three men to sit down to a dinner ■ of veal, as when the people were posi- i lively commanded to be given to bos- I pitality. as in many places in the east these ancient customs are practiced to day. But we have now hotels presided over by good landlords and boarding houses presided over by excellent host or hostess in all neighborhoods, villages and cities, and it is our congratulation that those of our land surpass all other lands. They rightly become | the permanent residences of many people. such as those who are without families, such as those whose business keeps them migratory, such as those who ought not. for various reasons of health or peculiarity of circumstances. ; to take upon themselves the cares of housekeeping. A Present Evil. Many a man tailing sick in one of these boarding houses or hotels has : been kindly watched and nursed, and by the memory of her own sufferings and losses the lady at the head of such a house has done all that a mother could do for a sick child, and the slumberless eye of God sees and appreciates j her sacrifices in behalf of the stranger. Among the most marvelous cases of patience and Christian fidelity are many of those who keep boarding houses, enduring without resentment the unreasonable demands of their guests for expensive food and attentions for which they are not willing to pay an equivalent—a lot of cranky men and women who are not worthy to tie the shoe of their queenly caterer. The outrageous way in which boarders sometimes act to their landlords and landladies shows that these critical guests bad bad early rearing and that in the making up or their natures all that constitutes the gentleman and lady was left out. Some of the most princely men and some of the most elegant women that 1 know of today keep hotels and boarding houses. But one of the great evils of this day is found in the fact that a large population of our towns and cities are giving up and have given up their homes and taken apartments, that they may have more freedom from domestic duties and more time for social life and because they like the whirl of publicity better than the quiet and privacy of a residence they can call their own. The lawful use of these hotels and boarding bouses is for most people while they are in transitu; but as a terminus they are in many cases demoralization, utter and complete. That is the point at which families innumerable have begun to disintegrate. There never has been a time when so many families, healthy and abundantly able to support and direct homes of their own. have struck tent and taken permanent abode in these public establishments. It is an evil wide as Christendom, and by voice and through the newspaper press I utter warning and burning protest and ask Almighty God to bless the word, whether in the bearing or reading. Pandemonium of Gosnip. In these public caravansaries, the demon of gossip is apt to get full sway. All the boarders run daily the gantlet of general inspection—how they look when they come down in the morning and when they get in at night and wbat they do for a living, and who they receive as guests in tbeir rooms, and what they wear, and wbat they do not wear, and bow they eat. and what they eat. and how much they eat and how little they eat. If a man proposes in such a place to be isolated

r.nd reticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him: Who is he? Where did be come from? How long is be going to stay?* Has he paid his board? How much does lie pay? Perhaps he has committed some crime and docuot want to be known. There must be something wrong about him or he would speak. The whole house goes into the detective business. They must find out about him. They must find out about him right away. If he leave his door unlocked by accident, he will find that his rooms have been inspected. his trunk explored, his letters folded differently from the way they were folded when he put them away. Who is he? is the question asked with intenser interest, until the subject has liecome a monomania. The simple fact is that be is nobody in particular, but minds his own business. The best landlords and landladies cannot sometimes hinder their places from becoming a pandemonium of whisperers. and reputations are torn to tatters. and evil suspicions are aroused, and scandals started, and the parliament of the family is blown to atoms by some tfluy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as was bis English predecessor of gunpowdery reputation. The reason is that, while in private homes families have so much to keep them busy, in these promiscuous and | multitudinous residences there are so I many who have nothing to do, and that i always makes mischief. They gather in each other s rooms and spend hours I in consultation about others. If they had to walk a half mile before they got to the willing ear of some listener to < detraction, they would get out of breath | before reaching there and uot feel In full glow of animosity or slander, or might, because of the distance, not go at all. But rooms 20. 21. 22, 23. 24 and 25 are on the same corridor, and when one carrion crow goes "Caw! Caw!" all the other crows hear it and flock together over the same carcass. "Oh. I have beard something rich! Sit down and let me tell you all about it.” And the first guffaw increases the gathering. and it has to be told all over again, and as they separate each carries a spark from the altar of gab to some other circle until, from the coal heaver in the cellar to the maid in the top room of the garret, all are aware of the defamation, and that evening all who leave the house will bear it to other bouses until autumnal fires sweeping across Illinois prairies are less raging and swift than that flame of consuming reputation blazing across the village or city. Herding Together. Those of us who were brought up in the country know that the old fashioned hatching of eggs in the haymow required four or five weeks of brooding, but there are new modes of hatching by machinery, which take less time and do the work by wuolesale. So. while the private home may brood into life an occasional falsity and take a long time to do it. many of the boarding houses and family hotels afford a swifter and more multitudinous style of moral incubation, and one oil gos- | sip will get off the nest after one hour’s brooding, clucking a flock of 30 lies after her. each one picking up its little | worm of juicy regalement. It is no advantage to hear too much about your I neighbors, for your time will be so much occupied in taking care of their | faults that you will have no time to | look after your own. And while you I are pulling the chick weed out of their I garden yours will get all overgrown with horse sorrel and mullen stalks. One of the worst damages that come from the herding of so many people into boarding bouses and family hotels Is inflicted upon children. It is only another way of bringing them up on the commons. While you have your own private house you can. for the most part, control their companionship and their whereabouts, but by 12 years i of age in these public resorts they will ] have picked up all the bail things that can be furnished by the prurient minds of dozens of people. They will over- j hear blasphemies, and see quarrels, j and get precocious in sin. and what the bartender dees not tell them the porter or hostler or bellboy will.

Besides that the children will go out into this world without the restraining. < anchoring, steadying and all controlling memory of a home. Brom that none of us who have been blessed of ! such memory have escajted. It grips a man for S i years, if he lives so long. It pulls him back from doors into which he otherwise would enter. It smites him with contrition in the very midst of Lis dissipations. As the fish, already surrounded by the long wide i net. swim out to sea. thinking they can go as far as they please, and with gay toss of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on the beach, and after awhile the fishermen begin to draw in the net, hand over hand, aud hand over hand, and it is a long while before the captured fins begin to feel the net. and then they dart this way and that, hoping to get out, but find themselves approaching the shore, and are brought up to the very feet of the captors, so the memory of au early Lome sometimes seems to relax and let men out fartLer and farther from God, and farther and farther from shore; five years, ten years. 20 years. 30 years; but some day they find an irresistible mesh drawing them lack, and they are compelled to retreat from tbeir prodigality and wandering; and though they make desperate effort to escape the impression. and try to dive deeper down in sin. after awhile are brought clear back and held upon the Rock of Ages. A Lantniß Influence. If it be possible.© father and mother! let your sons and daughters go out into the world under the semiomnipotent memory of a good, pure home. About your two or three rooms in a boarding house, or a family hotel, you can cast no such glorious sanctity. They will think of these public caravansaries as an early stopping place, malodorous with old victuals, coffees perpetually

steaming and meats in everlasting j stew or broil, the air surcharged with I carbonic acid, and corridors, along which drunken boarders come staggering at 1 o'clock in the morning, rap- ■ ping at the door till the affrighted wife lets them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy of calling such a place a home. A home is four walls inclosing one family with identity of interest and a privacy from outside inspection so complete that it is a world in itself, no one entering except by permission bolted and barred ami chained against all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase so often used iu lawbooks and legal circles is mightily suggestive—every I man’s house is his castle, as much so I as though it had drawbridge, portcullis. redoubt, bastion and armed turret, i Even the officer of the law may not enter to serve a writ, except the door ■ be voluntarily opened unto him; burglary. or the invasion of it, a crime so I offensive that the law clashes its iron j jaws on any one who attempts it. I nless it tie necessary to stay for longer or shorter time in family hotel or boarding house—and there are thousands of instances in which it is necessary. as 1 showed you at the beginning —unless in this exceptional case, let neither wife nor husband consent to such permanent residence. The probability is that the wife will have to divide her husband’s time with public smoking or reading room or with some coquettish spider in search of unwary flies, and, if you do not entirely lose your husband, it will be because he is divinely protected from the disasters that have whelmed thousands of husbands, with as good intentions as yours. Neither should the husband. without imperative reason, consent to such a life unless he is sure bis wife can withstand the temptation of social dissipation which sweeps across such places with the force of the Atlantic ocean when driven by a Sep-: tember equinox. Many wives give up , their homes for these public residences. 1 so that they may give their entire time to operas, theaters, balls, receptions i and levees, and they are in a perpetual whirl, like a whip top spinning round and round and round very prettily until; it loses its equipoise and shoots off into a tangent. But the difference is. in i one case it is a top. and in the other a soul. Bletised Is the Home. Besides this there is an assiduous ac- I cumulation of little things around the private home, which in the aggregate j make a great attraction, while the den- I izen of one of these public residences is ; apt to say: "What is the use? 1 have no ' place to keep them if I should take I them." Mementos, brac-a-brac. curi- : osities. quaint chair or cozy lounge, upholsteries. pictures and a thousand | things that accrete in a home are dis I carded or neglected because there is no i homestead in which to arrange them. I And yet they are the case in which the pearl of domestic happiness is set. You ean never become as attached to the appointments of a boarding house or family hotel as to those things that you can call your own and are associated with the different members of your household or with scenes of thrilling | import iu your domestic history. Bless- , ed is that home in which for a whole lifetime they have l>eeu gathering, until every figure in the carpet, and every panel of the door, and every casement of the window has a chirography of its own. speaking out something about father or mother, or son or daughter, or friend that was with us awhile. Wbat a sacred place it becomes wben one can say: "la that room such a one was born: in that bed such a one died; in that chair I sat on the night I beard such a one had received a great public ■ bonor; by that stool my child knelt for her last evening prayer; here 1 sat to I greet my son as be came back from sea voyage: that was father’s cane: that I was mother’s rocking chair!” Wbat a joyful and pathetic congress of remi- ; niscences!

The public residence of hotel and boarding house abolishes the grace of hospitality. Your gnest does not want to come to such a table. No one wants to run such a gantlet of acute and merciless bypercriticism. Unless you have a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. I-'or exercise of this grace what blessing came to the S’.iunammite in the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the widow of Zarephath in the perpetual oil well of the miraculous cruse because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Rahab in the preservation of her life at the demolition of Jericho because she entertained the spies, and to Laban in the formation of an interesting family relation because of his entertainment of Jacob, and to i Lot in his rescue from the destroyed city because of his entertainment of the angels, and to Mary and Martha and Zaccbeus in spiritual blessing because they entertained Christ, and to Bublius in the island of Melita in the healing of his father because of the entertainment of I’auL drenched from the shipwreck, and of innumerable houses throughout Christendom upon which have come blessings from generation to generation because their doors swung easily open in the enlarging. ennobling, irradiating and divine grace of hospitality! I do not know what your experience Las lieen. but 1 have had men and women visiting at my house who left a benediction on every room—in the blessing they asked at the table, in the prayer they offered at the family altar, in the good advice they gave the children, in the gospelization that looked out from every lineament of their countenances —and their departure was the sword of bereavement. The queen of Norway. Sweden and Denmark had a royal eup of ten curves.or lips, each one having on it the name of the distinguished person who had drunk from it And that cup which we offer to others in Christian hospitality, though it be of the plainest

‘ earthenware, is a royal cup. and God can road on all its sides the names of those who have taken from it refreshment. But all this is impossible unless you have a home of your own. A Common Delation. It is the delusion as to what is necessary for a home that hinders so manjfrom establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor 20. nor 15. nor 10. nor 5, nor 3. In the right way plant a table and couch and knife and fork, aud a cup. and a chair, and you can raise a young paradise. Just start a home on however small a scale, aud it will grow. When King Cyrus was invited to dine with a bumble friend, the king made the one condition of his coming that the only dish be one loaf of bread, and the most imperial satisfactions have sometimes banqueted on the plainest fare. Do not be caught ;n the delusion of many thousands in postponing a borne until they can have an expensive one. That idea is the devil’s trap that catches men and women innumerable who will never have any home at all. Capitalists of America. build plain homes for the people! Let this tenement house system, in which hundreds of thousands of the people of our cities are wallowing in the mire, be broken up by small homes, where people can Lave their own firesides and their own altar. In this great continent there is room enough for every man and woman to have a home. Morals aud civilization and religion demand it. We want done all over this land what George Peabody and Lady Burdett-Coutts did in England, and some of the large manufacturers of this country have done for the villages and cities in building small houses at low rents so that the middle classes can Lave separate homes. They are the only class not provided for. The rich have their palaces. aud the poor have their poorhouses. and criminals have their jails, but what about the honest middle classes, who are able and willing to work and yet have small income? Let the capitalists, inspired of God and pure patriotism, rise and build whole 1 streets of small residences. The laborer may have, at the close of the day. to walk or ride farther than is desirable to reach it, but when he gets | to his destination in the eventide he will find something worthy of being called by that glorious and impassioned and heaven descended word—"home.” Plea For Children. Young married man. as soon as you can. buy such a place even if you have to put on it a mortgage reaching from base to capstone. The much abused mortgage, which is ruin to a reckless man. to one prudent and provident is I the beginning of a competency and a fortune for the reason he will not be satisfied until be has paid it off. and all the household are put on stringent economies until then. Deny yourself all superfluities and all luxuries until . you can say. “Everything in this house is mine, thank God —every timber, every brick, every foot of plumbing, every doorsill." Do not have your children born in a boarding house, and do not yourself be buried from one. Have a place where your children can shout aud sing and romp without being overhauled for the racket. Have a kitchen where you can do something toward the reformation of evil cookery and the lessening of this nation of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost one of his great battles by an attack of indigestion, so many men have such a daily wrestle with the food swallowed that they have no strength left for the battle of life. and. though your wife may know how to play on all musical instruments and rival a prima donna, she is not well educated unless she can boil an Irish potato and broil a mutton chop, since the diet sometimes decides the fate of families and nations. Have a sitting room with at least one easy chair, even though you have to take turns at sitting in it. and books out of the public library or of your own purchase for the making of your family intelligent, and checkerboards, and guessing matches, with an occasional blind man’s buff, which is of all games my favorite. Rouse up your home with all styles of innocent mirth and gather up in your children’s nature a reservolrof exuberance that will pour down refreshing streams when life gets parched, and the dark days come, and the lights go out, and the laughter is smothered into a sob. First, last and all the time have Christ in your home. Julius Caesar calmed the fears of an affrighted boatman who was rowing in a stream by saying. "So long as Caesar is with you in the same boat, no harm can happen." And whatever storm of adversity or bereavement or poverty may strike your home, all is well as long as you have Christ the king on board. Make your home so farreaehing in its influence that down to the last moment of your children's life you may bold them with a heavenly charm. At 76 years of age the Demosthenes of the American senate lay dying at Washington — I mean Henry Clay of Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside, and "the old man eloquent.” after a long and exciting public life, transatlantic and cisatlantic, was back again in the scenes ■■ of his boyhood, and he kept saying in bis dream over and over again. “My mother, mother, mother!” May the parental influence we exert be not only potential, but holy, and so the home on earth be the vestibule of our home in heaven, in which place may we ail meet—father, mother, son. daughter, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother and grandchild, and the entire group of precious ones, of whom we must say in the words of transporting Charles Wesley: One tamiiy eweii in him. One < Lurch above, beneaih. Though now divided by the stream— The narrow stream of death; One army of the living God, To his command we bow; Par. of the host have crossed th* flood And part are crosaiag now.

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