Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-04
Religion at Home.

Home is the place where men
need their religion most, because it
is at home that men are not only
most tempted. but most inclined to
show their meanness. There is sell
dom any one to call man toac
count in his own house. There he
can; too often play the tyrant or the
ruffian with impunity; and there he
not unfreqnently does 50 misbehave
himself as to render his presence
intolerable to all within his power.
There are tens of thousands of
persons in this city who profess to
be Christians; and it would be in
teresting. to get at the precise num-
Der of these whose families or de-
pendents derive any benefit from
their masters supposed religion
whose wives thank God that they
have religious husbands, whose
children thank God that they have
religious fathers, whose employees
thank God that they have religious
employers. We hope there are
many such, because the professedly
religious man whose wife and chill
dren and employees do not have oc-
casion to thank God for a religious
husband and father and employer,
has no religion which will pass
muster either in this world or in
that which is to come. Nor are the
employed exempt from these condi-
tions any more than the employers.
A truly religious man, whatever his
station, puts his religion into his
daily life and vocation, and makes it
tell beneficently in the humblest
duties as well as in the highest.
These remarks and principles
apply to women no less than to men.
The wife whose religion does not
lead her to try to make her home
the blesse,lest place on earth foI
her husband and her children, will
attend prayer-meetings and sewing:
circles in vain; and in vain also
Will she who fills. her house with
scolding all the week attune hel
discordant voice in church to Sunday
psalms. ''As a sandy way is to
weary feet, so is the tongue of 8
scolding woman in a house." Poor
old Solomon! We have otter
thought that proverb must have
been wrung from the very depths
of his soul some night when, having
come home across the desert OF
foot, his six hundred wives went a
him with shrewish tongues and ev
cry one gave him 'piece of hel
mind,'' because he had forgotten te
bring her a camers Hair shawl, o.
some other coveted article OF femi
nine gear.
Let it be understood that whe1
we say religion we mean religion
and not theology 1t is to be re
grettcd that as rule the more
man runs to theology, the less ap
f he is 10 practice that reli gion which
s.is pure and undefiled before Coo
| and the Father Milton, who ha
: perhaps done more than any othe
man, with the Single exception 0
Paul, to fix the theology Of Protes
tant Christendom. represents, il
paradise Lost" theological discus
sions as being one of the favorit
employments and amusements il
| hell. AS soon as tile devils got
little leisure, after building Pande
monium, they went at theology,
) -"and reasoned high
ofprcvidence, fcreknowledge, will, and fate
/ Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute
And found no end, in wandering ma.es lost.
l He'll is probably the very bes
Y place in tile universe for just tha
kind of thing; whereas home is til
: best place on earth for the exhibi
ton of the downright religion
Y grace and virtues, whereby in trut
the curse of mans Punishment fron
!; paradise, his primeval home, may
5 under God, be mitigated by maxim:
of every Christian home paradise
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