The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-30
I 4'ULPIT UTTERANCES.
THINGS THAT NEED ROUGH HANDLING.
terrible Evils which Ruin Homes and
Wreck Human Lives = Trenohant
Words which Many Persons
May Apply to Themselves.


Rev. DR.. It. Do Witt Talmage preached Sun
ny in the. Brooklyn Tabernacle on "rhe
eath-Kettle" taking for his text portion
{ III. Kings, iv., 40: "Oh thou man OF
cd, there Is death in the pot"
Elisha had gone down to lecture to the
geological students in the seminary at
silgal He found the students very hun
y. Students are apt to be- In order
nat he might proceed with his lectures
lccessfully he sends out some servants to
ather food for the hungry students. The
srvants are somewhat reckless In their
York, and while they gather up some
ealthful herbs, they at the same time
.ather coloquintida, bitter, poisonous,
teathful weed, and they bring all the
cribs TO the house and put them in cal
ron and stir them up, and then bring the
ood TO the table, where are seated the
sudents and their professor One OF the
Sudents takes some of the mixture and
iuts IL to his lips and Immediately tastes
he colequintida, and he cries out to the
Professor: "Oh, thou man Of God, there is
cath in the potW What CONSERVATION il
brew upon the groupl What fortunate
hing it was he found out in time so as to
ave the lives Of his comrades. Well,
here are now in the world great many
,aldrons Of death. The coloquintida of
Mighty temptations fills them. Some
aste and quit, and are saved; others taste
md eat on, and die. Is not that minister
II Christ doing the right thing when he
oints out these caldrons of iniquity, and
ries out the alarm, saying: "Beware
there is death In the potp In palace in
florence there is fresco of Giotto. For
lany years that fresco was covered up
yith two inches thickness of whitewash,
9nd it has only been in recent times that
he hand of art has restored that fresco.
What sacrilege," you say, "to destroy
he work Of such a great masterp But
there is no sadness in that compared with
he fact that the image Of God In the soul
aas been covered up and almost obliterated
- that no human hand can restore the
Divine lineaments.
Iniquity is a coarse, jagged thing that
needs to be roughly handled. You have
10 right to garland 1t with fine phrase or
.lstrous rhetoric. You can not catch q
5uffalo with silken lasso. Men have no
objections to having their sins looked at IN
pleasant light. They will be very glad
20 sit for their photographs II you make a
handsome picture. But every Christian
philanthropist must sometimes 20 forth
aud come in violent collision with trans.
,,ression. was in a whaling port and saw
vessel that had been on a whaling cruise
g,,N, l. IA n
sal and spliced rigging and bespattered
!eck, showing hard times and rough work.
And so have seen Christian philanthro.
pists come back from some crusade against
public iniquities. They have been com.
pelled TO acknowledge that It has not been
yachting over summer lakes, but it has
been out riding tempest and harpoonine
great behemoths. A company OF emf.
grants settled in wild region. The very
first day beast from the mountains comes
iown and carries Off one Of the children,
and the next day another beast comes and
carries off another child. Forthwith all
;he neighbors band together, and, with
torch in one hand and gun in the other,
they go down into the caverns where
hose wild beasts are secreted and slay
.hem. Now want 10 go back Of all public
niquity and find out its hiding place.
want to know what are the sources Of It's
power, or, to resume the figure Of my text
want to know what are the caldrons
from which these iniquiies are dipped
Jut
First; Unhappy and undiscipllned homes
are the source of much iniquity A goot
home is deathless in its influence. Parents
may be gone. The old homestead mqy be
sold and have passed out of the possession
II the family. The house itself may bt
.orn down. The meadow brook that rar
in front Of the house may have changed It's
course or have dried up. The long line o,
lld-fashioned sunHowers and the hedges
II wild rose may have been graded, and IL
place thereof are now the beauties Of mod
orn gardening. The old poplar tree may
Lave cast down its crown Of verdure and
may have fallen. You say you would like
70 go back a little while and sec that home,
md you go, and, oh, how changed 1t is
Yet that place will never lose its charm
over your soul. That first earthly home
viii thrill through your everlasting career
The dewdrops that you dashed from the
chick-weed as you drove the cows afleld
thirty years ago; the fre-flies that flashed
IN your fathers home on summer nights
when the evenings were too short for
candle; the tinged pebbles that you gath
cred In your apron on the margin Of the
brook; the berries that you strung into
necklace, and the daisies that you plucked
Tor your hair-all have gone into your
continents and tastes, and you will never
getover them. The trundle bed where you
,lept, the chair where you sat, the blue.
sdged dish out Of which you ate, your
sisters jumping rope, your brothers. ball,
your kite, your hoop, your mothers smile,
your fathers frown-they are all part oi
the fiber Of your immortal nature. The
mother Of Missionary Schwartz threw
light on the dusky brow Of the savages 10
whom he preached long after she was
lead. The mother Of Lord Byron pursued
him, as with hend's fury, into all lands,
tretching gloom and death into Childs
Harold and lowering in darkness over the
.onely grave Of Missolonghi.
Rascally and vagabond people for the
most part come forth from unhappy homes
Parents harsh and cruel, on the one hand
or on the other lenient TO perfect loose
ness, are raising up generation Of vipers.
e A home In which scolding and fault find