Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-08
A School Where the Right Principles
Of Life are IucuIcated into Future
Men and Women.
The Blessings Of Life Only Half Com
plctc without the Advantages
Of The Home Circle.
THE ninth o. the series 81 raherns'''
sermons Delivered On The Marriage
Ring Yesterday
anoelal o lhe aa1elIo.

day In The Brooklyn Tabernacle tne
ninth Of his series Of sermons on 'The
Marriage Rug,n the subject being ''The
Domcstic Cirele,n Before the SERMON
ne read the names Of seventy new meme
bers, Masking The present number Of com
municants about thirty three hundred
The hymn sung was
ooh. could speah the maichicss worth
or cOuld sound tun alprles fpith
That IN 10Y savior nhineN
Appropuate passages OF scripture were
rend AMI oxpounded ~ DR. Talmage,
after which be TOOK bis text from Marx
". l0i AGO nome 70 thy friends, aud tfll
them how grout things the Lord bath
dome for thee Following IS the sernon
in full
There are d groat many people longing
for some grand sphere m which % serve
God. They admire Luther at the lliHt 81
Worms, aud only wish that thcY had some
such great opportunity Ia which TO dia-
play their Curlsuun prowcaH, Ihey ad-
nlrc Paul making Felix ifemblc, aud thoy
ouly wish that they had some such grand
occasion IN which ~ preach righteous
ness, temperance and Judgment to come
an they want IL only an opportunity 20
NAnlIlI IlillI AINlHAINH lA'ARi"hAf ANNN VIZ
Apostle comes TO us and he practcally
snyai 81 VIII show you a place where
YOU can exhibit all that IL grand and
beautiful aud glorious IN Christian char
nelcr, and that is the domestic circle
II one Is not faithful IN an Insignificant
sphere he will not he faithful IN rtsound-
na sphere. II Peter viii not help the Grip
pie at the gaze ot the temple he VIII
never DO able 10 preach 5000 souls Into
the kingdom at the Penlecost. II Paul
viii not take pains TO instruct ~ tho way
Of salvation the iailor Of the Philipnn
dungeon, he will never make Folk trcm-
Bile lie who lis not faithful Ia sklrmish
would not be faithful In an ArmugGddon
Tho fact Is we ara all placed Ia just the
position 10 which we can most grandly
serve God, aud we ought not 10 be
chiefly thoughtful about some sphere OF
usefulness which we may aftera white
gnin, but the all absorbing question with
you aud win me ought 10 boz lord,
what VIII Thou have ne now and here
TO dug'
Thoro Is one word In my text around
which The most OF our thoughts viii this
morning rcvOlyo That word * "llme. "
Ask ton dlncfont men the meaning OF that
word and they viii give you ten dlfGrent
definitions 10 Ong " means love at the
hearth, II means plenty az the table, in-
lustry at the workslund, Intelligence at
the books, devotion AZ the altar. To him
T. moaus nruoting NJ the door and u
smile at the chair Peace lowering like
wings JOY clappng lta hands with
laughter, Life Il tranquil lake Plllowod
ON tho rlpplOa sleep the shadows
ASK another man what home Is, and he
win tell you II Is want, looking out Of a
chcorlcss Hrc.grate, knoading hunger In
an empty hfcad.traY. The damp air
shiyering with curses. No Bible on the
shelf Children, robbers and murderors
In embryo. OBSCENE songs their lullaby
Every face II picture OF ruin, Want IN
tho background and sin staring from the
front No Sabbath wave rolling over
that doorall Vestlbnle OF tho pit
Shadow of internal walls Furnace fol
forging everlasting chains, Faggots foi
mn amending funeral pile. Awful word
II IN spelled with curses, II weopa Will
ruin, Il chokos with woe, II swoats viii
the death agony OF despair,
The word "homen In the one Gus,
means everything bright Tho wor,
"homen In the other case means every
thing terrific.
I shall speak TO you this morning O
homo as u test al character, homo as
refuge, home az q political safeguard
homr ns school and home as type c
heaven.
And IN tho first place remark, tina
home is n powerful test OF character
The dis iosilion IN public may be In "a
costume while In private II IL In dlshl
billie. As play actors may appear In on
th.,
another way behind the scenes, 80 pr
vatc character may be very different froI
public character Private character Is ofte
public character turned wrong side ou
4 man may receive you into hia parlo
as though he were diatillatlon OF snilci
and yet his heart mny be u swamp ot no
ties There are business men who u
day long urd mild and courteous an
genial and good naturcd Ia commcrcil
life, dammlng back their irrimhlllty an
their pctulancu and their discomfort, bi
at nlghtiall the dam breaks and sculdir
pours forth In floods and ircshetS
Reputation Ia only tho shadow
character and pcry small house som
times win cast very long shado'
Tho lips may seem to drop with myrl
and oassla, aud The dlspositi 10 60 be
bright aud warm us shoai OF sunbeam
and Yet they may be only magnitco
ahow.wlniow 60 wretched stock
goods There Is many u man who Is aft
bic In public lfe aud amid eomnercl
spheres who, 70 cowardly way, takca b
anger aud his petulanoo homo aud drol
them GA the domestic circle.
The reason men do not diepll
their had temper N public Is b
cause they do not want To
Knocked down. There arc men WI
hide their petulanoo and their irrltablli
Just for the same reason that they do n
lot thoirnOtes 40 TO protest II does n
pay. Or for tho same reason that they
not want man n their stock company
sell his stock az less than tho Right pric
lost II dcpreelate the value, As at som
tunes the wind rlsos, so after sunshIl
day there may hc tcmpesluous Nigh
There are people who Ia public act q
phllanlhroplst, who az homo ACT q
Nero with respect TO their slippers al
their gown.
Audubon, the great ornitholOplst, wi
gun and pencil, wen, through tho toree
81 America TO bring down and to sket
IA beautiful birds, and, after years