St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-02-13

ture of Home Pleasures.
We give below the fourth of Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage's series of discourses or
"The Marriage Ring" delivered recently
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The text
was:
Can two walk together, except they be
agreed-Amos ILL.,, 3.
He said: No, Amos, they can not. They
will be tripping each other up. or pushing
each other down. Married life under such
circumstances will be the sounding of per
petual warhoop. In this course of ser.
mons on "The Marriage Ring" will to.
day speak of the mutual duties of husband
and wife, preparatory to discourses on
their individual duties.
A church within church, republic
within a republic, a world within world
is spelled by four letters-home! If things
go right there, they go right everywhere; if
things go wrong there, they go wrong
everywhere. The door-sill of the dwell
ing is the foundation of Church and
State. A man never gets higher than his
own garnet or lower than his own cellar,
In other words, domestic life overarches
and undergirds all other life The highest
house of Congress is the domestic circle;
the rocking chair in the nursery is higher
than the throne. George Washington
commanded the forces of the United
States, but Martha Washing.
ton commanded George. Chrysostom's
mother made his pen for him. If man
should start out and run seventy years In
straight line, he could not get out from
under the shadow of his own nantlepiece.
therefore talk to you this morning about
matter of infinite and eternal moment
when l speak of your home.
As individuals we are fragments God
makes the race in part, and then he grad
ually puts us together. What lack you
make up; what you lack / make up: our
deficits and surplusses of character being
the cog wheels in the great social mechan-
ism. One person has the patience, another
has the courage, another has the placidity,
another has the enthusiasm; that which is
lacking in one is made up by another, or
IN ade up by all. Buffaloes in herds, grouse
in broods, quails in flocks, the human race
in circles. God has most beautifully ar
ranged this. 1t is in this way that he
balances society; this conservative and
that radical keeping things even. Every
ship must have it's mast, cutwater, taffrail,
ballast. Thank God, then, for Princeton
and Andover, for the opposites. /
have no more right to blame a man for
being different from me than driving
p@oo hac Dr. srwF% %<,L ~.
hat holds it to the center. John Wesley
balances Calvin's Institutes. A cold think
IT gives to Scotland the strong bones of
theology; DR.. Guthrie clothes them with a
hrobbing heart and warm flesh. The diff |
iculty is that we are not satisfied with just |
he work that God has given US to do. The |
water wheel wants to come inside the mill |
md grind the grist and the hopper wants |
o go out and dabble in the water. Our |
lsefulness and the welfare of society de- |
'end upon our staying in just the place |
hat God has put us or intended we should |
occupy. II
For more compactness, and that we may
% more useful, we are gathered in still
mailer circles in the home group. And
here you have the same varieties again;
rothers, sisters, husband and wife, all
ifferent in temperament and tastes. 1t is
that it should be so. If the hus-
and be all impulse the wife must be all
rudence. Ii one sister be sanguine in
Ter temperament the other must be
'mphatic. Mary and Martha are me-
sssities. There will be no dinner for
hrist If there be no Martha; there
7ill be no audience for Jesus il there be
0 Mary. The home organization is most
sautifully constructed Eden is gone;
he bowers are all broken down; the ami
lals that Adam stroked with his hand
lat morning when they came up to get
eir names have since shot forth tusk and |
ing, and growled panther at panther;
Id midair, iron beaks plunge till with
Cited wing and eyeless sockets the twain
me whirling down from under the sun
blood and fire. Eden has gone, but
ere is just one. little fragment left. It
'ated down on the river Hiddekel out of
iradise. 1t is the marriage institution. {
does not, as at the beginning, take {
way from man rib. Now it is an addi- ;
IN of ribs. :
There are some things that I want to t
ing before you. I know there are those /
you who have had homes set up for
eat many years; and, then, there are O
ose here who have just established their @
me. They have only been in it a few g
'nths or few years. Then, there are b
ose who will, after awhile, set up for c.
smselves home, and it is right that I T
oufd speak out upon these themes. a.
dy first counsel to you is, have Jesus in a
UT new home, if it be new home; and s
him who was guest at Bethany be in -
ur household; let the divine blessing
Up upon your every hope and plan and h
oectation. Those young people who be- Il
with God end with heaven. Have on RI