Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-29
DIFFICULTY SETTLED.
I'm MATTERS OF CHURCH ATTENDANCE
SHOULD THE WIFE GO WITH THE
Husband or the Husband Go With the Wife" W.
Have Wealth of Religious Privilege and
OBportunity-Eaeh Church Has Enough
ofGOOd to Save the Soul.
So/r;ol TJ1eornm 10 The ReQiSer.

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BROOKLYN, n. Y, November 2S.-Th'
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, ID, preached
in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning
on the subject: I'm Matters of Churcl
Attendance Should the Wife Go with th'
Husband or the Husband Go with th'
Wife" The Tabernacle still retains th'
decorations of Thanksgiving day, bein!
specimens of American products from th'
North, South, East and West. A vas
congregation sang the opening hymn, be
ginning:
Come, let us join our friends above
Who have obtained the prize,
And on the eagle wings love
To joys celestial rise"
For the greater part, the hymns used il
DR.. Talmage's church are old and familiar
and when the whole audience rises to sing
led by Professor Ali, the cornetist, ant
Professor Henry Eyre Browne, the organ
list, the effect is Overpowering
DIR. Talmage's text was from the thir
teenth chapter of Genesis, and parts of thu
eighth and ninth verses. LET there bC
no strife pray thee, between me ant
thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen. Is not the whole land before
thee?" DR.. Talmage said:
UNCLE AND NEPHEW,
Abram and Lot, both pious, both million
aires, and with such large tlOcks of blCat
ing sheep and lowing cattle, that theil
herdmen got into Il fight, perhaps about
the best pasture, or about the best water
privilege, or because the COW of one got
hooked by the horns of the other. Not
their poverty of opportunity, but their
wealth was the cause of controversy he,
tween these two men. TO Abram, the
glorious old Bedouin Sheik, such cOntrO.
verSy seemed absurd. 1t was like two
ships quarrelling tor SEA room in the mid
die OF the Atlantic ocean. There WAS a
vast reach OF country, corn fields, vine
yards, harvcstS, and plenty of room, in
! illimitable acreage. Now" says Abram,
''lct It's agree 10 differ. Here are the
mountain districts, swept by the tonic sea
brcezcs, and with wide reaching prospect
or there is the plain OF the Jordan, with
tropical luXuriance. You may have
either Lot, who was not as rich aS
Abram, and might have been expected tC
take the second choice, made the first
selection, and with q mOdesty that must
have made Abram smile, said to him:
"YOu may have the rocks and the line
prospects; will take the valley OF the
Jordan, with all its luxuriance of corn
fields, and the river to water the tlOCkS,
and the genial climate and the wealth i'm
measurable" So the controversy was
forever settled, and gre t-Suuled Abram
carried out the suggestion of the text
"l."t there be no strife, II pray thee, be
tween me and thee, and between my
hcrdmen and they hcrdmcn. Is not the
whole land before thee
Well, in This, the last quarter of tho
Nineteenth Century, and in this beautiful
land, which was called America, after
AmcricuS Vcspucius. but ought to have
been called Columbia, after its diScoycrer,
COLUMBUS, we have
\ WEALTH OF RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGE
and opportunity that is positively be.
wldering. ChruCheS of all. styles Oi
crecds, and OF all styles of govemn cnt,
and of all styles OF worship, and of al
styles OF architecture. What Opulcncc OF
ecclesiastical opportunity! Now, while
in desolate regions there may he only
ing. in the opulent districts of this
country, there is such proiu'
sion that there ought to he no difficulty
in making selection. No fight about
vestmcntS, or between liturgical or non
liturgic;h adherentS, or rs To haptSmal
modes, or handful of water rs compared
with river-full. If Abram prefers ia
dwell in the heights, where he can only
get Il Sprinkling from the clouds, let him
consent that Lot have all the Jordan III
which to immersc himself. "Lct there bC
no strife, pray thee, between thee and
me, and between thy herdmen and my
herlman. Is not the whole land before
thee"
Especially is it unfortunate when EImi-
lies allow, ut the breakfast, or dining, OF
tea table angry discussions rs TO which is
and Mt one end of the table saying he could
never endure the rigid doctrines of Pres.
byterianiSm, one ut the other end respond
ing that she never could stand 1.-THE forms
OF EplScOpacy, and one ut one side of the
table saying he did not understand how
anybody could stand the noise in the
Methodist church, and another declaring
oil In INn Inn
dreds of families hopelesSly split on ecclc-
siaSticiSn and in the middle OF every dis
cuSSon on such subjects, there is n kind
ling of indignation, and it needs some old
father Abram to come and put his foot on
the loaded fuse before the explosion takes
place, and say: Let there be no strife
pray thee, between me and thee, and be-
tween my herdmen and thy herdmen. Is
not the whole land before thee?"
undertake a subject never before Il H.
taken in any pulpit, for it is an exceed
ingly delicate subject, and if not rightly
handled might give serious Oflense, but
approach it without the slightest trepida-
ton, for am sure have the DivineS di-
rection in the matters propose to present.
1t is OF tremendous question, asked all
over ChriStendom often asked with
tears, and sobS, and heart
breaks, and involving the peace of famil-
les, the eternaal happiness of many souls.
In matters of church attendance should
the wife 20 with the husband, or the
husband 20 with the wife?
First, remember that all the evangel-
cal churches
HAVE ENOUGH TRUTH
in them to save the soul, and prepare us
for happiness on earth and in heaven.
| will 20 with you into any well-selected
theological library, and will show you
sermons from ministers in all denomina-
tionS that set forth man rs sinner and
Christ rs deliverer from sin and sorrow.
That is the whole Gospel. Get that in
TO your soul and you are fitted for the
here and the hereafter. The world has
twenty-six letters in its alphabet and
there are only two letters in the Gospel
alphabet-S and c; S standing for our sin,
c standing for Christ. our Rescue, blessed
be his glorious name forever! In any
church where you can thoroughly learn
these two letters, and all they stand for,
you ought to be edited and happy. There
are differences we admit, and some de-