Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-01
MATRIMONIAL DISCORD.
REV. TALMAGE ON THE MUTU-
AL DUTIES OF NAN AND WIFE.

Within tho Word HOme-Jesus Must
be in Homes IL They are Happy Ones,
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. Sl.-This morn
ing fully 5000 persons were present in
side the Tabernacle and as many vaiuly
attempted to enter the building, repre-
senting the usual attendance when the
Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, d. D., is at
home. The musical exercises were ex-
ceedingly interesting, aud included a per-
formance on the organ of Thiele's Con-
cert-Satz No. 1, in c Minor, by Prof.
Henry Eyre Browne. The congregation
sang the hymn beginning:
''Joy to the world. the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her king"
DR.. Talmage founded his remarks on the
subject: Husband and Wife in Harmo-
ny or Out of Tune," on Amos III, g..
"Can two walk together, except they be
agreedr' He said:
No, Amos, ,-theY cannot. They will be
tripping each other up, or pushing each
other down. Married life under such cir
cumstances will be the sounding of per-
petual warwhoOp. In this course OF ser
mons on ''Fhe Marriage Ring l will to-
day speak OF the mutual duties of hus-
baud and wife, preparatory to discourses
on their Individual duties.
A church within a church, a republic
within republic, world within world,
is spelled by four letters-HOmel IL
things go right there, they 90 right every
where; II things go wrong there, they go
wrong everywhere. The door sill of the
dweIling-hOuse is the foundation Of
Church and State. man never gets
higher than his own garret or lower than
his own cellar. In other words, domestic
life 0verarches ana undeTgirds all other
life. The highest house OF Congress is the
domestic circle; the rocking chair in the
nursery is higher than a throne. George
Washington commanded the forces OF the
United States, but Mary Washington
commanded George. ChrysostOm's
mother made his pen for him. II man
should start out and run 20 years in a
straight line he could not get out from un.
der the shadow OF his own mantel-piece.
| therefore talk to you this morning about
a matter OF infinite aud eternal moment
when speak of your home.
AS individuals we are fragments. God
makes the race in part, and then ne grad.
uaily puts us together. WHAT I lack, you
make up; what you lack ! make up; our
deficits and surplusses Of character being
the cog wheels in the great social me-
chanism. 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 made up by all. Bufflloes
in herds, grouse in brOods, quAils in
1ocks, the human race In circles. God
has most beautifully arranged this. 1t is
IN this way that be balances society; this
conservative and that radical keeping
nVnV IA in Haf hsaur i'm
mast, cutwater, taffrail, ballast. Thank
God, then, for Princeton and Andover,
for the Opposites. i have no more
right to blame man for being different
from me than drivIng-Wheel has a right
TO blame the iron shaft that holds 1t TO the
centre. John Wesley balances Calvin's
Institutes. A cold thinker gives to Scot
land the strong bones Of theology; DIR.
Guthrie clothes them with tnrObbing
heart and warm flesh. The difficulty is
that we are not satisfied WITH Just the
work that God has given us to do. The
water-wheel wants to come inside the
mill and grind the grist, and the hopper
wants to go out and dabble in the water.
Our usefulness and the welfare of society
depend upon our staying in just the place
that God has put US, or intended we
should occupy.
For more compactness, and that we
may be more useful, we are gathered in
still smaller circles in the home group.
And there you have the same varieties
again; brothers, sisters, husband and
wife; all different in temperaments and
tastes. IL is fortunate that 10 should be
so. If the husband be all impulse. the
wife must be all prudence. If one sister
be sanguine IN her temperament, the
other must be lymphatic. Mary and
Martha are necessities. There will be no
dinner for Christ il there be no Martha;
there will be no audience for Jesus If there
be no Mary. The home organization is most
beautifully constructed. Eden has gone:
the bowers are all broken down; the ami
mails that Adam stroked with his hand
that morning when they came up 10 get
their names have since shot forth tusk
and sting, and grOwled panther at
panther; ana mid-air, iron beaks plunge
till with clotted wing and eyeless sockets
the twain come whiring down from un-
der the sun in blood and ERE. Eden has
gone, but there is just one little fragment
lett. 1t fiOated down on the river Hid.
dekel out OF Paradise. is the marriage
institution. IL does not, as at the begin
ming. take away from man rio. Now 1t
is an addition OF ribs.
This institution OF marriage has been
detained in our day. and influences are
abroad trying 10 turn this earth into
Turkish harem or great salt Lake City.
eWhile the pulpits have been compare
lively silent, nOYels--their cheapness on
ly equalled Dy their nasuness-are trying
% educate, have taken upon themselves
TO educate. this nation in regard 10 holy
marriage, winch makes or breaks for time
and eternity. Oh this is not mere
question OF residence or ward
robe! II Is question charged
With gigantic JOY or sorrow, with heaven
or hell Alas for this new dispensatiou
Of George 5andsl Alas for the mingiing
OF the nightshade with the marriage gar.
lands! Alas for the venom OF adders spit
into the tankardsl Alas for the wni8
frOst5 OF eternal death that Kill theordnge
blossoms The Gospel OF Jesus Christ Ia
TO assert what is right and 10 assert what
Is wrong. Attempt has been made TO
take the marriage institution, which was
intended for the happiness and elevation
OF the race, and make 70 mere COM
mercial enterprise; an exchange Of
houses and LANDS and equipage; busi.
ness partnership OF two stuged up
with the stories OF romance aud
knight crrantry, and uniaithiul.
ness and feminine angolkood. The two
alter awhile have reused up 10 md that.
instead OF the paradise they dreamed OF,
they have got nothing but Van Am.
burgh's menugerie, filled with tigers and
Wild cats. Eighty thousand divorces In
Paris in one year preceded the worst rev.
0lutlOn that France ever saw. II was
only the first course in that banquet Of
bell and tell you that you know as well
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