The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-02-17
TALNAGES SERMON.
~ourth' Discourse ofsthe' Series on
the Marriage Rig"

~ourth' Discourse ofsthe" Series on
the Marriage Rirg."
THE Mutual Duties Of Husbaad end wife,
With Suggestion On the Preservation
Of Domestic Harmony and Gull
tire u Hsme Pleasures.
We give below tho fourth Of Rev. +. D..
Witt Tslmage's series Of discourses ON
''The Marriage Ring" delivered recently
In the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The text
was: "a,
Can two walk together. except they ~
agreed-Amos H.. (: Al y
He said: No. AMOS, they can not. They
viii be tripping each other up, or pushlng
each other down. Married life undsr such
circumstances win be the sounding Of per.
petual warhoop. In this course Of SER
mons on 1.-THE Marriage Ring" I will TO-
day speak of the mutual duties Of husband
and wife, preparatory to discourses on
their individual duties. ,,f,-tr. "a
A church within church, a republic
within republic, world within world.
is spelled by four ietters-home! II things
60 right there, they 60 right everywhere III
things go wrong there, they 60 wrong
everywhere. The door.sill OF the dwell
ing-house 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 10 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. II man
should start out and run seventy years in
straight line, he could not get out from
under the shadow of his own mantlepiece
] therefore talk to you this morning about
a matter OF infinite and eternal moment
when speak Of your home.
As individuals we are fragments. God
makes the race IN part, and then he grad.
nally 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 enthusias m; that which is
lacking In one is made up by another, or
N ade hpby all. Buffaioes in herds, grouse
in broods, quails in hocks, the human race
s,. nd koc hoo ,,ktf,,llv =.
ranged this. It Is In this way that he
balances society; this conservative and
that radical keeping things even. Every
ship must have it, mast, cutwater, tatfrail,
ballast. Thank God, then, for Princeton
and Andover, for the opposites.
have no more right to blame man for
being different from me than driving
wheel has right to blame the iron shaft
that holds Il 10 the center. John Wesley
balances Caivin's Institutes. A cold think
or gives TO Scotland the strong bones Of
theology; DR.. Guthrie clothes them with .
throbbiAg heart and warm flesh. The Diff
flculty is that We are not satisfied with just
the work that God has given Us TO do. The
water-whesl wants 10 come Inside the mill
and grind the grist and Che hopper wants
to 20 out and dabble In the water. Our
usefulness and The welfare Of society de-
pend upon our staying IN just the place
that God has put % o. 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 sanAs varieties again
brothers, sisters, husband and wife, a
different in temperament and tastes. 1t Il
fortunate that II should he so. II the hus
band be all impulse the wife must be al
prudence. If one sister be sanguine il
liner temperament the other must b
EMPHATIC. Mary and Martha are ne
cessities. There win be no dinner TO
Christ il there be no MARTHA Their
will be no audience for Jesus If there b
no Mary. The home organization Is mos
beautifully constructed. Eden is gone
the bowers are all broken down; the ami
loals that Adam stroked with his ham
that morning when they came up to ge
their names have since shot forth tusk ant
sting, and growled panther at panth or
aud midair, iron beaks plunge till witt
clotted wing and ey sless sockets the twail
come whirling down from under the SUI
in blood and fire. Eden has gone, bu
there is just one little fragment left.
floated down on the river Hiddekel out o.
Paradise. II Is the marriage institution
1t does not, % at the beginning, tax
away from man rib. Now 1t is an addi
ton of ribs. a-7---a.a.
This institution of marriage has been de
famed in our day, and influences Or
abroad trying to turn this earth into ,
Turkish harem or . great Salt Lake City
While the pulpits have been comparative
ly silent, novels-their cheapness onl,
e1ualed by their nastiness-are trying Il
educate, have taken upon themselves +
educate, this Nation in regard to hol,
marriage, which makes or breaks for tim
aud for eternity. Oh, this Is not
mere question Of residence or wardrobe
1t is question charged With gigantic 10,
or sorrow, with Heaven or hell. Alas 70
this new dispensation of Georg
Sands! Alas for the minglin
of the nightshade with the mar
riage garlandsi Alas for the venom
of adders spit into the tankardsl Alas 70
the white frosts Of eternal death that XII
the orange blossomsi The gospel of Jesu
Christ is 10 assert what is right and to o.
sert what 10 wrong. Attempt has bee
made to- take the marriage institution
which was intended for the happiness an
elevation u Ne race, and make It mer
commercial enterprise; an exchange q
houses and lands and equipage; bushes
partnership of two stuffed up with th
stories Of romance and knight errantry
and unfaithfuluess and feminine ange
hood. The two after awhile have rouse