St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-01
Dr.. Talmage's Sunday Morning Sermon
Upon Husband and Wife in Har-
mony or Out of Tune.
The Domestic Circle Over-Arches and
Undergirds All Else of Earthly
Existence.
Mr.. Beeeher breaches Upon Christ's
Intercession aud the Relationship
OF Science and Faith.
All the Questions Which the Soul
Would Ask Answe-less Except
Through Christ.
DIR. TaImage,s sermon.

together except they be agreed?' He said:
No, Amos, they cannot They will be trip
ping each other up, or pushing each other
down. Married life under such circum-
stances will be the sounding of perpetual
warwhoOp. In this course of sermons on
The Marriage Ring l will to-day speak of
the mutual duties of husband and wife.
preparatory to dscourses OH their indiyid-
ual duties. A church within a church, a
republic within republic, world within a
world, Is spelled by four letters-home! If
things 90 right there they go right every
where: if things go wrong there they
go wrong everywhere. The door sill of the
dwelling house is the foundation of church
and state. A man never gets higher than
his own garnet, nor lower than his own
cellar. In other words domestic life over
reaches and undeTgirds all other life. The
highest house or congress is the domestic
circle; the rOcking-chair in the nursery is
higher than throne. George Washington
commanded the forces OF the United States
but Mary Washington commanded George
ChrysOstOm's mother made his pen for him.
If man should start out and run for sew
enty years in straight line he could not
get out from under the shadow of his own
mantelpieee. therefore talk to you this
nal moment when L speak OF your home.
EDEN HAS GONE;
the bowers are all broken down; the ami
mails that Adam stroked with his hand that
morning when they came up to get their
names have since shot forth tusk and sting,
and grOwled panther at panther; and mid
air, iron beaks plunge till with clOtted wing
and eyeiess sockets the twain come whirl-
ing down from under the sun in blood and
fire. Eden has gone. but there is just one
little fragment left. 1t fiOated down on the
liver Hlddekel out OF paradise. 1t is the
marriage institution. 1t does not, as at the
beginning, take away from man a rib. Now
IL is an addition of ribs. There are some
things that L want 10 bring before YOU
/ know there are those of you who have
had homes set up for u great many years;
and then, there are those here who have
just established their home. They
have only been in it a few months.
or few years. Then, there are those who
will. after a while, set I'D for themselves a
home, and il is right that l should speak
out upon these themes. My first counsel
TO you Is, have Jesus in your new home, il
it be new home; and let Him who was a
guest at Bethany be in your household; let
the Divine blessing drop upon your every
hope and plan and expectation. Those
young people who begin with God end with
heaven. Have on your right hand the en-
gagement ring of the Divine affection. If
one OF you be Christian, let that one take
Bible and read few verses in the even
ing-time, and then
KNEEL DOWN
and commend yourselves TO Him who set
teth the solitary i'm families. i want 10 tell
you that the destroying angel passes by
without touching or entering the dOorpost
spTinkled with the blood of the everlasting
covenant Why is il that in some families
they never get along. and in others they al
ways get along well? l have watched such
cases and have come to conclusion. In
the first instance nothing seemed to 20
pleasantly. and after while came devasta-
ton. domestic disaster or enhancement
Why? They started wrong. In the other
case, although there We're hardships and
some things that had to be explained, still
things went on pleasant until the
very last. Why? They started right.
My advice to you in your home is. to exer-
else to the very last possibility of your
nature the law of forbearance. Prayers in
the household will not make up for every
thing. Some of the best people i'm the
world are the hardest to get along with.
meetings and pray like angels. who at home
are uncOmpromising and cranky. You may
not have everything Just as you want il.
Sometimes il will be the duty OF the hns-
band and sometimes of the wife to Yield;
but both stand punctiliOusly on your rights
and you will have a Waterloo with no
Butcher coming up at nightfall to decide the
conflict. Never be
ASHAMED TO APOLOGIZE
when you have done wrong in domestic af-
fairs. Let that be law of your household
l have one more word of advice to give to
those who would have happy home. and
that is, let love preside in it. When your
behavior in the domestic circle becomes a
mere matter of calculation; when the caress
you give is merely the result of deliberate
study of the position you occupy, happi-
ness lies stark dead on the hearth-stone.
When the husbands position as head of the
household is maintained by lOudness of
voice, by strength of arm, by fire of temper,
the republic of domestic bliss has become
despOtism that neither God nor man
will abide. Oh, We who promised to
love each other at the altar,
how dare you commit perjury?
Let no shadow of suspicion come on your
affection. 1t is easier to kill that flower
from hell that puts out that light leaves you
in the blacknesS of darkness forever. Here
are man and wife; they agree i'm nothing
else, but they agree they will have home.
They will have splendid house, and they
think that If they have a house they will
have home. Architects make the plan
and the mechanics execute it; the house to
cost 500. 900. 1t is done. The carpets are
spread; lights are hOisted; curtains are
hung; cards of invitation sent out. The
horses in gOld-plated harness prance at the
gate; guests come in and take their places;
the flute sounds; the dancers go up and
down; and with
ONE GRAND WHIRL
the wealth and the fashion and the mirth of
the great town wheel amidst the pictured
walls. Hal this is happiness. Float it on
the smoking yiands; sound it in the music;
sound it in the dance; cast it on the snow
Of sculpture; sound it up the brilliant stair
way; flash it in chandeliers. Happiness,
indeedi Let us build on the center of the
parlor floor throne to Happiness; let all
the guests who come in bring their flowers
and pearls and diamonds, and throw them
on this pyramid and let it be a throne; and
then let Happiness, the queen, mount the
throne. and we will stand around and, all
chaIices lifted. we will say, Drink, .
queenI live foregerl' But the guests de-
part, the flutes are breathless, the last clash
of the impatient hoofs is heard in the
distance, and the twain of the household
come back to see the queen of
Happiness on the throne amidst the
parlor floor. But, alasl as they come back
the flowers have faded. the sweet odors
have become the smell of a charnel-house,
and instead of the Queen of Happiness
there sits there the gaunt form of Anguish,
with bitten lip and sunken eye, and ashes