Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-01
IN AND OUT OF TUNE.
.TaImaus's Sermon On Elsband and
Wife. :
IN HARMONY AND OUR OF TUNE.
The Great Dyine's Advice TO Married
People On How To Make Their
Life Blessed,
S.nacinl % ihs Reqi4ler

many yalRlJ attempted 10 en'eE 'ne ou''N
ing, representing the usual attendance
when the Rev. T. De Witt Talmsge, ID. D.,
is at home. The musical exercises were
exceedingly interesting, and included
performance or the crgaR Of Thiele's Con-
csrt.Sa,z No. l, in C minor, By Professor
Henry Eyre Browne. The congregation
sang the hymn beginning:
uJoy TO the world, the LOrg is come!
Let earth Iecs.ve her king
DR.. Talmage founded his remarks on
the subject, Husband and Wife in Har-
mouy Or Out Of Tune" on Amos Oh. 3, v.
3: HCan two walk together, except they
be agreedT' He said:
NO, AMOS, THEY CANNOT.
Tbey will be tripping each other up, or
pushing each other down. Married lie
under such circumstances will be the
sounding of perpetual Warwhoop. In this
conrse Of sermons on The Marriage
Ring" will to-day speak of the mutual
duties of husband and wife, preparatory to
di,courses on their individual duties. :.
A church within q church. republic
within O republic, world within world,
ia spelled By four lesters-Home! II
THINGS 90 right there, they go right every
where: if things go wrong there, they 60
wong everywhere. The doorsill OF the
d Yelling house is the foundation Of Church
and State. A man never gets higher than
! bis own garret or lower than his own
cellar, In Other words, domestic life ovec-
reaches and undergirds sll other lite. Ihs
highest house Of Congress is the domestic
circle; the rocking chair in the nursery Is
Ligher than a throne George Washing.
ton commanded the forces Of the United
STATES, but Mary Washington commanded
George. Chrysostom's mother made hls
nan for him. If a msn should start out and
run seventy years in o straight hne' he
could not get out trom under the shsaoW
of his own mantele-pieee. therefore talk
to you this morning about a matter OF IN:
| finite and eternal moment when | speak OF
your home.
As INDIVIDUALS We ARE FRAGMENTS.
God makes the races in part. and then he
gradually puts US together. What ! lack,
YOU make up; what you lack, | make up;
our deficits aud surpluses OF character be-
ing the eog-wheels in the great social me-
chanicism. One person has the patience,
, another has the courage, another has the
placidity, alother has the enthusiasm; that
/ which ia lacking in one is made up by an
other, or made up By al. Butfaloes IN
herds, grouse in brsods, quails IN focks,
the hu1sn race in circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. 1t 10 IN THIS way
that he balances eocisty; this conservative
and that radical keeping things even.
Every ship must have his mast, cutwater,
,afrsil ballast. Thank God, then, for
Princeton and Audover, for the -opPositss.
/ have no more right to blame man for
being different from me than srivlng-
Wheel has a right to blame the iron shaft
that holds Il TO the centre. John Wesley
balances Calvins Institutes. a cold
thinker riyes to Scotland the strong bones
of theology: DE-. Guthrie clothes them
with a throboing heart and warm flesh.
1 The diGculty IS that we are not satisfied
with lust the work thst G2d has given US
10 do, Tbesswater.wheel wants TO come
made the mill and grind the grist, and the
homer wants to go out and dabble In
the water. Our usefulness and the vel
isrs o. society depend upon our staying IN
! lust the place tEat God has pat up, or in
teniei we should occupy.
FOR MORE coMPACTNEss,
and that We msy De more useful, We are
gathered in still smaller y,roiSI Ia me
home group. And there you have the
same varieties again; brothers, sisters,
husband, and wife; oil different in tempera'
ments and tastes. 1t is fortunate that II
sbould be 30. If the husband be all i'm
nulse, the wife must be all prudence. 1t
one sister be ssnguine III her temPera'
/, mept, the other must be Emphatic. Mary
and Martha are uecesgities. Tsere will be
no dinner for Chr;stif there be no Martha;
there will De no audience for Jesus 1t there
ba no Mary. The hOme organization /:
most beautifully constructed. Eden has
cone; the bowers are sll broken down; the
/, apius that Adam stToked with his hanc
, that morn;pc when they came up to ge
heir names have since shot forth tusk anC
sting, and growled panther at panther; anc
r,id.air, iron beaks plunge till with clottec
[ Winr and eyelsss sockets the twain come
whirEng down ron Hnder the sun II
blood and FIRE. Eden has gocs, but Their
is lust one little fragment left IL toste'
: down on the river Hiddekel out Of Para
: disc. l. is the marriage institution. L
does not, as the beginning, take away iron
man a rib. New it is an addition OF ribs
This institution Of marriage hos bse
: detained in ons day, and
!, TSFLUgYCE Es ARE ABROAD
irving to tarp this earth into Turks
| bSran or a great Sal; Lake City. Will
a the pulpits have been comparatively silsnt
!. novels their chespness Gully equsied b
4 ,heir nastiness-sre trying to educate
q Rave taken upon themselves 10 educst'
n this nation in regard to holy marriage
s which makes or breaks for time aud etel
. nity. Oh this ia nota mere question CT res
asnce or wardrobe! Itiss question charge
with gigantic 10y or sorrow, with hesve
or he'll. Alas for this new dispeusstion {
George Sands Alas for the mingling {
d the nigh,shade with the marriage ga
b lands, Alas for the venom of sdders sp
into the tankards Alas for the whit
a frosts of eterral death that kill the oreDg
:. blossoms! The Gospel of Jesus Christ
to assert what is right and what is wroDi
Attempt has bs,n made to take the ma
rage institution, which was intended IL
y the happiness sud elevation Of the rae
1 and make It 8 mere commercial enterprist
an exchange Of houses and lands ar
At eouipase; q business partnership Of tV
z. stuffed up with the stories Of romance al
% knight errantry. aud uuisithfulress al
feminine angslhoOd. The two after
Is while have reused up 10 find that, inste'
of the paradise they dreamed
10 they have got nothing but VI
! Amburgk's mspageris, filed with tige
4 and Wild cas-. Eighty thousand divorc
in one gear preceded the wors, revoluti.
%. that France ever sss. i yss only I
a~+fnt course in that banquet OF bell; sud
n tell YOU what you know as we'll as
tha, wrong notions on the subject Of Chr
=, ,;sn marriage are the cause ut this day