The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
RELIGION AT HOME.
AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED
AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED
AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Rev. Dr. Taimage Shows That Religious
Gratitude Should First BE Demonstrated
In the Family Circle-The Right Train.
ing For Children.
BROOKLYN, April 15.-In the great
audience which assembled in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle this forenoon were many
strangers. Rev. DR.. Talmage chose fol-
the subject of his sermon Home Reli-
gion, taking his text from Luke viii,
SO, Return to thine own house and
shew how great things God hath done
unto thee"
After fierce and shipwrecking night
Christ and his disciples are climbing up
the slaty shelving of the beach. How
pleasant it is to stand on solid ground
after having been tossed so long on the
pillows! While the disciples are con-
graduating each other on their marine
escape out from dark, deep cavern ON
the Gadareno hills there is something
swiftly and terribly advancing Is it an
apparition? Is it man? Is 1t wild
beast? 1t is q maniac who has broken
away from his keepers, perhaps few
rags on his person and fragm EMS of
stout shacklcs which he has w.enched
off i'll terrific paroxysIn. With wild yell
and bleeding wounds of his own LAGER
alton he flies down the hill.
Back to the boats, We fishermen, and
put out to sea and escape assassination!
But Christ stands his ground; so do the
disciples, and as this flying fury, with
gi,ashing teeth and uplifted fists, dashes
at Christ Christ says: Hands off Down
at my feet, thou poor sufferer. And the
demoniac drops harmless, exhausted,
worshipful. Away, We devilsr' COM
manded Christ, and the 1000 1iends
which had been tormenting the poor
man are transferred to the 2, 900 swine,
which go to sea with their accused
cargo.
The restored demoniac sits down at
Christ's feet and wants to stay there.
Christ says to him practically: "Do not
stop. You have mission to execute.
Wash off the filth and the wounds in the
sea. Smooth .-our disheyeled locks. Put
on decent cpp rel and go straight to your
desolated home and tell your wife and
children that you will no more alright
them and no moro do them harm; that
you are restored to reason, and that ],
the omnipotent Son of God, am entitled
hereafter to the worship of your entire
household. Return to thine own house
and shew how great things God hath
done unto thee.
A True Home Luxury.
Yes, the house, the home is the first
place where our religious gratitude
ought to be demonstrated. In tho out
side world we may seem to have religion
when we have it not, but the home tests
whether our religion is genuine or a
sham. What makes a happy home?
Well, one would say house with
great wide halls, and antlered deer heads,
aal parlors with sculpture, and bric-a-
brac, and dining hall with easy chair,
and plenty of light, and engravings of
game on the wall, and sleeping apart
ments comnlodious and adorned No In
such a place rs that gigantic wrotched-
moss has sometimes dwelt, while some
Of you look back to your fathers house,
where they read their Bible by the light
Of q tallow candle. There were no carpets
Oh the floor save those made from the rags
which your mother cut night by night,
you helping wind them into ball. and
then sent to the weaver, who brought
them to shape under his slow shuttle.
Not luxury in all the house But you
cannot think of it this morning without
fearful and grateful emotion You and
have found out that it is not rich tap
estry, or gorgeous architecture, or rare
art that makes a happy home.
The six wise men Of Greece gave pre-
scriptions for happy home. Scion says
happy home is place where man s
estate was gotten without injustice, kept
without tlisquietudo and spent without
repentance. Chilo says that happy
home is tho place where man rules
as Il monarch kingdom. Bias says that
II happy home is place where man
does voluntarily what by law he is COM
pelie'i 10 90 aproaa. But you and I'M
oor u gralder lght give better pre-
scilption-a happy nome is place
Where the klndness OF the gospei OF the
Hoh Oh eod mas 1ull SWING
hensi"n IN Domestic Duties.
Whlle speak THIS morning there IS
knocking at your 'front.' door, II ne be
not aireaoy aamltted' one whose LOCKS
are wet WIN the oeWs OF tne night, VINO
"oulo take your cnlldren INTO MS arms
ana "ouia 'hro" upon your nursery ana
your sleeping apartments ana your draw
ing room' ana your entlre mouse a bless
ing ina. VIII make you rlch "nlie you
i've ana % an inheritance 10 your chill
dren a1ter You nave done the last DAY S
Work ior tnelr support ana mace 1or
them the last prayer. IL Is the lllustrl-
Gus one VINO SAID 10 the man OF my
text Return 10 thine own mouse and
sheW now great Things GOD hath done
unto thee. now IN the hrst place, we