Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-04-27
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
The Eminent Brooklyn Divlue'S Sun
day Sermon.
Subject: "Rnmn Religion"


thee. Luke viii, &c.
After a 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 congratulating each other
on their marine escape out from DARK.
deep cavern on the Gadarene hills there is
something swiftly and terribly advancing.
Is it an apparation2 1t is maniac who has
broken away from his Keepers, perhaps
few rags on his person and fragments OF
stout shaekles which he has wrenched of IN
terrific paroXySm. With wild yell AMI
bleeding wounds of his own lac2ratiol he
flies down hill.
Back TO the boats. We fishermen. an put
out 10 sea and escape assassination But
Christ stan Is His groun1 80 do the disciples.
an as this flying fury. with crashing teeth
and upli;ted fists, dashes at Christ, Christ
savss Islands off Down at Ny feet, thou
poor sufferer" AMI the demoniac drops
harmless. exhausted. wOrshipful. AWAY.
We devils !" commanded Christ. and the 1000
fiends which had been tormenting the poor
man are transferred TO the 2000 swine, which
go to sea with their accursed cargo.
The restored demoniac sits down at Christs
feet and wants 10 stay there. Christ says to
mission to execute. Wash of the filth and
the wounds in the sea. Smooth your di.
sheve.ed locks. Put on decent apparel AMI
go straight to your desolated home and tell
your wife and children that you will no more
alright them and no more do them harm;
that YOU are restored to reason, and that l,
the omnipotent Son OF God, am entitled here
after TO the worship of your entire house
hold Return to thine ow" house and shew.
L n ~.II a.L Ion tt1f
Yes, the house. the home IL the first place
where our religious gratitude ought to be
demonstrated. In the outside 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 happy
home?
Well, one would say house with great
wide halls. and antlered deer heads, and
parors with sculpture, and bric-a-brac. and
dining hall with easy chair, and plenty OF
light, and engravngs of game on the wall.
and sleeping apartments commodious and
adorned. No. In such place as that 81
gantic wretchedness has sometimes dwelt,
while some of you look back to your fathers
house, where they read their Bible by the
light of a tallow candle There were no car
pets on 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 a luxury
in all the house. But you cannot think OF II
this morning without fearful and grateful
emotion. You and have found out that it
is not rich tapestry, or gorgeous architecture,
or rare art that makes a happy home.
The six wise men OF Greece gave prescrip-
tons for a happy home. Scion says hap
! DIV home is a place where mans estate was
gotten without INJUSTICE. kept without dis
/ quietu1e and spent without repentance.
Chic says that happy home is the place
where a man rules as a monarch kingdom.
Bias says that happy hOmeis place where
man does voluntary what 10y law he is COM
polled to do abroad. Butyou and under
grander light give better prescription-a
happy home is the place where the kindness
of tie gospel of the Son of God has full
swing.
While l speak this morning there is knock
ing at your front door, If He be not already
admitted, one whose locks are wet with the
dews of the night, who would take your
children into His arms and would throw upon
your nursery, and your sleeping apartments,
and your drawing room, and your entire
house a blessing that will make you ricf
while YOU live and be an inheritance to your
children after you have done the last day e
work for their support and made for then
the last prayer 1t is the illustrious One who
said to the man of my text. "Return tothint
own house and shew how great things Goo
hath done unto thee. Now, in the frs
place. we want religion in our domestic
duties.
Every housekeeper needs great grace. |
Martha had had moro religion, she would
not have rushed with such bad temper L
scold Mary in the presence OF Christ. 1t Il
no small thing to keep order and secure
IL -. Ira l-oo nd aahipV
economy and control all the affairs OF tn
household advantageously. Expenses vii
run up. store bills will come in twice as larg
as you think they ought to be, furniture vii
wear out, carpets will unravel, and the mar
tyrs of the fire are very few in comparison
with the martyrs of housekeeping.
Yet there are hundreds of people in thI
church this morning who in their homes ar
D managing all these affairs with composure
an adroitness, an ingenuity and faithful
ness which they never could have reache
but for the grace o; our practical Christian
L itv. The exas peratons which wear on
. others have been to you spiritual develop
ment and sanctiicatiOn. Employment
- which seemed to relate only to an hour hav
on them all the grandeurS OF eternal history
You need the religion of Christ in the dis
cipline of your children. The 70 which l.
other homes NAV be the first means used L
YOURS will be the last. Tneri VIII be n
hard epithets-''you knave. you william, 20
gcoundrel. I'll thrash the life out OF you
YOU are tae worst child l ever knew" A
! that kind OF chastsement makes thieves
|. pckpockets. murderers and the outlaws
l society. That parent who i'll anger strike
|, his child across the hea deserves the pen
: Tertiary. And vet this work OF disclplln
| must be atten led to. Coils grace can d
rect us. Alas, for those who come to II
!, work with fierce passion and recklesness
4 consequences Between severity and lax
5 tiveness there is no choice. Both rulnol
n an both destructive. But there Is healtl
full medium which the grace of Go Twill sho
Q to US.
/ Then we need the religion OF Christ
! help us in setting good example. Cowp
said of the oak "Time was wnen settled {
thy leaf a fly could shake thee TO the roo
Time has been when tempest could not.
other words your children are very impress
bic lust now. They are alert ; they are gat
!. ering impressions you have no Idea q
] Have you not been surprised sometime
> months or years after some conversatlC
:, which YOU supposed was too profound or j
T. iricate for them to understan t--son9 GU.
= ton Of the child demonstrated the tact TN
4, he knew all about it?
CT Your children are apt to think that WI
10 YOU do is right. They have no idea OF tru
,, or Righteousness but yourself. Things whi
s. YOU Go knowing at the time to be- wro
= they take TO be right. They JASON this wa
= ''Father always does right. Father did tn
r.. Therefore this is right" That is COOL log
II, n but bad premises. No one ever gets oN
y. having had bad example set him. 70
- conduct more than. your tsach;n; mai
4. Impression. Your laugh, your 1roW
your dress, your walk, your gre
ings. your coo lbys, your co min
YOUR goings, your habits at toe tai
The tones of YOUR voice. are mlGinS an |