Connecticut western news., 1894-04-19
RELIGION AT HOME.
AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED
 AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Rev. Dr. Talmage 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 for the subject of his sermon Home Reli- gion," taking his text from Luke viii, 39, Return to thine own house and shew how great things God hath done unto thee.
 After fierce and shipwrecking night Christ and his disciples arc 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 Gadarene hills there is something swiftly and terribly advancing. Is it an apparition? Is it man? Is it wild beast? It is q maniac who has broken away from his keepers, perhaps few rags on his person and fragments of stout shadkles which he has wrenched of in terrific paroxysm. With wild yell and bleeding wounds of his own lacer- ation he flies down the hill.
 Back to the boats, ye fishermen, and put out to sea and escape assassination But Christ stands his ground; so do the disciples. and as this flying fury, with gnashing teeth and uplifted fists, dashes at Christ Christ says: Hands offi Down at my feet, thou poor sufferer. '' And the demoniac drops harmless, exhausted, worshipful. Away, ye devilsr' com manded Christ, and the 2,000 fiends which had been tormenting the poor man are transferred to the 2,000 swine, which go to sea with their accursed 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 Q mfsaion to execute. Wash of the filth and the wounds in the sea Smooth your disheyeled locks Put on decent apparel and 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 hereafter to the worship of your entire household Return to thine own house and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. 1"
 A True Home luxury.
 Yes, the house. the home is the first place where our religious gratitude ought to be demonstrated In the out side world we may seem to have religion when we have it not, but the home tests whether our religion is genuine or sham. What makes happy homer
 We'll, one would say a house with great wide halls, and antlered deer heads, aad 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 conmodious and adorned. No. In such place as that gigantic wretched- ness has sometimes dwelt, while some of you look back to your fathers house, where they read their Bible by the light of tallow candle There were no carpets 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 luxury in all the house But you cannot think of it this morning without fearful and grateful emotion You and l have found out that it is not rich tap estry, or gorgeous architecture, or rare art that makes happy home.
 The six wise men of Greece gave pre- scriptions for happy home. Solon says a happy home IS a place where mans estate was gotten without injustice, kept without disquietude and spent without repentance Chilo says that a happy home is the place where man rules as monarch kingdom. Bias says that 8 happy home is aplace where man does Voluntarily what by law he is com pelled to do abroad. But you and un- ..sr grander light give better pre- scriptionAa happy home is Q place where the kindness of the gospel of the Son of God has full swing.
 Religion In Domestic Duties. : While speak this morning there is knocking 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 draw ing room. and your entire house bless ing that will make you rich while you live and be an inheritance to your chil- dren after you have done the last days work for their support and made for them the last prayer It is the illustri- ous one who said to the man of my text, Return to thine own house and shew how great things God hath done unto thee" Now, in the first place, we want religion in our domestic duties.
 Every housekeeper needs great grace If Martha had had more religion, she would not have rushed with such bad temper to scold Mary in the presence of Christ. It is no small thing to keep or der and secure cleanliness and mend breakages and achieve economy and con- trol all the affairs of the household ad- vantageously. Expenses will run up, seo1O UAlIS VIII Coiuc III tWlCe hS large us you think they ought to be, furniture will wear out, carpets will unravel, and the martyrs of the fire are very few in comparison with the martyrs of house. keeping.
 Yet there are hundreds of people in this church this morning who in their homes are managing all these affairs with composurN, an adroitness, an in genuity and faithfulness which they never could have reached but for the grace of our practical Christianity. The exasperations which wear out others have been to you spiritual development and specification. Employments which seemed to relate only to an hour have on them all the grandeurs of eternal his tory.
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