The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-04-20
RELIGION AT HOME.
AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED
AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

In the Family Circle-The Right Train
ing For Children.
BROOKLYN, April 15.-In the grea
audience which assembled in the Brook
Ign 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
80, Return to thine own house an6
shew how great things God hath done
INTO thee"
After fierce and shipwrecking night
Christ and his disciples are climbing uI
the slaty shelving of the beach. How
pleasant it is to stand on solid ground
after having been tossed so long on the
billowsl 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? 1t is maniac who has broken
away from his keepers, perhaps few
rags on his person and fragments of
stout shackles which he has wrenched
off in terrific paroxysm. 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
crashing teeth and uplifted fists, dashes
at Christ Christ says: Hands off Down
at my feet, thou poor sufferer. And the
demoniao drops harmless, exhausted,
worshipful. away, ye devils!" COM
manded Christ, and the 1900 fiends
which had been tormenting the poor
man are transferred to the 1900 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 a mission to execute
Wash off the filth and the wounds in the
sea- Smooth your disheveled 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. "
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
our religion is genuine or a
sham. What makes happy home?
Well, one would say house with
great wide halls, and antlered deer heads,
ED rarlors 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 commodious and adorned No In
such place as that gigantic wretched-
ness has sometimes dwelt, while some
IF you look back to your fathers house,
where they read their Bible by the light
IF tallow candle. There were no carpets
IN the floor save those made from the rags
which your mother cut night by night,
you helping wind them into ball, and
hen sent to the weaver, who brought
hem to shape under his slow shuttle
Not luxury in all the house. But you
,annot think of it this morning without
earful and grateful emotion. You and
have found out that it is not rich tap
,stry, or gorgeous architecture, or rare
Irt that makes happy home.
The six wise men of Greece gave pre-
criptions for happy home. Scion says
! happy home is place where a mans
state was gotten without injustice, kept
Without disquietude and spent without
epentance. Chic says that happy
Iome is the place where man rules
S monarch kingdom. Bias says that
happy home is place where man !
oes voluntarily what by law he is COM
elled to do abroad. But you and 1 I'M
er grander light give better pre-
happy home is a place !
7here the kindness of the gospel of the
ION of God has full swing.
Religion In Domestic Duties. [
While l speak this morning there is I
hooking at your front door, if he be I
OF already admitted, one whose locks
re wet with the dews of the night, who
Tould take your children into his arms C
nd would throw upon your nursery, and i
our sleeping apartments, and your draw o
lg room, and your entire house bless t
lg that will make you rich while you P
We and be an inheritance to your chill 5
rem after you have done the last days A
'ork for their support and made for p
lem the last prayer. 1t is the illustri- Il
rs one who said to the man of my Il
KIT, Return to thine own house and t;
lew how great things God hath done h
nto thee" Now, in the first place, we W
ant religion in our domestic duties. t.
Every housekeeper needs great grace. W
Martha had had more religion, she tt
ould not have rushed with such bad Il
mper to scold Mary in the presence of =
hrist 1t is no small thing to keep or g
r and secure cleanliness and mend cl
eakages and achieve economy and con- tt
oil all the affairs of the household ad- to
Expenses will run up, ii
ore bills will come in twice as large as sa