Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-18
RELIGION AT HOME.
AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED
AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.


ing For Children.
BROOKLYN, April 15.-In the grea
2udicnco which assembled in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle this forenoon were man,
Strangers. Rev DIR. Talmage chose fol
The subject Of his sermon "Home Reli
Giull " taking his text from Luke viii,
80, Return to thine own house and
shew how great things God hath done
unto thee.
After fierce and shipwrecl1ing night
Christ and his disciples are climbing NJ
the slaty shelving of the beach. How
pleasant it is to stand on solid ground
after having been tossed so long on the
billows 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 a wild
beast? 1t is a waniac who has broken
away from his keepers, perhaps few
rags on his person and fragments of
stout shacllles which he has wrenched
off in terrific paroxysm. With wild yell
and bleeding wounds of his own lacer-
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
gnashing 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, ye devilsr' COM
manded Christ, and the 1000 fiends
which had been tormenting the poor
man are transferred to the 2, 200 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 /,
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
whether our religion is genuine or a
sham. What makes happy home?
Well, 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 commodious 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 a tallow candle. There were no carpets !
on the floor save thosemade 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 |
estly, or gorgeous architecture, or rare
art that makes a happy home.
The six wise men Of Greece gave pre-
for happy home. Solon says
4 happy home is place where mans
estate was gotten without injustice, kept
without disquietude and spent without
repentance Chilo says that happy
home is the place where a man rules
IS a monarch a kingdom. Bias says that
/ happy home is a place where a man
loes voluntarily what by law he is COM
,elled to do abroad. But you and un-
Ter a grander light give better pre-
happy home is a place
where the kindness of the gospel of the
SON of God has full swing.
Religion In Domestic Duties.
While l speak this morning there is
mocl1ing at your front door, if he be
lot already admitted, one whose locks
re wet with the dews of the night. who
yould take your children into his arms
nd would throw upon your nursery, and
our sleeping apartments, and your draw
ng room, and your entire house bless
NJ that will make you rich while you
i've and be an inheritance 10 your chill
ren after you have done the last days
work for their support and made for
hem the last prayer. 1t is the illustri-
us one who said to the man OF my
ext, Return to thine own house and
hew how great things God hath done
INTO thee. - Now, in the first place, we
want religion in our domestic duties.
Every housekeeper needs great grace.
+ Martha had had more religion, she
would not have rushed with such bad
emper to scold Mary in the presence OF
'hrist. 1t is no small thing to keep or
er and secure cleanliness and mend
and achieve economy and con-
rol all the affairs of the household ad-
ar.Fa u.rfl r-nrs mn Il