The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
GEES SER NON,
MAKE H ONE FlAPPY.'' & LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From tho Text, john, Chapt. 20, Verse
TO-. as Follows: !. 1.-The Disciples went
Away Again Onto Their Own Homss"5
Modern Marriage.


"a church within church, q republic
within a republic, a world within a
world, is spelled by four letters
Home! Il things 80 right there, they
go right everywhere. The doorsill Of
the dwelling house is the foundation OF
church and state. A man never gees
higher than his own garrett or lower
than his own cellar. Domestic life
oyerarches and undergo dies all other
3 life. The highest house OF congress ssS
the domestic circle: the rocking chair,
in the nursery is higher than a throne.
George Washing commanded the
4 forces Of the United States, but Mary
! Washington commands George,
Chrysostom's mother made his pen for
him. IL a man should start out and II y
run seventy years IN q straig hts line, he 2,
could not get out from under the 81 a. :
dow Of his own mantelp iece. there
4 fore talk to you about a matterSpfs IN
finite and eternal moment when )
speak Of your home. $5f. Il. !. ].
AS individuals we are fragments.
God makes the race In parts, and then
he gradually puts us together. What
I lack, you make up; what~you lack, I
make up: our deficits and surpll'u1ses
Of character being the cog wheels I1!sa n =.
the great social mech nism. One peri
son has the patience, another has the
courage, another has the placidity, an !
other has the enthusiasm; that which
is lacking in one is made up by an.
other, or made up by all. Buffaloes In
herds, grouse in broo Ids, squails1 in
Z focks, the human race in circles God
has most beautifully arranged this. It.
is in this way that he balances society
this conservative and that radical III !:
keeping things even; Every ship
must have its mast, cut-Water, taffrail,
ballast. Thank God, then. for Prince
ton and Andover, for the opfosites. I
have no more right to blaine man
for being different from me than
driving wheel has right to blame the
iron shaft that holds it to the center.
John Wesley balances Calvin's Insti-
tutes. "A cold thinker gives to Scot
land the strong bones Of theology; DR..
Guthrie clothes them with a throb-
bling heart and warm flesh. The diff
fculty is that we are not satisfied with
just the work that God has given US
to do. The water wheel wants to come
inside the mill and grind the grist, and
the hopper wants to 60 out and ldabble
in the water. Our usefulness and the
welfare OF; society depend upon our "
staying in just the place that God has
put us, or intended we should occupy,
The institute ion of marriage has been.
+ DETAINED in our day. Socialism and
poly gamy, and the most damn,aalboll'e III Of
all things, free-lovism, has been try
ing to turn this earth into Turkish
harem. While the pulpits have been
comparatively silent, novels their
cheapness only equaled by their nast1-
ness are trying to educate this nation
In regard to holy marriage, which
makes or breaks for time and eternity.
Oh, this is not a mere question Of resi-
dence or wardrobe! It is a question
charged with gigantic joy or sorrow,
with heaven or hell. Alas for this
new dispensation Of George Sands!
Alas for this mingling of the night
shade with the marriage garlands!
Alas for the venom Of adders spit into
the tankards! Alas for the white
frosts Of eternal death that kill the
orange blossoms! The gospel Of Jesus
Christ is to assert what is right and
to assail what is wrong. Attempt has
been made to take the marriage insti-
tuition, which was intended for the
happiness and elevation Of the race,
and make it d mere commercial enter
prise; an exchange Of houses and lands
and equipage; business partnership
of two stuffed UP with the stories OF
romance and knight-errantry and UNI
faithfulness and feminine angelhood.
The two after while have reused up
to find that, instead Of the paradise
they dreamed OF, they have got moth
ing but Van Amburgh's menagerie.
filed with tigers and wild cats Eigh-
ty thousand divorces in Paris In one
year preceded the worst revolution
that France ever saw. And / tell you
what you know as well as do, that
wrong notions on the subject OF Chris
tian marriage are the cause at this day
Of more moral outrage before God and
man than any other cause.
There are some things that wantsto
bring before you. 4 know there are
those Of you who have had homes set
up for great many years: and, then,
there are those here who have just
established their home. They have
only been in that home a few months
or few years. Then, there are those
who will, after while, set up. for
themselves home, and it is right that
II should speak out upon these themes.
My first counsel to you is, have God
in your new home, If it be a new home;
land let him who was guest at Beth
lsany be in your household !; let the di-
vine blessing drop upon your every
hope and plan and expectation. Those
young people who begin with God end
with heaven. Have on your right
hand the engagement rings Of the di-