Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-07
A BRAWNY RELIGION.
DIR. TALMAGE HERALDS IMPENDING
CHRISTIAN REVOLUTIONS.

New Conditions Needed In Our Churches
end IN Our Homes Pride and Exclu-
sivencsa Must Come Down-Welcome tho
Day Of Great Rcvivnls.
Copyright, 1898. by American Press Asso-
citation.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-This discourse
of Dr.. Talmago is revolutionary for
good in families and churches and ma
tious, and especially appropriate for
these times; text, Acts xvii, g. '"These
that have turned tho world upside down
are come hither also. u
There is wild, believing mob
around tho house of Jason i'll Thessa-
lonica. What has the man dono so
greatly to offend the people? He has been
entertaining Paul and his comrades.
Tho mob surround the house and cry:
"Bring out those turbulent preachers.
They are Interfering with our business.
They are running our religion. They are
actually turning the world upside
down. y
The charge was true, for there is
nothing that so interiors; with sin,
there is nothing so ruinous to every
form of established iniquity, there is
nothing that has such tendency to turn
the world upside down, as our glorious
Christianity. The fact is that the world
now is wrong side up, and it needs to
DO turned upside down in order that it
may bo right side up. The time was
when men wrote books emitting them
"Apologies For Christianity. " / hopo
that day has passed. We want no more
apologies for Christianity. Let the apol-
ogies be on the part of those who do
not believe in our religion. We do not
mean to make any compromise in the
matter. We do not wish to hide the
fact that Christianity is revolutionary,
and that its tendency is to turn the
world upside down.
Our religion has often been misrep-
resented as principle of tears and
mildness and fastidiousness; afraid of
crossing peoples prejudices; afraid Of
making somebody mad; with sillicn
gloves lifting the people up from the
church pew into glory, as though they
wero Bohemian glass so very delicate
that with one touch it may be demolish-
ed forever. Men speak of religion as
though it were refined imbecility; as
though it were spiritual chloroform
that the people were to take until the
sharp cutting of life were over The
Bible, so far from this, represents the
religion of Christ as robust and brawny
-ransacking and upsetting 10000
things that now seem to be settled OH
firm foundations. 1 hear some man in
the house say, 81 thought religion was
peace. That is the final result a
mans arm is out of place, Two men
come and with great effort put i5 back
to the socket 1t goes back with great
pain. Then it gets we'll Our world is
horribly disordered and out of joint. It
must come under an omnipotent surgery
beneath which there will be pain and
anguish before there can como perfect
health and quiet. 1 proclaim, there
fore, in the name of my Lord Jesus
Christ-revolutionl
Christian Revolutions.
The religion of the Bible will make
revolution in the family. Those things
that are wrong in the family circle will
be overthrown by it, while justice and
harmony will take the place. The hus-
band will be the head of the household
only when be is fit to be. know a man
who spends all the money he makes in
drink as we'll as all the money that his
wife makes and sometimes sells the
children clothes for rum. Do you tell
me that he is to be the head of that
household? If the wife have moro no.
bility, more courage, more consistency,
more of all that is right she shall have
the supremacy. You say that the Bible
says that the wife is to be subject to the
husband | know it, But that is hus-
band, not a masculine caricature. There
is no human or divine law that makes
q woman subordinate to man un-
worthy of her. When Christianity
comes into domestic circle, it will
give the dominancy to that one who is
the most worthy of it.
AS religion comes in at the front
door, mirth and laughter will not go
out of the back door. 1t will not hopple
the children s feet John will laugh
just as loud, and George will jump
higher than he ever did before. 1t will
steal from the little ones neither ball
nor bat, nor hoop, nor kite. 1t will es-
tablish family altar. Angels will hov-
er over it. Ladders of light will reach
down to it. The glory of heaven will
stream upon it. The books of remem-
brance will record it, and tides of aver
lasting blessedness will pour from it.
Not such family altar as you may
have seen, where the prayer is long and
long chapter is read, with tedious ex-
PLANTATION, and the exercise keeps on
until the children's knees are sore and
their backs ache and their patience is
lost and for the seventh time they have
counted all the rungs in the chair, but
I mean a family altar such as may have
been seen in your fathers house. You
may have wandered far off in the paths
of sin and darkness, but you have never
forgotten that family altar where father
and mother knelt importuning God for
your soul. That is memory that man
never gets over. There will be hearty
joyful family altar il every domestic
circle You @ill not have to 60 far to
find Hannah rearing her Samuel for the
temple, or grandmother Lois instruct,
ing her young Timothy in the knowl-
edge of Christ, or Mary and Martha
and Lazarus gathered in fraternal and
sisterly affection, or a table at which
Jesus sits, as at that of Zaccheus, or a
home III which Jesus dwells, as in the
house of Simon the tanner. The religion
OF Jesus Christ, coming into the domes-
tic circle, will overthrow all jealousies,
all janglings, and peace and order and
holiness will take noesecSion of the