The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-11-02
4 HAPPY HON
Domestic Life the Subject Of DR..
Talmage's Sermon.
KEEP GOD AT THE FlRESlDE.
Every Member of the Household
Should Strive to Make II
Happy. Start in the
Right Way.

forth radical theories. WHICH, II '."oP'
ed would brighten many domestic CIR
cles: text. John xx, 10, The disciples
went away again unto their own
homes.
A church within 4 church, repub-
lie within a republic, world within
world, is spelled by four letters-home!
If things go right there, they go right
everywhere: if things 60 wrong there,
they 60 wro everywhere. The door
sill Of the dwelling house is the foun-
dation of church and state. A man
never gets higher than his own garret
or lower than his own cellar. Domestic
life overarches and undergirdles all
other life. The highest house Of con
gress in the domestic circle: the rock
ing chair in the nursery is higher than
a throne. George Washington com
manded the forces of the United states
but Mary Washington commanded
George. Chrysostoms mother MADE
his pen for him. If j man should start
out and run 20 years in a straight line
he could not get out from under the
shadow of his own mantelplece. |
therefore talk to you about a matter OF
Infinite and eterna, moment when |
speak of your home.
As individuals we arc fragments.
God makes the race in parts, and then
he gradually puts US together. What |
lack you make up; what you lack |
make up; our deficits and surpluses OF
character being the cogwheels in the
great social mechanism. One person
has the patience, another has the cour-
age, another has the placidity, another
has the enthusiasm. That which Is
lacking in one is made up by another
or made up by all. Bufaloes in herds,
grouse in broods, quails in hocks. the
human race in circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. 1t is in this
way that he balances society; this con-
servative and that radical keeping
things even. Every ship must have its
mast, cutwater, taffrail, ballast. Thank
God, then. for Princeton and Andover,
for the oppesites.
have no more right to blame man
for being different from me than drlv-
ing wheel has right to blame the iron
snaft that holds it to the center. John
Wesley balances Calvin's institutes.
A cold thinker gives to Scotland the
strong bones Of theology. DR.. Guthrie
clothes them with throbbing heart
and warm flesh. The difficulty 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 90 out and dabble in the wa
ter. Our usefulness and the welfare OF
society depend upon our staying IN just
the place that God has put US, or IN
tended we should occupy.
For more compactness and that we
may be more useful we are gathered in
still smaller circles in the home group.
And there you have the same variety
brothers, sisters, husband and
wife, all different in temperaments and
tastes. 1t is fortunate that it should
be so. If the husband be all impulse,
the wife must be all prudence. If one
sister be sanguine in her temperament.
the other must be lymphatic. Mary
and Martha are necessities. There will
be no dinner for Christ if there be no
Martha, there will be no audience for
Jesus if there be no Mary. The home
organization is most beautifully y con-
structed. Eden has gone, the bowers
are all broken down, the animals that
Adam stroked with his hand that NOR
ming when they came up to get their
names have since shot forth tusk and
sting and growled panther at panther,
and mi6air iron beaks plunge till with
clotted wing and eyeless sockets the
twain come whirling down from under
the sun in blood and fire. Eden has
gone, but there is just one little trag-
ment left. 1t foated down on the river
Hiddekel out of paradise. 1t is the
marriage institution. It does not, as
at the beginning, take away from man
rib. Now it is an addition Of ribs.
This institution Of marriage has been
DETAINED in our Gay. Socialism and
dolgyamy and the most damnable OF all
things, free lovism, have been trying to
turf this earth into a Turkish harem.
While the pulpits have been compare
lively silent novels, their cheapness
only equalled by their nastiness, are
trying to educate, have taken upon
themselves to educate, this nation IN
regard to holy marriage, which makes
or breaks for time and eternity. Oh,
this is not mere question Of residence
or wardrobe! 1t is question charged
with gigantic Joy or sorrow, with heav-
en- or hell. Alas for this new dispen-
sation of George Sands. Alas for this
mingling of the nigbtshade 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 y ,sus Christ is to assert what
IS right and to assail what is wrong.
Attempt has been made to take the
marriage institution. which was intend
ed for the happiness and elevation OF
the race and make it a mere CONNER
cial enterprise, an exchange Ct houses
and lands and equipage, a business
partnership Of two stuffed up with the
stories of romance and knight errantry
and unfaithfulness and femme angel
hood. The two after awhile have
reused up to find that instead of the
paradise they dreamed of they have got
nothing but Van Amburgh's menag-
erie, filed with tigers and wild cats.
Eighty thousand divorces in Paris IN
one year preceded the worst revolution
that France ever saw. And | tell you
what you know as we'll as | do, that
wrong notions on the subject Of Chris
tiaD marriage are the cause at this day
of more moral outrage before God and
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