The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-11-05
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THF DIVINe'S SUN.
DAY DISCOURSE.
Subject: make Home Happy"-The Door.
sill Of tho Dwelling House is the Foun.
dalton OF Church and State-Let Chris.

unto their own home. john Xxx, 10.
A church within a church, q republic
within a republic, world within a world,
IS spelled by four letters II things
go right there, they 90 right everywhere;
IL things go wrong there, they go wrong
everywhere The doorsill OF the dwelling
house Is the foundation Of Church and
State. A man never gets higher than his
own garnet or lower than his own cellar.
Domestic life overUrches and undergraduates
all other life. The highest house OF Con-
gress Is the domestic circle: the rocking
chair in the nursery Is higher than throne.
George Washington commanded the forces
Of the United States, but Mary Washington
commanded George. Chrysostom's mother
made his pen for him. II q man should
start out and run seventy years in straight
line, he could not get out from under the
shadow OF his own mantel piece. | there.
fore talk to you about a matter OF inllnite
and eternal moment whom speak Of your
home
As individuals we are fragments. God
makes tho race into parts, and then He
gradually puts US together. What lack,
you make up; what you lack, l make
up; our deficits and SURPRISES OF
character being the cog wheels in tho 80
cial mechanclsm. One person has the pa.
tlence, another has the courage, another
has the placidity, another the enthusiasm;
that which Is lacking In one Is made up by
another, or is made up by all. Buffaloes
In herds, grouse in broods, quails In flocks,
the human race In circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. 1t Is in this
way He balances society; this conservative
and that radical keeping things even.
Every ship must have Its mast, cut water,
tafYrail ballast. Thank God, then, for
Princeton and Andover, for the opposltes.
l have no more right to blame man for
being different from me than driving
wheel has q right to blame tho iron shaft
that holds 1t to the centre. John Wesley
balances Oalvln's Institutes. A cold
thinker gives to Scotland the strong bones
OF theology; DR.. Guthrie clothes them with
a tbrobbiDg heart and warm flesh. The
difficulty Is that We are not satisfied with
inst the work that God has given us to do.
The water wheel wants to come inside tho
mill and grind the grlst, and the hopper
wants to 60 out and dabble in tho water.
Our usefulness and the welfare OF society
depend upon staying In just the place that
God has put US, or intended we should oc-
cupy.
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 varsity again;
brothers, sisters, husband and wife; all dif-
ferent In temperaments and tastes. It Is
fortunate that 1t should be so. II the .hus-
band be oil impulse, the wife must No oil
prudence. II one sister be sanguine III her
temperament, the other must be lymph ATTIC.
Mary and Martha are necessities. There
will be no dinner for Christ II there TO no
Martha; there will be no audience for Jesus
II there be no Mary. The home organiza-
ton is most beautifully constructed. Eden
has gone; the bowers are oil broken down;
the animals that Adam stroked with his
hand that morning when they came up to
get their names have since shot forth tusk
and sting, and growled panther at pam
Their; and, mid.air, iron beaks plunge, till
with clottsd 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 fragment left. 1t
floated down on the Riyer Htddekel out OF
Paradise. 1t Is the marriage institution.
It does not, as at the beginning, take away
from man rib. Now 1t Is an addition OF
ribs
This institution Of marriage has been de-
famed In our day. Socialism and polyga-
my, and the most damnable OF all things.
free lovism, have been trying to turn this
earth into Turkish harem. While the
pupits have been comparatively silent,
nolvels-their cheapness only equalled by
their nastiness--arc trying to educate,
have taken upon themselves to educate,
this nation In regard to holy marriage,
which makes or breaks for time and eter.
nifty. Oh, this Is not mere question oil
residence or WARDROBE 1t Is question
charged with gigantic Joy or sorrow, with
heaven or hell. Alas for this new dispen.
sation Of George Sands! Alas for this
mingling OF the nightshade with tho mar.
rage garandsl Alas for the venom OF
adders spit into the tankardsl Alas for the
white frosts of eternal death that kill the
orange blossomsl The Gospel OF Jesus
Christ Is to assert what Is right and to as.
sail what Is wrong. Attempt has been
made to take the marriage institution,
which was Intended for the happiness and
elevation OF the race, and make 1t mere
commercial enterprise; IN exchange oil
houses and lands and equipage; a business
partnership Of two stuffed up with the
stories Of romance and knight-errantry,
and uDfalthfulness and feminine angel
hood. The two after while have reused
up to find that, instead of the paradise
they dreamed OF, they have got nothing
but Van Amburgh's menagerie, filed
with tigers and wild cats. Eighty thou.
sand 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 tho subject OF
Christian marriage are the cause at THU
day OF more moral outrage before God and
man than any other cause.
There are some things that I want to
bring before you. know there are those
Of you who have 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 homo few
months or a few years. Then there are
those who will, after a while, set up for
home, and 1t is right that I
should speak out upon these themes.
My first counsel to you Is, have God In
your new home, II II be new home; and
let him who was guest at Bethany be in
your household; let the Divine blessing
drop upon your every hope and plan and