Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-05
GLORIOUS CHRISTIANITY.
A Religion That Offers No Apology and
Deals Vigorously
With the Ills OF the World The 1nvasions
OF Wee Must Isc Boldly Met and rrompt-
~ Repuised by the Forces OF This
New Relief

Owe. Must Bc BOLDLY Met and rrompt-
ly Rcpuised by the Forces OF This
New Relief
This discourse of DR. Talmage is rev
olutionary for good in families, and
churches and nations, and especially
appropriate for this time. Text, Acts
xvii, o. These that have turned
the world upside down arc come hither
also"
There is wild. believing mob
around the house of Jason, in Thessa-
lonica. What has the man done so
greatly Ia offend the people? lie has
been entertaining Paul and his com
rades. The mob surround the house
and cry, firing ont those turbulent
preachers They are interfering with
our business. They are running our
religion! They are actually turning
the world upside down"
The charge was true; for there Is
nothing that 81 interferes with sin,
there il nothing 81 ruinous to every
form of established iniquity, there Is
nothing that has such tendency to turn
the world upside down, rs our glorious
Christianity. The fact is that the
world now is wrong side up, and it
needs tn be turned upside down i'm
order that il may be right side up. The
time was when men wrote books en-
titling them Apologies for Christian
ity." hope that day has passed. We
want no more apologies for Christian
ity. Let the apologies 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 tn turn the
world upside down. Our religion has
often been misrcpresented as prin-
ciple of tears, and mildness, and fasti-
diousness; afraid of crossing peo-
pies prcjudices; afraid of max
ing somebody mad; with silken
gloves, lifting the people up
from the church pew into glory, as
though they were bohemian glass, so
very delicate that with one touch it
may he demolished forever. Men
speak of religion as though it were
a refined imbecility; as though it were
a spiritual chloroforn, that the people
We're to take until the sharp cuttings
of life were over. The Bible, So far
from this. represents the religion of
Christ as robust and brawney-ran-
sacLing and unsetting ten thousand
things that now seem to be set
tied on firm foundations. hear some
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ligion was peace" That is the final
result. A mans arm is out of place.
Two men come, and with great effort
put it back to the socket. 1t goes back
with great pain. Then he gets we'll.
Our world is horribly disordercd and
out of joint 1t must come under
an omnipotent surgery, beneath which
there will be pain and anguish before
there can come perfect health and
quiet. | proclaim, therefore, in the
name of my lord Jesus Christ-Ievolu-
ton.
The religion of the Bible will make
a 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 husband will be the head
of the household only when he is fit to
be. know man who spends all the
money he makes in drink, as well as
all the money that his wife makes; and
sometimes sells the children's clothes
for rum. DO you tell me that he is fit
to be the head of that household? If
the wife have more nobility, more
courage, more of all that is right, she
shall have tine supremacy. You say
that the Bible says that the wife is to
be subject to the husband l know it.
But that is husband, not a masculine
caricature. There is no human or di-
vine law that makes woman subordi-
nate to a man unworthy of her. When
Christianity comes into n domestic
ircle, it will give the dominaney to
that one who is the most worthy of it
AS religion comes in at the front
door, mirth aad laughter will not go
out of the back door. 1t will not hop
pie the children's feet. John will
laugh just as loud; and George will
jump higher than he ever did befo-e.
1t will steal from the little ones
kite. 1t will establish family altar.
Angels will hover over it. Ladders of
light will reach down to it. The glory
of Heaven will stream upon it. The
books of remembrance will record it;
and tides of everlasting blessedness
will pour from it. Not such a family
altar as you may have seen,
where the prayer is long, and a
long chapter is read, with tedi-
GUS explanation, 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 | mean a family altar
such as may have been seen in your
fathers house. You may have wan
dered 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 a
man never gets over. There will be a
hearty, joyful family altar in every do
nestle circle. You will not have to
go far to find Hannah rearing her Sam.
uel for the temple, or grandmother
Lois instructing her Timothy in the
knowledge of Christ, or Mary, and
Martha, and Lazarus gathered in fra
ternal and sisterly affection, or a ia
BILE at which Jesus sits, as at that OF
Zaccheus, or home in which Jesus
dwells, as in the house of Simon the
tanner. The religion of Jesus Christ
coming into the domestic circle, will
overthrow all jealousies, all ianglings;
and peace, and order, and holiness will
take possession of the home.
Again: Christianity will produce a
revolution in commercial circles. Find
me SO merchants and you find that
they have 50 standards of what is right
and wrong. You say to some one
about n merchant, us he honest?'
''Oh! yes" the man says, ''he is hon.
est, but he grinds the faces of his
clerks. lie is honest. but he exagger.
! ates the value of his goods. lie is
honest, but he loans money on bond
and mortgage, with the understanding
that the mortgage can lie quiet for ten