Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-03

SOWING discourse, sets 1oIln AASolASs
which, if adopted, would brighten
many u domestic circle. The text is:
1.-The disciples went away again unto
their own homes. y Ohm M, 10.
A church within "a church, repuo-
lie within republic, a world within
world, is spelled by four letters
Home! If things go right there, they
60 right everywhere; ii things go
wrong there, they go wrong every
where. The door sill 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 overreaches and
undergirdles all other life. The high
est house of congress is the domestic
circle; the rocking chair in the nurse
ry is higher than throne. George
Washington commanded the forces OF
the United States, but Mary Washing
ton commanded George. Chrysos-
toms mother made his pen for him.
If a man should start out and run 70
years in straight line, he could not
get out from under the shadow of his
own mantclpiecc. | therefore, talk to
to YOU about a matter of infinite and
eternal moment when ! speak of your
home.
AS indiN iduals we are fragments.
God makes the race in parts, and then
He gradually put us together. What
lack, you make up; what you lack,
make up; our defects and SURPRISES
of character being the cog-wheelS in
the great social mechanism. One per-
son has the patience, another has the
courage, another has the placdity, an
other has the enthusiasm; that which
is lacking in one is made up by an
other, or made up by all. Butfooes in
herds, grouse in broods, quails in
tiocks, the human race in circles. God
has most beautifully arranged this. 1t
is in this way that He balances So
ciety; this conservative and that radi-
cal keeping things even. Every ship
must have its mast. cut water, taffrail,
ballast. Thank God, then for Prince
ton and Andover, for the opposites.
! have no more right to blame a man
for being different from me than
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IRON NI!HI' ''''l' noiuS II 10 the center
John Wesley balances Calvin's Insti-
tuteS "A cold thinker gives to Scot
land the strong bones of theology;
" Nu'hfle cio'oeS 'hehl win
'hrooolhS heart ana warm h'sh' Inc
dl,'lcultN is 1hat we are not satlSned
with gust the work that God mas given
us TO DO Inc water-wheel wants TO
come inside the mil and grind the
grist, and the hopper wants to go out
and dabbIe in the water. Our useful
ness and the welfare of society de-
pend upon our staying in just the
place that God has put MS. or intended
we should occupy.
For more completeness. 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 again; brothers, sisters, hus-
baud ana wife; all different in tenn
permanent and tastes. 1t is fortunate
that il should be so. If the husband
H. all impulse the wife must be all
plGIcnce. If one sister be sangSline in
her temperament, the other must be
l. uphatic. Mary and Martha are ne
ce>silies. There will be no dinner for
Christ if there be no Martha; there
viii he no audience for Jesus if there
be no Mary. The home organization
is most beautifully constructed. Eden
has gone; the bowers are broken
Down; the amin Is 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 panther: and, midair. iron
beaks plunge. till with clothed wing
and eveless sockets the twain come
whirling down from under the sun in
blood and fire. Eden has gone. but
there is lust one little fragment left.
1t foated down on the river h;ddekel
out of paradise. II is the marriage
institution. It does not. at the begin
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