The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-02
MAKES WRONG RIGHT
DR.. TALMAGE SAYS CHRISTIANITY IS
REVOLUTIONARY.

rorco FOr better1n6 the wOrid - He
lision Is Not Peace, but That VIII Is
the Final Result.
copyright 1888, by American Press Asso
ciation.1
WASHINGTON, May This discourse O
DR.. Talmago 10 revolutionary for good II
families and churches and nations ar,
especially appropriate for these times
text, Acts xvii, 6, "These that hay
turned tho world upside down are COM
hithcr also'
There is wild, believing mob arount
the house OF Jason in Thessalonica. VIVA
has tho man done SO greatly to offend TIL
people? He has been entertaining Pau
and his comrades. Tho mob surround tn,
house and cry: "Bring out those turbu
lent preachers! They are interfering witt
our business! They are running our re
ligion! They arc actually turning thu
world upside down."
Tho charge was true, for there is moth
ing that SO interferos with sin, there h
nothing SO ruinous to every form of estab
lished 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 be turned upside down
In order that 1t may be right side up. The
time was then men wrote books emitting
them Apologies For Christianity"
hope that day has passed. We want no
moro apologies for Christianity. Let the
apologies be on the part of those who do
not believe in our religion. We do not
mean to mako any compromise in the
matter. We do not wish to hide the fact
that Christianity is revolutionary and
that its tendency IL to turn the world up
side down.
Our religion has often been misrepre.
sented as principle Of tears and mildness
and fastidiousness, afraid of crossing peo-
pies prejudices, afraid of making some
body 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 1t may
be demolished forever. Men speak of re-
ligion as though 1t were refined imbecil-
ity, as though 1t were spiritual chloro-
form, that the people were to take until
the sharp cutting Of life were over. The
Riblo, so far from this, represents the re-
ligion of Christ as robust and brawny-
ransacking and upsetting 10000 things
that now seem to be settled on firm foun-
dations. hear some man IN the house
say, II thought religion was peace"
That is the final result. A mans arm Is
out of place. Two men come, and with
great effort put 1t back to the socket. 1t
goes back with great pain. Then it gets
well. Our world is horribly disorderod
and ont Of joint. 1t must come under an
omnipotent surgery, beneath which there
will DO pain and anguish before there can
come perfect health and quiet. proclaim,
therefore, in tho name Of my Lord Jesus
Christ-revolutionl
The religion Of the Bible will make q
revolution in the family. Those things
that are wrong in the family circle will
be oyerthrown by it, while justice and
harmony will take tho place. The hus-
band will be the head of the household
only when he Is fit to be. I know man
who spends all tho money no makes In
drink as well as all the money that his
wife makes, and sometimes sells the chill
dreps clothes for rum. Do you tell me
that he is to be the head Of that house,
hold9 If the wife have more nobility,
more courage, more consistency, more Of
all that is right, she shall have the suprem-
acy. You say that the Bible says that the
wife is to be subject to the husband. I
know 1t, but that is a husband, not a
masculine caricature. There is no human
or divine law that makes woman subor-
dinate to man unworthy 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
ba,k door, 1t will not hopple the chill
dron 8 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 establish family altar
Angels will hover over 1t. Ladders of light
will rcuoh down to it. The glory Of heay-
Ell will stream upon it. The books Of re-
will record 1t, and tides of
everlasting 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 explanation,
and the exercise keeps on until the chill
dren's Knees are sore, and their backs
ache, and their patience Is lost, and for
tho seventh time they have counted all the
rungs in the chair, but mean family
nltar 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 i'm
portuning God for your soul. That is a
that n man never gets over.
There will BIO a hearty, joyful family altar
in every domestic circle. You will not have
20 go far to find Hannah roaring her Sam
nstructing her young Timothy in the
of Christ, or Mary and Mar
;ha and Lazarus gathered in frnternal and
isterly affection, or table at which
Josus sits, us at that of Zaccheus, or a home
n which Jesus dwells, as in tho house Of
Simon the tanner. The religion Of Jesus
Christ, coming into the domestic circle,
all jealousies, all janglings,
md peace and order and holiness will take
possession of the hor1e.
Again, Christianity will produce rev.
Tuition In commercial circles. Find me
% merchants, and you find that they have
% standards of what is right and wrong.
You say to some one about a merchant,
Is he honest?" "Oh, yes, tho man says
he is monest, but he grinds the faces of
is clerks! He is honest, but he oxagger-
ties tho value of his goods. Ho is honest
ut ho loans money on bond and mortgage
With the understanding that the mortgage
an lie quiet for ten years, but as soon as
Q gets the mortgage ho records it and be-
ins foreclosure suit, and tho sheritfs
'rit comes down, and the day Of sale ar
ives, and away goes tho homestead, and
ho creditor buys 1t In at half price,"
Ionest? When he loaned the money, he
new that he would get tho homestead at
alf price. Honest? But he goes to the
1suranco office to get policy on his life
nd tells the doctor that he Is well when
0 knows that for ten years he has had but
no lung. Honestp Though he sells
ropcrty by tho map, forgetting to tell the
that tho ground is all under
nter, but it Is generous in him to do
lat. for no throws tho wator into the bar
min.
All, my friends, there is but ono stand
d Of the everlasting right and of the
'erlusting wrong and that is the Bible,
I'd when that principle shall get Its pry
nder our commercial houses l believe
at uno-half Of them will 20 over! The
lin will begin at one end of tho street,
nj IL will ba oraehI crash crasb1 all tho