Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-24
THE HOMEMAKERS.
DR.. TALMAGE PLEADS FOR A REIGN
OF EROS.

PCopyright 1898. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-Dr. Talmage
IN this Discourse sets forth radical theo-
ries, which. if adopted, would brighten
many domestic circles; text, John Xxx.
10. 1.-The disciples went away again un-
to their own homes.
a church within q church. repu bic
within q republic, a world within a
world is spelled by four letters-homei
If things go Eight there, they go right
everywhere. If things go wrong there,
they go wrong everywhere. The door
sill OF the dwelling house is the founda-
ton of church and state. A man never
gets higher than bis own garnet or low
er than his own cellar. Domestic life
ovcrarches and undergirdies all other
life. The highest house Of congress 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. Chrys-
oston' mCther made his pen for him.
If q man shoCld start out and run 70
years liz q straight line, he could not
get ont fr1cl under the shadow of his
own I>lGu-eIpiece. I therefore talk to
you about 4 matter Of infinite and eter-
nal moment when speak of your home.
As individuals we are fragments.
God makes the race in parts, and then
he gradually puts rs together. What I
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 lack
ing in one IS made up by another, or
made up by all Bufaloes in herds,
grouse in brcods, quails in fiocks, the
human race in circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. It is in this
way that he balances society. This con-
sentative and that radical keeping things
even. Every ship must have it's mast,
cutwater, taEraiI, ballast. Thank God,
then, for Princeton and Andover, for
the opposites.
have 10 more right to blame man
for being different from me than Griv-
ing wheel has q right to blame the iron
shaft 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 q th10bbing heart and
warm flesh. The difficulty is that we are
not satisfied with just the work that God
has given Us to Go. The water wheel
wants to come inside the mill and grind
the grist and the hopper wants to &c
out and dabble in the water. Our use
81, i 81, q Il
pend upon oUr staying in just the place
that God has put Us Or intended we
should occupy.
Our Euen of Orange Blossoms.
For more compactness and that we
may be more useful we are gathered in
still smaller circles il the home group,
and there you have the same variety
again-brothers, sisters. husband and
wife-all different in temperaments and
tastes. It is fortunate that it should be
SO. If the husband be ali impulse, the
wife must be ali prudence If one sis
ter be saugUine in her temperament, the
other must be Emphatic. Mary and
Martha are necessities. There will be no
dinner fer Christ if there be no Martha.
There will be no audience for Jesus if
there be no Mary. The home organiza-
ton is most beautifully constructed.
Eden has gone, the bowers are all broken
down, the animals that Adam stroked
with his hand that morning when they
came up to get their names have since
shot forth tusf and sting, and growled
panther at panther, and midair iron
beaks plunge, till with clothed wing
and eyeless sockets the twain come
whirlipg down from under the sun in
blood and fire. Eden has gone, but there
is just one little fragment left. 1t float
ed 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 adj
dition Of ribs.
This institution Of marriage has been
DETAINED in our day. Socialism and po-
1ygamy, and the most damnable of all
things, free lovism, have been trying to
turn this earth into Turkish harem.
While the pulpits have been compare
lively silent, novels-their cheapness
only equaled by their nastiness-are
trying to educate, have taken upon
themselves to educate, this nation in re-
gard to holy marriage, which makes or
breaks for time and eternity. Oh, this
Is not mere question of residence or
wardrobe! It is question charged with
gigantic joy or sorrow, heaven or hell.
Alas for this new dispensation of
George Sands! Alas for this mingling
of the nightshade with the marriage |
garlands! Alas for the venom CT adders
spit into the tankards! Alas for the
white frosts of eternal death that kill |
the orange blossoms The gospel of |
Jesus Christ is to assert what is right /
and to assail what is wrong. Attempt |
has been made to take the marriage in /
stitution, which was intended for the |