The Iola register., 1898-05-06

ENAiA lsA3AaAAzZ3DwNn,tn our business. "
REV TALMAeE. our religionl They
are actually turning the world up
side DOWN.
The charge was true; for there is
nothing that so interferes with sin,
there is nothing so ruinous to every
form of established 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 IL needs to be turned upside down
in order that 1T may be right side up.
The time was when men wrote books
emitting them Apologies for Chris
tianity." hope that day has passed.
We want no more apologies for Chris
tianity. 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 Chris
tianity is revolutionary, aud that its
tendency is to turn the world upside
down.
Our religion has often been misrepre-
sented as principle of tears, and
mildness, and fastidiousness; afraid of
crossing peoples prejudices; afraid of
making somebody mad; with sillSen
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 be demol-
ished for ever. Men speak of religion
as though it was refined imbecility;
as though 1t was spiritual chloro-
form that the people were to take un-
til the sharp cutting of life were over.
"he Bible, so far from this, represents
the religion of Christ as robust and
brawny-ransaclSinga and upsetting TO-
900 things that now seem to be settled
on firm foundations. l hear some man
in this house say, 81 thought religion
was peace" That is the final result
A mans arm is out of place. Two men
come and with one great effort put it
back to the socket 1t goes back with
great pain. Then it gets we'll. Our
world is horribly disordered and out
of joint. 1t must come under an ON
nipotent surgery, beneath which
there will be pain and anguish before
there can come perfect health and
quiet. l proclaim, therefore, in the
name of my Lord Jesus Christ Revo-
luton!
The religion of the Bible will make
n 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 a man who spends all the
money he makes in drink, as we'll as
all the money that his wife makes; and
sometimes sells the children's clothes
for rum. Do you tell me that he is to
be the head of that household? If the
wife have more nobility, more courage
more consistency, more of all that is
right, she shall have the supremacy.
You say that the wife is to be subject
to the husband. | know it. But that
is a husband, not a masculine carica-
ture. There is no human or divine
law that makes a woman subordinate
to a man unworthy of her When
Christianity comes into a domestic cir
Gle, il will give the dominancy TO that
one who is the most worthy of 1t.
AS religion comes in at the front
door mirth and laughter will not go
out of the back door. 1t will not
hopple the children's 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 it. Ladders of
light win reach down to it, The glory
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books of remembrance will record it;
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 the seventh time they have counted
all the rungs in the chair; but | mean
family altar 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 lSnelt, importuning
God for your soul, That is a memory
that "A man never gets over. There
will be hearty, joyful family altar in
every domestic circle. You will not
have to go far to find Hannah rearing
her Samuel for the temple or agrand-
mother Lois instructing her young
Timothy in the knowledge of Christ,
or Mary, and Martha, and Lazarus
gathered in fraternal and sisterly
affection, or table at which Jesus
sits, as at that Of Zaccheus, or home
in which Jesus dwclls, as in the house
of Simon, the tanner, The religion of
Jesus Christ, coming into the domestic
circle, will overthrow all jealousies,