The Progress., 1898-05-07
IN THE LORDS NAME.
A Proclamation of Revolution in the
Name of Jehovah.
Christianity's Upheaval In tho Family, in
the Church, in Com me rcial Cir
cies and Through All
Walks OF Life.

In the following sermon Rev. r. De
Witt Talmage sets forth the tendenc,
Of religion to overthrow things tha
nre wrong in every condition of life
The text is:
These that have turned the world upside
down are come hither also Acts xviii, 9.
There is a wild, believing mob
around the house of Jason, in Thessa~
lonica. What has the man done so
greatly to offend the people? He has
been entertaining Paul and his COM
rades. The mob surround the house
and cry: Bring out those turbulent
preachers! They are interfering with
our business. They arc running our
religion! They are actually turning
the world upside 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 it
needs to be turned upside down in Or
der that 1t may be right side up. The
time was when men wrote books enti-
Ting them Apologies for Christianity"
Ahope that day has passed. We want no
more apologies for Christianity. Let
the apologies be on the part of those
who do not believe in our religion. We
do not wish to hide the fact that Chris
tlanity is revolutionary, and that its
tendency is to turn the world upside
down.
Our religion has often been misrep-
resented as principle of tears, and
mildness, and fastidiousness; afraid of
crossing peoples prejudice; afraid of
mailing somebody mad; with silken
gloves, lifting the people up from the
church pew into glory, as though they
were bohemian glass, 80 very delicate
that with one touch it may be demol-
lshed forever. Men speak of religion
as though 1t were a spiritual chloro-
form, that the people were to take UNI
til the sharp cutting of life were over.
Inc Bible, SO far from this, represents
the religion of Christ as robust and
brawny-ransacking and upsetting TO-
ooO things that now seem to be settled
ON hrm 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 great effort put 1t back |
to the socket It goes back with great |
pain. Then it gets well. Our world |
is horribly disordered 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. pro
claim, therefore, in the name of my
Lord Jesus Characterization!
The religion of the Bible will make
l revolution in the family. Those
'hings that are wrong in the family
circle will be overthrown by it, while
Justice and harmony will take the
'lace. The husband will be the head ]
II the household only when he is tit to
'e. know man who spends all the {
money he makes in drink, as well as c
III the money that his wife makes; and t
sells the children's clothes /
or rum. Do you teH me that he is to r
G the head of that household? If the
life have more nobility, more courage. C
lore consistency, more of all that is IA
ght, she shall have the supremacy. t
on say that the Bibl. says that the I
lie is to be the su5jccs to- the hus- G