The Progress., 1898-05-07

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comes in-o n domestic circle, it will
give the doninancy to that one who i.
the most worthy of it.
AS religion comes in at the front
door, mirth and laughter will not go
out Of the back door. It will not hopple
the clldrens feet. John will laugh
just as loud, and George will jump
higher that 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 will reach
down to it. The glory of Heaven will
stream upon it. The books of remem-
brance 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 explanations, and the exercise
| keeps on until the children'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 I mean family altar
such as may have been in your fathers
house. You may have wandered
far OFT in the paths of sin and
darkness; but you have never for
cotton that family altar where father
and mother knelt, importuning God for
your soul. That is a memory that a
man never gets over. There will be q
hearty, joyful family altar in every do
nestle circle. You will not have to 90
far to find Hannah rearing her Samuel
for the temple, or a grandmother Lois
instructing her young Timothy in the
knowledge OF Christ, or Mary, and
Martha, and Lazarus gathered in fra
ternal and sisterly affection, or a table
at which Jesus sits, as at that of lac
cheus, or a home in which Jesus dwells, |
as in the HOUSE of Simon, the tanner.
The religion Of Jesus Christ, coming |
into the domestic circle, will overthrow |
all jealousies, all janglings; and peace,
and order, and holiness will take pos
session of the home.
Again: Christianity will produce a
revolution ia commercial circles. Find
me so merchants, and you will find that
they have 50 standards of what is right
and wrong. You say to some one
about merchant: els he honest?"
"Oh, yes. the man says. "he is honest;
but he grinds the faces of his clerks
He Is honest; but he exaggerates the
Vaine OF his goods. He is honest; out !
ne loans money on bond and MORTGAGE.
with the understanding that the mort
"So SoA AAe QuleC 1Or ten years, but as |
soon as he gets the mortgage he
'ecords 1t and begins a foreclosure suit,
md the sheriffs writ comes down, and
he day of sale arrives, and away goes
he homestead, and creditor buys it in
1t half price" Honest? When he
oaned the money he knew that he
would get the homestead at half price.
ionest9 But he goes to the insurance >
'race to get policy on his life and
ellis the doctor that he is well, when .
lie knows that for ten years he lad had J
ut one lung. Honest? though he sells
roperty by the map, forgetting to tell >
he purchaser that the ground is all
nder water; but it is generous in him
do that, for he throws the water
ito the bargain. "
All! my friends, there is but one D.
.andard of the everlasting right and
the everlasting wrong, and that is o
lie Bible; and when that prinsiple o
1all get its pry under our commercial
ouses, believe that one half of them d