Connecticut western news., 1898-10-27
THE HOMEMAKERS.
LR. TALMAGE PLEADS FOR A REIGN
 OF EROS.

The Relation of Husband and Wife.
 How Homes Are Made.
 Copyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-Dr. Talmage in this discourse sets forth radical theo- ries, which, if adopted, would brighten many domestic circles; text, John xx, 10, '"The disciples went away again un- to their own homes"
 A church within church, a republic within a republic, world within world is spelled by four letters-home If things go right there, they go right everywhere. If things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere. The door, sill of the dwelling house is the founda- tion of church and state. man never Rets higher than his own garrett or low er than his own cellar. Domestic life overarches and undergirdles 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- ostom's mother made his pen for him. If man should start out and run 70 years in straight line, he could not get out from under the shadow of his own mantelpiece. I therefore talk to you about matte : of infinite and eter- nal moment when Ispeak of your home.
 As individuals we are fragments. God makes the race in parts, and then he gradually puts us together. What 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 plaoidity, another has the enthusiasm. That which is lack ing in one Is made up by another, or made up by all Buffaloes in herds, Srouse in broods, quails in fooks, the human race in circles. God has most beautifully arranged this It is in this way that he balances society. This con- servative and that radical keeping things even. Every ship must have it's mast, outwater, taffrail, ballast. Thank God, then, for Princeton and Andover, for the oppoeitea
 have no more right to blame man for being different from me than driv- ing wheel has a right to blame the iron ahaft that holds 1t 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 throbbing heart and warm flesh. The difficulty is that we are not satisfied with just the work that God has given us to do. The water wheel wants to come inside the mill and grind the grist and the hopper wants to go out and dabble in the water. Our use- fulness and the welfare of society de. pend upon our staying in just the place that God has put us or intended we should occupy.
 Our Eden of Orange Blossoms.
 For more compaotness and that we may be more useful we are gathered in still smaller circles in 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 %. If the husband be all impulse, the , wife must be all prudence. If one sis ter be sanguine in her temperament. the other must be lymphatic. Mary and Martha are necessities. There will be no dinner for 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 tusk and sting, and growled panther at panther, and midair iron beaks plunge, till with clotted wing and eyeless sockets the twain come whirling down from under the sun in blood and fire. Eden has gone, but there Is just one little fragment left. It float ed down on the River Hiddekel out of paradise. It is the marriage institution. 1t does not, as at the beginning, take away from man rib. Now it is a ad- dition of ribs.
 This institution of marriage has been defamed in our day. Socialism and po- lygamy, and the most damnable of all things, free lovism, have been trying to turn this earth into a Turkish harem. While the pulpits have been compara- 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 wardrobel 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 garlandsi' Alas for the venom of adders spit into the tankardsl Alas for the white frosts of eternal death that kill lhe orange blossomsl 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 happNeass and elevation of the race and make it 8 mere commercial enterprise; an exchange of houses and lands and equipage; business partnership of two stuffed up with the stories of romance and knight eryants and unfaithfulness and feminine angelhood. The two after awhile have reused up to find that, in- stead of the paradise they dreamed of, they have got nothing but Van Am burgh's menagerie, filled with tigers and wildcats. Eighty thousand divorces in Paris in one year preceded the worst revolution that France ever saw. And I tell you what you know as we'll as do, that wrong notions on the subject of Christian marriage are the cause st this day of more moral outrage before God and man than any other cause.
 There are some things that want tc bring before you. I know there are those of you who have had homes sci up for great many years and then there are those here who have just es- fahlfahed their home They have on V