Connecticut western news., 1898-05-05
A BRAWNY RELIGION.
DIR. TALMAGE HERALOS IMPENDING
 CHRISTIAN REVOLUTIONS

CHRISTIAN REVOLUTIONS.
 New Conditions Needed In Our Churches and In Our Homes Pride and ExcIu- siveness Must Come Down-welcome the Day of Great Revivals.
 Copyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
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 WASHINGTON, May 1.-This discourse of Dr. Talmage is revolutionary for good in families and churches and na- tions, and especially appropriate for these times; text, Acts xvii, 6, "These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also.
 There is 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 comrades. The mob surround the house and cry: "Bring out those turbulent preachers. They are interfering with our business. They are 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 order that it may be right side up The time was when men wrote books entitling them Apologies For Christianity. hope that day has passed. We want no more apologies for Christianity. Let the apol- ogies 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 Christianity 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 prejudioes; afraid of making somebody mad; with silken 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 demolish- ed forever Men speak of religion as though it were refined imbecility; as though it were spiritual chloroform that the people were to take until the sharp cutting of life were over. The Bible, so far from this, represents the religion of Christ as robust and brawny -ransacking and upsetting 10000 things that now seem to be settled on firm foundations. I hear some man in the house say, II thought religion was peace. :" That is the final result. A mans arm is out of place. Two men come and with great effort put it back to the socket. It goes back with great pain. Then it gets we'll. Our world is horribly disordered and out of joint It must come under an omnipotent surgery, beneath which there will be pain and anguish before there can come perfect health and quiet. I proclaim, there fore, in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ-revolutionl
 Christian Revolutions.
 The religion of the Bible will make 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 hus- band will be the head of the household only when he is fit to be- I 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 mo- bility, more courage, more consistency, more of all that is right, she shall have the supremacy. You say that the Bible says that the wife is to be subject to the husband. I know it. But that is a hus- band, not a masculine caricature. There is no human or divine law that makes woman subordinate to a man un- worthy of her. When Christianity comes into domestic circle, it will give the dominancy to that one who is 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 children's feet. John will laugh just as loud, and George will jump higher than he ever did before. It will steal from the little ones neither ball nor bat nor hoop, nor kite. It will es- tablish family altar. Angels will hov- CT 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 it, and tides of ever lasting 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 ex- planation, 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 1 mean a family altar such as may have been seen in your fathers house. You may have ~andered far off in the paths of sin and darkness but you have never forgotten that family altar where father and mother knelt, importuning God for your soul. That is a memory that 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 a grandmother Lois instruct ing her young Timothy in the knowl- edge of Christ, or a Mary and Martha and Lazarus gathered in fraternal and sisterly affection, or a table at which Jesus sits, as at that of Zacoheus, or a home ill which Jesus dwells, as in the house of Simon the tanner. The religion of Jesus Christ, coming into the domes tic circle, will overthrow all jealousies, all janglings, and peace and order and holiness will take possession of the home.
 Again, Christianity will produce a revolution in commercial circles. Find me 50 merchants, and you find that they have 50 standards of what is right and wrong. You say to some one about merchant, "Is he honest?n "Oh,