The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-05-04
CHRIST'S CHURCH
Rev. DR.. Talmage Says It is Rev
olutionary.
The Exclusiveness of the worshipers Must
Come DOwn-Pride Must Give Way
Church Seats Must be Free as
Those In a Life Boat,

nations. The text is Acts II: q: "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 peopleP 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 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 or
der that it may be right side up The
time was when men wrote books en-
titling them apologies for Christian
ity." hope that day has passed. We
want no more apologies for Christian
ity. Let the apologies be on the part
of those who do not believe in our re-
ligion. 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 it's tendency
is to turn the world upside down.
Our religion has often been misrepre-
sented as a principal of tears, and mild
ness, and fastidiousness; afraid of
crossing peoples prejudices; 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 demol-
ished forever. Men speak of religion
as though it were a refined imbecility;
as though it were spiritual chloro-
form, that the people were to take un-
til 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 ten
thousand things that now seem to be
settled on firm foundations l hear
some man in the 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 it back 10 the socket. 1t goes back
with great pain. Then it gets well.
Our world is horribly disordered and
n.,@ Nf sAtn 1a,, =,
omnipotent surgery, beneath which
there will be pain and anguish before
there can come perfect health and
quiet / proclaim, therefore, in the
name of my Lord Jesus Christ!-Revo-
luton!
The religion of the Bible will make a
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. l know a
man who spends all the money he
makes in drink, as well as all the
money that his wife makes, and some
times sells the children's clothes fo:
rum. Do you tell me that he is to be
the head of that household? If the
wife have more nobility, more cour-
age, 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
know it. But that is a husband, not a
masculine caricature. There is no hui
man or divine law that makes wo-
man subordinate to man unworthy Of
her. When Christianity comes into a
domestic circle, it will give the domi
nancy 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. 1t will not hopple the
children's feet. John will laugh just az
loud; and George will jump higher
than he ever did before. 1t will stea
from the little ones neither ball MOI
bat, nor hoop, nor kite. 1t will estab
lish family altar. Angels will hover
over it. Ladders of light will reacf
down to it. The glory of Heaven viii
stream upon it. The books of remem
brance will record it; and tides of ever
lasting blessedness will pour from it
Not such a family altar as you ma,
have seen, where the prayer is long
and long chapter is read, with tedi
GUS explanation, and the exercise keep
on until the children's knees are sore
and their backs ache, and thei
patience is lost, and for tn
seventh time they have counte,
all the rungs in the chair; but
mean family altar such as may hav
been seen in your fathers house. Yo
may have wandered far off in the path
of sin and darkness; but you hav
never forgotten that family alta
where father and mother knelt, impol
tuning God for your soul. That is
memory that a man never gets over
There will be hearty, joyful famil
altar in every domestic circle. Yo
will not have to go far to find Hanna
rearing her Samuel for the temple. O
@ grandmother Lois instructing he
young Timothy in the knowledge c
Chiit, or Mary, and Martha, an
Lazarus gathered in fraternal and si
terly affection, or table at whie
Jesus sits, as at that of Zaccheus, or
home in which Jesus dwells, as in tn
house of Simon the tanner. The r.
ligion of Jesus Christ, coming into tn
domestic circle, will overthrow a
J. jealousies, all janglings; and peac
and order, and holiness will take POI
session of the home.
Again: Christianity will produce