Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-10-28
THE H0MEMAKERS.
DR.. TALMAGE PLEADS FOR A RE.GN
OF EROS.

constellation In the Home Circle.
The Relation Of Husband and wife.
How Homes Arc Made.
copyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.1Dr. Talmage
in this discourse sets forth radical theo.
ries, which, if adopted. would brighten
many domestic circles; text, John Xxx,
10, "The disciples went away again I'M
10 their own homes"
\ church within church, a republic
within republic, a world within a
world is spelled by four letters-home!
If things 90 right there, they 90 right
everywhere. If things go wrong there,
they 60 wrong everywhere. The door.
sill of the dwelling house is the founda-
tion of church and state. \ man never
gets higher than his own garrett or low.
or 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 a man should start out and run 20
years in a straight line, ho could not
get out from under the shadow Of his
own mantelpiece. l therefore talk to
you about a matter Of infinite and eter-
nal moment when speak 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 1
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 placidity, another
has the enthusiasm That which is lack
ing in one is made up by another, or
made up by all Buffaloes in herds,
grouse in broods, Quails in fiocks, the
human race in circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. 1t is in this
way that he balances society. This con
seryatiye and that radical keeping things
even. Every ship must have its mast,
cutwater taffrail, ballast. Ihank God
then, for Princeton and Andoyer, for
the opposites.
I have no more right d blame a man
for being different from le than driv-
ing wheel has right 10 blame the iron
shaft that holds it 10 the center John
Wesley balances Calvin's Institutes. "
\ cold thinker gives to Scotland the
strong bones Of theology. DR.. Guthrie
clothes them with q 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 60
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 compactness and that We
may be more useful we are gathered IN
still smaller circles in tho home group,
and there you have the same variety
administrations sisters, husband and
wife-all different in temperaments and
tastes. 1t is fortunate that it should bo
so. 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 lympbatic. 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 lust one little fragment left. IL float
cd down on the River Hiddekel out OF
paradise. 1t is the marriage institution.
1t does not, as at the beginning, take
away from man rib. Now II is ad'
diti0n Of ribs.
This institution Of marriage has been
DETAINED in our day. Socialism and po-
lyaamy, and the most damnable Of all
things, free lovism, have been trying to
turn this earth into Turkish harem.
While the pulpits have been compara-
tively 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
wardrobe 1t is question charged with
gigantic joy or sorrow, heaven or hell.
Alas for this new dispensation Of
George Sandsl Alas for this mingling
Of tho nightshade with the marriage
parlandsl Alas for the venom OF adders
spit into the tankardsl Alas for the
white frosts of eternal death that kill
the orange blossoms 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
happiness and elevation Of the race and
make it. mere commercial enterprise A;
an exchange of houses and lands and
equipage; business partnership OF two
stuffed up with the stories of romance
and knight Grants 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 Ann
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
tell you what you know as well as
do, that wrong notions on the subject
of Christian marriage are the cause at