Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-10-29
THE HOMEMAKERS.
3R. TALMAGE PLEADS FOR A REIGN
OF EROS.


The Relation of Husband ana Wife.
How Homes Are Made.
copyright. 1885, by American Press Asso-
ciationl
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-Dr. Talmage
in this discourse sets forth radical theo-
ries,' which, if adopted, would brighten
many domestic circles; text, John Xxx,
10, 1.-The disciples went away again I'M
to their own homes. y
A church within a church. a republic
within republic, world within a
world is spelled by four lotters-homel
If things 30 right there, they 60 right
everywhere. If things 90 wrong there,
they 20 wrong everywhere. The door
sill of the dwelling house is tho founda
ton of church and state. a man never
gets higher than his own garrett or low
er than his own cellar Domestic life
overarchos and undergraduates all other
life. The highest house of congress is
tho domestic circle. The rocking chair
in tho 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 70
years in straight line, he could not
get out from under the shadow of his
own mantelpiece. therefore talk to
you about Il matter Of infinite and eter-
nal moment when Ispoak of your homo
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 I
make up Our deficits and surpluses of
character being the cogwheels i'll the
great social mechanism. One person
has the patience. another has the ccur-
age, another has the placidiiy, another
has the enthusiasm. That which is lack
ing in one is m&la up by another, or
made up by all. Bn:.alces in herds,
grouse in broods, qa@;!s il GccIs, the
human race in circles. Cod has most
beautifully arraneel this it is in this
way that lie hGi:i:i9os socie:y. This COLI
servative and that radical keeping things
even. Every ship mast have It's vast,
cutwater, ta:Tf7r;.il, ballast. Thank Sod,
then, for Princeton and Ant!oyor, fer
tho opposites.
have no more right to blame man
for being different from me than a driv-
ing wheel has a right to blame tie iron
shaft that holds it to the center. John
Wesley balances Calvin's Institutes >
\ cold thinker gives to Scotland the
strong bones of theology. Dr. Guthrie
clothes them with a 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
fitness and tho 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 moro useful we are gathered in
still smaller circles III the home group,
and there you have the same variety
again-brothers, sisters, husband and
wife-all different in temperaments and
tastes. 1t is fortunate that it should be
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 DO Emphatic. Mary and
Martha arc necessities. There will beno
dinner for Christ if there beno Martha.
There will be no audience for Jesus If
there be no Mary. The homo orgnniza-
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 clothed wing
and eyeless sockets the twain come
whirling down from under the sun IN
blood and fire. Eden has gone, but there
is just Que little fragment left. 1t float
/ ed down on the River HiddeEel out of
paradise. 1t is the marriage institution.
1t does not, as at the beginning, take
away from man rib Now it is ad.
dition of ribs.
This institution Of marriage has been
DETAINED in our day. Socialism and po-
lygamy, and the most damnable of all
things, free lovism, have been trying to
turn this earth into Turkish harem.
While the pulpits have been compare
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 a mere question of residence or
wardrobe! 1t is question charged with
gigantic joy or sorrow, heaven or hell.
Alas for this new disrensation of
George Sands! Alas for this mingling
of the nightshade with the marriage
garlands Alas for the venom of adders
spit into the tanlsards! Alas for the
white frosts of eternal death that kill
the orange blossoms! Ine Sospel VI
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 1t mere commercial enterprise;
an exchange of houses and lands and
equipage; business partnership of two
stuffed up with the stories of romance
and knight Grants aud 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 a Van Am
burgh's menagerie, filled with tigers
and wildcats. Eighty thousand divorces
in Paris in one year preceded the worst