The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-06-09
RUINATlON TO EVIL.
A Revolutionary Pronounc.ment in
the Lords Name.
An Overturnins of Things TraditiOnary In
the Family, the Business Circle
and the Church by
Christianity.

Christianity.
In the following sermon Rev. DIR.
Talmage breaches Il religious revolu-
tion, which he thinks especially appli-
cable to these times. The text is:
These that have turned the world upside
down come hther also.-Acts xviii
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 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 il
nothing that SO interfcres 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
l.
| time was when men wrote books enti-
tling them Apologies for Christianity"
| hope that day has passed. We want no
more apologies for Christianity. Let
| the apologies be on the part of those
who do not believe in our religion. We
do not wish to hide the fact that Chris
tianity is revolutionary, and that it's
tendency is to turn the world upside
down.
Our religion has often been misrep-
resented as Il principle of tears, and
mildness, and fastidiousness; afraid of
crossing peoples prejudice; afraid OF
making somebody mad; with silken
gloves, lifting the people up from the
church pew into glory, as though they
were Bohemian glass, 50 very delicate
that with one touch it may be dem OIL
ished forever. Men speak of religion
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 1O,-
600 things that now seem to be settled
on firm foundations. l hear some man
in this house say: Il 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 1t goes back with great
pain. Then it gets well. Our world
is horribly disordered and ont of joint.
1t must come under an omnipotent
surgery, beneath which there will be
pain and anguish before there can
come perfect health and quiet. l pro-
claim. therefore, in the name of my
Lord Jesus Christ-Revolution!
The religion of the Bible will max c
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 husband will be the heaG
of the household only when he is fit te
, be- know a man who spends all the
money he makes in drink, as we'll a.
all the money that his wife makes; ant
sometimes sells the children's clothe,
q for rum. Do you tell me that he is tt
be the head of that household? If thu
wife have more nobility, more courage
more consistency, more of all that il
right, she shall have the supremacy
You say that the Bible says that tn
band. | know it. But that is hus
band, not masculine caricaturc
There is no human or divine law tha
" makes Il woman subordinate to a MAJ
d unworthy of her When Christianit,
+ comes into domestic circle, it will
II give the dominancy to that one who i
Il the most worthy Of it.
e As religion comes in at the from
q door, mirta and laughter will not g
It out of the back door. 1t will not hoppl
ID the children's feet. John will laug
is just as loud, and George will jun
h higher that he ever did before. 1t wi
l. steal from the little ones neither bal
y nor bat, nor hoop. nor kite. 1t wi
establish family altar. Angels wi
hover overit. Ladders of light will reac
down to it. The glory of Heaven will
W stream upon it. The books Of re:nen
brance will record 1t: ana tides c
TX everlasting bles,edness will pou
from it. Not such family altar a
~ YOU may nave ScCu. mere Iilc pIdy
is long and a long chapter is read, wit
le tedious explanations, and the exerci
in keeps on until the children's knees al
sore, and their backs ache, and the
patience is lost and for the sevent
time they have counted all the rum
ID in the chair but mean family alt
n, such as may have been in your father
h, house You may have wander
fa- off in the paths of sin al
in darkness; but you have never fc
10 gotten that family altar where faith
IN and mother knelt, importuning God
=" your soul. That is memory that
man never gets over. There will be
hearty, joyful family altar in every q
nestle circle You will not have to
ot far to find Hannah rearing her Sanr
- for the temple. or a grandmother L.
p instructing her young Timothy in
on knowledge OF Christ. or Mary, q
Martha. and Lazarus gathered in fl
10 ternal and s:s:erly affection, or tai
1t which Jesus sits, as AZ that Of u