Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-11-17
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

Subject: SNAKE Home Happy''-The Door
sill of the Dwelling House 10 the Foun-
dalton of Church and State-Let Chris
tian Love Abide Therein.
TEXT: 1.-THE disciples went away again
unto their own me."-John xx., 10.
A church within church, a republic
within republic, world within a world,
Is spelled by four letters--Home! II things
30 right there. they go right everywhere;
II things go wrong there, they go wrong
everywhere. The doorsili OF the dwelling
house is the foundation OF Church and
State. man never gets higher than his
own garret or lower than his own cellar.
Domestic life overarches and undergirdles
all other life. The highest house Of Con-
gress 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. Chrysostom's mother
made his pen for him. II u man should
start out and run seventy years in a straight
line, he could not get out from under the
shadow Of his own mantel piece. I there
fore talk to you about matter OF infinite
and eternal moment when I speak of your
home.
As individuals we are fragments. God
makes the race into 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 cog wheels in the So
eial mechanicism. One person has the pa
thence, another has the courage, another
has the placidity, another the enthusiasm;
that which is lacking in one is made up by
another, or is made up by all. Buffaloe5
the human race in circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. 1t is In this
way He balances society; this conservative
and that radical keeping things even.
Every ship must have its mast cut-water,
taffrail, ballast. Thank God, then, for
Princeton and Andover, for the opposites.
have no more right to blame a man for
being different from me than driving
wheel has right to blame the iron shaft
that holds it to the centre. John Wesley
balances Calvin's Institutes. A 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
inst 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 usefulness and the welfare of society
depend upon staying in just the place that
God has put US, or intended we should oc-
cupy.
be more useful, we are gathered in still
smaller circles In the home group. Aud
there you have the same variety again;
brothers, sisters, husband and wife; all dir-
ferent in temperaments and tastes. 1t is
fortunate that 1t should be so. If the hus-
band be all impulse, the wife must be all
prudence. If one sister be sanguine in her
temperament, the other must be Emphatic.
Mary and Martha are necessities. There
will be no dinner for Christ il there be no
Martha; there will be no audience for Jesus
II there be no Mary. The home organiza-
tion 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 pam
ther; and, mid-air, 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 just one little fragment left. 1t
toated down on the Riyer Hiddekel out Of
Paradis~. 1t is the marriage institution.
1t does not, as at the beginning, take away
from man rib. Now it is an addition OF
ribs.
This institution of marriage has been de-
famed In our day. Socialism and polyga-
my, and the most damnable of all things,
free-lovism, have been trying to turn this
earth into Turkish harem. While the
pupits have been comparatively silent
nolvels-their cheapness only equalled by
their nastiness-are trying to educate,
have taken upon themselves to educate
this nation in regard to holy marriage,
which makes or breaks for time and eter
nifty. Oh, this is not u mere question of
residence or wardrobe! 1t is a question
charged with gigantic Joy or sorrow, with
sation of George Sands Alas for this
mingling Of the nightshade with the mar
riage garlands Alas for the venom of
adders spit into the tankardsl Alas for the
white frosts of eternal death that kill the
orange-blossomsl The Gospel OF Jesus
Christ is to assert what is right and to as
sail what is wrong. Attempt has been
made to take the marriage institution,
which was intended for the happiness and
elevation OF the race, and make it q mere
commercial enterprise; an exchange Of
houses and lands and equipage; a business
partnership OF two stuffed up with the
stories of romance and knight-errantry
and unfaithfulness and feminine angel
hood. The two after while have reused
up to find that, instead of the paradise
they dreamed Of, they have got nothing
but Van Amburgh's menagerie. filed
with tigers and wild cats. Eighty thou
sand divorces In Paris In one year preceded
the worst revolution that France ever saw
And tell you what you know rs well as
do, that wrong notions on the subject Of
Christian marriage are the cause at this
day of more moral outrage before God and
man than any other cause.
There are some things that I want to
bring before you. know there are those
VI yoo WIZ huNo AoiuoS Sol up lOT u great
many years; and, then, there are those
here who have just established their home.
They have only been In that home q few
months or few years. Then there are
those who will after while, set up for
themselves home and it is right that
should speak out upon these themes.
My first counsel to you is, have God In
your new home, II it be a new home; and
lot him who was a guest at Bethany be in
your household; let the Divine blessing
drop upon your every hope and plan and
expectation. Those young people who be-
gin with God end with heaven. Have on
your right hand the engagement ring of
tho Divine affection. If one Of you be a
Christian, let that one take the Bible and
read few verses in the evening time and
then kneel down and commend yourselves
to Him who setteth the solitary in fami-
lies. want to tell you that the destroying
angel passes by without touching or enter
Ing the door-post sprinkled with blood of
the everlasting covenant. Why is it that
In some families they never get along. and
In others they always get along we'll? I
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