The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-29

REV. rALMAeE- Domestic life over
arches and undergraduates all other life.
The highest house of congress Is the
domestic circle; the rocking chair in
the nursery is higher than q throne.
George Washington commanded the
forces Of the United States, but Mary
Washington commanded George. Chrys-
ostom's mother made his pen for him
II q mar should start out and and run
10 years in a straight line, he could
not get ont from uAder the shadow OF
his own mantelpiece- i therefore talk
TO you about a matter of infinite and
eternal moment when l speak Of your
home.
As individuals we are fragments.
God makes the race in parts, and then
He gradually puts us together. What
l lack, you make mp; what you lack, /
make up; our deficits and SURPRISES Of
character being the cog-wheels In the
great social mechanism. One person
has the patience, another has the
courage, another has the placidity,
another has the enthusiasm; that
which is lacking in one Is made up by
another, or made up by all Buifaloes
in herds, grouse in broodS quails in
locks, the human race in circles God
has most beautifully arranged this
1t is in this way that He balances so
ciety; this conservative and that radi-
cal keeping things even. Every ship
must have its mast, ~cut-water, taffrail,
ballast Thank God, then, for Prince
ton and Andover, for the oppositeS 1
have no more right 70 blame q man for
being different from me than q driving
wheel has a right to blame the iron
shaft hat holds II TO the center. John
Wesley balances Calyin's Institutes
A cold thinker gives 70 Scotland the
strong bones Of theology; DIR. 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 70 come inside the
mill and grind the grist, and the hop
per wants TO 20 out aud dabble in the
water. Our usefulness and the vel,
fare Of society depend upon our stay.
ing in Just the place that God has put
US, or intended we should occupy.
For more compactness, and that we
may be more useful, we are gathered
Ia ctill smaller circles In the home
\ grouB And there you have the same
Variety Ags!p; brothers, sisters, hus-
band and wife. al different In temper,
ament and tastes. II is fortunate that
II should be SO. II the husband be all
Jupulse the wife must be all prudence.
7 USle sister be sanguine in her temper
amenc the other must be Emphatic.
Mary and Martha are necessities. There
will be no dinner for Christ II there be
no Martha; there will be nc audience for
Jesus IL there be no Mary. The home
organization is most beautifully con
sruetsd. Eden has gone; the bowers
are all broken down; the animals that
Adam stroked with his hand that
morning when they came up 10 ge,
their names have since shot forth tusk
and sting. and growled panther a,
panther: and, midaiT, iron beakei
plunge. till with elotted wing and eye.
less sockets the twain come whirlipg
down from under the sun In blood and
fire. Eden has gone, but there Is Just
one little fragment left 1t hosted
down on the river Hiddekel out Of
Paradise. IL is the marriage institu.
ton. IT does not, at the beginning.
take away from man a rib. Now 1t ID
81 addition Of ribs.
ThissIgtitution Of marriage has beer
DETAINED "a 9yr day. Socialism anC
polygamy, aud as post damnable o
all things, freeloyeisW, EpFe been try
lug 10 turn this earth Into q Turkisl
barem. While the pulpits have beSI
Comparatively silent novels-thei
.abeAppqSe only equaled by their nasti
ness- ars trying 10 educate, have takeI
spon themselves 70 educate, this ma
ton 10 regard to holy marriage, whicl
makes " breaks for tine and eternity
: o, this Is not a mere question Of resi-
. dence or wardrobe. II is n question
charged with gigantic Joy or sorrow
with Heaven or hell. Alas for this ney