The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-05-14
IN THE LORDS NAME.
A Proclamation Of Revolution In the
Name of Jehovah.
Christianity's Upheavai In the Family. In
the Church, in Commercial Cir
cies and Through All
Walks of Life.

In the following sermon Rev. L. de-
Witt Talmage sets forth the tendency
of religion to overthrow things that
are wrong in every condition of life.
The text is:
These that have turned the world upside
down are come hither also. Acts xviii, g.
There is a wild, believing emob
around the house of Jason, in Thessat
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 is
nothing that SO interferes with sin,
there is nothing 50 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
der that it may be right side up. The
time was when men wrote books enti-
Ting them Apologies for Christianity. +"
Ihope 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 mis- rep
resented as 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, so very delicate
that with one touch it may be de mol
ished forever. Men speak of religion
as though it were a spiritual chloro-
form, that the people were to take UNI
til the sharp cutting of life were over.
The Bible, so far from this, represents
the religion of Christ as no bust and
brawny-ransacking and upsetting 10,-
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 out 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. pro-
claim, therefore, in the name of my
Lord Jesus Christ-Revolution!
The religion of the Bible will max G
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 head
of the household only when he is fit to
be. know man who spends all the
money he makes in drink, as well as
all the money that his wife makes; and
sometimes sells the children's clothes
for rum. Do you tell me that he is to
be the head of that household? If the
wife have more nobility, more courage.
more consistency, more of all that is
right, she shall have the supremacy.
You say that the Bible says that the
wife is to be the subject to the hus-
band. l know it. But that is hus-
band, not masculine caricature
There is no human or divine law that
makes woman subordinate to man
unworthy of her. When Christianity
comes into a domestic circle, it will
give the dominancy to that one who is
the most worthy of it.
AS religion comes in at the front
door, mirth and laug liter will not go
out of the back door. 1t will not hopple
the children's feet. John will laugh
just as loud, and George will jump
higher that he ever did before. 1t will
steal from the little ones neither ball
nor bat, nor hoop, nor kite. 1t will
establish family altar. Angels will
hover overit. Ladders of light will reach
down to it. The glory Of Heaven will
stream upon it. The books of RENE m
brance will record 1t; and tides of
everlasting blessedness will pour
from it. Not such family altar as
you may have seen, where the prayer
is long and long chapter is read, with
tedious explanations, and the exercise
keeps on until the children's knees are
sore, and their backs ache, and their
patience is lost and for the seventh
time they have counted all the rungs
in the chair, but mean family altar
such as may have been in your fathers
house. You may have wandered
far off in the paths of sin and
darkness; but you have never for
gotten that family altar where father
and mother knelt, importuning God for
your soul. That il a memory that a
man never gets over. There will be
hearty, joyful family altar in every do
mestic circle. You will not have to go
far to find Hannah rearing her Samuel
for the temple, or a grandmother Lois
instructing her young Timothy in the
knowledge of Christ, or a Mary, and
Martha, and Lazarus gathered in fra
ternal and sisterly affection, or table
ut which Jesus sits, as at that of Fac
cheus, or home in which Jesus dwells,
as in the house of Simon, the tanner.
The religion of Jesus Christ, coming
into the domestic circle, will overthrow
all jealousics, all janglings; and peace,
and order. and holiness will take pos
session Of the home. N