Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-12-02
True Happiness in the Home Circle,
and How it is Attained.
Mutual Love and Forbearance are the PrIn-
cipal Factors In the Maintenance OF y
Happy Home, According to DIR.
Ialmags.

Home! If things go right there, they
go right everywhere; if things go
wrong there, they go wrong every
where. The door sill of the dwelling
house is the foundation of church and
state. A man never gets higher than
his own garnet or lower than his own
cellar Domestic life overreaches and
undergirdles all other life. The high
est house of congress is the domestic
circle; the rocking chair in the nurse
ny is higher than throne. George
Washington commanded the forces of
the United States, but Mary Washing
ton commanded George. Chrysos-
TOMS mother made his pen for him.
If . man should start out and run 70
years in straight line, he could not
get out from under the shadow of his
own mantelpece. i therefore talk to
to you about matter of infinite and
eternal moment when | speak of your
home.
AS individuals we are fragments.
God makes the race in parts, and then
He gradually put us together. What
/ lack, you make up; what you lack,
make up; our defects and SURPRISES
of character being the cog-wheels in
the great social mechanism. One per-
son has the patience, another has the
courage, another has the placidity, an
other has the enthusiasm; that which
is lacking in one is made up by an
other, or made up by all. Buffoloes in
herds, grouse in broods, quails in
flocks, 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.
! have no more right to blame man
for being different from me than a
driving wheel has a right to blame the
iron shaft that holds it to the center
John Wesley balances Calvin's Insti'
tutes. A cold thinker gives to Scot
land 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 wSter-wheel wants to
come inside the mill and grind the
grist, and the hopper wants to go out
and dabble in the water. Our useful.
ness and the welfare of society de.
pend upon our staying in just the
place that God has put us, or intended
we should occupy.
For more compactness, and that W.
may be more useful, we are gathered
in still smaller circles in the HON,
group. And there you have the sam,
variety again; brothers, sisters, hus
band and wife; all different in TEN
permanent and tastes. 1t is fortunat,
| that it should be so. If the husband
be all impulse the wife must be al
~ hN'lNNs - OllN oIoANl w sang ulIlt II
her temperament, the other must b,
| Emphatic. Mary and Martha are ne
cessities. There will be no dinner foi
Christ if there be no Martha; Their,
will be no audience for Jesus if ther,
be no Mary. The home organization
is most beautifully constructed. Edei
has gone; the bowers are broker
down; the animals that Adam stroket
with his hand that morning when the,
came up to get their names have sine
shot forth tusk and sting, and growlet
panther at panther; and, midair, iroi
beaks plunge, till with clotted win:
and eyeless sockets the twain com
whirling down from under the sun il
blood and fire. Eden has gone, bu
there is just one little fragment left
1t foated down on the river Hiddeke
out of paradise. 1t is the marriag
institution. 1t does not, at the begin
ming, take away from man rib. Nov
it is an addition of ribs.
This institution ofmarriage has bee
DETAINED in our day. Socialism an,
polygamy, and the most damnable o
all things, freelovism, have been try
ing to turn this earth into a Turks
harem. While the pulpits have bee
comparatively silent, noveis-thei
cheapness only equaled by their mast
ness-are trying to educate, have take
upon themselves TO educate, this ma
ton in regard to holy marriage, whic
makes or breaks for time and eterni
~. Oh, this is not mere question @
residence or wardrobe! 1t is a ques
ton charged with gigantic joy or sol
row, with Heaven or hell Alas TO
this new dlspensation of George Sands
Alas for this minglng of the night
shade with the marriage garlands
Alas for the venom of adders spit int
the tankards! Alas for the whit
frosts of eternal death, that kill tn
orange blossoms! The Gospel of j,
sus Christ is to assert what is RICH
and to assail what is wrong. AttemI
has been made to take the marriag
institution, which was intended &c
the happiness and elevation of tn
race, and make it a mere commerce.
enterprise; an exchange of houses ar
lands and equipage; a business par
nership of two stuffed up with til
stories of romance and knight-errant.
and unfaithfulness and feminine al
gelhood. The two after awhile hay
reused up to find that, instead of tt
paradise they dreamed of, they hay
got nothing but Van Amberg M
nagerie, filled with tigers and vii
cats. Eighty thousand divorces
Paris in one year preceded the wor
revolution that France ever saw. Ar
| tell you what you know as well as
do, that wrong notions on the subje'
of Christian marriage are the cause
this day of more moral outrage befol
God and man than any other cause.
There are some things that | wal