Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-06-10

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"
lhope that day has passed. Wewant 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 its
tendency is to turn the world upside
down.
Our religion has often been misrep-
resented rs 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 dem oil
ished forever. Men speak of religion
as though it were n spiritual chloro-
form, that the people were TO take uu-
Til the sharp cutting OF life were over.
The Bible, so far from this, represents
the religion OF CArist as robust and
brawny-ransacling and upsetting TO-
900 things that now seem TO be settled
on firm foundations. 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 il back
TO the socket 1t goes back with great
pain. Then it gets well. Our world
is horribly discrdered 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, pre-
claim, therefore, in the name of my
Lord Jesus Christ-Revolution!
The religion of the Bible will max c
revolution in the family. Those
things that are wrong in the family
circle will be overthrow by it, while
justice and harmony will take the
Dldtt llG luopttu'l W III DI lDt
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 | know it. But that is huS.
band, not masculine carcature
| There is no human or divine law that
makes woman subordinate to a man
unworthy of her. When Christianity
comes into 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 laughter will not go
out of the back door. 1t will not hopple
the children's feet John will laugh
just rs loud, and George will jump
higher llliJ lt ever lltl DtlOICs IL VIII
steal from the little ones neither ball
nor bat, nor hoop, nor kite. 1t will
establish a 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 rcmem.
brance will record 1t; and tides OF
everlasting blesscdness will pour
from it, Not such a 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 childrcn's knees arc
sore, and their backs ache, and their
patience is lost and for the seventh
time they have counted all the rung,
in the chair, but mean a family altar
such as may have been in your fathers
house. You may have wandered
far off in the paths OF sin ant
darkness; but you have never for
gotten that family altar where father
and mother knelt, importuning God fol
your soul. That is IA memory that q
man never gets over. There will be q
hearty, joyful family altar in every do
nestle circle. Yod will not have to q
far to find Hannah rearing her Samue
for the temple, or Il grandmother Loi
instructing her young Timothy in TIL,
knowledge of Christ, or u Mary, ant
Martha, and Lazarus gathered in fra
ternal and sisterly affection, or a tabl
at which Jesus sits, as at that of Iac
cheus, or "a 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 jealousies, all janglings; and peace
session of the home.
Again: Christianity will produce
revolution in commercial circles. Fine
me so merchants, and you will find tina
they have 80 standards Of what is RICH
and wrong. You say to some on
about merchant: us he honest?
sob, yes" the man says, ''he is honest
but he grinds the faces of his clerks
He is honest; but he exaggerates tn
value of his goods. He is honest; bu
he loans money on bond and mortgage
with the understanding that the mort
gage can lie quiet for ten years, but a
soon AS he gets the mortgage h
records it and begins foreclosure suit
and the sheriff S writ. comes down, an
the day Of sale arrives and away goe
the homestead, and creditor buys it i
ct half price" Honest? When h
loaned the money he knew that h
would get the homestead at half pric,
Honest? But he goes to the insuranc
office to get policy on his life, an
tells the doctor that he is well, vile
he knows that for ten years he had Ia
but one lung. Honest? though he sci