The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-28

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REV. TALMAeE. Domestic life over
arches and undergirdles all other life.
The highest house of congress is the
domestic circle; the rocking chair in
the nursery is higher than a throne
George Washington commanded the
forces of the United States, but Mary
Washington commanded George. Chrys-
ostom's mother made his pen for him.
IL man should start out and and run
20 years in a straight line, he could
not get out from under the shadow of
his own mantelpiece. l 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
lack, you make up; what you lack, l
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. Buffaloes
ia herds, grouse in broods, quails in
fiocks, 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 to blame a 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 Calvins Institutes
A cold thinker gives to 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 to come inside the
mill and grind the grist, and the hop
per wants to go out and dabble in the
water. Our usefulness and the well
fare of society depend upon our stay
ing in Just the place that God has put
MS, or intended we should occupy.
For more compactness, and that we
may be more useful, we are gathered
in still smaller circles in the home
group. And there you have the same
variety again; brothers, sisters, hus
band and wife; all different in temper
ament and tastes. 1t is fortunate that
il should be so. If the husband be all
impulse the wife must be all prudence
If one sister be sanguine in her temper
ament, the other must be lymphatic
Mary and Martha are necessities. There
will be no dinner for Christ if there b,
no Martha; there will be no audience fo
Jesus if there be no Mary. The bom,
organization is most beautifully con
strdcted. Eden has gone; the bowers
are all broken down; the animals thai
Adam stroked with his hand that
morning when they came up To ge
their names have since shot forth tusl
and sting, and growled panther a
panther; and, midair, iron beake
plunge, till with clotted wing and eye
less sockets the twain come whirlinl
down from under the sun in blood ant
fire. Eden has gone, but there is jus
one little fragment left. 1t noatet
down on the river Hiddekel out o
Paradise. 1t is the marriage institu
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take away from man rib. Now it il
an addition of ribs.
This institution of marriage has bee
DETAINED in our day. Socialism an
polygamy and the most damnable @
all things, freeloveism, have been try
ing to turn this earth into a Turks
harem. While the pulpits have bee
comparatively silent, novels-thei
cheapness only equaled by their mast
Dess-are trying to educate, have take
upon themselves to educate, this MT
ton in regard to holy marriage, whic
makes or breaks for time and eternity
O, this is not a mere question of res
dence or wardrobe! 1t is questio
charged with a gigantic joy or sorrow
with Heaven or hell. Alas for this ne'
dispensation of George Sandsl Ala
for this mingling of the night-shad
with the marriage garlands! Alas fc
the venom of adders spit into tn
tankards! Alas for the white frosts {
eternal death that kill the orange bio
SONS! The gospel of Jesus Christ
TO assert what Is right and to ASA
what is wrong. Attempt has bee
made to take the marriage institution
which was intended for the happines
and elevation of the race, and make
mere commercial enterprise; an e.
change of houses and lands and equ
page; a business partnership OF tw
stuffed up with the stories c
romance and knight-errantry, an
unfaithfulness and feminine ange
hood. The two after awhile hav
reused up to find that, instead of tn
paradise they dreamed of, they hay
got nothing but Van Amberg IN
nagerie, filled with tigers and vii
cnts Eighty thousand divorces