Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-11-09
SERMONS OF THE DAY

sill Of tho Dwelling House is the FOun.
dalton OF Church and State-Let ChrIa.
tian Love Abide Therein.
| TEXT: "The disciples went away again
] unto their own home."-John Xxx, 10.
A church within a church, a republi,
within a republic, a world within world
Is spelled by four letters-Hone! II things
| go right there, they 60 right everywhere
II things go wrong there, they go wronl
everywhere. The doorsill OF the dwelling
house is the foundation Of Church ant
State. A man never gets higher than his
| own garret or lower than his own cellar
| Domestic life overarches and undergirdle:
all other life. The highest house OF Con-
| gress is the domestic circle; the rocking
George Washington commanded the forces
of the United States, but Mary Washington
commanded George. Chrysostom's mother
made his pen for him. II a man shouts
start out and run seventy years In straight
line, he could not get out from under the
fore talk to you about a matter OF infinite
and eternal moment when speak Of youI
home.
As individuals we are fragments. God
makes the race into parts, and then He
gradually puts us together. What lack,
up; our deficits and surpluses OF
character being the cog wheels in the So
| cial mechantcism. One person has the pa
tience, another has the courage, another
has the placidity, another the enthusiasm;
that which is lacking in one is made up by
In herds, grouse in broods, quails in fiocks,
the human race In circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. 1t is In this
way He balances society; this conservative
aud that radical keeping things even.
Every ship must have its mast, cut water,
tafrrail, ballast. Thank God, then, for
Princeton 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 centre. John Wesley
balances Calvin's Institutes. A cold
thinker gives to Scotland the strong bones
OF theology; DR.. Guthrie clothes them with
throbbing heart and warm flesh. The
difficulty Is that we are not satisfied with
inst the work that God has given US to do.
The water-wheel wants to come inside the
mill and grind the grist, and the hopper
wants to go out and dabble In the water.
Our usefulness and the welfare of society
depend upon staying in just the place that
God has put US, or Intended We should oc-
cupy.
| rOT more cOmpactue9S, anu tn6t 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, husband and wife; all diff.
ferent In temperaments and tastes. 1t Is
| fortunate that 1t should be so. II the hus-
band be all impulse, the wife must be al
prudence. II one sister be sanguine in hel
temperament, the other must be Emphatic
Mary and Martha are necessities. There
will be no dinner for Christ II there be nc
Martha; there will be no audience for Jesus
II there be no Mary. The home Organiza
tion is most beautifully constructed. Eder
has gone; the bowers are all broken down
the animals that Adam stroked with hiI
hand that M forming when they came up t
get their names nave since shot forth tusl
and sting, and growled panther at pan
ther; and, mid AIR, iron beaks plunge, til
with clotted wing and eyeless sockets tn
twain come whirliDg down from under thu
sun in blood and fire. Eden has gone, bu
there is just one little fragment left. i
hoated down on the Riyer Hiddekel out o
Paradise. 1t is the marriage institution
1t does not, as at the beginning, take ava,
from man a lib. Now 1t Is an addition o.
ribs.
This institution OF marriage has been de-
famed in our day. Socialism and polyga.
my, and the most dnmnable Of all things
free. .lovism, have been trying to turn thii
earth into u Turkish harem. While tn
nnoipaIs that chaa,noss onIy aoy,lia5 h,
their nastiness-are trying to educate
have taken upon themselves to educate
whioh MATS nr hreots for time md atsr
n;, Oh this ;s not mera ona.t,on .
rasiis,c. or w,rJrnse, It ia onastio,
chnrcaI viii, o;"antic iov or sor,dw wifi
heaven or hell. Alas for this new dispen
minoIinC of the n,yhtshnde with the mar
r;ace ,,n,,onSeI Alas for the venom =
odS.rS eff into tho t,nt,rdsi AI,e ,or tb
wbjte f,ost. Of eternal death that Iii th
oroncohIossoms, The GosnaI % Jasu
ChrJst is to ,ssert whot IL ri1ht and to as
, sail What - wrong Attemnt has bse, %
made to take the marriage institution
which was intended for the happiness an,
elevation of the race and make II n mer
commercial enterurise. an exchange n
honsrs and lands and e1uinape. a brsines
D,rtparshin of two stnfreJ nm with IN,
s.ories of romoncs and knjrht .errantrv
and nnfaithfulnes. and feminine angel
hood The two nfter n vbjIa have ronse,
mn TO find that instead Of the naradis
thew dreamed OF thew hay. got nothin.
but Van Amburrh's menagerie. file,
with tipers and wild cats Eighty tbou
sand divorces In Paris in one wear precede,
fine worat revolution that Franco ever sa W
And 7 tell Won what Won know as we'll as
do. that wrong notions on the subject o
Christian marriage are the cause at thi
day of more moral outrage before God anC
man than any other cause.
There are some things that want I,
bring before you. know there are thos,
of Won who have homes set up for n rrea
MANY wears: and. then. there are thos,
, here who have lust established their home
They have only been I'm that home n few
months or a few wears. Then there ar,
, those who will after n while set up To-
themseIv.s n home and il is right that
sbonId sneak ont unon these themes.
NV first counsel to YOU is. have God In
your new home. il it be a new home; ant
let him who was n guest Mt Bethany be II
your household: lei the Divine blessing
dron mon vonr eve a hone md pIen an(
J axnaaotat;o,, ,rhos. xouny neonIe who he
Gin With God end viii, heaven Have OF
, 1our right hand the engagement ring O
/, the Divina a affection n on. of Won he ,