The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-02
REVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
TALMAGE's SERMON SUITED TO THE
TIMES.


the Bible Is Robust and Brnwns-
Revolutionary for Good in Fnmi-
lies and Churches and Nations.
washington May This discourse OF
DR.. Talmage is revolutionary for good IN
families and churches and nations, and
especially appropriate for these times.
Text Acts 17:6: These that have turned
the world upside down are come hither
also"
There is a wild, believing mob around
the house Of Jason, in Thessalonica. What
has the man done so greatly to offend the
people? He has been entertaining Paul
and his comrades. The mob surround the
house and cry, Bring out those turbulent
preachersl They are interfering with our
business. They are running our religion!
They are actually turning the world up
side down"
The charge was true: for there is moth
ing that so interferes with sin, there is
nothing SO ruinous to every form of es
tabished iniquity there is nothing that
has such tendency to turn the world up
side down, as our glorious Christianity.
side up, and it needs to be turned upside
down in order that it may be right
side up. The time was when men wrote
books emitting them Apologies for
Christianity" I hope that day has passed.
We want no more apologies for Christi
anity. Let the apologies be on the part
of those who do not believe in our re-
ligion. We do not mean to make any
compromise in the matter We do not
wish 10 hide the fact that Christianity is
revolutionary and that its tendency is 10
turn the world upside down.
our religion has often been misrepre
scented as principle of tears, and mild
ness, and fastidiousness; afraid of cross
ing peoples preiudices; 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
IL may be demolished forever Men speak
OF religion as though il were a refined i'm
becility; as though 1t were a spiritual
chloroform, that the people were TO take
until the sharp cutting of life were over.
The Bible, so far from this, represents
the religion of Christ as robust and
brawny-ransacking and upsetting ten
thousand things that now seem TO be set
tied on firm foundations. I hear some
man in the house say, II 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
20 the socket. Il goes back with great
pain. Then it gets we'll Our world is
horribly disordered and out of Joint 7,
must come under an omnipotent surgery
beneath which there win be pain and an.
guish before there can come perfect health
and quiet. l proclaim, therefore. i'm
the name of my Lord Jesus Christ-Revo-
lVtion
The religion of the Bible will make n
revolution in the family. Those things
mat are wrong in the family circle will be
oFefthrown by il, while justice and har-
mony will take the place The husband
VIII be the head of the household on,v
when ne is fit to be. I know a man who
spends all the money he makes in drink
as well as all the money that his wife
makes; and sometimes sells the cbiIdren's
ciothes Tor rum. Do you tell me that he
- 10 De the head of that household? If
tne wife have more nobility more cour-
age, more consistency, more or an tbat is
right, she shall have the supremacy. You
say that the Bible says that the wife is 10
ne subject TO the husband I know IL
But that is husband, not a masculine
caricature There is no human or divine
law that makes a woman subordinate h a
man unworthy of her When Christian
ny comes into domestic circle. il will
give the dominancy 10 thar one rbo g.
the most worthy of it,
AS religion comes in at the front door
snirth and laughter will not go out of The
pach door. 1t viii not homie tho chill
dren's feet. John will laugh lust as loud
ana George will jump higher than he eyer
uiu before. lt will steal from the little
ones neither ball nor bat, nor hoop. nor
NTH
gels Will hover over il. Ladders of light
will reach down to it, The GLORY, ~
heaven VIII stream upon IT, The books OF
remembrance Will record it; and tides Of
everlasting blessedness will pour from II
MOI such family altar as you NAV have
seen, where the prayer is long, and a long
chapter is read, with a tedious explanation
and the exercise keeps on until the chill
dren's knees are sore, and their hacks
ache, and their patience is lost, and for
the seventh time they have counted all the
rungs in the chair; but l mean a family
altar such as may have beeen seen in YOUR
faiher's house. You may have wandered
Tar off in the paths of sin and darkness:
but you have never forgotten that family
altar where father and mother knelt. i'm
portuning God for your soul. That is a
memory that man never gets over. There
will be a hearty. joyful family altar in
every domestic circle. You will not have
to go far 10 find Hannah rearing her Sam
uel for the temple, or a grandmother Lois
tnstructing her young Timothy in the
knowledge of Christ, or a Mary. and
Martha, and Lazarus gathered in frater-
nal and sisteriy affection, or a table at
which Jesus sits, as at that of Zaccheus
or home in which Jesus dwells as in tho
house of Simon the tanner. The religion
of Jesus Christ, coming into the domestic
circle, VIII overthrow all jealouses. all
jangling; and peace, and order. and holi-
ness will take possession OF the home
Again; Christianity will produce a revo-
luton in commercial circles. Find me
fifty merchants and you find that they
have fifty standards of what is right and
wrong. You say to some one about a
merchant rs he honest?" ooh, yes. -
the mans says. "he is honest; but he
grinds the faces of his clerks. He is hon
est; but he eXaggerates the value Of his
goods. He is honest; but he loans money
on bond and mortgage, with the under
standing that the mortgage can lie quiet
for ten years, but as soon as he gets the
mortgage, he records it and begins a fore.
closure suit, and the sherins writ come.
down, and the day of sale arrives anc