The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-03-04
SPRINGTIME OF LIFE
A Sermon on the Scenes Of Youth
by Dr.. Talmage
A MANS Trae Character VIII CoAs
Out BesIde the Fireside-Heme
should BE Brightest
Place On Earth.

Many tender recollections are stirred
by DIR. Tslmage's discourse, and Genes
OF boyhood and girlhoOd days will be
lived over again; text, | Timothy v. 4:
Let them learn first 10 show piety at
home"
During the summer months the tend
epcy ID TO the fields, 10 visitation, TO for
eign travel aud the watering places.
and the ocean steamers are thronged
but In the winter II Is rather TO gather
in domestic circles and during these
months we spend many Of the hours
within doors, and the apostle m
10 Us and says that we ought 10 exer-
else Christian behavior amid all such
circumstance. let them learn first
to show pieiy at home"
There are a great many people long
ing for some grand sphere in which
TO serve God. They admire Luther at
the diet OF Worms and only wish they
had some such great opportunity in
which TO display their Christian Prov
esS- They admire Paul making Felix
u alG NnfN Jill hNEh I1AAL ACM
had some such grand occasion In which
TO preach righteousness, temperance
and Judgment TO come. All thew want
is az opportnpsty 10 exhibit their
Christian heroism. Now. the apostle
practically saws: 81 will show YOU a
place where You can exhibit all that
ms grand and beautiful and glorious
In Christian character, and that is the
domestic circle. Let them learn first
10 show piety at home" II one is not
faithful in an Insignificant sphere. he
viii not be faithful in q resembling
sphere. II Peter will not help the
cripple at the gate OF the temple. he
will never be able to preach 1000 into
the kingdom at the Pentecost. II Paul
will not take pains to instruct in the
way OF salvation the jsiler of the Phil
ippian dungeon. he will never make
Felix tremble. He who is not faithful
in a skirmish would not be faithful in
an Armageddon. The fact Is, we arr
all placed in Just the position in which
we can most grandly serve God. and
we ought not to be chiefly thoughtful
about some sphere Of usefulness which
we may after awhile gain, but the all.
absorbing question with you and with
me ought TO be: Lord, what wilt thou
have me now and here 10 dog'
There is one word in St. Paul's adj
Duration around which the most Of our
thoughts will revOlve. That word is
home" Ask ten different men the
meaning Of that word, and they will
give you ten different definitions. To
one ii means love at the hearth, plen.
~ al the table, industry at the work
stand, intelligence at the books, devo-
lion al the altar. In that household
hiscord never sounds Its warwhoop and
deception never tricks with its false
face. To him 1t means q greeting 81
the door and a smile at the chair, peace
lowering like wings, Joy clsPping its
hands with laughter. Life is Q tran
quill lake. Pillowed on the riPPies sleep
the shadows. Ask another man what
home is, and he viii tell you II Is want
looking out Of o cherries FIRE crate,
kneading hunger in an empty bread
tray. The damp air shivering with
curses. No Bible on the shelf. Chill
dren robbers and murderersi in embryo.
Obscene songs their lullaby. Every
face q picture Of ruin. Want In the
background aud sin staring from the