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HOME RELIGION.' I Rev. Dr. Talmage Talks on the First Duty of the Parent. Home the Pint Place in Which Children Should be Brought in Contact with the Practice of Religious Observances.

The following1 sermon on the subject of “Home Religion” was delivered by Rev. -T. DeWitt Talmage in the Brooklyn tabernacle, taking for his text: * l_ Return to thine own house, and show how great things God hath done unto thee.—Luke Till.. 39. After a fierce and shipwrecking night, Christ and His disciples are climbing up the slaty shelving of the slaty shelving of the beach. How pleasant it is to stand on solid ground after having been tossed so long on the billows! While the disciples are congratulating each other on their marine escape, out from a dark, deep cavern on the Gadarene hills there is something swiftly and terribly advancing. Is it an apparition? Is it a man. Is it a wild beast? Is it a maniac who has broken away from his keepers, perhaps a fpw rags on his person, and fragments of stout shackles which he has wrenched off in terrific paroxysm. With wild j-ell, and bleeding wounds of his own laceration, he flies down the hill. Back to the boats, ye fishermen, and put out to sea, and escape assassination. But Christ stands His ground: so do the disciples; and as this flying fury, with gnashing teeth and uplifted fists, dashes at Christ, Christ says: “Hands off! Down at my feet, thou poor sufferer;” and the demoniac drops harmless, exhausted, worshipful. “Away, ye devils!” commanded Christ, and the two thousand fiends which had been tormenting the poor man are transferred to the two thousand swine which go to sea with their accursed cargo. The restored demoniac sits down at Christ’s feet and wan ts to stay there. Christ says to him practically: “Do not stop; you have a mission to execute; wash off the filth and the wounds in the sea; smooth your disheveled locks; pU| on decent apparel and go straight to your desolated home, and tell your wife and children that you will no more affright them, and no more do them harm; that you are restored to reason, and that I, the Omnipotent Son of God, am entitled hereafter to the worship of you entire household. Return to thine own house, and show how great things God hath d one unto thee.” Yes, the house, the home is the first place where our religious gratitude ought to be demonstrated. In the outsude world we may seem to have religion when we have it not; but the home tests whether our religion is genuine or a sham. What makes a happy homt*& great wide halls, and antlered deerheads, and parlors with sculpture and bric-a-brae, and dining-hall with easy chair and plenty of light, and engravings of game on the wall, and sleeping apartments commodious and adorned. No. In such a place as that, gigantic wretchedness has sometimes dwelt, while some of you look back to your father’s house, where they read their Bible by the'light of a tallow candle. There were no carpets on the floor save those made from the rags which your mother cut night by night, you helping wind them into a ball, and then sent to the weaver who brought them to shape under his slow shuttle. Not a luxury in all the house. But you can not think of it this morning without fearful and grateful emotion. You and I have found out that it is not rich tapestry, or gorgeous architecture, or rare art that makes a happy home. The six wise men of Greece gave prescriptions for a. happy home. Solon says a happy home is a place where a man’s estate was gotten without injustice. kept without disquietude and spent without repentance. Chilosays that a happy home is a place where a man rules as a monarch a kingdom. Bias says that a happy home is a place where a man does voluntarily what by law- he is compeled to do abroad. But you and I, under a grander light, give a better prescription; a happy home is a plaie where the kindness of the Gospel of the Son ot God has full swing. would say a house with

\\ nue 1 speaa inis morning mere is knockin'? at your front door, if He be not already admitted. One whose locks are wet with the dews of the night, who would take you children into His, arms and would throw upon your sleeping apartments and your drawing room and your entire house a blessing that will make you rich while you live and be an inheritance to your children after you have done the last day’s work for their support and made for them the last prayer. It is the illustrious One who said to the man of my text : ‘Return to thine own house and show how great things God hath done unto thee.” Now in the first place, we want religion in our domestic duties. Every housekeeper needs great grace. If Martha had had more religion she would not have rushed with such bad temper to scold Mary in the presence of Christ. It is no sma 1 thing to keep order, and secure cleanliness, and mend breakages, and achieve economy, and control all the affairs of the household advantageously. Expenses will run up, store bills wi 1 come in twice as large as you think they ought to be* furniture will wear out, carpets will unravel and the martyrs of the fire are very few in com )iarison with the martyrs of housekeeping. Yet there are hundreds of people in this church tb s morning who in their homes are managing all these affairs with a composure, an adroitness, an ingenuity and a faithfulness which they never couli havp reached but for the grace of or r practical Christianity. The exaspen - tions which wear out others have bee l tb you spiritual development and san< - tification. Employments which seemei to relate only to an hour have on thei a all the grandeurs of eternal history.

You n< ed the religion of Christ in the disc pline of your children. The rod which in other homes may be the first me; ns used, in yours will be the last. There will be no harsh epithets —“you cnave, you villain, you scoundrel, I’ll thrash the life out of you; you are the worst child I ever knew.” All that kind of chastisement makes thieves, pickpockets, murderers and the on laws of society. That parent who in a ne'er strikes his child across

the head deserves the penitentiary. And yet his work of disciple must be attended to. God's grace can direct us. Aias for those who come to the work with fierce passion and recklessness o consequences. Between severity and laxativeness there is no choice. Both ruinous, and both destructive. But there is a healthful medium which the grace of God will show to us. Than we need the religion of Christ to help us in setting a good example. Cow per said of the oak: “Time was when settled on thy leaf a fly coule shake thee to the root. Time has been when tempest could not.” In oth,er words, your children aie very impressible just now. They are alert; they are gathering impressions you have no idea of. Have you not been surprised sometimes, months or years after some conversation, which you supwsed was too profound or intricate for hem—some question of the child demonstrated the fact that he knew all about it. Your children are apt to think that wluit you do is right. They have no ideal of truth or righteousness but yourself. Things which you do knowing at the time to be wrong, they take to be right. They reason this way: “Father always does right. Father diii this. Therefore this is right.” This is good logic, but bad premises. No one ever gets over having had a bad example set him. Your conduct more than your teaching makes impression. Your laugh, your frown, your dress, your walk, your greetings, your good-byes, your comings, 3?our goings, your habits at the table, the tones of your voice, are making an impression which will last a million .years after you are dead, and the sun will be extinguished, and the mountains will crumble, and the world will die, and eternity will roll on to endless cycles, but there will be no diminution of the force of your conduct upon the young eyes that saw it, or the young ears that heard it. Now I would not have by this the dea given to you that you must be in :old reserve in the presence of your children. You are not emperor: you are companion with them. As far as you can, you must walk with them, I skate with them, fly kite with them, play ball with them, show them you are interested in all that interests them. Spensippus, the nephew and successor of Plato in the academy, had pictures - of joy and gladness hung all around the school room. You must not give your children the impression that when they come to you they are playful ripples striking against a rock. You must have them understand you were a boy once yourself; that you know a boy’s hilarities, a boy’s temptations, a boy’s ambition—yea, that you are a boy yet. You may deceive them and try to give them the idea that you are some distant supernatural effulgence, and you may shove them off by your rigorous behavior, but the time will come when | they will find out the deception, and | they will have for yon utter contempt. Aristotle said that a boy should begin to study at seventeen years of age; before that his time should be given to recreation. I can not adopt that theory. But this suggests a truth in the right direction. Childhood is tog brief, and we have not enough sympathy with its sportfulness. We want Divine grace to help us in the adjustment of all these matters. Besides that, how are your children ever to become Christians if you yourself are not a Christian? I have noticed that however worldly and sinful parents may be, they want their children good. When young people have presented themselves for admission into our membership, I have said to them, “Are your father and mother willing that you shall?” and they have said, “Oh! jes; they are delighted to have us come; they have not been in church for ten or fifteen years, but they will be here next Sabbath to see me baptized’” I have noticed that parents, however worldly, want their children good.

bo it was demonstrated in a police court in Canada, where a mother, her little child in her arms, sat by a table on which her own handcuffs lay, and the little babe took up the handcuffs and played .with them, and had great glee. She knew not the sorrow of the hour. And then when the mother was sent to prison the mother cried out: “Oh! God, let not this babe go into the jail. Is there not some mother here who will take this child? It is good enough for Heaven. It is pure. I'am bad. I am wicked. Is there not someone who will take this child? I can not have it tainted with the prison.” Then a brazen creature rushed up, and said: “Yes, I’ll take the child.” “No, no,” said the mother, “not you, not you. Is there not some good mother here who wilt take this child?” And then when the officer of the law in mercy and pity took the child to carry it away to find a home for it, the mother kissed it lovingly good-by and said: “Good-by, my darling; it is better you should never see me again.” However worldly and sinful people are they want their children good. j|How are you going to have them good? Buy them a few good books? Teach ''them a few excellent catechisms? "Bring them to church? That is all very well, but of little final result unless you do it with the grace of God in your heart. Do you not realize that your children are started for eternity? Are they on the right road? Those little forms that are now so bright and beautiful, when they have scatter^ in the dust there will be an immortal spirit living on in a mighty theater v. action, and your faithfulness or your neglect now is deciding that destiny.

There is contention already among ministering spirits of salvation and fallen angels as to who shall have ,the mastery of that immortal spirit. Your children are soon going out in the world. The temptations of life will rush upon them. The most rigid resolution will bend in the blast of evil. What will be the result? It will require all the restraints of the Gospel, all the strength of a father’s prayer, all the influence of a Christian mother’s example to keep them. You say it is too early to bring them. Too early to bring them to God! Do you know bow early children were taken to the ancient passover? The rule was just as soon as they could take hold of the father’s hand jtnd walk up Mount Moriah they should be taken to the passover. Your children are not .too young to come to God. While you sit here and think of them, perhaps their forms now so bright and beautiful, vanish from you, and their disembodied spirit rises, and you see it after the life of virtue or crime is past, and the judgment is gone and eternity is here.

A Christian minister said that m the first year of his pastorate he tried to persuade a you ng mechanic of the importance of family worship. Some time passed, and the mechanic came to the pastor's study and said: “Do you remember that girl? That was ( my own child; she died this ( morning- "very suddenly; she has gone to God. I have no * doubt, but if so, she has told Him what I tell you now: that child never heard a prayer in her father’s house—never Jieard a prayer from her father’s lips. Oh! if I only had her back again one day to do my duty!” It will be a tremendous thing at the last day if some one shall say of us: “I never heard my father pray; I never heard my mother pray.” f Again I remark, we want religion in all our home sorrows. There are ten thousand questions that come up in the best regulated household that must be settled. Perhaps the father has one favorite in the family, the mother another favorite in the family, and there are many questions that need delicate treatment, i Tyranny and arbitrary decision have no place in the household. If the parents love God, there will be a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a spirit of forgiveness, and a kindness which will throw its charm over the entire household. Christ will come into that household and will say: “Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter against them; wives, see that you reverence your husbands; children, obey your parents in the Lord; servants, be obedient to your masters,” and the family, will be like a garden on a summer morning—the grass plot, and the flowers, and the vines, and the arch of honeysuckle standing in the sunlight glittering with dew. j But then there will be sorrows that /will come 4o the- household. There are but few families that escape the stroke of financial misfortune. Financial misfortune comes to ' a house where there is no religion. They kick against Divine allotments; they curse God for the incoming calamity, they withdrawn from the world because they can not bold as high a position in society as they once did, and they fret and they scowl and they sorrow and they die. During the past few years there have been tens of thousands of men destroyed by their financial distresses. • '• : Go home this day and ask the blessing on your noonday meal. To-nigHt set up the family altar. Do not wart until you become a Christian yourself. This day unite Christ to your household, for* the Bible distinctly says that God will pour out His fury upon the families that call not upon His name. Open the Bible and read a chapter; that will make you strong. Kneel down and offer the first prayer in your household. It may be a broken petition, it may be only “God be merciful {o me, a sinner;” but God will stoop, and spirits will listen, and angels will chant: “Behold! he prays.” 1 Do not retire from this house this morning until you have resolved upon this matter. Yod will be gone. I will be gone, many years will pass, and perhaps your younger children may forget almost everything about you; but forty years from now, in seme Sabbath twilight, your daughter will be sitting with the family Bible on her lap reading to her children, when she will stop, and peculiar solemnity will come to her face, and a tear will start, and the children will say: “Mother, what makes you cry?” and she will say: “Nothing, only I was thinking that this is the very Bible out of which my father and mother used to read at morning and evening prayer.”

All Oilier uimga uuuub jou uicy may forget; but train them up for God and Heaven; they will not forget that. When a queen died her three sons brought an offering to the grave. One son brought gold, another brought silver, but the third son came and stood over the grave and opened one of hia veins and let the blood drop upon his mother’s tomb, and all who saw it said it was the greatest demonstration of affection. My friend, what is the grandest gift we can bring to the sepulchers of a Christian ancestry? It is a life all consecrated to the God who made us and trife Christ who redeemed us. I can not but believe 'that there are hundreds of parents in this house who have resolved to do their whole duty, and at thijrthoment they are passing into a better life; and having seen the grace of the Gospel in this place today, are now fully ready to return to your own house and show what great things God has done unto you. Though parents may in covenant he. And have their Heaven in view; They are not happy till they see Their children happy too. May the Lord God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, be our God and the God of our children —The hypocrite is only on his gooa j behavior when he thinks he is watched. !

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