Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 November 1898 — Page 3

LOVE SHOULD REIGN. — Rev. Dr. T&lmage Takes the Happy Home for a Theme. 4 r«* of the Cardinal Principle* of Domwuc Ulio-Th. Importance of Mutual Forbearance tuid ut* pathjr of UeeupaUoa. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in the following discourse, sets lorth theories which, if adopted, would brighten many a domestic circle. The text is: "The disciples went away again unto their own homes.’*—John xx., 10, A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters— Rome! If things go right there, they jgo right everywhere; if things go wrong there, they go wrong everywhere. The door sill of the dwelling • house is the foundation of church and state. A man never gets higher than . his own garret or lower than his own cellar. Domestic life overreaches and undergirdles all other life. The highest house of congress is the domestic circle^' the rockng chair in the nursery is higher than a throne. George Washington commanded the forces of the United States, but "Mary Washington commanded George. Chrysostom’s mother made his pen for him. If a man should start out and run 70 years in a straight line, he could not get out from under the shadow of his own mantelpiece. I therefore talk to to you about a matter of infinite and eternal moment when I Speak of your home. As individuals we are fragments. God makes the race in parts, and then He gradually put us together. What , I lack, you make up; what you lack, I make up; our defects and surpluses 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. Buffoloes in herds, grouse in broods, quails in flocics, the human race in circles. God

HAS most oeauuiuuy arramgea mis. 11 ia in this way that lie balances society; this conservative and that radical keeping things even. Every ship must have its mast, cut-water, taifrail, ballast. Thank God, then for Princeton and Andover, for the opposites. I have no more right to blame a man lor 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 Calvin’s Institutes. A cold thinker gives to Scotland the strong bones of theology; Dr. Guthrie elothes 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 grjfst. and the hopper wants to go out and dabble in the water. Our usefulness and the welfare of society depend upon our . staying in jhst the place that God has put us, or intended we should occupy. For moro.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, husband and wife; all different in tem]*rament and tastes. It >» fortunate that it should be so. If the husband be all impulse the wife must be all prudence. If one sister be sanguine in her temperament, the other must be lymphatic. Mary and Martha are necessities. There will be no dinner for Christ if there be no Martha; there will be no audience for Jesus if there be no Mary. The home organization is most beautifully constructed. Eden has gone; bowers are broken down; the animals that Adam stroked with his hand that morning when they came up to get their names have since shot forth tusk and sting, and growled

panther at panther; and. midair, iron beaks plunge, till with clotted wing and eyeless sockets the twain come whirling down from unde** the sun in blood and fire. Eden has gone, but ‘ there la just one little fragment left. It floated down on the river Hiddekel out of paradise. It is the marriage institution. It does not, at the begin- * ning. take away from man a rib. Now it is ah addition of ribs. This institution of m§rriage has been defamed in our day. Socialism and polygamy, and the most damnable of all things, freelovism, have been try* ing to turn this eaith into a Turkish harem. While the pulpits have been comparatively silent, novels—their cheapness only equaled by their nastiness—are trying to educate, have taken upon themselves to educate, this nation in regard to holy marriage, which makes or breaks for time and eternity . Oh, this is not a mere question of residence or wardrobe! It is a question charged with gigantic joy or sorrow, with Heaven or hell. Alas for this new dispensation of George Sands! Alas for this mingling of the nightshade with the marriage garlands! Alas for the venom of adders spit into the tankards! Alas tor the white frosts of eternal death that kill the orange blossoms! The Gospel of Jesus Christ is to assert what is right and to assail what is wrong. Attempt has boon made to take the marriage institution, which was intended for the happiness and elevation of the race, and make it a mere commercial enterprise; an exchange of houses and lands an^ equipage; a business partnership of ^wo stuffed up with the •torics of romance and knight-errancy, and unfaithfulness and feminine angelhood. The two after awhile have Toured up to find that, instead of the paradise they dreamed of. they have got nothing but a Tan Amberg menagerie. filled with tigers end wild

cata. Eighty thousand divorces in Paris in one year preceded the worst revolution that Francs ever saw. And I tell you what you know aa well as I do, that wrong notions on the subject of Christian marriage are the cause at this day of more moral outrage before God and man than Any other cause. There are some things that I want to bring before you. I know there are those of you who have had homes set up for a great many years; and then there are those here who have just established their home. They have only been in that home a few months or a few years. Then, there are those who -will, after awhile, set up for themselves a home, and it is right that I should speak out upon these themes. My first counsel to you is, have God in your new home, if it be a new home; and let Him who was a guest at llethany be in your household; let the Divine blessing drop upon your every hope and plan of expectation. Those young people who begin with God end with Heaven. Have on your right hand the engagement ting of the Divine affection. If one of you be a Christian, let that one take the Bible and read a few' verses in the evening time, and then kneel down and commend yourselves to Him who setteth the solitary in families. I want to tell you that the destroying angel passes by without touching or entering the door-post sprinkled with blood of the everlasting covenant. Why is it that in some families they never get along, and in others they always get along well? I have watched such cases, and have come to a conclusion. In the first instance, nothing seemed to go pleasantly, and after awhile there came a devastation, domestic disaster, or estrangement. Why? They started wrong. In the other case, although there were hardships and trials and some things that had to be explained, still things went on pleasantly until the very last. Why? They started right. My Becond advice to you In your home is. to exercise to the very last j possibility of your nature the law of i forbearance. Prayers in the house-, hold will make up for every thing. Some of the best people in the world are the ! hardest to get along with. There are people who stand up in prayer-meet-ings and pray like angels, who at i

home are uncompromising and I cranky. You may not have everything just as you want it. Sometimes I it will be the duty of the husband and sometimes of the wife to yield; but both stand punctiliously on your rightand you will have a Waterloo with no Blucher coming up at nightfall to decide the conflict. Never be ashamed to apologize when you have done wrong in domestic affairs. Let that be the law of your household. The best thing I ever heard of my grandfather, whom I never saw, was this: That once, having unrighteously rebuked one of his children, he himself having lost his patience, and, perhaps, having been misinformed of the child’s doings, found out his mistake, and in the evening of the same day gathered all his family together and said: “Now, 1 have one explanation to make, and one thing to say. Thomas, this morning 1 rebuked you very unfairly. I am very sorry for it. 1 rebuked you in the presence of the whole family, and now 1 ask your forgiveness in their presence.” It must have taken some courage to do that. . It was right, was it not? Never be ashamed to apologize for domestic inaccuracy. Find out the points, what are the weak points, if I may call them so of your companion, and then stand aloof from them. Do not carry the fire of your temper too near the gunpowder. If the wife be easily fretted by disorder in the household, let the husband be careful where he throws his slipper*. If the husband come home from the store with his patience exhausted, do not let the wife unnecessarily cross hi* temper; but both stand up for your right*, and I will promise the everlasting sound of the war-whoop. Your life will be spent in making up, and marriage will be to you an unmitigated curse. Cow per said:

The kindest and the happiest pair Will flml occasion to forbear; And somethin*, every day they lira. To pity, and perhaps forgive. 1 have seen the sorrow of a godless mother on the death of a child she had neglected. It was not so much grief that she felt from the fact that the child was dead as the fact that she had neglected it. She said: “If 1 had only watched over and cared for the child, I know God would not have taken it.” The tears came not; it was a dry, blistering tempest—a scorching simoon of the desert. When she wrung her hands it seemed as if she would twist her fingers from their sockets; when she seized her hair, it seemed as if she had, in wild terror, grasped a coiling serpent with her right hand. No tears! Comrades of the little one came In. and wept over the coffin; neighbors came in and the moment they saw the still face of the child the shower broke. No tears for her. God gives tears as the summer rain td the parched soul; but in all the universe the driest and hottest, the moat scorching and consuming thing is a mother's heart if she has neglected her child, when once It is dead. God may forgive her, but she will never forgive herself. The memory will sink the eyes deeper into the sockets, and pinch the face, and whiten the hair, and eat up the heart with vultures that will not be satisfied, forever plunging deeper their iron beaks. Oh, you wanderers from your home, go back to your duty! The brightest flowers in all the earth are those which grow in the garden at a Christian household, clambering over the porch of a Christian home. J 1 advise you also to cultivate sympathy of occupation. Sir James McIntosh, one of the most eminent and pen that ever lived. . Vjr ’

standing at the very height of hie eminence, said to a great company of scholars: “My wire made me.” The wife ought to be the advising partner in every firm. She ought to be inter* ested in ail the losses and gains of shop and store. She ought to have a right—she has a right—to know everything. If a man goes into a • business transaction that he dare not tell his wife of, you may depend that he is on the way to either bankruptcy or moral ruin. There may be some things which he does not wish to trouble his wife with; but if he dare not tell her, he is on the road to discomfiture. On the other hand, the husband ought to be sympathetic with the wife’s occupation. It is no easy thing to keep house. Many a woman who could have endured martyrdom as well as Margaret, the Scotch girl, has actually been worn out by bouse management. There are a thousand martyrs of the kitchen. It is very annoying, after the vexations of the day around the stove or the register or the table, or in the nursery or parlor, to have the husband say: “You know nothing about trouble; you ought to be in the store half an hour.” Sympathy of occupation t If the husband’s work cover him with the soot j of the furnace or the odors of leather or soap factories, let not the wife be j easily disgusted at the begrimed hands or unsavory aroma. Your gains | are one, your interests are one, your J losses are one; lay hold of the wrork of life with both hands. Four hands to | fight the battles; four eyes to watch for the danger; four shoulders on which to carry the trials. It is a very j sad thing when the painter has a wife i who does not like pictures; it is a very j sad thing for a pianist when she has a husband who does not like music, j It is a very sad thing when a wife is j not suited unless her husband has ! what is called a ‘‘genteel business.” Here are a man and wife; they agree in nothing else, but they agree j they will have a home. They will have a splendid house, and they think that if they have a house they will have a j home. Architects make the plan, and | the mechanics execute it; the house to cost $100,000. It is done. The carpets are spread; the lights are hoisted;

curtains are hung'; cards of invitation sent out. The .horses in gold-plated harness prance at the gate; guests come in and take their places; the flute sounds; the dancers go up and down; and with one grand whirl the wealth and the fashion and the mirth of the great town wheel amid the pictured walls. Ha! this is happiness. Float it in the smoking viands; sound it in the music; whirl it in the dance; cast it in the snow of sculpture; sound it up the brilliant stairway; flash it in the chadeliers. Happiness, indeed! Let us build on the center of the par- i lor floor a throne to Happiness; let all the guests, when come in, bring their flowers ami7 pearls and diamonds, and throw them on this pyramid, and let it be a throne; and then let Happiness, the queen, mount the throne, and we will stand around, and, all chalices lifted, we will say: “Drink, O queen! live forever!” But the guests depart, the flutes are breathless, the last clash of the impatient hoofs is heard in the distance, and the twain of the household come back to see the queen of happiness on the throne amidst the paflor floor. But, alas! as they come back, the flowers have faded, the sweet odors have become the smell of a charnel house, and instead of the queen of happiness there sits there the gaunt form of Anguish, with bitten lip and sunken eye, and ashes in her hair. The romp of the dancers who have left seems rumbling yet, like jarring thunders that quake the floor and rattle the glasses of the feast rim to rim. The spilled wine on tlie floor turns to blood. The wreaths of plush have become wriggling reptiles. Terrors catgh tangled in the canopy that overhangs the couch. A strong gust of wind canes through the hall and the drawing room and the bed chamber, in which all the lights go out. And from the lips of the wine breakers come the words: “Happiness is not in us!”

Ana me arches res>puuu: u is nut iu us!” And the silenced instruments of music, thrummed on by invisible fingers, answer: “Happiness is not in us!” And the frozen lips of Anguish break open, and seated on the throne of wilted flowers, she strikes her bony hands together, and groans: “It is not in me!” I That very night a clerk with a ary of $1,000 a year—only one thousand—goes to his home, set up three months ago, just after the marriageday. Love meets him at tha door; love sits with him at the table; love talks over the work of the day; love takes down the Bible and reads of Him who came our "souls to save; and they kneel, and while they are kneeling—right in that plain room on the plain carpet—the angels of God build a throne, not out of flowers that perish and fade away, but out of garlands of Heaven, wreath *on top of wreath, amaranth on amaranth, until the throne is done. Then the harps of God sounded, and suddenly there appeared one who mounted the throne with eye so bright and brow so fair that the twain knew it was Christian love. And they knelt at the foot of the throne, and. putting one hand on each head, she blessed them, and said: “Happiness is with me!” And that throne of celestial bloom withered not with the passing years; and the Queen left not the throne till one day the married pair felt Stricken in years— felt themselves called away, and knew not which way to go. and the queen bounded from the throne, and said: “Follow me, and I will show you the way up to the realm of everlasting love.” And so they went up to sing songs of love, and walk on pavements of lore, and to rejoice forsv« In the truth that God is lova.

HOW TO DRESS FOWLS Careleuaeu !■ This Respect Cauw Considerable boss to Growers and Shippers. A well-dressed fowl will of course command a higher price than a poor-ly-dressed one, and it isnevident there must be quite a loss to the growers and shippers of poultry on this account; and it might not come amiss to give a few hints on dressing fowls properly, as there does not seem to be any need of dressing them poorly. Firsi of all, crops of all fowls to be killed for market should be entirely empty. A mistake is generally made by not hanging the fowl up while stripping off the feathers, but holding it with one hand and picking it with the other. One can work rapidly when the bird is hanging, as both hands are then at liberty;*the cuticle, a transparent putside covering of the fowl, is very easily injured, particularly of a scalded bird, and when the bird is held while picking it this membrane is often rubbed off in spots; and although this injury does not seem to show much at first afterwards these spots turn dark, giving the bird an unsightly appearancjp. Overscalding also loosens the cuticle; therefore we should exercise great care not to keep the birds in hot water for too long a time when scalding them. Have the water at the boiling point, yet not actually boiling. Take the bird by the head and feet and immerse it, lifting up and down in the water three or four times, then hang up by the feet. The head should never be immersed, as it turns the comb pale and gives the eyes ^shrunken appearance. Now remove all the feathers, letting the small ones drop into the barrel beneath and keeping wing and tail feathers by themselves. The small feathers may afterward be spread out and dried if deemed of value. The feet of all fowls should be scrupulously clean; Avash, or, still better, b|ush them.—Western Plowman. POULTRY DISEASES. The? Are More Eailljr Exterminated Than the Diseases Affect In* Other Kinds ot Stock.

It is probably easier to exterminate poultry diseases than the diseases that affect any other kind of stock. This is because poultry can be kept isolated. Horses are constantly meetings and coming into the vicinity of other horses. Cattle run in adjoining pastures. Hogs are transported from place to place and are great roamers in their pastures. But fowls may be kepi practically isolated. It is even not common for hens on one farm to mingle with those of the next. We believe that with proper management the poultry diseases may be practically exterminated. Have the feed right and then keep all things scrupulously clean. Let in the sun and keep the dust box full of good dust. Give fresh water every day. These will mean that the hens will be free from disease. Were these things observed universally there is no doubt that some, if not all, of our contagious diseases among poultry must soon die out. Where a flock has a certain disease the fowls could be allowed to die or be killed and the place where they had been kept used for keeping fowls no more for at least a year. It is our observation that there are many flocks where disease is practically unknown. A good many poultrymen know nothing of the cholera except what they read in the papers. Clean up and exterminate the diseases.—Farmers’ Be* view. NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS. Granulated sugar will crystallize if aot thoroughly melted Hives should be painted as often at least as every two years. The best packing for chaff hives is a good quality of wheat chaff. Bees cannot be fed sirups of any kind after cold weather sets in. Hoofs of hives of whatever kind ^should be painted every fail.

in maxing como nouey me main dependence is on the first swarms. Generally a natural swarm is readj for business as soon as it is hired. A good and convenient lighting place sfcoujcbe provided for every swarm. fuorough ripening is of more importance to honey than the color of it. Some absorbing material should always be used ever the bees in winter. Honey is not a perishable article. Do not be in too great a hurry to tell. Now is a good time to spread coal ashea around the hive, especially in front. Every colony of bees which does not contain a fertile queen is in danger of being robbed. Arrange the bees in good season in the fall so that during the winter there will be no occasion for disturbing them. When once granulated it will remain in this condition, so that to thoroughly melt It it must be heated almost to boiling. It is a mistake to close the entrance j end every crack and crevice through i the winter. With a strong colony leave ] the entrance open.-St. Louis fiepub- j lie. _ How to Mvaaarc Cattle. The following has been given as a rule of some value in determining the weight when actual weighing is inconvenient. but in all the rules given the weight will vary widely with animals of the same girth: “Cattle girthirg five feet ordinarily weigh from 630 to 750 pounds, according to form and fatness; for each additional iuch In girth add 25 pounds up to six feet, and for each inch after six feet add 50 pounds,** says T. Y. Adams, in the Market Basket. This is probably the

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