REV. DR. TALMAGE. PTHE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: “The Christian Home =A Place Por the Genesis and Rounding Out of Character—The Family Circle a Haven of Refuge From the World's Storms. Text: “Let them learn first to show plety at home." Timothy v., 4. During the summer months the tendency fs to the fields, to visitation, to foreign travel and the watering places, and the ocean steamers are thronged, but in the winter it i= rather to gather in domestic eireles, and during these months we spend many of the hours within doors, and the apostle comes to us and says that we ought to exercise Christian bebavior amid all such circumstances, ‘Let them learn first to show piety at home.” There are a great many people longing for some grand sphers in which to serve God. They admire Luther at the diet of Worms, and only wish that they had some such great opportunity fn which to display their Christian prowess. They admire Paul making Felix tremble, and they only wish that they had some such grand occa. sion in which to preach righteousness, temperance and judgment to come, All they want is an opportunity to exhibit their Christian heroism. Now, the apostle practically says: “I will show you a place where you can exhibit ail that isgrand and beautiful and glorious in Christian charae- ter and that is the domestic circle. Let them learn first to show plety at home.” If one is not faithful in an insignificant sphere, he will not be faithful in a resound. ing sphere. If Peter will not help the erip- ple at the gate of the temple, he will never be able to preach 3000 into the king- dom at the Pentecost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct in the way of salva. tion the jallor of the Philippian dungeon, he will never! make Felix tremble. He who is not faithfal in a skirmish would not be faithful in an Armageddon. The fact i#, we are 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 a while gain, but the all absorb- ing question with you aod with me ought to be, "Lord, what wiit Thou have me now and here to do?” There is one word in St. Paul's adjura. tion around whieh the most of our thoughts will revolve. That word is “home.” Ask ten «different men the mean- fog of that word and thev will give you ten different definitions. To one {t means love at the hearth, plenty at the table, in- dustry at the work stand, intelligence at the books, devotion at the alter. In that household discord never sounds its war. whoop, and deception never tricks with its false face. To him it means 8 greeting at the door and a smile at the chair, peace hovering like wings, jov clapping its hands with laughter. Life is a tranquil lake. Piliowed on the ripples sleep the shadows, Ask another man what home is and he will tell it is want looking out of a cheerless fire-grate, kneading hunger in an empty bread tray. The damp alr shivering with curses. No Bible on the shelf, Children robbers and murderers in embryo. Ob scene songs their lullaby. picture of ruin, Want in and sin staring from the fromt. No bath wave rolling over that do tibule of the pit. Bhadow of walls. Furnace for forg chains. Fagots for an pile. Awful word. Jt oursea it weeps with rain woe, it sweats with the death spair. The word *‘home” In means everything bright, “home"” in the other case thing terrific. I1shall speak now of home as a test of character, home as a refuge, home as & po- tical safeguard, home as aschool, and home as a type of heaven. And in the first place, home is a powerful test of char- acter. The disposition in public may be in SA} eostlime, while in private it is disha- blile. As play actors may appear in one way on the stage and may appear in an- other way behind the scenes, so private sharacter may be very different from pub lie eharacter. Private character is often public character turned wrong side out. A man may receive you into his parior as though he was a distillation of smiles, and et his heart may be a swamp of nettles, ere are business men who all day long are mild and courtecus, and genial and ood natured in commercial life, damming ek their irritability and their petulance and their discontent, but at nightfall the dam breaks, and scolding pours forth in foods and freshets, As at sunset sometimes the wind rises, so after a sunsbiny day there may be a tem. pestuous night. There are people who in public act the philanthropist who at home act the Nero with respect to thelr slippers and their gown. Audubon, the great orni- thologist, with gun ‘and [pencil went through the forests of America to bring down and to sketeh the beautiful birds, and alter years of toil and exposures completed bis manuscript and put it in & trunk in Philadelphia and went off for a few days of recreation and rest and came back and found that the rats bad utterly destroyed the manuscript, but without any discom- psure and without any fret or bad temper & again pleked up his gun and bis pencil and visited again all the great forests of America and reproduced his immortai work. And yet there are people with the ten-thousandth part of that loss who lare utterly irreconcilable, who at the loss of a Jone or an article of raiment will blow as ong and loud and sharp as a northeast storm. Now, that man who Is affable in publie and who is irritable In private 1s making a frandajent and overfssue of stock, and he is as bad as a bank that might have $400,000 or $500,000 of bills in circulation with no specie in the vault, Let us learn to show piety at home. If we have it not there, we have it not anywhere, If we have not genuine grace in the family eirele, ali our outward and publie plausibility merely gprings from the fear of the world or from the slimy, putrid pool of our own selfish- ness, I tell you the home is a mighty test of character. What you are at home you re everywhere, whether you demonstrate t or not. Again, home js a refuge. Life is the United States army on the national road to Mexico-a long march, with ever and spon & skirmish and a battle, At eventide we piteh our tent and stack the arms, we hang ap the war cap, and our head on the knapsack we sleep until the morning bugle calls us to march to the action. How pleasant it Is to reliearse the victories and the surprises and the attacks of the day seated the still campfire of the home elroiel Yea, lilo is a stormy sea. With shivered masts and torn sails and hulk aleak we put in at the harbor of home, Blessed linrbor! There we go for repairs in tha drydock, JThe candies in the window is to the tolling man the lighthouse guid. fog bim into port. Children go forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the Narrows take the hand of aliips. The doorsill of the home is the what! where heavy life is un. . There is the piace where we may ‘talk of what we have done without baling charged with self adulation. There is the ee where we may lonnge without being bought uograceful. There fis the place rhere we may express affection without # thought silly, There is the place where we may forget our annoyances and ; and troubles, Porlorn earth m, no home? Then die, is bet. y grave is brighter and #rshder psd more glorious than this world wish so rsill, inferaal everlasting unending faneral ied with kes with gony of de- the one casa The word moans every- from marching, with no harbor from EE ho) rad om tos, foam tole pain. pity the man or the woman who | Mahon Appoints his ministry, and all Franos is agqunks lest the Fopublie be smothered, Gambette dies, and there are hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen who are fearing the return of a monarchy. The Dreyfus case is at this moment a slumbering earth quake under Paris. France, as a nation, has not the right kind of a Christian home, The Christian hearthstons is the only hearthstone for a republic, The virtues enltured in the family clrele are an abso. lute necessity for the State, If there he not enough moral principle to make the family adhere, there will not be shough po- litical principle to make the State adhere, No home means the Goths and Vandals, means the Nomads of Asia, means the Numidians of Africa, changing from place to place according as the pastures happens to change. Confounded be all those babels of iniquity which would overpower and de- stroy the home! The same storm that up- sats the ship in which the family sail will sink the frigate ofthe constitution, Jails and penitentiaries and armies and navies are not our best defense. The door of the home is the best fortress, Household uten. sils are our best artillery, and the cbim. neys of our dwelling houses are the grand. vst monuments to safety and triumph. No bome, no republic. Further, home {s a school. Old ground must be turned up with subsoil plow, and it must be barrowed and rebarrowed, and then the crop will not be as large as that of the new ground with less culture. Now, youth and ehildhood are new ground, and all the {aflucnces thrown over their heart and life will come up in after lifs luxari- antly, very time you have given a smile of approbation all the good cheer of your life will come up again in the geniality of your children. And every ebullition of anger and every uncontroiable display of indignation will be fuel to this disposition of twenty or thirty or forty years from now - fuel for a bad fire a quarter of a century from this, You praise the intelligences of your child too much sometimes when you think be is not aware of it, and you will see the result of it before ten years of age in his annoying affectations. You praise bis beauty, supposing he is not large enough to understand what vou say, and you will find him standing on a high chair before a flattering mirror. Oh, make your home the brightest place on earth if you would charm your children to the high path of virtue and rectitude and religion. Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light, the pansy, pour into vour dwellings. Do not expect the little feet to keep step to a dead march. ©o not cover up yonr walls with such plotures as West's “Death on a Pale Horse” or Tintoretto's ‘Massacre of the Innnocents.” iather cover them, if vou bave pletures, with “The Hawking Party,” and “The Mill by the Mountain Stream,” and “The Fox Hunt,” and the “Children Amid Flowers,” and the “Harvest Beene,” and “The Saturday Night Marketing.” Get you no bist of cheerfulness from grasshopper’s leap and lamb's frisk and quails whistle garro:cus streamiet, h from the rock at the mountain top clear down to meadow ferns under the shadow of steep comes looking to sae where ft find the steepest place to leap off at and talking just to hear {tself talk? skies hurtied with tem; mountain stream were raving mad, froth- ing nt the nth 4 thers were among the lark’s carol ir | { waterfalls dash panthers seream and we might well gather into the shadows i no + EB ib bird's trill your homes only But when God has strown with giadnoess let us take into our home circles all Innocent hilarity, and all good cheer, bad men and bad women, homes Christian principle. Can it be that in any of the comfortable homes whoss in- rustes I confront the voles of prayer is never lifted? What! No supplication at night for protection? What! giving in the morning for care? How, my children? fore 1 ask it, miah God says he will pour out upon the families that call not name, Oh, parents, when are dead and gone and the mods is covering the in his fury you dren look mother at family prayer? the mark of tears of eontriti gone out into darkness? Oh, if you do not inculcate Christian prineiple in the hearts inst make sbipwreek of their immortal judgment they will curse you! of your children! What a history-—ths chen! of his ebila. it into a song or pointing it with a groan. lounge, half awake and dreamed this dream: try. ; oriental luxurianee crowned the cities, was not the tropics, although more than tropical fruitfuiness flliad the gardens, softness fllled the alr. And wandered about looking for thorns and nettles, but 1 found that nous of them grew there, And set, bat it sank not, in holiday attire, and 1 said, “When will they put off this and put on workmen's swaiter at the forge?” off the holiday attire, Aud I wandered in the suburbs of the eity to find the place where the dead sleep, and I looked all along the line of the bean- tiful hills, the place wheres the dead might most peacefully sleep, and I saw towers nnd eastles, but not a mauscleum, or a monument, of a white sino eould I see, Aud I went into the chapel of toe great town, and 1 said, “Where do the poor wor- ship and where are the hard benches on which they sit? And the answer was made me, “We have no poor in this eoun- try.” s And then | wandered out to find the hovels of the destitute, and [ found man. sions of amber and ivory and gold, but not a tear could I see, not a sigh ¢ould I hear. And was bewildered, and I sat down under the branches of a great tree, and I said, “Wheres am 1 and whence comes all this scene?’ And then out from among the leaves and up the flowery paths and across the broad streams there same a mntitul group thronging all about me, and as I saw them coms I thought I knew their Sap, and as they shouted I thought I knew thelr voices, but then they 80 gloriously arrayed in apparel such as I ad vever befors witnessed that I bowed As stranger to stranger, But when again t clapped their hands and shouted “Welcome, weleome,” the mystery all van ished, and I found that time had gone and eternity had come, and we were all together again in our new home in heaven, and 1 locked around and I sald, “Are we ali here?’ and the volees of many generations But they never put responded, All here!” And tears of gladness were running down our cheeks, and es of the Tatanon cedars wore clapping their bands, and the jowses Som ts i Sogo nga shout gather} hows, how eb THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the Carirorxia Fie Syrup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. 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The two Ingredi- ents are thoroughly amalgamated, that it wonld, in the ordinary way, take hours to separate them, Now the { fantastic man with his tray begins, | He turns slowly around, gradually i quickening his pace (the drummer also | keeping time), faster and faster in a | glddy vortex, the tray at times almost tout of his hands, vet so cleverly | handled that not a grain falls out. 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Then there are the thon- wand and one social invitations res quiring a reply. and annumbersd ap- The private letters for the prince are very numerous, for his relatives keep him in touch with all interesting them. fils sister. the Empress Frederick, is a charming letter wiiter, and corre. sponds with the prin we regularly. temic Easy Crities, + : “1 am golng to sing at the Froblsh- ers’. “How lucky you are” “Why 507” “They don't know one tune from another.” Cleveland Plain Dealer, AAR 5 a i. { Spalding’s Trade~Mark Means “Standard of Quality” on Athletic Coods Insistupon Spalding’s Handsome Catalogue Fre # GU, BALDING & BROS Kew York Chicago Question. 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