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DR. TALMAGFS SERMON AT THE TABERNACLE-"A FAMILY DIFFICULTY SETTLED." In Matters or Church Attendance Should the Wife Go with the liusband or the Hasbuud with, tl?? Wife??Tho Gonpc-1 . Alphabet. Bhookly.v, Nov. 28.?The Rev. T. DeWitt Tulmage, D! D., preached in the Brooklyn Tnbernacle this morning on the subject: "In Matters of Church Atter.danco Should the Wife Go with the Husband or the Husband Go with the Wife/" The tabernacle still re tains the decoration of Thanksgiving day, being specimens of American producta from the north, south, east and west A vast con gregation sang the opening hymn, beginning: Come, let us join our friends above. Who have obtuined the prize, And on the eagle wings of love To joys celestial rise. For the greater part, the hymns used in Dr. Tahnngo's church are old and familiar-, and when the whole audience rises to sing, led by Professor Ali, the cornetist, and Pro fessor Henry Eyre Browne, the organist, the effect is overpowering. Dr. Tidinnge's text was from Genesis xiii, 8, t>. "Let there bo no strife, I pray thee, be tween me and thee, und between my herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the whole land be fore thee/" Dr. Talmago said: Uncle and nephew, Abran; aud Lot, both pious, both millionaires, and with such large flocks of bleating sheep and lowing cattle that their herdmen got into a fight, perhaps about the best pasture, or ubout the best water privilege, or because the cow of one got hooked by the horns of the other. Not their poverty of opportunity, but their wealth, was tho causo of controversy between these two inen. To Abrain, the glorious old Bedouin sheik, such controversy seemed ab surd. It was like two ships quarreling for sea room in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. There was n vast reach of country, corn fields, vineyards, harvests and plenty of room in illimitable acreage. '"Now," says Abram: "Let us agree to differ. Here are tho mountain districts, swept by tho tonic and sea breeze, and with wide reaching pros pect, or there is the plain of the Jordan, with tropical luxuriance. You may have either." Lot, who was not as rich as Abram, and might have been expected to take the second choice, made the first selection, und with u modesty that must have made Abram smile, said to him: "You may have the rocks and the fine prospect; 1 will take the valley of the Jordan, with all its luxuriance of corn fields, and the river to water the 'locks, and thv genial climate, and the wealth immeasur able." So the controversy was forever Settled, and great souled Abram carried out the suggestion of the text: "Let there be uo strife, I pray three, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the whole land l>efore thee?*' Well, in this, tho last quarter of the Nine teenth century, and in this beautiful land, which was called America, after Atnericus Vospuous, but ought to have been been called Columbia, after its discoverer, Colum bus, we have u wealth of religious privilege and opportunity that ?* positively bewilder ing. Churches of all styles of creeds, aud of ell Stylit of governments, anjl all styles of worship, and all styles of architecture. What opulence of ecclesiastical opportunity! Now, while in desolate regions there may bo only one church, and it must be that or nothing, in the cpuleut districts of this country, there ?-Kuc-1: a profusion that thero ought to be no difficulty in making a selection. No light about vestment.-:, or between liturgical or lion liuirgi'-al adherents, or as to baptismal mod'or a handful of water as compared w ith a rivcrful. If Abram prefers to dwell in the heights, where he can oulj' get a sprinkling from the clouds, let him consent that Lot have uli the Jordan in which to im merse himself. "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between thy herdmen and my herdmen. Is not the whole laud before thee?" Espe-ialiy is it unfortunate when families allow, at the breakfast, or dining, or tea ta ble, angry discussion as to which is the best church or denomination, one at one end of the table saying he could not endure the rigid doctrines of Presbyteriatiism, one ut the other end responding that she never C.rjid stand the forms of Episcopacy, and one at one side of the table saying he did not understand how anybody could bear the. noise in the Methodist church, aud another declaring all the Baptists bigots. There are hundreds of families hopelessly split on cede Biastk'istn, and in the middle of every discus sion on such subjects there is a kindling of indignation, and it needs some old father Abram to come and put his foot on tho load ed lusj before the explosion takes place, and say: "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, lie tweea me and thee, and between my herd men and thy herdmen. Is not the whole land before theof" I undertake a subject never before under taken in any pulpit, for it is an exceedingly delicate subject, aud if not rightly handled might give serious offense: but I approach it without the slightest trepidation, for I am sure 1 have the Divine direction in tho mat Lei's I propose to present. It is a tremen dous question, asked all over Christendom, often asked with tears and sobs anil heart breaks, and involving the peace of families, the eternal happiness of many souls: In mallei's ??(' church attendance, should tho wife l-.-i with the husband, or the husband go witii the wife? First, renii ud?or that all the evangelical churches h.tve enough truth in them to save the soul iui] i-ivpare us for happiness ou earth and iii heaven. I wiii go with you into any wed seie ted theological library, und I will show you sermon-: from ministers in all de nominations that set forth man as a sinner and Chri.-t asa deliverer f rom sin and sorrow. That is the whole gosjiel. < let that into your soul und you are i.lied lor the here and the hereafter. The world has twenty-six letters in its alphabet, and there are only I wo letters ;n tlie?-.! alphaixt?Sand C: S standing for our ?in. C standing for Christ, our rescue, blosse I be IIis glorious name forever! In any Church where you can thoroughly karn these two letters, and all they stand for, you might to be edified und happy. There are differ ences, we admit, and some denominations wo like better than others. But suppose three or four of u.; make solemn agree ment to meet ?i !i other a week from HOW in Chicago on important business, and one goes by the New York Central rail road, another by the Erie railroad, another by the Pemisylvunia railroad, another by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. One goes this way. because the mountains are grander; another takes this, because the curs are more luxurious: another that, because the speed is greater: uuothiT takes the oilier, because be has long boon accustomed to that route, and all the employes are familiar. So far as our engug :iu-n: to meet is concerned, it make- no ? !.;'.* :vuce if we only ;-vt there. Now, any i?ne of the innumerable evangel ical denominations, if you practice its teach ing?although some of their trains run on a broad gauge, und some on u narrow gauge will bring you out at the city of the New Jerusalem. It being evident that you Trill bo safe in any of the evangelical denominations, I pro ceed to remark, first: If one of the married couple bo a Christian and tho other not, tho one a Christian is bound to go anywhere to a church where the unconverted cooipauion is willing to go, if he or she will go to no other. You, of the connubial partnership, are a Christian. You are safe for the sides. Then it Ls your first duty to secure tho eternal safety of your lifetime associate. Is not the everlasting welfare of your wife impenitent, or your husband impenitent, of" more im portance than your church relationship! Is not the residence of your companion for the next quadrillion of yean a mightier considera tion to you than the gratification of your ecclesiastical tasto for forty or fifty years? A man or a woman that would stop half a minute to weigh preferences us to whether he or she had better go with the unconverted companion to this or that church or denomination has no religion at all, and never has had, and I fear never will have. You are loaded up with what you suppose to be religion, but you are like Capt. Frobisher, who brought back from his voy ago of discovery a shipload of what he sup posed valuable minerals, yet instead of being silver and gold, were nothing but common stones of tho field, to be hurled out Anally as useless. Mighty God! In all Thy realm is thero one man or woman professing religion, yet so stolid, so unfitted, so far gono unto death that thero would bo any hesitancy in surrendering all preferences before such an opportunity of salvation aud heavenly re union? If you, a Christian wife, arc an attend ant upon this Brooklyn Tal>emacle, and your unconverted husband does not come here, be cause he does not like its preacher, or its music, or its architecture, or its uncomfort able crowding, and goes not to any house of worship, hut would go if you would accom pany him somewhere else, change 3'our church relations. Take your hymn book home> with you to-day. Say good-b}' to your friends in tho neighboring pews, and go with him to 0213' one of a hundred churches, till his soul is s?"cd and he joins you in tho march to heaven. More important than that ring on the third finger of your left hand, it is, that your Heavenly Father command the angel of mercy concerning your husband at bis conversion, as in the parable of old: "Put a ring on his hand/' No letter of mure importance ever came to the great city of Corinth, situated on what was called the "Bridge of the Sea," aud glistening with sculpture, und gated with a style of brass the magnificence of which the following ug-.*s have not been able successfully to imitate, and overshadowed by the ACTO Corinthus, a fortress of rock 2,000 feet high? I say no letter ever came to that great city' of more importance than that letter in which Paul puts tha two startling questions: "What knowest thou, oh wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, oh :nun, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" The dearest sacrifice or. the part of the one is cheap if it rescue tho other. Better go to tho smallest, weakest, most insignificant church on earth, and be co-partners in eternal bliss, than pass your earthly mem!?ership in most gorgeously attractive church while your companion stays outside of evangelical privi lege. Better have the drowning saved by a scow or sloop than let him or her go down whilo you sail by in tho gilded cabins of a Britannic or a Great Eastern. Second remark: If both of the murried couple lie Christians, but one is so naturally constructed that it is impossible to enjoy tho services of a lenticular denomination, and tho other is not so sectarian or punctilious, let the one less particular go with the other who is very particular. As for m)-self, I feel as much at homo in one denomination of evangelical Christians as another, and I think I must have"hcon born very near tho - line. I like the solemn roll of the Episcopal liturgy, und I like tho spontaneity of the Methodists, and I hko the importance given to the ordinance of Baptism by the Baptists, and I like the freedom of the Congrcga tionalists, and I like the government and the sublimo doctrine of the Presbyterians, und I like many of the others just as good as any I have mentioned, and I could happily live and die, and preach, and be buried from any of them. But others are born with so stout and unbending and inexorable a liking for some denomination that it is a positive necessity they have the advantage of that one. Whit they were in tended to bo in ccclcsiasticism was written 1 in the sides of their cradle, if the father and mother had eyes keen enough to see it They would not stop crying until I they had put into their hands as playthings n Westminster Catechism or the Thirty-nine Articles. The whole cur- | rent of their temperament and thoucht and 1 character runs into one sect of religionists as 1 naturally as the James river into the j Chesapeake. It would bo n torture to such pei-sons to be anything outside of that one church. Now, let the wife or bus- ! band who is not so constructed sacrifice the milder preference for the one more inflexible and rigorous. Let the grapevine follow the rugosities and sinuosities of the oak or 1 hickory. Abrain, the richer in flocks of I Christian grace, should say to Lot, who is built on a smaller scale: "Let there bo no 1 strife, I pray thee, between 1110 and thee, and 1 between my herdmeu and thy horebnen. Is i not the whole land before thee?" Asyoti can be edified and happy anywhere, go with your ; companion to the church to which he or she must go or lie miserable. Remark the third: If both the married Couple are very strong in their sectarianisms, let them attend the different churches pre ferred. It is not necessary that you attend the same church. Religion is between your conscience and your Cod. Liki Abrain and Lot, agree to differ. When on Sabbath morn ing you come out of the door of your homo together, and one goes one way and the Other the other, heartily wish each other it good sermon and a time of profitable devotion, and when you meet again at tho noonday repast let it be evident each to each, and to your children, and to the hired help, that you have both been 0:1 the Mount of Tnuisfiguration, although you went up by different paths, and that you have both been fed by the bread of life, though kneaded by different hands, in different truys, and baked in different ovens. "i'.ut how about the children?"' I am often asked by hundreds of parents. Let them also make their choice. They will grow up with reverence for both the denominations represented by father and mother, if you, by holy livgs, commend those denominations. If the father lives the better life, they will have the more favorable opinion of his de nomination. If the mother lives the better life, they will have the more favorable j opinion of her denomination. And some day both the parents will, for at least ono service, go to the same church. The neigh bors will say: "I wonder what is going on to-day, for 1 saw our neighbor and his wife, who always go to different churches, going arm in arm to the same sanctuary;" Well, I will tell you what has brought them together, arm in arm, to the same altar. Something very important has happened. Their son is to-day uniting with the church. He is standing in the aisle taking the vows of a Christian. He had been somewhat way- , word, and gave father and mother a e,ood deal of anxiety, but their prayers have been i answered in his conversion, and as he standa hi the aisle aud the minister of religiou says: "Do you consecrate yourself to the God who made and redeemed you, and do you promise to serve him all your days?"' and with manly voice ho answers "I do." There is an April shower in the pew where father and mother sit, and a rainbow of joy which arches both their souls, that makes all differences of creed infinitesimal. And tho daughter who had been very worldly, and gay, and thoughtless, puts her life on the altar of consecration, and as tho sunlight of that Sabbath streams through the church window and fulls upon her brow and cheek, she looks like their other daughter, whose face was lununed with tho brightness of another world, on the day when tho Lord took her into Iiis heavenly keeping years ago. ' I should not wonder if, after all, these parents pass the evening of their life in the same church, all differences of church pref erence overcome by the joy of being in the house of God where their children were pre pared for usefulness and heaven. But I can give you a recipe for ruining your children. Angrily contend in- the household that your church is right and tho church of your companion is wrong. Bring sneer und caricature to emphasize your opin ions, aud your children will make up their minds that religion is a sham, and they will have none of it. In the northeast storm of domestic controversy, the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley will not grow. Fight h bout apostolic succession, fight aboutelection and free agency, fight about baptism, fight about the bishopric, tight about gown and sui-pliee, and the religious prospects of your children will be left dead on the field. You will be as unfortunate as Charles, duke of Burgundy, who in battle lost a diamond the value of a nation, for in your fight you will lose the jewel of salvation for your entire household. This is nothing against the ad vocacy of your own religious theories. Use all forcible argument, bring all telling illus tration, array all demonstrative facts, but let there l>o no acerbity, no stinging retort, no mean insinuation, no superciliousness, as though all others were wrong and you in fallibly right. Take a hint from astronomy. The Ptole maic system mndo the earth the center of the solar system, and everything was thought to turn round tho earth. But the Copernicon s3-stem came, and made 'die sun the center, around which the planets revolved. Tho bigot makes Ins little belief the center of everything, but the largo souled Christian makes the Son of Righteousness the center, and all denominations, without any clashing, and each at its own light aud in its own sphere, revolving around it. Over the tomb of Dean Stanley in Westminster abbey is the passage of .Scripture: "Thy command ments are exceeding broad." Let no man crowd us on to a path like the bridge AI Sirat, which the Mohammedan thinks leads from this world over the abyss of hell into paradise, tho breadth of the bridge less than the web of a starved spider or the edge of a sword or razor, ofT the edges of which many fall. No; while the way is not wide enough to take with us any of our sins, it is wide enough for all Christian believers to pass without peril into everlasting safety. But do not any of you depend upon what you call a sound creed for salvation. A man may own all tho statutes of the state of New York, and yet not be a lawyer, and a man may own all the best medical treatises, and not be a physician; and a man may own all the best works on painting and architecture, and not be either painter or architect; and a man may own all the sound creeds in tho world, and yet not bo a Christian. Not what 3'ou have in }'our head and on your tongue, but in your heart and in your life, will decide everything. In olden times in England, beforo tho mod ern street lamps were invented, every house holler was : xpected to have a lantern sus ]tended in front of his house, and the cry of the Watchmen in London as they went along at eventide was: "Jiang out your lights!-' Instead of disputing in your home about the different kinds of l?utern, as a watchman on the walls of Ziou 1 cry: "Let your light so shine before men that they, seeing your good works, may glorify your lather which is in heaven." Hang out your lights! You may have a thousand ideas about religion, and yet not the great idea of pardoning mere}*. It is not the number of your ideas, but the great ness of them. A mouse hath t-.n offspring in her nest, while the lioness hath one in her lair. All ideas about forms and ceremonies and church government put together are not worth the one idea of getting to heaven your self and taking your family with you. But do not reject Christianity, as many do, because there are so many sects. Standing in Westminster hotel, London, I looked out of the wiatlow and saw three clocks, as near as I can remember, one ou the Parliament house, another on St. Margaret's chapel, another on Westminster abbeys nil(' they were all different. One said 12 o'clock at noon, another said 11:55, another said 12:06. I might as well have concluded that there is no such thing OS time, because the three time pieces were different, as for you to conclude that there is no such thing us pure Christian ity because the churches differ in their stite nicnt of it It is about 12 o'clock noon, of the glorious Gospel dispensation, although the church clocks somewhat differ, and under the present light you have no excuse for neglecting your dn'.y because you do not like this or do not like that. "How shall we escape if wo neglect so great .salvation.'"' But let us all rejoice that, although part of our family may worship on earth in one church, and part in unother church, or bowed at tile same altars, it must be in a compromise of preferences, we ure, if re deemed, on the way to perfect church, where ull our preferences will be fully gratified. Great cathedral of eternity, with arches of amethysts, und pillars of sapphire, and Moors of emerald, und windows aglow with llf sunrise of heaven! What wide aisles, spacious enough to allow empires to enter! Wiiat. amphitheatres of piled-up splendor, gallery above gallery, princes and prin cesses, kings and queens bending over them! What stupendous towers, with chimes angel hoisted und angel rung! What myriads of worshipers, white robed anil coronctcd! What an ollici Rtor at the altar, even "the great high priest of our profession!" What walls, bung with tin-captured shields and Hags, by '.lie church militant passed up to be church triumphant! What doxologicsof all nations! Coronet to i coronet, cymbal to cymbul, harp to harp, organ to organ! Pull out the tremulent stop to recall the sufferings past! Pull out tho trumpet stop to celel de the victory! When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls Aud pearly gates behold? Thy bulwarks with salvation strong. And Streets of shining gold. France's Tux Upon Pianos. 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