. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . gthe book or the paper, you will feel that you have a goodhome. Neither are you lacking in the refinements andcourtesies of life. You understand the polite phraseology ofinvitation, regards and apology. I hope at church you haveon your best apparel. I shall wear no better dress at thewedding than when I come to the marriage of the KingsSon. If I am well clothed on other occasions, I will be in thehouse of God. However reckless I may be about my per-sonal appearance at other times, when I come into a
. Social Dynamite: The Wickedness of Modern Society from the Discources of T. De Witt Talmage . gthe book or the paper, you will feel that you have a goodhome. Neither are you lacking in the refinements andcourtesies of life. You understand the polite phraseology ofinvitation, regards and apology. I hope at church you haveon your best apparel. I shall wear no better dress at thewedding than when I come to the marriage of the KingsSon. If I am well clothed on other occasions, I will be in thehouse of God. However reckless I may be about my per-sonal appearance at other times, when I come into a con-secrated assemblage I shall have on the best dress I all understand the proprieties of everyday life and theproprieties of Sabbath life. Neither are you lacking inworldly success. You have not made as much money as youwould like to make, but you have an income. While othersare false when they say they have no income or are making () ONE THING THOU LACKEST. 349 no money, you have never told that falsehood. You havehad a livelihood or you have fallen upon old resources, which. is just the same thing, for God is just as good to us when Hetakes care of us by a surplus of the past as by present there are thousands of men with hunger tearingat the throat with the strength of a tigers paw, not one ofyou is hungry. Neither are you lacking in pleasant friend- 350 ONE THING THOU LACKEST. ships. You have real good friends. If the scarlet fevershould come to your house, you know very well who wouldcome in and sit up with the sick one; or, if death shouldcome, you know who would come in and take your hand tightin theirs with that peculiar grip which means, Ill stand byyou, and after the life has fled from the loved one, take youby the arm and lead you into the next room, and while youare gone to the burying ground they would stay in the houseand put aside the garments and the playthings that mightbring to your mind too severely your great loss. Friends?You all
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