The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-03-11
pRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.

INiuSo w hHtOh' SARP'SNt 80 ~
forty families with fuel, to keep them com
Portable month. Nearly 5000 persons
have been kept comfortable during the
winter, through the efforts of this society
Now this is what we understand 10 be
pure, genuine, PRACTICAL christianity
How little Of it we have in our midst
1t is true, we have an abundance Of mod
ern, or fashionable christianity scores o.
professed christians, who are wont te
make long prayers and loud professions
in public places. This empty, hollow,
lip performance, they are pleased 10 call
christianity, while poor, suffering, desti
tute beings in the same community, and,
in some instances, within few steps ol
the doors Of these loud praying christians,
are permitted to suffer on, night and
day, without even IA passing thought
from their pioas neighbors--and these
people would have us believe that they
are the peculiarly favored Of God. II
we understand the book of books, that
religion which is destitute of pure, disin-
terested charity, is as a sounding brass
or tinkling cymbal.
We do not wish to be understood as
applying these remarks generally; but
we do say that in too many instances the
application can be made without viola.
ting the rules of propriety very seriously.
The man who expects to get to heaven
by long praying and loud singing, sim.
ply, without practcing christianity in
his daily intercourse with his fellow men,
will be about as successful in bis efforts
as he would be were he to attempt to run
freight train, on wet track, from here
to Chicago, with two.horse engine,
When he arrives at the terminus Of the
road in the eternal world TO which we are
all journeying, he will discover, to his
sorrow, that he has been travelling on a
very slow line-that he has not been
"makipg time" The motive power by
which the christian is impelled on his
journey TO the eternal realms of bliss, is
that pure and practical religion which al
ways manifests itself in the walk and con-
versation ofthe good man.
In worldly affairs. the men who talk
most, generally do the least, and this is SO
% great extent in the church. The
men who assume pious airs, and make
he greatest pretenlions to holiness, are
he very men who are the most likely to
freeze" fast to a half dime SO tight that
hough they were deluged by flood of
lot, burning tears, fA4 from the bro
zen hearts Of millions Of suffering beings,
hey could not be induced 10 relax their
rip. It's the meek, unobtrusive men
md women, who move noiselessly about
IS ministering angels, doirg good, whose
,earts are kept warm and soft by the ge-
ialinAuences Of pure christian charity,
who are entitled to the holy appellation
If christian-not the sordid, selfish being,
with heart as cold as an iceberg and
As hard as adamant, who measures his
for heaven by the length of his
prayers and purse.
We love these practical christians, we
care not to what branch of the church they
may belong, or whether they belong to
any or not---for we hold that whenever
nan makes up his mind tc do good, and
leases to do evil, he places himself right
IN the eternal record, and this is all that
$ required of him. "Act well your part
there all the honor lies."
This closes onr sermon on this occasion;
veil preach again, next week, if we feel
n pious mood. Our neighbor of the
Union" gave you discourse on "pop-
lar sovereignty" last week, and as that
ubject has been worn "thread BARE"
~. UvuUiuasd 10 p.eseHt -s..e.i.;-s .0~,
nd we thought that most of our people
rere as little acquainted with the subject
practical religion as any other that we
light select.
LET EN- Goa joint committee ap-
ointed blythe Texas Legislature to consid- ,
: the Kansas message of the Cover ,