Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-14
RELIGION IN EVERYTHING.

luCTe are q SlCdI PClSoilo WIN
II must take care of my religion" They
have got something that they call religion,
which they think needs to be guarded, as if
it were something by ITSELF Just as if one
should say, 81 must take care Of my health -
and yet should neglect his body, so that his
nerves are out of order, and his heart out Of
right beat, and his digestion interrupted,
thinking he had something distinct from his
body, called "health," whereas health means
body acting right in every one of its parts.
So religion is to the soul, what health is to
the body-the right ordering and use of all
its faculties Many persons seem to think
it is confined to certain faculties, and times,
and occasions. They treat it very much as a
boy would Gagged bird. They keep it at
home all the week, and on Sunday 60 and
slip it into cage and let it sing, expecting
its voice to be hushed the moment they take
it out Now this is a ruinous heresy, to think
that religion is q technical clement which you
can separate from your business or family, or
from any part Of your throbbing daily life
Whatever you do, on the week day or the
Sabbath, in the house or the street, in the
store, or the Office or the shop, in the sanctu-
ary, or the concert, or in the world Eatever
you do at any time, or in any place, you are to
do to the glory of God. And just so far as
you fail of doing this, just so far is your re-
ligion deficient.
No man is living Christian life who is not
Christian in everything; in the world, in
the family, in the church, in his intellect, in
his heart, in his soul, in the emotions and
appettes of his nature, in his eyes, in his
tongue, in his hand, in his foot, in his head
who is not a Christian everywhere, and at all
times, and in everything. To take every
faculty and power that God has given US, and
bring it under the divine influence, and make
it act right, that is being Christian. And
all partialisms, by just so much as they are
partialsms, are, for this very reason, mlsun-
derstandings or perversions of Christian truth
Two CHURCH GoERs-1. The man aoho
came late He had no time to ask blessing
on the service for himself or his neighbors
He missed the opening exercises. lie dis
turbed others who had come in time. lie
disturbed the minister. He showed pretty
plainly that he did not consider as much
respect due to Gods house as to his own
place of business. He set bad example to
others. He missed a blessing for himself
2. The man who came early. He had time
to take his seat quietly and get comfortably
warm or cool, as the case might be. lie had
time for quiet and refreshing season of
prayer before the service began. lie dis
turbed nobody. He showed due respect for
the time and place, and also for Him who has
promised always to meet those who gather in
his name. He was able to join in the whole
service and to be in time for it. He set
good example to others. He won blessing
for himself
"Tu1s Do IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME."-lt
is holy souvenir, divine keepsake from our
Master About to leave our world, and to
return to our Fathers house, he bequeaths to
US a memorial of himself; the memorial best
fitted to keep alive his image in our hearts.
No jewelled ring or ornament of gold no like
ness of himself painted by the art Of man no
scu ptured stone in the place Of tombs, but
simple meal, feast if it can be called q feast,
of bread and wine, unlike every other feast
in two things-in its wonderful simplicity,
and its not less wonderful perpetuity for that
word of Jesus will secure its observance
through I'LL Llne, auu III efely paiI VI tHe
world, on to the very end of the dispensation,
till he himself comes again.
TIE OLDEST REIIGIoN.-A certain Italian
priest, Of social and friendly character,
recognized in his church, in the time Of mass,
the well.known countenance of an English
gentleman. Glad to see him there, and wish
ing to convince him of the superiority of the
! Papal Communion, he wrote on slip of pa
per with his pencil, and sent to his friend the
following words: "Where was your English
Church before the days Of Luther?" The
English gentleman wrote in like manner, the
following answer: 'ln the Bible, where your
Roman Church is not"