The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-25
)ec514. THE warfIr,s Of the

ing hymn was: a..
$50 let our lips and lives express,
y. The glorl6us GosBl we'OOfets,1t SN
And the sermon was as followssA.
UBlEcr "REl4a1oN IN ORDINARY r4srNas,"
TsxF-Prov. 8;6 -"Ip all thy ways &C.
.nQwledge Him, aid He shall DIRECT tiny
paths
l!A man can NO AsEh osaOhrist,
'ian On Sunday that he can afF6A to be a
#erldling all The rest ot th&I Meek. If
steamer put oat for southampton, and
10 one dayiRthasd direction and the 9TH
er six days in other directions, how long
before the steamer will get there2 1t
will never get there. And though a
man may seem to be voyaging heaven
ward during the holy Sabbath day, If,
during the following six daVs of the
hack he is going toward the world, the
Aand the devil, he will never ride
she peaceful harbor of heaven.
not eat 80 much at the Sabbath
st that you can afford religious abb
.nessce tbs other six days. Hereism
!ana'princely behavior on great occasions
are noapology for right demeanor in
hircumstances insignificant aud incon.
keuous, The genuine Christian life is
spasmodic; does not go by fits and
srts. II tolls On through heat and
id.Srp steep mountains and along dan
declivities, its eye on the ever
''' crowned with the castles of
place we want to bring the
hrist into our ordinary con-
When q dam breaks, and
villages in Massachusetts
AQed. or an earthquake in
II a Swallows whole city,
'1 beginto talk about the un-
II, ,.and they imagine they
b positively religious con-
you may talk about these
I've no grace of God at all
We ought every day to
ligion. If there is anything
it, anything beautiful about
important aboutit, we ought
pually discussing it. / have
men, just in proportion as
hfiatian experience is shallow.
but funerals, and about grave
hnd tombstones, and deathbeds.
ZEAL, genuine Christian man chiefly
bout this life, and the great eter-
yond, sad pot SO much about the
- Meant pass between these two res,
And yet how few circles there
re the religion of Jesus Christ is
Come. Go into a circle even of Chris,
j people, where they are full of joy,
ilarity and talk about Christin heaven,
Id everything Immediately is silent.
,oa summer day, when the forests
are full of life, chatter and chirrup and
carol, a mighty chorus of bird harmony,
every tree branch au orchestra, and if
hawk appear in the sky, every voice
stops and the forests are still; just 80, l
have seen lively religious circle silenc-
ed on the appearance of any religious
conversation. No one had anything to
say, save, perhaps, some old patriarch in
the corner of the room, who really
thinks something ought to be said under
the circumstances, so he puts one foot
over the other, and says, "Oh, yes, that's
80 that's SOL"
My friends, the religion of Jesus
Christ is something to talk about with
glad heart 1t is brighter than the wa.
Sters; it is more cheerful than the sun
ahine. Do not 10 around groaning about
}lSour religion, when you ought to be sing
: ing or talking it in cheerful tones of
voice. How often is it that we find men
whose lives are utterly inconsistent who
attempt to talk religion, and always
make a failure Of il! My friends, we
must live religion or we cannot talk it.
II man is cranky, or cross and uncon-
genial, and hard in dealing, and then
begins to talk about Christ and heaven,
everybody is repealed by it. Yet have
sometimes heard men say, in whining
tones, ave are miserable sinners!' "The
Lord bless you!" "The Lord have mer.
cy on youl" Their conversation inter-
larded with such expressions, which
mean nothing bat canting, and canting
is the worst form Of hypocrisy. If we
have really felt the religion of Je.
sus Christ in our hearts, let US talk it,
and talk it with an illuminated counte.
nance, remembering that, when two
Christian people talk, God gives special
attention, and writes down what they
say; Malachi 3:lG--"Then they that fear.
ed the Lord spake often one to another;
and the Lord hearkened and heard it,
and book Of remembrance was writ
!, ten"
= Again remark; We must bring the
religion of Christ into our ordinary en-.
ploy ments. "0," you say, that is very
well If man handles large amounts Of
money, or il he bss an extensive traffic;
it is very we'll for this importer Of silks,
for the bankers and shippers, for the
Rothschids aud the Barings, but in my
thread and needle store, in my trimming
establishment, in the humble work in
life that I'm called to, the sphere is too
small for the action of such grand, heav-
enly principles" Wbotold you so2 Do
you not know that God watches the fa-
ded leaf on the brooks surface as GER.
tainly as He does the paihiDf the blaz.
ing s1u; bnd the moss that efeeps up the
sides OF the rock, makes az much i'm.
preston on Gods mild as tberoving top
Of Oregon pine aud Lebanon cedar; and
the elder cracking under the cows hoof
souIds ls lud in Gods ear as the snap
of words conaagration. When you
have anything to do in life, however
humble It ma seem to be. God is al.