The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-05-09

OTs lhlmhB0 mhu6 q running COIL
mentaTy upon ChTist's aTraignment OF
the hypOcritical Pharisees in the New
Testament.
Subject of the sermon: "Sham in Re-
liPiOn."
TExT-James H., 20. Faith without
works is dead"
The Roman Catholic Church has been
charged with making too much of good
works and not enough of faith. | chal-
lenge Professionalism with not making
enough of good works. For his good
works no man will be saved, but If there
Oe no good works 1t is a sure sign that
there Is no genuine faith and no real re
igiOn. There are many people depend
ing on the fact that they are sound in
side, though they are inconsistent out
side. Their religion is made up Of talk,
vigorous talk, affluent talk, perpetual
talk, They will entertain you by the
hour in telling you how good they are.
They have come to such u higher life
that they have no patience with Ordi-
nary Christians who go about the plain
discharge of their duties. This river
craft is mostly made up of sail and al
most no tonnage; fOretOpmast studding
sail, main tOpsail, mizzen tOpsail, and
everything from flying jib to mizzen
Spanker, but making no useful voyage.
This world is tired of all this. They
want religion which makes man better
revolution i'll that direction, not q new
religion but the old religion applied to
the circumstances. YOnder Is a river
with rocky and steep bank. 1t rOars
like small Niagara as 1t rolls over It's
rough bed. 1t talks about itself all the
way from Its source to the sea where it
smpties. The cattle cannot get down
the steep sides to drink. 1t has not a
Jawmtll OF factory on either side. II
runs no fertillzing rill into the adjOin-
ing fields. 1t sulks In wet weather un-
der great chilling fOgs. No one cared
when the river was born, and no one
will care when it dies. But here Is an
other river. 1t mOsses the banks with
its warm tides. 1t rocks with floral
lullaby the water lilies Oh its way. IL
invites fOcks of sheep and herds of cat
Gle and cOVeyS OF birds to refreshment.
On one side il turns three grist mills
and on the other side half dozen cotton
1t Is wealth to 200 miles of lux
uriant farms; the flow ers of heaven chan
ted at its birth in the rocks, and the ship
ping will come in from the sea to hail
It's arrival on the Atlantic coast. The
one Is man living for others. Have
you heard how the site of ancient Jeru
salem was chOsenp Two brothers had
farms; the one had a large
family, the other no family. The one
with no family said: 81 have no one To
care for but myself, and my brother has
a large family TO support. will in the
night time take some of my sheaVes OF
grain and set them on my brothers
farm, and say nothing about it," The
other brother said to himself: have
large family. to cheer and comfort me,
ana my brother is lonely, and feel 50
sorry for him. l will by night take
some of the sheaVes off of my farm and
put them on his farm, and the great
;rOp will cheer him, and will say moth
ing about it," On the following morn
ing it was found that both farms were
much as before, for each brother, having
taken of his sheaVes ~ the other brother,
each one gained as much as he lost. And
80 the change of sheaVes from farm to
farm went on from night to night, and
though each one took away corn from
his own place there was as much as be-
fore left, and it was to them a mystery
until one night the brothers happened
to meet as Chey were making the gener-
Ous transference, and the place where
they met was considered 80 cOnsecrated
that the ancient city of Jerusalem was
quilt on it. If that tradition should
prove unfOunded then it might go as a
beautiful allegOry setting forth the fact
that any spot where a kindly and
Christian act was done makes ft place
for temple of cOmmemOratiOn. On
other occasions have spoken of the i'm
pOrtance of good works.
Practical religion must be taken into
all merchandise. 1t will supervise the
labelling of goods. 1t will not allow
the merchant to give the idea that the
fabric came from one factory that really
came from another. If watch were
made in Massachusetts 1t will not allow
him TO say that it was made in Madeira.
1t will go along all the store shelves
and tear off everything that has a mis-
1t will not allow
merchant to say that Is pure coffee
which Is part dandeliOn root and horse
chestnut and chieOry, or that that is
pure sugar which is part sand and
ground glass. Ii religion should some
day get out in full swing 1t would go
into hundreds Of grocery stores and pull
out the plug Of One-half the casks of
syrup and dump into the
ash barrel of the street the cassia bark
passed of for cinnamon and the brick
dust sold for cayenne, and shake the
Prussian blue out of the tea leaves and
jift from the -four bone dust, plaster of
farlS ana SOapSGOno, ana drive the live
out Of the brown sugar and
by quick chemistry separate the quart
Of RidgewOOd or CTOtOn water from the
few drops of honest cows milk. And,
entering the boot store, would rub off
the fictitious sOles of many a flne-loOk-
ing pair of shoes in which pastebOard is
Jandwiched with sound leather. The
of articles of food Is so
great that it Is wonder there is live
man or woman in America. Heaven
only knows what they'put into the but
ter, into the sugar, into the spices, into
the syrups, into the wines, into the
apOthecary drugs. The microscope and
chemical analysis have made wonder
tul revelations. The board of health
In Massachusetts, have analyzed a
large quantity Of what is called
ground coffee and found in it
not particle of coffee. Though the law
In England fOrbids putting alum in
bread, the authorities examined tifty-
Dne packages and found them all guilty.
An honest physician, writing prescrip-
tiOn, knows not but it may bring death