The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-24
TALaAGE AGAINST FRAUDS,
a Good Sermon About the Nature OF "Prac
ticsi Religion"

"A Good Sermon About the Nature OF "Pruo.
ticei Religion"
One of the most perfect days in early
May drew e large congregation to the
Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday morn.
ing. Or. Talmage chose for his text
James ii, 20: 20, vain man, faith with.
out works is Dead" and preached upon
the subject of practical religion. He
began by depicting the course of two
rivers; the one sluggishly winding its way
through oozy marsh and vaporous swamps,
turgld, Shiny and malarial; the other
clear and broad and deep, sparkling in
the sunshine, singing amid the rushcs,
ripping over the pebbles, adding by its
rich deposits TO the wealth of Hundreds
OF farms. The first river" said he. "is
the man who lives for himself; the sec.
ond is the man who lives for Others. A
man should help his fellows. Do you
know how the site Of ancient Jerusalem
is said TO have been chosen? Two broth.
ers had adjoining farms-the one sim
gle man, the other the head of large
family. In the grain season the married
brother, for the love he bore, took
sheaves from his field in the night time
and deposited them among those of his
brother. The latter, remembering the
large family Of his brother, carried his
sheares through the darkness and put
them on that brothers. farm. In the
morning things appeared TO be about the
same as before; for although sheayes
were nightly abstracted, sheaves were
also added. Bu: oae night they ne.
face to face, and the spot ON which this
mutual benevolence was discovered was
chosen as site for Jerusalem.
Il have often spoken to you of faith"
continued Dr.. Talmage, "now l want to
talk of works. 1t is necessary that we
should take religion into our everyday
life Practical religion will not allow
the merchant to say that his wine IL Ma.
deria when it comes from California, nor
the grocer to sand his sugar and nut red
brick 10 his cayenne pepper. Practical
religion goes behind the counter and tear:
off the tags from goods on the shelves
that are marked too high, cuts off the
under sole from an attractive pair of
shoes aud shows the pasteboard eand-
wiched between, Sits the marble dust
from the flour and leaves it more whole.
some, separates the one quart of Ridge
wood water from the one drop of honest
cows milk. There is so much adultera-
tion that it is wonder to me there is a
healthy person in America. The Board
OF Health in Massachusetts recently an
allied quantity of 80 o.called excellent
coffee and found not one grain in ten
bushels. The honest physician writing
a prescription does not know but that it
may bring death to his patient, 80 impure
are the drugs for the healing of nations.
Scammony is very important and pre-
clous drug, imported at high price, but
the peasant mixes it with cheaper ma
terial, the exporter adds to this, the
Wholesale druggist mikes still cheaper
material, and the retailer mixes cheap.
or material with the compound he re-.
ceives, and sells it all for scammony.
Practical religion will go to those
men who make corners in grain, realize
fortune in few years and compromise
with their consciences by building
church. They think the Lord will be 40
pleased at their generosity that He will
forget all about the swindle. The pray
e.s OF these gentlemen run in this wise:
~ Lord, we have got up q corner in
bread -stuffs and swindled the people of
the land. We know that it was a scaly
JOB, but We want to compromise with
Thee. Take l per cent. of the profits for
Thy work and I'll take yatch and go to
Europe; for ever and ever. Amen
by and by the man who makes a cor
ner dies and Satan gets corner on him.
He goes into an unending Black Friday.
There is break in the market: an eter.
nal defalcation. Practical religion will
also rectify the observation-disclosures of
work done by the job. You know from
a ka nf hn hov
The manner in which man goes at his
labor shows the terms of his employment.
You can tell by the way q hackman
drives whether he is hired by the dav or
the hour. A foreman over the toilers, q
contractor over him and the capitalist
coming around unexpectedly to see how
the work is getting on constant watch.
ing of employees; the conductor on the
street car sounding punch bell to chow
his honesty as the passenger hands up q
clipped nickel; dishonesty in trade:
chromos; diamonds for $3.50; plumbing
that needs to be plumbed; binding that
holds until you read TO the third chapter:
clothing that is durable until you put it
on the second time-man can never rec.
tify these things; it needs the practical
religion of Jesus Christ.
Practical religion will 90 into tho
agricultural districts and keep the farmer
from sending to market veal that was too
young to kill. It will prevent him from
planting his posts and feDces on his
neighbor's land. 1t will keep the lawyer
from taking fees for briefs he never wrote
and charging for services aever perform.
ed. It will come into the pbysician's
life, and he will ssy he doss not Under
stand the case, and not. attempt to dis
guise worthless diagnosis under ponder
GUS technicalities. Practical religion will
come to newspaper men and keep them
from putting the sins of the world into
larger type than its virtues from starting
that can never be allayed and
insinuations that damage and hurt;
from misrepresenting interviews with
public men and misiGterpreting their ut.
terances, and it will make them the
friend Of the oppressed instead of the
oppressors. 1t will keep men from
crooking their elbows and bandaging
their legs and COMPRISING their fiat
chests in short little coats and becoming
the nu.r romicd of society, commonly
called the. dude.
practical religion will enter fashion
able society. It is no unusual thing to
see . lady intoxicated on the street, in
the railway or in carriage. She goes
to great reception and makes too many
visits to the wine room then she begins
to talk at random, laugh immoderately
for no cause, administer sickening flatter-
les, tell a homely man how we'll he is
looking, aud when she goes home il
takes the combined efforts of her hus.
band and coachman to get her up stairs.