West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-01-17
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Or. TABMAGE's SUNDAY SER.
MON.
Righteousness Considered from a
Business Standpoint

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things, hdriRO promise or the il6e that nou
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A happy New Year 10 enc and ALI
There Is a gloomy and passive way OF
waiting for the events of the opening year
20 come upon ms, and there is a heroic way
OF going out to meet them, strong i'm God and
fearing nothing. When the body OF Catiline
was found on the battle field IL was found far
In advance OF all his troops and among the
enemy; and the best way is not for us to lie
uown and let the events OF life trample over
us, but TO go forth in n Christian spirit de-
termined TO conquer.
The papers were mado out, and some Of
you have just entered into business partner
shlps and others of you take higher positions
IN the commercial establishment where you
were engaged, and others have entered upon
new enterprises, and there were last week i'm
these cities ten thousand business changes.
hou are expecting prosperity. and / am de
eeImlned 50 Tar as have anything 20 do
with IL that you shall not be disappointed,
and therefore i propose, rs God may holp me
tnls morning, to project upon your atten.
Con a now element Of success You will have
In the business firm, frugality, patience. i'm
dustry, perseverance, economy very
strong business firm, but there needs 10 be
one mi added, mightier than them all,
ana not a silent partner either-the one In
troduced by my text: 'Godliness which is
profitable unto all things, having tho prom
ise OF the life that now is as well as OF that
which fsto Gomez
l suppose you are all willing to admit that
oodliPess is important in its eternal rela-
Tons; but perhaps some of you say: A /
want Is an opportunity 10 say n prayer be-
TORE die, and all will DO we'll" There are a
great many people who suppose that IL they
can finally get safely out OF this world into a
better world, they will hate exhausted the
entire advantage OF our holy religion. They
talk as though religion were n mere nod OF
recognition which we are to give TO the Lord
Jesus on our way up to n heavenly mansion:
as though 1T were an admission ticket, of no
use except to give mat the door OF heaven.
AND there are thousands Of people who have
great admiration for a religion of the shroud,
and a religion OF the coffin, and n religion of
the hearse, and n religion of the cemetery.
VINO nave no appreciation OF a religion for
the bank, for the farm, for the factory. for
the warehouse, for the jewelers. sbop
Ior the brokers' Office. Now, while / would
not throw any slur on n post mortem
religion, l want this morning, and on the
nrst sabbath OF the new year, to eulogize an
no use TO you while you live, will be of no
use TO you when you die. "Godliness is
prontable unto all things, having the prom.
Use OF the life That now is as well as OF that
noticed that when the grace is very low in n
mans heart he talks a great deal I'm prayer
meetings about deaths, and about collins. and
about c~hurchyards. 1 have noticed that the
heaithy Christian, the man who is living
near TO God. and is on the straight road TO
Heaven, Is full of jubilant satisfaction, and
talks about the duties of this life, under
standing well that il God helps him TO live
right he will help him to die right.
now, IN the first place, / remark that God
illness is good for a mans physical health. /
40 not mean to say that il will restore a
broken dow constitution, or drive rheuma-
tism from the limbs, or neuralgia from the
temple or pieurisy from the side; but 1 do
mean 10 CnV TINT N ufuaa nna no I.LsN, -
puts one in such condition as is most favor
able for physical health. That l believe.
and that i avow. Everybody knows that
buoyaneyy of spirit is good physical advan-
tage. Gloom, unrest, detection are at war
with every pulsation of the heart, and with
every respiration OF the lungs. 1t lowers
the vitality, 1t slackens the circulation, while
exhilaration OF spirit pours the very balm of
heaven through all the currents of life. The
scene OF insecurity which sometimes hovers
over an unregenerate man, or pounces upon
MN with the blast of ten thousand trumrets
OF terror, Is most depicting and most ex-
hausting, while the feeling that all things arc
working together for my good now, and for
everlasting welfare, is conducive to phys
ical health.
You will observe that Goodness induces
which is the foundation of good
health. There is no law of hygiene that will
keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab
him., erysipelas viii burn him, ~jaundice will
discolor him, govt will cripple him. and the
intelligent physician will not prescribe anti
or febrifuge, or anodyne, but saws,
and hammers, and yardsticks, and crowbars,
and pickaxes. There is no such thing as good
physical condition without positive work OF
some kind, although you should sleep on
down OF swan, or ride in carriage Of softest
upholstery, or have on your table all the lux
urles that were poured from the w~ine-vats Of
lspahan and Shiraz. Our religion saws:
Away to the bank! away to the field away
20 the shop! away TO the factoryl do some
thing that will enlist all tho energies Of your
body, mind and soul.n "Diligent in busi-
ness, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
while upon the bare back of the idler and
drone comes down the sharp lash of the amos
Tie rs he says: III any man will not work,
neither shall he eat.n
Oh, how important in this day. when so
much is said about enatomy and physiology
and therapeutics and some new style ~
medicine is ever and anon springing upon
the world, that o should understand that
the highest school OF medicine is the school OF
Christ, which declares that Goodness Is
profitable unto oil things, having the promise
OF the life that now is as well as that which
rs to come" So II You start out two men In
the world with equal physical health, and
then one OF them shall get the religion OF the
Lord Jesus Christ in his heart, and tho other
shall not get IL, the one who becomes n son
or the Lord Almighty will 1.-Two the longer.
with long life will satisfy thee, and show
thoe Ny salvation
Again 1 remark that Goodness Is good for
the intellect. know some nave supposed
ina Just as soon as a man enters INTO the
Christian life his intellect goes into a be.
hWarhng process. So far from that, religion
VIII gave new brilliancy to the intellect new
strength TO the imagination, new force 10
the viii, and wider swing to all the intel.
lectual faculties. Christianity is the great
central FIRE at which Philosophy has LIGHTED
rs brightest torch. The religion ofthe Iord
Jesus Christ II the fountain out Of which
earning has dipped its clearest draught.
Inc HelicOn poured forth no such inspiring
waters as those which flow from under the
throne Of God clear as crystal. RELIGION has
gwen new energy 70 POesy, weeping in DR.
= oungs Night Thoughts" teaching in
IowPers Task flaming ia Charles Wea-
leys hymns, and rushing with
archanReic splendOr through Mil
tons Paradise LOST The religion Of
Jesus Christ has hung In studio and in gal
lery OF art and In Vatican, the best pictures
-lltianis Assumption" Raphaera Trans.
.uguraioni' kebons's Descent from the
Croe4 Cieudes Burning Buzh.n and AN.
Relos Last Judment" Religion has made
me best music II the w0rld-Haydn's "Craa-
ton" Hande's fMesgfah.w Mozarf'a NRo.
QUEEN" IL possible that a religion which
builds such indestructibie monumonia and
nnLcn hffs its cusigu on the highost promon-
tories on worldly power, can have any effect
upon q mans Intellect but elevation and en.
letkemeutf Now, 7 commend goIliuras az
tne best mental dissi pline-bettar than boges-
lettres o. purify the taste. better Than p,efbo-
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