Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-07
Goodness is Profitable Unto All
Things, Says Timothy.
Talmage's New Years Discourse,
Wherein is Presented a New Ele-
Rlent of Success in Business.
Religion that Can Be Carried into the Bank
the Farm, the Factory, the Ware
house, the jewelers. Shop.
sDeci.l to the Gazette.


Talu1age, D. D., preached a discourse on
the subject: ''Does Religion Pay?"
The opening hymn was:
Ny days are gliding swiftly by,
And I pilgrim stranger,
Would not detain them as they fly,
These hours of toll and danger.
The text was: Goodness is profitable
unto all things, having promise of the
life that now is and of that which is TO
come. FL Timothy IL. 8. DR.. Talmage
said
A happy New Year To one and all!
There is a gloomy and passive way
of waiting for the events of the opening
wear TO come upon rs, and there is a
heroic way of going out to meet them,
strong in God and in fearing nothing
When the body Of Catiline was found on
the battlefield it was found far in advance
of all his troops, and among the enemy;
and the best way is not for us to-fie down
and let the events OF life trampIe over US,
but TO 90 forth in q Christian spirit de-
termmed TO conquer.
The papers were made out and some of
You have just entered into business part
nerships, and others of you take higher
positions in the commercial establish
ment where yOu were engaged, and
others have entered upon new enter
prises, and there were last week in these
cities 10 900 business changes. You are
expecting prosperity, and 1 am deter
mined, SO far as / have anything to do
with it, that you shall not be disappomt-
ed, and therefore ! propose, as God may
help me this morning, to project upon
your attention Il new element of success.
-,
gality, patience, industry, persever-
ance, economy--a very strong business
Gru, but there needs TO he one member
added, mightier than them all, and not
q silent partner eitheT-the enc intro
duced by my text: Goodness which is
profitable unto all things, having the
promise OF the life that now is as well as
OF that which is 80 come. 80
I suppose yOu are all willing TO admit
that Godliness is important in its eternal
relations; but perhaps some of you may
say: ''All want is an opportunity to
say a prayer before die, and all will be
well. - There are n great many people
who suppose that if they can finally get
SAFELY OUT OF THIS WORLD
into a better world, they w n have ex-
haHsted the entire advantage of our holy
religion. They talk rs though religion
were a mere nod of recognition which we
are 10 give to the Lord Jesus on our way
mp TO heavenly mansion; as though it
were an admission ticket, of 10 use ex-
cept to give in at 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 a religion Of the hearSe, and a reIi-
glon of the cemetery, who have no ap-
probation of n religion for the bank, for
the farm, for the factory, for the ware
house, for the jewelers. shop, for the
brokers' office. Now, while / WOuld not
throw any Slur or 4 post-mOrtem religion,
! want this morning, ana on the first Sab
bath of the new year, to eulOgiZe an
aHte-mOrtem religion. A religion that is
Of no use to you while
you live, win be of no use to you
when You die. ''GodlnesS is profitable
unto ali things, having the promise of
the life that now is as well as of that
which IS 10 come. And l have always
noticed that when the grace is very low
in a mans heart he talks great deal in
prayer meetings about deaths, and about
collins, and about graves, and abont
churchyards. l have noticed that the
healthy Christian, the man who Is living
near to God, and IS on the straight road
and talks about the duties of this life,
understanding well that if God helps him
to live right He VIII help him to die
right.
Now; in the first place, I remark that
Goodness is good for man 5 physical
health l do not mean TO say that it viii
restore a brokeu-down constitution, or
drive rheumatism from the limbs, or
neuralgia from the temples, or pleurisy /
from the side; but l do mean TO say that /
it gives one such habits and puts one in
such condition as IS most
FAVORABLE FOR PHYSICAL HEALTH.
That l believe, and that l avOw. Every |
body knows that buoyancy of spirit is /
good physical advantage. Gloom, I'M 1
rest, detection, are at war with every /
pulsatiou of the heart, and with every |
respiration of the lungs. 1t lowers the /
vitality, it slackens the circulation, |
while eXhilaration of spirit pours the /
very balm OF heaven through all the cur |
rents of life. The sense of insecurity |
which sometimes hoverS over an Uure- !
generate man, or pounceS upon him with 4
the blast of 10 900 truInpets of terror, is /
most depicting and most exhausting, /
while the feeling than all things are work |
ing together for my good now, and for 1
my CNNA ittStittS Nt4ldics II NOtiNlutIFt 10 /
physical health.
You will observe that Goodness in !
duces industry, which is the foun- /
dation of good health. There is no /
law of hygiene that will keep a lazy 1
man we'll PIeurisy will stab him, /
erysipelas viii burn him, jaundiee viii |
diScolor him, goat viii cripple him, and !
the Intelligent physician will not pre- |
scribe antseptic 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, al /
though you should sleep on down of swan /
OF ride in carriage of s0ftest upholstery, |
or have on your table all the luxuries |
that were poured from the wine-vats of |
Ispahan and ShiraZ. Our religion says: /
- Away to the bank! away TO the field. /
away TO the shop. away to the factory! |
Do something that will enlist all the en- /
ergieS of your body, mind and soul - /
g Diligent in business, feryent in spirit, /
the Lord, while upon the bare /
back of the idIer and the drone comes /