The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-26
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS..
A CRAFT MOSTLY SAIL AND LITTLE
TONNAGE.

BROOKLYN, Feb. l0.--Great audien-
Ces again assembled at tie service by
DIR. Talmage in the Brooklyn Academy
OF Music this mOrning and also at The
Christian Herald service in the New
Y York Academy of Music in the even
ing. The remarkable interest in the
latter continues without evidence of
abatement. At the service in New
York last Sunday evening there were
many emotional episodes among the
vast audience, and tonight these were
repeated, hundreds pledgipg themselves
anew to Christian lives henceforth,
Dr. Talmage took for his text at the
Brooklyn Academy: "Faith without
works is dead" James ii:2O.
The Roman Catholic church has been
charged with putting too much stress
upon good works and not enough upon
faith. l charge Professionalism with
putting not enough stress upon good
works, as connected with salvation.
GOOD works will never save Il man, but
IL man have not good works he has
no real faith and no genuine religion.
There are those who depend upon the
iact that they are all right inside, while
their conduct is wrong outside Their
rellglon, for the most part, is made up
OF talk-ViSorouS talk, fluent talk
L
VIII entertain you by the hour in tell
ing you how good they are. They come
UP to such higher life that they have
II" patience with ordinary Christians
III the plain discharge of their duty.
NOW, the world has got tired of this,
ana IT wants 4 religion that will work
mo aii III" circumstances Of life. We
90 hHt want new rcllgi0E, but the old
rrNgi"n applied III AL possible Gircr.
tons.
onGrr is a riyCr with stcrp and
rocky banks, aIh it ruurs EkpaN ouuu
NlaE"ri RS 1t rolls on over its rOunn
bed. 1t does nothing but talk ab0ut
lStli all the way tlom its source in thr
ncuEtain to the place where il tinptirS
INTO the sea. The banks are SO steep
lne cattle cannot come down IT, drink.
II does not run one fertiliZ:mg rill into
The adjoining field. IL has not one
ErlSt mill or factory on either side 1t
SlllkS IN wet weather with chilling
iogS. NO one cares when that river is
porn among the rocks. and no one cares
Whtn 1T dies into the sea. But Wonder |
Is another liver, and it moSSeS its banks |
with the warm tides, and its rocks with |
iloral lullaby the water lilies asleep on |
lis bosom. 1t invites herds of cattle
and llocES OF sheep and covryS Of birds
TO come there and drink. It'll has three
factories Oh the other. 1t is the wealth
or 200 miles Of luXuriant farms The
DirdS OF heaven chanted when it was
born IN the mountains ard the ocean
shlpplng will press in from the sea t.
ntll IL rs 1t comes down to the Atlar nc
coast. The one river is il man who
lives Tor himself. The other river Is Il
man who lives for Others
do Jou know how the site Of the an
" fNt ~
lhcrG were two brothers who had ad- |
Joining farms. The one brother had 4
large family, the other had no family. !
lhe brother with large family said:
There is my brother with no family.
he must be lonely, and will ,ry to
cheer HIM ur, and will take some of
the SheavcS from my field in the night.
time and set them over on his farm, and
say nothing about it" The other
brother said: "My brother has Il large
lamlly, and 1t IS very difficult for him
to support them; and viii help him
along, and | Will take some Of the
sheaves from my farm in the night
Ilmc and SET them over on his farm,
ana say nothing about it," SO the work
OF tranSfereucc went on night after |
night. but every morning things seem |
ed TO be just as they were. for though |
SheaVcS had been subtractrd from each
1arm, SheavtS had also been added, and
the brothers were DrrplcXCd ami could
not understand. But one night the
orotncrs happened TO meet while MAX
ing thlS generous transfcrpnce, and the
spot where they met waS so sacred that
~ was CHOSEN as the site Of the city Of
Jerusalem. If that tradition should
prove untounded, it will nevertheless
stand us beautiful alrgory setting
lorth the idea that wherever kindly
ana generous and loving act is per-
formed, that is the spot lit for some
temple OIL cOmmcmOratiOn.
nave often spoken to you about
faith, but now l speak to YOU about
works, Tor faith without works is
ueaa. think you will agree with me
III lhe statement that the great want of
tnlS tinlS world is more practical religion.
we want practical religion to go into
an merchandise. 1t will supervise the
labelling OF goods Il will not allow a {
man 10 say that thing was made in |
one factory when it was made in anOth.
er. 1T W!ii not allow the merchant to
say lhat Wa,ch was manufactured in !
GENEVA, switzerland, when it Was man
uiactured in Massachusetts. 1t viii I
not allow the merchant to say that
VINE came. from Madeira when it came
from California. Practical religion I
VIII walk along by the store shelves s
and tear off all the tags that make mis- &
1t will not allow the t
merchant to say that is pure coffee, {
Mhen dandclion root and chiccory and f
"IneI ingredients 90 into it. 1t will c
doI allow him to say that is pure SUI r
gar, when there are in 1T sand and t
ground glass. r
Mhen practical religion gets it's full {
SWING ID the world, it will go down the h
streets, and it will come to that shoe h
STORE and rip of the fictitious soles of f
many line-looking pair of shoes, and c
snow s. 10 th2t15 is Tastcboar sandw chcd !.
,eeeNten the sound leather, And this C
practical religion will 60 right into a Il
grocery store and 1t will pull out ',ie I
plug OF all the adulterated syrups and r
t. will dump into the ash-barrel, in C
.ront of the store, the cassia bark that t
sold for cinnamon and the brickdust t
hat Is sold for cayenne pepper; and it t
will shake out the Prussian blues from |
he tea leaves, and 1T will sift from the f
lour plaster of Paris and bonedust and |
and it will by chemical analy- $