The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-02-26
SEVERE ARRANGEMENT.
THE SECRET CRIMES AND SINS OF
SUPPOSEDLY GOOD PEOPLE.

THE SECRET GRIMES AND SINS OF
SUPPOSEDLY GOOD PEOPLE.
DIR. Talmase Delivers Practical Sermon
on the Necessity of Reform Among
Those Who Profess to Do Right-Fraud,
Aduiteration and "Corners."
BROOKLYN, Feb 10. - Great au-
diences again assembled at the service
by DIR. Tamage in the Brooklyn Acad-
envy of Music this mor%ing, and also at
The Christian Herald service in the
New York Academy of Music in the
evening. 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 pledging themselves
anew to Christian lives henceforth. DIR.
Talmage took for his text at the Brook
Ign Academy; Faith without works is
dead Uames H. 20),
The Roman Catholic church has
been charged with putting too much
stress upon good works, and not
enough upon faith. | charge Protest.
antism with putting not enough stress
upon good works as connected with
salvation Good works will never save
man, but if man have not good
works he has no real faith and no gen,
uine religion There are those who de
pend upon the fact that they are all
right inside, while their conduct is
wrong outside. Their religion, for the
most part, is made up of talk-vigor
GUS talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, per
petual talk. They will entertain you
by the hour in telling you how good
they are. They come up to such a
higher life that they have no patience
with ordinary Christians in the plain
discharge of their duties.
AS near as can tell, this ocean craft
is mostly sail and very little tonnage,
Foretopmast staysail, foretopmast stud
dingsail, maintopsail, mizzentopsail-
everything from flying jib to mizzen
spanker, but making no useful voyage
Now, the world has got tired of this,
and it wants a religion that will work
into all the circumstances of life. We
do not want a new religion, but the
old religion applied in all possible direc,
TONS
Yonder is a river with steep and
rocky banks, and it roars like young
Niagara as it rolls on over its rough
bed, 1t does nothing but talk about
itself all the way from its source in the
mountain to the place where it empties
into the sea. The banks are SO steer
the cattle cannot come down to drink.
1t does not run one fertilizing rill into
the adjoining field. 1t has not one
grist mill or factory on either side 1t
suks in wet weather with chilling
fogs. No one cares when that river is
born among the rocks, and no one
cares when it dies into the sea.
But yonder is another river, and il
MOSES its banks with the warm tides,
and it rocks with floral lullaby the
water lilies asleep on its bosom 1t in.
vites herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep,
and coveys of birds to come there and
drink 1t has three grist mills on one
side and six cotton factories on the
other. 1t is the wealth of two hundred
miles of luXuriant farms The birds OF
heaven chanted when it was born in
the mountains, and the ocean shipping
will press in from the sea to hail it as
it comes down to the Atlantic coast.
The one river is a man who lives fol
himself, the other river is a man who
lives for others.
PLEASING LEGEND OF JERUSALEM.
Do you know how the site of the an.
Gent city of Jerusalem was choseni
There were two brothers who had ad
joining farms. The one brother had a
large family, the other had no family
The brother with large family said
There is my brother with no family
he must be lonely, and will try te
cheer him up, and l will take some o
the sheaves from my field in the nigh
time and set them over on his farm
and say nothing about it" The othe
brother said, MY brother has large
family, and it is very difficult for hin
to support them, and will help hin
along, and | will take some of tn.
sheaves from my farm in the night tin'
and set them over on his farm and sa,
nothing about it."
So the work of transference went OF
night after night, and night after night
but every morning things seemed to b.
just as they were, for though sheave
had been subtracted from each farm
sheaves had also been added, and tn
brothers were perplexed and could no
understand But one is1t the broth
ers happened to meet while making thi
generous transference, and the spo
where they met was SO sacred that
was chosen as the side of the city O
Jerusalem If that tradition Shouts
prove unfounded it will nevertheless
stand as a beautiful allcgory settin
forth the idea that wherever a kind
and generous and loving act is pei
formed that is the spot fit for som
temple OF colnmeinoration.
have often spoken to you abou
faith, but now ! speak to you abou
works for faith without works
dead. think you will agree wit
me in the statement that the grea
want OF this world is more practical re
ligion We want practical religion
60 into all merchandise. 1t will supel
wise the labelling of goods. 1t vii! nc
allow man to say that thing wa
made in one factory when it was mad
in another 1t will not allow the me-
chant to say that watch was nanI
featured in Geneva, Switzerland, whe
it was manufactured in Massachusett!
1t will not allow the merchant to sa
that wine came from Madeira when
same from California. Practical re
igion will walk along by the stor,