Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-02-21
REV. DR.. 7ALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun.
day Sermon.
subject. aFa,th withou. works.

charged with putting too much stress upon
! good works and not enough upon faith. |
charge Professionalism with putting not
enough stress upon good works as connected
with salvation. Good works will never save
I a man. but If a man have not good works he
has no real faith and no genuine religion.
There are those who depend 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-vigorous
talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, perpetual
/ tax They will entertain you by the hour
In telling you now Goai they are They
come up to such higher life that we have
no patience with ordinary Christians in tho
PLAIN discharge of their duty As near as l
can tel, this ocean craft is mostly sail and
very little tonnage. Foretopmast staysails,
foretopmast studding sail, maintopsail, miz-
! ntopsail-everything from flying jib to
! lnlzzen spanEer, but making no useful voy-
age. Now the world has got tired of this, and
1t wants religion that will work into all the
circumstances of life. We do not want new
religion, but the old religion applied in all
1 possible directions.
! Yonder is a river with steep and ROCKY
! banks, and it roars like young Niagara as
! 1t rolls on over its rough bed 1t does moth
ing 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
steep the cattle cannot come down to drink
!
adjoining field. 1t has not one grist mill or
! factory on either side. 1t sulks in wet
/ weather with chilling fogs. No one cares
when that river is born among the rocks
| end no one cares when il dies into the sea-
But yonder is another river, and it moses
its banks with the warm tides, and it rocks
with floral lullaby the water lilies asleep on
| It's bosom. 1t invites herds of CATTLE and
Hooks of sheep, AMI 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 il as it comes down to
the Atlantic coast. The one river is man
who lives for himself, the other river is
man who lives for Others
Do you know how the site of the ancient
city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were
two brothers who had adjoining farms. The
one brother had large family, the other
i had no family The brother with a large
! family said, There is my brother with no
family; he must be lonely, and l will try to
cheer him up, and | will take some of the
4 sheayes 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 large family, and it is very diff
ficult for him to support them, and will
"
sheaves from my own farm in the night time
and set them over on his farm and say moth
ing about it, So the work of transference
went on night after night, and night after
night, but every morning things seemed to
be just as they were, for though sheaves bad
been subtracted from each farm, sheaves had
! also been added, and the brothers were per-
I picked and could not understand But one
night the brothers happened to meet while
/ making this generous TRANSFORMED and the
/ spot where they met was SO sacred that it
was chosen as the site of the city of Jerusa-
! lem. Ii that tradition should prove uu-
founded it will nevertheless stand as a beau
tiful alegory setting forth the idea that
wherever kindly and generous and loving
act is performed that is the spot fit for some
temple of concentration.
| have often spoken to you about faith,
but now l speak to you about works for
/ faith without works is dead.n think you
will agree with me in the statement that the
! great want of this world is more practical
1 religion. We want practical religion to go
! into all merchandise. 1t will supervise the
4 labelling OF goods. It will not allow man
/ to say a thing was made in one factory when
/ it was made in another 1t will not allow
/ the merchant to say that watch was manu-
7 featured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it vas
manufactured in Massachusetts. 1t will not
! allow the merchant TO say that wine came
| from Madeira when it came from California.
! Practical religion will walk along by the
] store shelves and tear off ell the tags that
make Misrepresentation 1t will not allow
! the merchant to say that is pure coffee when
dandelion root and chicory and other in
/ gradients 90 into it. 1t will not allow him TO
say that is pure sugar when there are in it
sand and ground glass.
When practical religion gets its full swing
in the world it will go down the streets, and
it will come to that shoe store and rip of
the fictitious so!es of many fine looking
pair of shoes, and show that it is pasteboard
sandwlched between the sound leather. And
this practical religion will go right into a
grocery store, and it will pull out the plug of
all the adulterated sirups, and it will dump
into the ash barrel in front of the store the
cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon aud
the brick dust that is sold for cayenne
pepper, and it will shake out the Prussian
blues from the tea leaves, and it. will sift
! from the -four plaster of Paris ard bone dust
and soapstone and it will by chemical
analysis separate the one quart of Ridge
wood water from the few honest drops of
| cows milk, and it sill throw out the live
nnimalcules from til. brown sugar
/ There has been so much adulteration OF
articles of food that it is an amazsment to
j Inc that there is a healthy man or woman in
| America. Heaven only knows what they
/ put into the spices, and into the sugars and
into the butter. and into ths apoth ecary
! drugs. But chemical analysis and the
! microscope have made wonderful revela-
| ticns The board of health in Massachusetts,
/ anayzed great amount of what was called
| pure coffee and found in 1t not one particle
/ of coffee. In England there is law that
forbids the putting of alum in bread the
! public authorities examined fifty-one PACK
ages of bread and found them all guilty.
! The honest physician, writing prascTip-
ton does not know but that it may bring
Il i -. IL
| cause there may be one OF the drugs W 5a!.-
ened by cheaper article, and another drug
may be in full force and so the prescription
l may have Just the opposite effect intended.
! Oil of norwood, warranted pure, from
Boston, was found to have forJy-ole per
cent. of resin and alcohol ana chloroform.
] Scammony is one of the most valuable madi-
( cinal drugH Il is very rare, very precious.
II is the sap or the gum of tree or bush in
! Syria. Tho root of the tree is exposed, an
| incision is nNsdS into the root, and then shells
are placed at this incision to catch the sap
: or the gum as it exudes.
1t is very precious, this scaGlnony. Bu5
| the peasant mixes it with cheaper material;
then it is taken to Aleppo, and the merchant
] there mixes it with n cheaper material; then
it comes on to the wholesale druggist in Lon
don or New York, and he mixes it with a
/ cheaper material: then it comes to the re-
| tail druggist, and he mixes it with cheaper
material and by the time the poor sick man
| gets it into his bottle it is ashes aud chalk
and sand, and some Of what has been calle!.
/ pure scammony after analysis has been
! found to be no scammony at all
/ Now, practical religion will yet rectify all
this. 1t will go to those hypoaritical profess
| sors of religion who got corner ia corn
and wheat in Chicago and New York. send
! ing prices up and ~ until they were beyond
thereach of the poor, keeping thess breld-
I SUITS in their cwn hands, or controlling them
until the prices going up and w anl NJ,
/ they were after awhile ready to sell. an /
/ they sold out, making themselves millionairas
IN one or two years trying to fix the mat
ter up with the Lord by building a church,
or university, or hospi.al-deiu1ing them
/ elves with the idea that bae Lord wouid be
90 pleased with the gift He would forget thu
/ iWlndie. Now, as such a man may not have
/ any liturgy in which to say his prayers
/ VIII compose for him one which he praati-
eaily Is making; 20 Lord, we, by getting a
corner IN bre3dstuds, swindled the people
/ OF the United States out of ten million dol
lars, and made suffering all up and down the
iand, and we would like to compromise this
| matter with Thee. Thou knowest it was a
scaly JOB, but then twas smart. Now herr
we compromise it. Take one per cent. OF
! the profits, and with that one per cent. you
can build an asylum for these Door miserable
ragamuffins of the street, AMI will take
yacht and go TO Europe, for ever and ever,
amanm
All, my friends it man hath gotten his
estate Wrongtully. AMI he build a line of hos
/ pitfalls and universities from here to ALASKA.
ne cannOt atone 70: i. After a while this
man who has been getting corner in
wheat dies, and then Satin gets n corner"
! on nm. He goes into a great. long Black
fFluay. There is a "preakH in the market