Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-02-16
WORKS AND FAITH.
FRR SERMON OF TIE RSV. DR.. TALMAGE ON
THaf SUaJsGf.
A New Application Of Old Religion Necessary.
Faith and Works 90 Hand IN Hanl-Practieal
Christianity tie Sure Road 10 Success.
Some Striking Illustrations.

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BeooGLNN. February l5.-Great
audiences again assembled III the ser
vice by Or. Talmage in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music this morning an'
also al the Christian HerdH service il
the New York Academy of Music in th'
ieyening. 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 70 Christian lives bencefOrth. Dr.
Talmage took for his IeXl at the Brook
lyn Academy: Faith without works is
dead. James >; 20.
The Roman Catholic Church has been
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.
I Good works will never save Il man, but
| If 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 m;,de mp
I OF talk,-vigOrOuS talk, fluent talk,
boastful talk, perpetual talk. They
will entertain you by the hour in Iell-
| ing you how good they0re. They come
up To such higher lie that they have
no patience with ordinary Christians IN
the plain discharge of their duty. As
near as can tell this ocean craft is
mostly sail aud very little tonnage.
ForetOpmaSt stay-Sal. foretOpmaSt
Studding sail, maintOpSail, mizzen-tOp-
Sail-eyerything from flying iib TO
miZlen >panker, bUt making no useful
voyage. Now, the world has got tired
of this, and il wants Il religion that
will work into all the circumstances of
lie. We do not want new religion, but
the old religion applied in all possible
directions.
Iouder is 4 river with Stoep and rocky
banks, and it rOarS like a young Mag
ara aS it rolls over It's rough bed. 1t
does nothing but talk about itself all
the way from its source in the mountain
20 the place where il emptieS into the
sea. The banks are so steep the cattle
cannot come down to drink. 1t does
not run one iertlizing rill into the adj
joining field. IL has not one grist mill
or factory on either side. II SulkS in
wet weather with chilling fogS. No
one cares when that river is born among
the rocks, and no one cares when tides
into tha-sea. But yOnder is another
river, >ii mosSeS its banks with the
warm tides, and il rocks with floral lul-
lably the water-lilieS asleep on its bOs-
ON. II invites herds of cattle and
tlocks Of sheep and coveyS of birds TO
come there and drink. 1t has three
griSt mills on one side and six cotton
factories Oh the other. 1t is the wealth
Of two hundred miles of luXuriant
farms The birds Of heaven chanted
when il was born in the mountains, aud
the ocean shipping will press in from
the sea 10 hail-it. as t-e0mes down u the
Atlantic coast. The one river is Il man
who lives for himself. The other river
is a man who lives for others.
GOOD WORKS REWARDED.
Do YOU know how tue site OF the
ancient city OF Jerusalem was chosen?
There were two brothers who had ad-
Joining farms. The one brother had Il
large family the other had no family.
The brother with large family said:
.sThere is my brother with no family;
he must be lonely, aud will try to cheer
him up. and | will take some OF the
sheaves from my field in the night time
and set them over on his farm, and say
nothing about il. The other brother
SAID: My brother has a large family,
and IL is very difficult for him TO sup
mort them. and will help him along,
| and | will take some of the SheaVeS
| from nv farm in the night time and set
them over on his farm, and say
nothing about 10" So the work
Iof tranSference went on night
after night. aud night after night; but
every morning things seemed To be Just
As they we're. for though SheaveS had
been Subtracted from each farm,
sheayes had also been added, ana the
brothers were perpleNed and could not
understand. But one night the broth
er> happened To meet while making
/ this generous tranSfeTence, aud the spot
where they met was 81 sacred that IL
| was chosen aS the site OF the city ol
| Jerusalem. If that tradition should
prove unfounded, it will nevertheless
stand as a beautiful allegOry setting
forth the idea that wherever u kindly
and generous and loving act is per-
| formed. that is the spot fit for some
temple of cOmmemoration.
| have often spoke TO you about iaith,
/ but now | speak to you about works, Tor
..faith without works is dead. ! think
Won will agree with me IN the statement
| that the great want of the world is more
practical religion. We want practlcal
religion TO 20 into all merchandise. 1t
will supervise the labelling OF goods. IL
will not allow 4 man to say that thlnS
was made in one factory when it was
made I'm another. 1t will not allow the
merchant TO say that watch was manu-
factured i'm Geneva, Switzerland, when
IL WAS manufactured I'm Massachusetts.
II will not allow the mer, chant to say
that wine came from MADEIRA when II
rame from California. Practical re-
Hgion will walk along by the store
shelves. and tear of all the tags that
make misrepresentation. 1t VIII not
allow the merchant TO say that Is pure
coffee. when dandelion root and chlc-
cory and other ingredients go into II.
II will not allow him 20 say that Is pure
sugar when there are in il sand and
ground glass. e,.
When practical religion gets It's i9li
swing in the world, 10 will go down the
streets. and il will come to that shoe
store and rip of the fictitious soleS "i
many a fne-looling pair of shoes, anu
show that 10 is paSteboard Sandwiched
hstween the sound Aather. And This
nrertical religion will 20 right into a
erorerv store, and il will pull out the
Dipo of the adulterated SyrupS, aud 1t
yili dnmp into the aSh-barrel, in front
~ the store, the casSia bark that Is sold
for cinnamon and the brckduSt that Is
sold for cayenne pepper; and 1t VIII
shake out the PruSsian blues from the
tea leaves. and il will Sift from the
aour the plaster of Paris and b0neduSt
and soapstone, and il will by chemical
ANALYSIS separate the one quart Ol
Ridgewood water from the few honest
drops of COWS milk. and II wlil
thrOy out the live animal
cules fran the brown sugar
AnUIIERArFn RELIGION.
There has been so much adulteratiou
NJ articles Of food that 1t is an amaze
ment 10 me that there Is healthy mar
or woman in America. Heaven only
knows what they put into the spices ant
and into the sugars and into the butter
Z and into the apothecary drug. Bu
: chemical analysis and the microscope
' -, ,,,.,An ,rnndarfnl revelations. Ihl