The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-07
PRACTICE. NOT THEORY.
DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS Sc
RiEs OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.

The CathoIis Doetrine of s.Good wori<s.' ?.
Too Many protestants Lay Too Little
stress on wOrixs-ReIigion should 90
Into the Everyday Life.
BROOKLYN, Feb. Great audiences
again assembled at the service by DR.. Tai
mage in the Brooklyn Academy of Music
this morning, 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 piedging themselves anew to
Christian lives henceforth. DR.. Talmage
took for his text at the Brooklyn Academy:
Path without works is dead" GAS. ii, 2O)
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 con-
nected with salvation. Good works will
never save a man, but If man have not
good works he has no real faith and no
genuine religion. There are those who de-
pend upon the fact that they are all right
inside, while their conduct is wrong out
side. Their religion for the most part is
made up of talk-vigoroust talk, fluent talk,
boastful talk, perpetual talk. They will
entertain you by the hour in telling you
how good they are They come up to such
a higher life that we have no patience with
ordinary Christians in the plain discharge
of their duty. AS near as l can tell, this
ocean craft is mostly sail and very little
tonnage Foretopmast staysail, foretop-
mast studding sail, maintopsail, mizzen-
topsail-everything from flying jib to miz-
zen spanker, bat 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
new religion, but the old religion ap
piled in all possible directions
rHE BRAwLNG. USELESS STREAM.
Yonder is a river with steep and rocky
banks, and it roars like young Niagara
rs 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 steep the cattle cannot come
down to drink. 1t does not run one fer
tilizing rill into the 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, and no one cares when it
dies into the sea- But yonder is another
WARM tides, and it rocks with floral lula
by the water lilies asleep on its bosom. 1t
invites herds of cattle, and fiocks 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. It is
the wealth of two hundred miles of lux
uriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted
when Ii was born in the mountains. and
The ocean shipping will press in from the
enao hail H.
tic coast. Tho one river is man who lives
for himself, the other river is a man who
lives for others.
Do you know bow the site of the an cient
city of Jerusalem was chosena There were
two brothers who had adjoining farms.
The one brother had 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
20 cheer him up, and I will take some of
the sheaves 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 a large family, and it is
very difficult for him to support them and
will help him along, and will take some
of the sheaves from my own farm in the
night time and set them over on his farm
and say nothing about it.'' So the work
OF transference went on night after night,
things seemed to be just as they were, for
though sheaves had been subtracted from
each farm, sheaves had also been added
and the brothers were perplexed and could
not understand But one night the broth
ers happened to meet while making this
generous trausference, and the spot where
they met was so sacred that it was chosen
as the site of the city of Jerusalem. If that
tradition should prove unfounded it will
cfs sf,,1
setting forth Athe idea that wherever a.
kindly and generous and loving act is per-
formed that is the spot fit for some temple
'of comnemoration.
: FRIGHTFUL FRAUDS IN FOOD.
1 have often spoken to you about faith,
but now speak to you about works, for
faith without works is dead" I think
You will agree with me in the statement
that the great want of this world is more
practical religion. We want practical re-
hgion to go into all merchandise. 1t will
supervise the labelling of goods. 1t will not
allow man to say thing was made in
one factory when it was made in another
1t will not allow the merchant to say that
watch was manufactured in Geneva.
Switzerland, when it was manufactured in
Massachusetts. 1t will not allow the
merchant to say that wine came from Ma
deira when it came from California. Prac-
tical religion will walk along by the store
shelves and tear off all 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 go into it. 1t will not allow him
to say that is pure sugar when there are in
1t 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 off the fictitious soles of many a
fine looking pair of shoes, and show that it
is pasteboard sandwiched between the
sound leather. And this practical religion
will go right into a grocery stc=e, 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