News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-19
TEE TABERNACLE PULPIT.
The Secret Crimes and Sins of
Supposedly COOP People.

DR.. TaImage Delivers IA Practical Sermo,
on the Necessity of Reform Anon:
Those who Profess to Do Right-Fraud
AduEteration and Corners"
BROOKLYN, Feb Is. - Great au
diences again assembled at the service
by DIR. Talmage in the Brooklyn Acad
envy OF Music this morning, and also al
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. st 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.
Taimage took for his text at the Brook
Ign Academy: Faith without works is
dead DANES ii, 20).
The Roman Catholic church has
been charged with putting too much
stress upon good works. and not
enough upon faith. I charge Protest
antisIn with putting not enough stress
upon good works as connected with
salvation. Good works will never save
a man, but if a 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 hourSSfess telling you how good
they are. come up to such a
higher lifeEhat 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 nizzen
spanker, but making no useful voyage
Now, the world has got tired of this,
and it wants religion that will work
into all the circumstances of life. We
do not want new religion but the
old religion applied in all possible direc-
tons.
Ionder is a river with steep and
rocky banks, and it roars like a young
Niagara as it rolls on over it's rough
bed. 1t does nothing but talk about
itself all the way from its source in the
in To -
into the sea. The banks are so steep
the cattle cannot come down to drink.
1t does not run one fertiliZing rilI into
the adjoining field. 1t has not one
grist mill or factory on either side. 1t
sulks in wet weather with chilling
logs. 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 it
moses its banks with the warm tides,
and it rocks with floral lullaby the
water lilies asleep on it's bosom. 1t in
vites herds of cattle, and focks 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 rs
it comes down to the Atlantic coast
The one river is man who lives for
the other river is a man who
lives for others
PLEASING LEGEND OF JERUSALEM.
Do you know how the site of the an
cient city of Jerusalem was chosen?
There were two brothers who had ad-
joining farms. The one brother had a
large family, the other had no family.
The brother with a large family said,
There is ray h-otlfes with no family;
he must be lonely, and l 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 it" The other
brother said, My brother has q 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 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, and night after night; |
but every morning things seemed to be |
lust as they were, for though sheaves
lad been subtracted from each farm.
'heaves had also been added, and the
brothers were perplexed and could not
But one night the broth
ers happened to meet while making this
generous transference, and the spot
where they met was so sacred that it
vas chosen as the site of the city of
Jerusalem. If that tradition should
prove unfounded it will nevertheless
tand as a beautiful allegory setting
orth the idea that wherever a kindly
md generous and loving act is per-
orlned that is the spot fit for some
emple of commemoration.
| have often spoken to you about
alth, but now | speak to you about
works., for faith without works is
ead- " think you will agree with
ne in the statement that the great
want of this world is more practical re
gion- We want practical religion to
o into all merchandise. 1t will super
Use the labelling of goods. 1t will not
low man to say that a thing was
lade in one factory when it was made
/ another. 1t will not allow the mer
hant to say that watch was manu-
lctured in Geneva, Switzerland, when
was manufactured in Massachusetts.
will not allow the merchant to say
lat wine came from Madeira when it
lne from California. Practical re-
5ion will walk along by the store
lelves and tear off all the tags that
axe Misrepresentation. 1t will not
low the merchant to say that is pure
flee when dandelion root and chiccory
I'd other ingredients go into it. 1t
i'll not allow him to say that is pure
gar when there are in it sand and
ound glass. 6
PRACTICAL RELIGION AND sHAMs.
When practical religion gets its full
ing in the world it will go down the
'eets, and it will come to that shoe a
1re and rip off the fictitious soles of
any fine looking pair of shoes, and q
ow that it is pasteboard sandwiched v
tween the sound leather. And this u
actlcal religion will go right into a $
ocery store, and it will pull out the s.
lg OF all the adulterated sirups. and n
Will dump into the ash barrel, in II
mt OF the store, the cassia bark that
sold for cinnamon, and the brick n
st That is sold for cayenne pepper; "
1t Will shake out the Prussian blue u
IN the tea leaves, and it will sift from CT
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