Milford chronicle., 1891-02-20
PRACTICE, NOT THEORY.
DR.. TALMAeE CONTINUES HIS Sc
RlEs OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.

/ DR.. TALMAeE CONTINUES HIS Sc
RlEs OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.
The Catholic Doctrine Of Good Works."
Too Many Protestants Lay Too Little
stress on worlSs-Religion Should CO
Into the Everyday Life.
BROOKLYN, Feb. l5.-Great audiences
again assembled at the service by DR.. Tai
mage ir 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 pledging themselves anew to
/ Christian lives henceforth DIR. Talmage
took for his text at the Brooklyn Academy
Faith without works is dead" (Jas. ii, 20).
The Roman Catholic church has been
I 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
I never save a man, but if a man have not
I 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-vigorous 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, mainbopsail, mizzen-
topsail-everything from flying iib to miz-
zen spanher, 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. Wedo not want
a new religion, but the old religion ap
piled in all possible directions.
THE BEAWLING, USELESS STREAM.
Yonder is 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 it's 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. It does not run one fer
tilizing rill into the adjoining field. It has
not one grist mill or factory on either side.
It 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
river, and it MOSES its banks with the
warm tides, and it rocks with floral lula
by the water lilies asleep on its bosom. It
invites herds of cattle, and focks of sheep,
and coveys of birds to come there and
drink. It has three grist mills on one side
and six cotton factories on the other. It's
the wealth of two hundred miles of lux
uriant 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 Allan
tic coast. The one river is man who lives
for himself, the other river is a man who
lives for others.
Do you know how the site Of the an cient
city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were
two brothers who had adjoining farms.
The one brother had q large family, the
other bad no family The brother with a
large family said, '"There is my brother with
no family; he must be lonely, and 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 large family, and it is
very difficult for him to support them, and
/ will help him along, and l 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,
and night after night, but every morning
things seemed to be just as they were, for
though sheaves had been subtraeted 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 transference, 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
nevertheless stand as beautiful allegory
setting forth the idea that wherever
kindly and generous and loving act is per
formed that is the spot fit for some temple
of commemoratiOn.
FRIGHTFUL FRAUDS IN FOOD.