The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-19
SEVERE ARRAHNMENT.
TIE SECRET CRIMES AND sisS or
SUPPOSEDLY GOOD PEOPLE.
DIR. TaIn.a 10 Delivers . Praeticalisermon
on the Necessity OF Reform Among
Those who Profess % Do Right-FEaux1.
AdnIfc rattan and "Cornerk."

on the Necessity OF keSorm SAm0sg
Those who Profess % Do Right-FEauGi.
Adu,teration and "Cev1srs."
BRooKLYS, Feb. Is. - Great au-
diences again assembled at the service
by DR. Talmage In the Brooklyn Acad-
envy 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.
Talniase took for his text at the Brook
Ign Academy: Faith without works Is
dead (James ii, 20).
The Roman Catholic church has
been charged with putting too much
stress upon good works. and not
enough upon faith. l charge Protest
antisIn with putting not enough stress
upon good works Us connected with
salvation Good works will never save
man. but If n 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 hour in telling you how good
they are. They come up to such a
higher life that they have no patience
with ordinary Christians in the plain
discharge Of their duties
AS near rs l can tell, this ocean craft
Is mostly sail and very little tonnage.
Foretopmast staysail, foretopmast stud
dingsail, maintopsail, mizzentopsail-
everything from flying jib to mizzen
spanker, but making no useful voyage.
Now, the world has got tired of this,
and 1t wants a religion that will work
into oil the circumstances of life. We
do not want a new religion, but the
old religion applied in all possible direc-
tons.
Yonder is a river with steep and
rocky banks, and it roars like q young
Niagara as 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 fertilizing rill into
the adjoining field. 1t has not one
grist mill or factory on either side. It
sulks in wet weather with chilling
fogs. No on. 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 i,
moses its banks with the warm tides
and it rocks with floral lullaby the
water lilies asleep on its bosom. 1t in
vites herds of cattle, and flocks of sheen
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 O
heaven chanted when it was born IL
the mountains, and the ocean shipping
will press in from the sea to hail it a
it comes down to the Atlantic coast
The one river is a man who lives TO
himself, the other river is man VIII
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
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 l will try t.
cheer him up, and will take some O
the sheaves from my field in the nigh
time and set them over OH his faru
and say nothing about it." The othe
brother said, My brother has larg
family, and it is very difficult for hir
to support them, and I will help hin
along, and l will take some of til
sheaves from my farm in the night tim
and set them over on bis farm and sa
nothing about it"
So the work of transference went o.
night after night, and night after night
but every morning things seemed to b
just as they were, for though sheave
had been subtracted from each farm
sheaves had also been added, and til
brothers were perplexed and could nc
understand. But one night the brotl
, ers happened to meet while making tn
, generous transference, ami the sp(
where they met was so sacred that
was chosen as tie site of the city
Jerusalem If that tradition shoul
4. prove unfounded it will neverthele
stand as a beautiful allegory settin
forth the idea that wherever kind
and generous and loving act is pc
formed that is the spot fit for son
temple of commemoration.
have often spoken to you abo'
faith, but now l speak to you abo'
. works, for faith without works
dead" I think you will agree vii
. me IN the statement that the gre
want of this world is more practical !
igion. We want practical religion
go into all merchandise. 1t will supe
!, wise the labelling of goods. 1t win n
allow q man to say that a thing W
- made In one factory when it was ma,
In another. 1t will not allow the me
chant to say that watch was man
featured in Geneva, Switzerland, VIII
it was manufactured in Massachuseti
1t will not allow the merchant to s
that wine came from Madeira when
] came from California Practical .
hgion will walk aloog by the sto
shelves and tear OF all the tags tn
make misrepresentation. It viii n
allow tbs merchant to say that Is pu
n coffee when dandelion root and chicco