The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-15
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN BIvINEs SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject. ''Faith without WORKS"

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Jas. H., 60
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. Good works will never sove
a man, but if a man have rot good WORKS no
has no real faith and no genuine religion.
Iherear 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 made mp Of talk-vigorous
talk, fluent talk, boastfrl talt, perpetual
TAX They viii entertain you by the hour
- telling you how good they are. They
come upto such higher life that we have
no patience with ordinary Christians ia the
plsin discharge Of their duty As near as l
can tell, this ocean craft is mostly sail and
very little tonnage Foretopmast stayEaiis
f0retopmast studding sail, maiutopsail, miz-
opsail-eyerythin from flying ji5 to
rnizzeu spanker, but making no useful voy-
age. Now the world has got tired OF this, and
It wants a religion that VIII work into all the
circumstances Of life We do not want new
religion, but the old religion applied in az
possible directions.
Yonder is river with steep a1! rocky
banks, and it roars Ike a young Niagara as
It rolls on over its rough bed It does moth
ing but talk about itself all the way from its
source in the mountain 70 the place where it
empties into the sea. The banks are s.
steep the Cnttle cannot come down to drink
II does not run one fertilizing rill into the
adjoining field. Il has not one grist mill or
factory on either side. 1t sull1s in wet
weather with chilling fogs No enc cares
when that river is born among the rocks
and no one cares when il dies into the sea.
But yonder Is another river, and it MOSES
- tsnss with the warm tides, and Il rocss
nle 2ral 49,. -. ses' tii'iss usseep On
It's -oosofzs It invites herds Of cattle. and
hocks OF sheap. AMI Conveys of birds 70 come
there and drink. It has three grist mills on
oac side and six cotton factories on the
ether It is the wealth Of two hundred
miles Of Iuxuriant farms. The birds Of
heaven chnnted when It was born in the
mountains, and the ocean shipping VIII press
IN from the sea 70 hail it as it comes down to
the Atlantic coast The one river is man
who lives for himself, the other river is
man who lives for Others
Do YOU know how the site OF the ancient
city Of Jerusalem WAS chosenf There were
two brothers who had adjoining farms. The
one brother had & large family, the other
had no family. The brother with n large
terniiy sid, There Is Ily brother with no
family; he must be lonely. and I will try to
cheer him up and l 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. NY
brother has large family, andi is very diff
S5tilt Tor him 10 support them, and will
help hiri along, and 1 VIII take some OF the
Hheayes from my own farm in the night time
and set them over on his farm and say moth
ing about if.n 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
also been added. and the brothers were per
picked and could not understand. But one
night the brothers happed&d TO meet while
making this generous transference, and the
SPOT where they met was SO sacred that it
WIS chosen as the site Of the city Of Jerusa-
lem. II that tradition should prove I'M
founded It will nevertheless stand as q beau
tifll alegory setting forth the idea that
wherever kindly and generous and loving
act i performed that is the spot TT for some
temple Of commemurati0n.
hava often spoken 70 you about faith,
but now ! speak TO you about works, for
'faith without works is dead I think you
fEil agree with me m the statement that the
Z great want Of this world Is more practical
gfsiigion. We want practical religion to 20
A into ali MERCHANDISE. It viii supervise the
. labelling o. goods. 1t viii moi allow man
70 say a thing was made IN one factory when
s was made in another. It vii! not allow
the merchant TO say that witch WAS manu-
facturcd in Ifenevn. Switzerland when It ras
manufactured il Massachusetts. Il will not
allow the merchant 70 say that wine came
rom EaGelra when il came from California.
Practical religion viii walk along by tho
store shelves and tear of all the tags that
make misrepresentation. Il Will not allow
tae merchant 70 ssy that Is pure coRee when
daDdeion root and chirory and other in
ed icntsas. insp T. VIII lset allow bin to
say mat Is pure suEat when there are IN it
sand and ground glass
When practical religion gets its full swing
n the world il viii 90 down the streets, aud
e VIII como to that shoe store and rip OF
the fictitious soies OF many . fine looking
pair 81 shoes, aud show that It IS pasteboard
eznawlched between thu sound laathsr. And
this practical religion viii 20 right into
grocery store and if viii pull ont the plug Of
all tie adulteratsd sirups, ami it viii dump
into the ash barrel IN front OF the store the
casSla bark that is sold for cinnamon and
the brick dust that is sold for CAYENNE
pepper. and It viii shake ont tho Prussian
biuea from the tea leaves, and D. viii silt
from the -four plaster Of Paris ard bone dust
and Eoapsione. and il Will by chemical
analysis separate the one quart of Ridge
wood water from the few honest drops CT
cows milk, and K viii throw out the live
enimalcuies from tie brown sugar.
There hiss been 50 much adulteration OF
articles Of food that It is an amazement tc
ne TINT thefe Is heaithy man or woman in
America. Heaven only knows what they
put into the spices and into the sugars, and
into the butter. and into the apothecary
drugs But chemical analysis and the
microscope have made wonderful reveal
tons. The board Of health in Massachusetts,
anal yzed q greet amount OF what was called
pure coffee and found in il not one particle
OF c5lfee. IL England there Is a law that
So
public authorities examined ff5y-ons pack I
ages OF bread and fond them al guilty.
The honest physician, writing q prescrip-
ton, does not know but that it may bring
death instead OF health 10 his patient, be-
cause there may De one ol the druzs wsllz- ]
enad By a cheaper article. and another drug I
may be IN full force, and so tho prescription !
may nEye jus- the opposite effect intended. I
Oh OF wornwo9d. warranted pure from I
Boston. was found TO have forty-one per /
cent. Of resin and alcohol aui cniorofgTm. I
Scunrony Is one Of the most valuable medi- !
einsi drugs. II Is very r-are, very preciols.
i Is the sap or the gum Oi . tree or bush in /
SYRIA The root OF the Tree is exposed, an /
inc1sion smade into the root, and then shells 1
are placed al this incision % catch the sap 1
or tue gum as it exu1ss.
1t Is very precious this scammonY. But 1
the peasant mixes It with cheaper matsrial: I
then II IS taken to AleppJ, and the merchant /
there Inlxes u vito elezper material: then ]
i comes on 70 the wholesale druggist IN Lon !
don o. Nlw York, and be mixes it with y I
cheaper material; then It comes to the re-
tai Druggist and be mikes i with q cheaper I
material, and by tho time the poor sick man (
gets it into his bottle ii IS asEes aud chalk 4
and ssnd. and some OF What has been called I
pure Ecammony a9ter analysis has been
- -.
Vow. Practical religion val yet rectify all
this. Il will 20 70 those hypocritscal profes-
sors OF religion who got a .'cornera IN corn
and wheat n Chicago and New York, send
ing prices up and up until they we're beyond
therelch Of the poor, keeping these bread
stuffs in their own hands, or controlling them
until the prices going up aud up and up,
they were after awhile ready 70 sell. and
hey sold ont, making themselves miliionaires
10 one CT two years trying to fix the mat
Ter up with tbs Lord BY building a church,
Or university. ora hospiial-deludiDg them
elves With The idea that the Lord woald be
% pleased With the gift He would forget the
iwInile. Now, as such man may not have
my liturgy in which 70 say his prayers, 1
vii COMPOSE for him one which be practi-
ally IS making. 20 Lord, we By getting
corner in breadstufIs, s.indied the people
Of the United States out % ten million dol
lars. and made suffering all upand down the
land and VIC would like TO compromise this
matter with Thee. Thou iznowest it was a