The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
FAITH WITHOUT Works
rev 7. Dewitt Talmage Diseourses
to Business Men.
GOOD Works as Necessary as Faith-Too
Mach Ealseness I'm Every V~ocatlon-Re-
form Needed In society-The Saviour
a the Best Guide.

In a late sermon at Brooklyn Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage took his text from
J aIties IL 20: Faith without works is
desd" Following is the sermon:
The Roman Catholic Church has been
charged with putting too much stress
upon good works and not enough upon
falth. 1 charge Professionalism with
putting not enough stress upon good
works ~ connected with salvation.
food works will never Save a man, but
II o man have not good works he has no
real faith and no genuine religion.
There are those who depend upon the
TACT that shey are all right inside, while
conduct is wrong outside. Their
religion. for the most part, is made up
OF tailk-zvigorous talk, fluent talk, boast
ful talk, perpetual talk. They will en-
terrain You by the hour in telling you
good they are. They como up to
such q Aigher life that they have
no patisnce with ordinary Chris
in the plain discharge of their
dnsy.
Hondera is a, river with steep and
rocky banks, and it roars like q young
NiRgara ~ 1t rolls on over it's rough
bed II 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 can not 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. 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.
Bot yonder.i is another river, and it
mosses its banks with the warm tides,
and it rocks with floral lullaby the
water lilies asleep on its bosom. 1t
invites herds of cattle and focks of
sheep and coveys Of birds to come there
and drink II has three grist mills on
side ard six cotton factories on the
lotlter. IL is the wealth of 200 miles of
1uxrrlant farms. The birds of heaven
chsated when it was born In the noun
tains, add the ocean shipping will press
IN from the sea to hail it as it comes
down to She Atlantic coast. The one
river Is s man who lives for himself.
The Other river is q man who lives for
others.
DO yen know how the site of the
ancient esty of Jerusalem was chosen?
There fsere two brothers who had adj
1oia5ng farms The one brother had a
laraS family, the other had no family.
Tho br0ther with a large family said:
.sThere il my brother with no family;
he must be lonely, and 1 will try to
cheer hita up, and l will take some of
my ssheaves from my field in the night
time and set them i've on his. farm and
say nothing about it." The other
brother said: my brother has a large
farnily, and it is very difficult for him
to support them, and I will help him
along, aail / will take some of the
sbeMyes from my farm in the night
tir,ss and set them over on his farm, and
say nothing about It." So the work of
t~ransference went on night after night,
and night after night; but every morn.
ing things seemed to be just as they
were, for though sheaves. had been
subtracted from, shelves had also been
added, and the brothers were per-
plexed md could not understand. But
ono night the brothers happened to
meet wlae making this generous, trans
ference and the spot where they met
was so sacred that it was chosen as the
ate Of the city of Jerusalem. II that
tradition should prove unfounded 1t will
nevertheless stand as a beautiful allie.
CORY, setting forth the idea that where.
ever q, bf,dly and generous and loving
a--k a.. -L.sN--o AL.Al a. A. -
sone temple OF commemoration.
I have often spoken to you about
faith, bet now l speak to you about
works, for faith without works is
dead think you will agree with me
in tie statement hat the great want of
this world is more practical religion.
We want practical religion to go into
all merchandise. It will supervise the
Labelling Of goods. 1t will not allow a
maf, to any a thing was made in one
factory when it was made in another.
Jt.sRsll not allow the merchant to say
that watch was manufactured in
Geneva, switzerland, when it was man
ufassurea in Massachusetts. 1t will not
alloy the merchant to say that wine
canae frt5sn Madeira when it came from
California. Practical religion will
walk alu5g by the store shelves, and
tear of MI the tags that make misrep-
resaataticn. It will not allow the mer-
chGnt essay that is pure coffee when
daniselion root and chicory and other
ingredients 60 into it, 1t will not al.
low him to say that is pure sugar when
there ara in 1t sand. and ground glass.
When practical religion gets its full
swing In the world. It will go down the
streets, aad 1t will come to that shoe
stors ardr off the fictitious s,oles -ot
many a ;lne looking pair Of shoes, and
show that it is pasteboard sandwiched
between the sound leather. And this
practicsI religion will go right into
9rceary Store, and it will pull out the
plug of all the adulterated sirups, and
IL will dump into the ash barrel, in
front Of thc store, the cassia bark that
Is sold for cinnamon and the brick dust
that Is sold for cayenne pepper.
There has been SO ueh adulteratior
Of articlfH Of food that it is an amaze
ment TO ssae that there is a healthy man
or wonia4n in America. Heaven only
knrtys @lAat they put into the spices
and snt05he sugars and into the butter
ana intA the apothecary drug. But
chemical analysis and the microscope
have made wonderful revelations.
TIE Bpard Of Health in Massachusetts
analyzedla great amount Of what wal
callsd pure coffee and found in it NO
one particle of coffee. In England there
Is q law that forbids the putting of alum
In bread The public authorities exam
ined hfty-one packages of bread snC
found tlem all guilty. The homes
physiciar. writing a prescription, does
not know but that II may bring dealt
tnstead Df health to his patient, because
there nisy be one of the drugs weak
ened by n cheaper article and another
drug may be in full force and so the
~lreliriptaon may have just the opposite
eject intended. Oil Of NORWOOD war,
raneid pure from Boston was found te
have IL per cent Of resin and alcohol
and ehloroform.
New. practical religion will yet rec
tify all this. 1t will go to those hypo
critical professors of religion who goi
q ''cprner'' In corr and wheat in Chicago
and New York, sending prices up and
up tl,stil they were beyond the reach Of
the poor, keeping these breadstuffs In
their own hands, or controlling them
until the prices going up and up and
up. they were, after awhile, ready to
sell, and thsy sold out, making them
selves mltionaires in one or two years
--trying To Ak the matter up with the
Lord by building O church or a univer.
atty Or a MISUNDERSTANDING themselves
willis the idea that the Lord would be
10 plaased with the gift He would for
get the sssindle.