Connecticut western news., 1891-02-18
SEVERE IMPEACHMENT
THE SECRET CRIMES AND SINS OF
 SUPPOSEDLY GOOD PEOPLE.

Dr. Talmage Delivers . Practical Sermon
 on the Necessity of Reform Among
 Those Who Profess to Do Right-Fraud,
 Adulteration and ''Corners."
 BROOKLYN, Feb. IS. - Great au- diences again assembled at the service by Dr. Talmage in the Brooklyn Acad- emy 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. Dr. Talmage took for his text at the Brook lyn 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. charge Protest antism 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- ous talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, per- petual talk. They will entertain you by the hour in telling you how good they gre. They come up to such higher life that they have no patience with ordinary Christians in the plain discharge of their duties
 As near as I 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 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- tions.
 Wonder is a river with steep and rocky banks, and it roars like young Niagara as it rolls on over its rough bed. It 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 fertilizing Till into the adjoining field. It has not one grist null 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 wonder is another river, and it moses it's banks with the warm tides, and it rocks with floral lullaby the water lilies asleep on it's bosom It in vites herds of cattle, and focks of sheep. and coveys of birds to come there ana drink. It has three grist mills on one side and six cotton factories on the other. It 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 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.
 pTEACTNa TErEND OF 1rpr1cArrnr
 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 large family said, ''There is my brother with no family; he must be lonely, and I will try to cheer him up, and I 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 1 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 1; but every morning things seemed to be just as they were, for though sheaves had been subtracted from each farm, sheaves had also been added, and the brothers were perplexed and could not understand. But one night the broth CTS 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 a 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. have often spoken to you about 1 faith, but now l speak to you about | works, for faith without works is dead" l think you will agree with l me in the statement that the great want of this world is more practical re l ligion. We want practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will super wise the labelling of goods. It will not allow man to say that a thing was made in one factory when it was made in another. It will not allow the mer- chant to say that watch was lnanu- factured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it was manufactured in Massachusetts.
 It will not allow the merchant to say that wine came from Madeira when it came from California. Practical re- igion will walk along by the store