Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-02-20
PRACTICE, NOT THEORY.
Or. r-aLnAeE CONTINUES HIS Sc
RES OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.


Stress on werhs-Religion Should 40
Into the Everyday Life.
BpooKLYN, Feb. 15.-Great audiences
asain assembled at the service by DIR. Tai
mage IN 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 III 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 aud tonight these we're repeated,
hundreds pled2ing themselves anew TO
Christian lives henceforth DR.. TalmaGe
TOOK for his text at the Brooklyn Academy;
Faith without works Is dead" (Jas. ii, 2Ol.
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 con-
nected with salvation. Good works will
never save a man, but if man have not
good works he has no real faitn and no
genuine religion. There are those who de-
rend 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 t8lk-viEorous talk fluent talk,
boAsttul talk, perpetual talk. They Will
entertain you by the hour in telling You
now good they are. They come up to such
hi-her life that we have no patAcnce with
ordinary Christians in the plain discharge
OF their duty. As near as | can tell, thiS
ocean craft is mostly sci! and very In lie
tonnage Foretopmast staysail, foretop-
mast studdinG sail. maiutopsal. mizzen-
top-uil--every dining from dying iib to ni1-
zen spauber. but fnAAing no useful voyage.
Now the world has GOT tired OF this, and IT
wants religion that will work into ali
the circumstances of lite. NeGO not want
a new religion, but the old religion ap-
piled in all possible directions.
TIE DRAwLGNG, USELESS STREAM.
Yonder is n river with steep and rocky
banks, and it roars like yount, NiG'-ara
rs If rolls on over IFS rough bed. Ii does
nothing but talk about itself ALI the way
from It's source in the mountain to the
place where it eiuptie, into the sca. Trio
hanks are SO steep ne cattle cannot come
down to Cripk. 1t Goes not run one fer
tiiling ril into the adjoining field. 1t mas
rot one crist mill or factory on either side.
I, suiks in wet weather with chilling FOES.
No one cares WHOM that river is born
umolg the rocks, md no one cures when it
die, into the sea. But youder is another
liver, and il mCsses ita b1Hks with the
earin tides, and it rocks vita floral l!lla-
hy the water lilies asleep on it, r1soIu. 1t
invites herds of cnt.l", and hccks Of sheer,
and covevs of birds 10 come there and
drink. u has three Gr.st mills on one SIDE
B-l six cotton factories Oh the other. Ii is
t,.,,...l,b of w., i,,ulr.d ,,l.s " H.
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r,.,.,, l.i1 = rs !, COMO. ,Io,v,,to Tho At1,u.
~ co.er mo ono ri,.eriea nan Win, live.
f,r l,i,,4Alf tho other river 10 a man who
Uv,e far o.I,or,
U,,,r XVI. b,,- fl,o site Of ,he nnoient
ct'. 81 r,,.,,s1l -, ,s-,..l.,..n9 T,b.r. ~. ~,
WA I,a:Ia,. vino Ind adioinir., farms.
TIL. ono brother bad q LARGE family. the
ptberhad 10 family. The brother with a
Io~,.efamiivsa.d. Ihcre Is nv brother with
no family. Inc must he lonely. ana will try
fo cheer him M. and | WIN take some of
five .A,3vps from nv field in thcniuhr time
and SGT Them over on his farm and sav
u..i.;-,., ;.bontit.n The other brother said
"Ny BROTH mas a large family. and it is
r,ry difficult for him TO support them, and
will helm him alone, and / will take some
nf the shelves from my own farm in the
nicnt time and set them over on his farm
IL.
of tronsfaranco went on NIGHT aftpr nirht
and night after MINT, but every rnorni.2
tbiuccs seemed TO be lust as they were. for
though sheayes had been subtracted from
each farm. sheaves had also been added
md the hers were perpleXed and could
not understand But one night the broth
ers bappened to meet while making this
generous traDsfeYence. and the SPOT where
they met was 40 sacred that it was chosen
as The site of the CITY of Jerusalem. If chat
tradition shoul5 Drove uDfounded il vii
nevertheless stand as a beautiful allecor,
yatting forth the idea that wherever {
kindly and generous and loving act Is per
formed that is the spot ii for some temple
of corpmemoration.
rp,ct,rrtr1 rp.rrne IN poor
7 bave oftep sTol-o,, N Won abort fai+I,
b,,4 NOW I s,sals f. Won obont works f.,
"fai+h 1y;thnut ,yo,l,s &c dead 7 +hinb
,n, will ,rrrs, With mo in tho s+otenan,
s1at .ho ,,-..,,+ yant of this yrorId = ,,,o-,
,roc+icsl rsNcion w. want nracticaI ra
to, ~, an into oil narchon6iss Z, riI
snDory;ss In. labelling of goods II vrtI, No
o1lpn, mar 10 say ,Ltno wo. ,nods /,