Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-20
PRACTICAL RELIGION.
THAT is WHAT Is NEEDED TODAY,
SAYS DIR. TALMAGE

tians.-Faith Without Works of
Little Account.
BROOKLYN, N. ", Feb. Is. - Great
by DIR. Talmage in the Brooklyn Academy
Of Music this morning and also in the New
York Academy of Music in the evening.
The remarkable interest in tho latter con-
tinues without evidence of abatement. At
the service in New York last Sunday even
ing there were many emotional episodes
among the vast audience, and tonight these
were repeated, hundreds pledging them
DIR. Tafmage took for his text "Faith
without works is dead. James q 20.
The Roman Catholic church has been
charged with putt ng too much stress upon
good works and not enough upon faith.
! charge Professionalism with putting not
enough stress upon good works as con-
nectod with salvation. Good works VIII
never save a man, but IL man have not
good works he has no real faith and no
genuine religion. There are those who
depend 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 talk-vigorous talk, fluent
talk, boastlul talk, perpetual talk. They
will entertain you by the hour in telling
you how good they are. They come up to
such higher life that they have no
patience with ordinary Christians in the
plain discharge of their duty. AS near as
l can tell this ocean craft is mostly sail and
very little tonnage. Foretopmast stay
sail. foretopmast studdng sail, maintop-
sail, n-topsail-everything from fy-
ing iib to mizzen spanker but making no
useful voyage. Now the world has got
tired of this, and it wants a religion that
will work into all the circumstances OF
life. We do not want new religion, but
the old religion applied in all possible
directions.
Yonder is a river with steep and rocky
banks, and il roars like young Niagara
as it rolls on over its rough bed. 1t does
nothing but talk about itself all the way
flom 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. II does not run one fertil-
izing rill into the adjoining field. 1t has
not one grst mill or factory on either side.
II sulks in wet weather with chilling fogs
No one cares when that river is born
among tho rocks, and no one cares when it
dies into the sea. But yonder is another
river, and it MOSES its banks with the
warm tides, and 1t rocks with floral lullaby
the water lilies asleep on its bosom. II
has three grist mills on one side and six
cotton factories on the other. II 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 il 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.
l have often spoken to you about faith.
but now / speak 10 you about works. for
"faith without works is dead" / think
you viii agree with me in the statement
that the great want of this world is more
practical religion. We want practical
religion to go into all merchandise. Ii
will supervise the labelling of goods. 1t
will not allow the merchant TO say that
thing was made in one factory when il
was made in another. 1t will not allow
the merchant to say that watch was manu-
featured in Geneva, Switzerland, when il
was manufactured in Massachusetts. 1t
will not allow the merchant to say that
wine came from MADEIRA when it came
from California. Practical religion VII
walk along by the store shelves and tear
of all tags that make misrepresentation.
II will not allow the merchant TO say that
is pure coffee, when dandelion root and
chicory and other ingredients go into it.
1t will not allow him to say that is pure
sugar when there are in it sand and
ground glass.
Nhn, Nf.anl 1ffriA rraAe Tee f,,1l
swing in the world, it will 60 down the
Streets and it w Il como to that shoe store
and rip off the fictitious soles of many q
fine looking pair of shoes, and show that il
is pasteooard sandwiched between the
sound leather And this practical religion
will go right into grocery store, and it
will pull out the plug of all the adulterated
syrups, and it will dump into the ash
barrel. in front Of the store, the cassia
bark that is sold for cinnamon and the
brickdust that is sold for cayenne pepper;
and it will shake out the Prussian blues
from the tea leaves, and it will sift from
the flour plaster of Paris and bonedust and
soapstone, and 1t will by chemical analysis
separate the one quart OF Ridgewood water
from the few honest drops of cows milk,
and 1t will throw out the live an;malcules
from the brown sugar.
There has been so much adulteration Of
articles of food that it is an amazement 10
me that there is healthy man or woman
in Amer lea. Heaven only knows what
they put into the spices and into the sugars
and into the butter and into the apothecary
drug. But chemical analysis and the mi
croscope have made wonderful revelations.
The board Of health in Massachusetts ana
lyzed great amount of what was called
J pure coffee, and found in II not one particle
of coffee. III England, there is a law that
forbids the putting of alum in bread. The
public authorities examined ffty-one pack
ages of bread, and found all guilty. The
honest physician, writing a prescription,
does not know but that 1t may bring death
instead of life to his patient, because there
may be one of the drugs weakened by
cheaper article, and another drug may b.
In full force, and so the prescription may
have Just the opposite effect intended. Oh
Of NORWOOD warranted pure from Boston
: was found TO have forty-one per cent Of
resin and alcohol and chloroforIn. Scam
mony Is one Of the most valuable medica
drugs. II Is very rare, very precious. Il
Is the sap or gum of tree or bush in Syria
The root of the tree Is exposed, an incisiou
Is made into the root and thee. shells are
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