The Forrest City times., 1891-02-20


 cumb to Proper Observance of
 Christian Tenets Among Chris
 tians.-Faith Without Works of
 Little Account.
 BROOKLYN, N. r., Feb. 15. Great audiences again assembled at the service by Dr. 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 the latter con tinues without evidence of abatement At Che 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 selves anew to Christian lives henceforth. Dr. Talmage took for his text, ''Faith without works is dead. "-James ?. 20.
 The Roman Catholic church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon faith. l charge Professionalism 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 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, boastful talk, perpetual talk. They will entertain you by the hour in .elling you how good they are. They come up to such a higher life that they have no patience with ordinary Christians in the plain discharge of their duty. As near as can tell this ocean craft is mostly sail and very little tonnage. Foretopmast stay sail, foretopmast studding sail, maintop- sail, n-topsail-everything from fly 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
 Wonder is a river with steep and rocky
 banks, and it roars like young Niagara as it rolls on over it's 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. 1t does not run one fertil- izing Till into the adjoining field. It has not one grlst mill 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 1t dies into the sea. But wonder is another river, and it mosses it's banks with the warm tides, and it rocks with floral lullaby the water lilies asleep on it's bosom. 1t 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 1t as it comes down to the Atlantic | coast. The one river Is a man who lives | for himself. The other river is & man who lives for others.
 l have often spoken to you about faith. but now l speak to you about works. for ''faith without works is dead" 1 think yoI will agree with me in the statement that the great want of this world ia more practical religion. We want practical religion to go into all merchandise Il will supervise the labelling of goods. Ii | will not allow the merchant to say that
 thing was made in one factory when it was made in another. It will not allow the merchant to say that watch was manu- | 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 religion will walk along by the store shelves and tear off all tags that make misrepresentation. | It will not allow the merchant to say that
 is pure coffee, when dandelion root and l chieory and other ingredients go into it. | It will not allow him to say that is pure 1 sugar, when there are in it sand and ground glass.
 When practical religion gets it's full | swing in the world, it will go down the | streets, and it will como to that shoe store | and rip off the fictitious soes of many a 1 fine looking pair of shoes and show that it | 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 l syrups, and it will dump into the ash | barrel. in front of the store. the cassia l bark that is sold for cinnamon and the
 brickdust that IS sold for cayenne pepper;
 and it will shake out the Prussian blues | from tho tea leaves. and it will sift from
 the flour plaster of Paris and bonedust and soapstone and it will by chemical analysis | sepwete the one quart of Ridgewood water
 from the few honest drops of cows milk.
 and it will throw out the live animalcules | from the brown sugar.
 | There has been so much adulteration of
 articles of food that it is an amazement to
 me that there is a healthy man or woman
 in Amelic Heaven only knows what
 they put into the spices and into the sugars
 and into the butter and into the apothecarv drug. But chemical analysis and the mi-
 croscope have made wonderful revelations.
 The board of health in Massachusetts ana l lyred q great amount of what was called
 pure coffee and found in it not one particle
 of coffee. In England. there is n 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, l does not know but that it may bring death instead of life to his patient. because there | may be one of the drugs weakened by a cheaper article and another drug may be in full force, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended On Of wormwood warranted pure from Boston was found to have forty-one per cent of | resin and alcohol and chloroform. Scam- | mony is one of the most valuable medical drugs. It IS very rare, very precious. It is the sap or gum of a tree or bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed, an incision Is made into the root and then shells are placed at this incision to catch the sap or gum as 1t exudes. It is very precious, this scammony. But the peasant mixes 1t with cheaper material; then it is taken to Alep- DO, and the merchant there mixes it with