The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-20
FAITH WITHOUT WORKS.
Rev. Il. Dewitt Talmage Discourses
to Business Men.
Good Works as Necessary as FaIth-TOO
Much Halssness in Every Vocation-Re-
form Needed in sOciety-The Saviour
the Best Guide.

Dewitt Talmage took his text from
james IL 20: Faith without works is
dead" Following is the sermon:
The Roman Catholic Church has been
charged with putting too much stress
upon good works and not enough upon
faith. I charge Professionalism with
putting not enough stress upon good
works 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 genuine religion
There are those who depend 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-vigOrous talk, fluent talk, boast
full talk, perpetual talk. they viii en-
terrain 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 Chris
tians in the plain discharge of their
duty
Yonder is a river with steep and
rocky banks, and it rOars like a young
niagara as it rolls on over its rough
bed. 1t 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 rin into
the adjoining field. Tt has not one grist
y
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 yonder is another river, and it
moses 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 fioclzs of
sheep and coveys of birds to come there
and drink. 1t has three grist mills on
side and six cotton factories on the
other. It is the wealth of 200 miles of
1uxuriant farms. The birds of heaven
-chanted when it was born in the noun
tains, 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.
Do you know how the site of the
ancient city of Jerusalem was chosen?
There were two brothers who had adj
joining farms The one brother had a
large family, the other had no family.
The brother with large family said:
'eFhere is my brother with no family;
he must be lonely, and I will try to
cheer him up, and I will take some of
my 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 large
family, and it is very difficult for him
to support them, and will help him
along, and I 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; but every morn
ing things seemed to be just as they
We're, for though sheaves had been
subtracted from, shelves had also been
picked and could not understand But
one night the brothers happened to
meet while making this generous trans
ference, 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 beautiful ale
CORY, setting forth the idea that where
ever a kindly and generous and loving
act is performed that is the spot fit for
some temple OF commemoratiOn.
I have often spoken to you about
faith, but now 1 speak TO you about
works, for faith without works is
dead I think you will 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. 1t will supervise the
labelling of goods. 1t will not allow a
man to say IA thing was made in one
1t viii not allow the merchant TO say
that watch was manufactured in
Geneva. Switzerland, when it was man
l1factured in Aassachus etts. It will not
allow the merchant to say that wine
came from Madeira when it came from
California. Practical religion viii
walk along by the store shelves, and
tear of all the tags that make misrep-
resentatiOn. It viii not allow the meT-
chant to say that is pure coffee when
dandelion root and chicory and other
ingredients go into it 1t will not al
low him to say that is pure sugar when
there are In it sand and ground glass
When practical religion gets its full
swing in the world, it win go down the
streets, and it viii come TO that shoe
store and rip off the fictitious soles OF
many fine looking pair of shoes, and
show that it is pastebOard sandwiched
between the sound leather And this