Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-02-23
SEVERE ARRANGEMENT.
THE SECRET CRIMES AND SINS OF
SUPPOSEDLY GOOD PEOPLE.

DIR. TaImage Delivers a Practical Sermon
or the Necessity of Reform Among
Those Who Profess to Do Right-Fraud,
Adulteration and Corners
BROOKLYN, Feb. 10. - Great au-
diences again assembled at the service
by Dr. Talmage in the Brooklyn Acad-
envy 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
Ign Academy: Faith without works is
dead" (Janes 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
apt X of toll
Gus talk, fluent talk. boastful talk, per
petual talk. They will entertain you
by the hour in telling 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 duties.
As near as 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 a religion that will work
into all the circumstances of life We
do not want a new religion, but the
old religion applied in all possible direc
tons
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 cannot come down to drink.
1t does not run one fertilizing riII into
the adjoining field, 1t has not one
grist 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 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 in
vites herds of cattle, and fiOcks of sheep.
and coveys of birds to come there and
drink. 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
viii press in from the sea to hail it as
it comes down to the Atlantic coast.
The one river is a man who lives for
himself. the other river is a man who
lives for others
PLEASING LEGEND OF JERUSALEM.
Do you know how the site of the an
Cia IF al,
There were two brothers who had adj
joining farms The one brother had q
large family, the other had no family
The brother with a large family said,
There is my brother with no family;
he must be lonely, and 1 will try to
cheer him up, and l 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 l will help him
along and | 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. y
So the work of transference went on
night after night, and night after night;
but every morning things seemed to be
just as they were, for though shelves
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
ers 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 a 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
works, for faith without works is
dead" l think you will agree with
me in the statement that the great
want of this world is more practical re-
Hgion. We want practical religion to
go into all merchandise. 1t will super
wise the labelling of goods. 1t will not
allow a man to say that a thing was
made in one factory when it was made
in another 1t will not allow the mer-
chant to say that watch was manu-
featured in Geneva, Switzerland when
it was manufactured in Massachusetts.
1t will not allow the merchant to say
that wine came from Madeira when it
came from California Practical re-
Iigion will walk along by the store
shelves and tear off all the tags that
make misrepresentation. 1t will not
allow the merchant to say that is pure
coffee when dandelion root and chiccory
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.
PRACTICAL RELIGION AND SHAMS.
When practical religion gets its full
swing in the world it will go down the
streets, and it will come to that shoe
store and rip off the fictitious soles of
many a fine looking pair of shoes, and
show that it is pasteboard sandwiched
between the sound leather. And this
practical religion will go right into a