Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-02-27
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE.
THE BROoKLYN DIVINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT, Farm WITHOUT Works. f"

Tiki: Faith rithout ,eOrks IS dead. -
Jas. H., 20.
The Roman Catholic Church has been
charged with putting too much stress upon
good works and not enough upon faith |
charge Professionalism with putting not
enough stress upon good works as connected
with salvation. Good works will new er save
q 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 outside. 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 telling you how good they are They
come up TO such higher life that We 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 staysailsI
foretopmast studding sail, naintopsail, mir
entopSail-everything from flying jib TO
mizEen spanker, but making no useful voy-
age. Now the world has got tired Of this, and
II 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 directions.
Yonder is q river with steep and rocky
hanks, and il roars like a young Niagara as
1t rolls ON over its rough bed. IL does moth
ing but talk about itself all the way from its
source in the mountain 10 the place where it
emptes into the sea. The banks are so
steep the cattle cannot come down to drink
1t does not run one fertilizing rill into the
adjoining field. 1t has not one grist mill or
factory on either side. IL sulks in wet
weather with chilling fogs No one cares
when that river is born among the rocks,
and no one cares when il dies into the sea.
But yonder is another river and it moses
its banks with the warm tides, and il rocks
with floral lullaby the water lilies asleep on
its bosom 1t invites herds Of cattle and
hocks 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. 1t 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 10 hail il as IL comes down 10
the Atlantic coast. The one river is a 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 choseny There were
two brothers who had adjoining farms. The
one brother had 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 | will try u
cheer him up, and | will take some of the
sheaves from my field in the night time aud
set them over on his farm and say nothing
about it, The other brother said, My
brother has a large family. andi is very DIFF
hcuit for HIM to support them, and will
help him along and | will take some of the
sheaves from my own farm in the night time
and set them over on his farm and say moth
ing about il So the work Of trausference
went on night after night and night after
night, but every morning things seemed to
be just AS they were for though sheaves had
been subtracted from each farm, sheaves had
also been added aud the brothers were per-
picked and could not understand. But one
night the brothers happened to meet while
making this generous transferenCe, and the
spot where they met was 50 sacred that il
was chosen as the site of the city of Jerusa-
lem. Ii that tradition should prove I'M
founded it will nevertheless stand as a beau
tiful allegory setting forth the idea that
wherever kindly and generous and loving
act is performed that is the spot ut for some
temple OF commemoration
have often spoken 10 Won about faith,
but now | speak 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
religion We want practical religion TO go
d
labelling OF goods 1t will not allow a man
TO say thing mas made in one factory when
II was made in another. IL sill not allow
the merchant to say that watch was manu-
featured in Geneva, Switzerland, when II was
manufactured in Massachusetts. 1t 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 the tags that
lya fattn txiIt NM los
the merchant to say that is pure coffee when
dandeliOn root and chicory and other in
/ gradients 90 into it. II will not allow him 10
say that is pure sugar when there are in it
Eand and ground glass.
When practical religion gets its full swing
| IN the world il will go down the streets, and
1t will come TO that shoe store and rip or
the fictitious Soles OF many fine looking
pair Of shoes, and show that it is pasteboard
sandwIched between the sound leather. And
! this practical religion will 60 right into a
! grocery store, and it will pull out the plug of
all the adulterated sirups, aud 1t will dump
into the ash barrel in front of the store the
/ cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon and
! the brick dust that IL sold for CAYENNE
! pepper, and it will shake out the Prussiau
blues from the tea leaves, aud il will sift
! from the -four plaster of Paris and bone dust
and soapstone, and 1t will by chemical
! brpul tho OIls quart VI INluRt-
wood water from the few honest drops OF
cows milk, aud It will throw out the lv
animalcules from the brown sugar.
There has been so much sdulteration o
articles of food that 1t Is an ann cement t.
me that there is a healthy man or woman il
America. Heaven only knows what they
put into the spices and into the sugars anC
into the butter. and into the apothecary
drugs. But chemical analysis and tht
microscope have made wonderful reveal
tions. The board of health in Massachusetts
analysed great amount of wat YVES callet
pure coffee and found IN t not one particl,
OF coffee. In England there il law thai
forbids the putting OF alum In bread. Tn,
public authorities examined fifty-one pack
ages OF bread aud found them all guilty
The honest physician, writing prescrip
ton, does not know but that it may bring
death instead of health 10 his patient be
cause there may he one Of the drugs weak
ened by cheaper article, and another drug
may be in full force and so the prescription
may have just the opposite effect intended
Oil of NORWOOD warranted pure, frou
Boston, was found to have forty-oue pei
cent of resin and alcohol and chloroform
ScammOny is one OF the most valuable medi
cinal drugs. 1t is very rare, very precious
1t is the sap or the gum of a tree or bush IL
Syria. The root Of the tree is exposed, al
inclslon ~ made into the root, ana then shell
are placed at this incision to catch tue sal
or the gum as il exudes
1t is very precious this scammony. Ru
the peasant mixes it with cheaper material
then it is taken to Aleppo, and tue merchan
there mixes 1t with a cheaper material thel
1t comes on 10 the wholesale druggist in Lon
don or New York and he mixes 1t with
cheaper material then it comes to the re
tail druggist and he mixes it with a cheape
material, and by the time the poor sick MAJ
gets 1t into his bottle it is ashes aud chall
and sand. and some of what has been cae
pure scammony after analysis has beel
found to be no scammony at all.
Now, practical religion will yet rectfy al
this. 1t will 50 to those hypocriticll profes
sors Of religion who got corner in corr