The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-16
PRACTICE, NOT THEORY.
WHAT THE WORLD WANTS IN TIE
WAY OF RELIGION.

The Man Who Lives for Himself
Contrasted With the One Who Lives
for Others - A New Departure in
Religion n Necessity-A Pretty Story
of the Requirement Of Riches.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 15.- Great
audiences again assembled at the service by
DR.. lalmage in the Brooklyn Academy Of
Musici this morning, and also at the
Christidn Herald service in the New York
Academy of Music in tho evening The
remarkable interest in the latter continues
without evidence Of abatement. At the
service in New York last Sunday evening
there we're many emotional episodes amorz
the vast audience, and tonight these were
repeated, hundreds pledging themselves
anew to christian lives henceforth. DR..
Talmage took for his text at the Brooklyn
academy; Faith without works is dead,p
James H., 90.
The Roman Catholic church has been
charged with putting too much stress upon
good works and not enough upon faith. /
charge protestantism with putting not
enough stress upon good works as con-
nected with salvation. Good works will
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 telling you how good they
are. They como up TO such a higher
life that they have no patience with ordi-
nary 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 sal, ,toretopmast studdiug-
sail. main topsail, mizzen topsail-every-
thing from flying jib to mizzen spanRer,
world has got tired of this, and it wants a
religion that will work into all tho circum-
stances Of life. We do not want q new re-
ligion, but the old religion applied in all
possible directions.
Yonder is a river with steep and rocky
banks, and ii roars like young Niagara as
It rolls on over its rough bed. II does moth
ing but talk about itself all the way from
its source in the mountain to the place
where IL empties into the sea. The banks
are so steep the cattle cannot come down to
drink. IL does not run one fertilixing rill
into the adjoining field. It 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 ID dies
into toe sea. But yonder is another river.
and 1t moses ITS banks with the warm
tides, aud 1t rocks with floral lullaby the
water lilies asleep on its bosom. 1t invites
herds Of cattle and hooks Of sheep and
coveys OF birds 10 come there aud drink. lt
has three grist mills ON one side and six cot
ton factories on the other IL is tho wealth
of0 mil ,.f ftrv 70 'ha f~Ja
of heaven chanted when it was born in the
mountains, aud the ocean shipping will
press in from the sea 10 hail 1t as it comes
down 10 the Atlantic coast. The one river
is man who lives for himself. The other
is man who lives for others.
Do you know how the site OF the ancient
oity Of Jerusalem was chosenl There were
two brothers who had adjoining farms.
The one brother had large family, the
other had no family. The brother with
large family said: "There Ia my brother
with no family; he must be lonely, and l
win try and cheer hirn up, and will take
some Of the sheaves from my field In the
nighttime and set them over on his farm,
aud say nothing about it," The other
brother said: "My brother has q large
family, aud 1t IL very difficult for him TO
support them, and ! will help him along,
and win take some of the sheayes from
my farm In tho nighttime and set them
over on bis farm, aud say nothing about
it.n 30 the work Of trensference 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. and the brothers were per-
plexed and could not understand. But one
night the brothers happened to meet while
making this generous transfersnce, ard the
spot where they met was so sacred that it
was chosen as the site Of the city Of
Jerusalem. IL that tradition should provs
unfounded. 1t will nevertheless stand as q
beautiful allegory setting forth the idea that
wherever kindly and generous and loving
act Is performed, that Is tho spot TT for
some temple OF commemcration.
have often spoken TO you about faith,
but now speak TO you about works, for
''faith without works Is dead"
think you will agree with me in the state
more practical religion. We want practi-
cal religion to go into all merchandise. IL
will supervise 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
merchant to saw that watch
was manufactured In Geneva. Switzerland.
when it was manufactured in Massachu-
setts. 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 all the tags that make misrepresenta-
tion. It will not allow the merchant to say
that is pure coffee when dandelion root aud
chicory and other ingredients go into IL. Ii
will not allow him to say that Is pure 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 tie streets,
and it will como to that shoe store and rip
off the fictitious soles Of many a fine-look-
ing pair of shoes, and show that it is paste
board sandwiched between the sound
leather. And this practical religion will
go right into a grocery store, and It will
pull out the plug of ell the adulterated
syrups, and 10 viii dump into the ashbarrel.
in front of the store, the cassia bark that IL
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 -four plaster Of
paris and bonedust and soapstone. and it
will by chemical analysis SEPARATE 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 aiulteration Of
articles OF food that it is an amRzement to
me that there is a healthy man or woman
in America. Heaven only knows what they
put into the spices and into the sugars and
into the butter aud into the apothecary
d,.to Etst ch araioaI anaIvzis and fha micro