The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-25
RELIGION FOR THE DAY.
ITS APPLICATION TO THE AFFAIRS
OF DAILY LIFE.

whether, Therefore, Ye Eat or Drink,
or Whatsoever Ye Do, Do All to the
Glory of CODA Subject on Which
Rev. TalmaRe Never Tires Of Insists
inthiaus.
BROOKLYN. N. Y. Jan. A.-Dr. Tal-
mage's sermon this morning was on the
topic on which he is never tired Of insisting,
and which, more than any other, consti~
tutes his message to this generation-ths
application Of religion to the affairs of daily
life. His text was taken from l. Corin-
thians K, 81: whether, therefore, ye eat
or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to ths
glory Of God"
When the apostle in this text sets forth
the idea that SO common an action as the
taking of food and drink is to be conducted
to the glory Of God. he proelaims the i'm
portauce Of religion in the ordinary affairs
OF our lite. In all ages of the world there
| has been a tendency to set apart certain
| days. places and occasions for worship and
to think those were the chief realms in
| which religion was TO act. Now, holy days
and holy places have their Importance. They
give opportunity for especial performances
of Christian duty, and for regal,
ing of the religious appetite; but
| they cannot take the place of
continuous exercise of faith and prayer.
In other words man cannot be 80 much
Of Christian on Sunday that he can af-
ford to be worldling all the rest of the
week. II steamer put out for South
| ampton and go one day in that direction
and the other six days in other directions
| bow long before the steamer will get to
Southampton 1t viii never get
there And though a man may
seem to be voyaging heavenward during
the holy Sabbath day, if during the fol-
lowing six days of the week, he is going
toward the world and toward the flesh
| and toward the devil, he will never ride
| up into the peaceful harbor Of heaven.
| You cannot eat so much at the Sabbath
banquet that you can afford religious abb
| stinence the other six days. Heroism and
| princely behavior on great occasions are no
apology for lack of right demoanor in cir
oumstances Insignificant and inconspicuous
| The genuine Christian life is not spasmodic;
does not go by fits aud starts. 1t tolls on
through heat and cold up steep mountains
and along dangerous declivites. its eyes on,
the everlasting hills crowned with the cas-
ties Of the blessed.
propose this morning to plead for a re.
| ligion for to-day.
In the first place, we want to bring the
religion of Christ into our conversation.
When a dam breaks, and two or three wis
lagos are overwhelmed. or az earthouake i'm
South America swallows a whole city, then
people begin to talk about the uncertainty
or life, and they imagine that they are en-
| gagged In positively religious conversation.
No. You may talk about these things, and
have no grace of God at all in your heart.
We ought every day to be talking religion.
II there is anything glad about it, anything
beautiful about 1t, anything important
about 1t. weouRht to be continuously dis
cussing it. have noticed that men,
just in proportion as their Christian ex-
perience Is shallow, talk about funerals,
and grave-yards, and tombstones, and
dsath.beds. The real, genuine Christian
man talks chiefly about this life, and the
great eternity beyond, aud not 80 much
about the insignificant pass between these
two residences. And yet how few cir
cles there are where the religion Of Jesus
Christ is welcome. Go into a circle, even
OF Christian people, where they are full
OF JOY and hilarity, and talk about Christ
or heaven, aud everything ia Immediately
silenced. AS on summer day, when
the forests are full Of life, chatter, and
ohirrup, and carcl-Ta mighty Chorus OF
bird-harmony, every tree-branch an
orchestra-if q hawk appear in the sky.
every voice stops, and the forests are still:
just so have seen lively religious circle
sllenced on the appearance of anything like
religious conversation. No one had any
thing 10 say. save, perhaps, some old
patriarch In the corner of the ROOM who
| really thinks that something ought to be
said, under the circumstances; 50 he puts
one foot over the other, and heaves a long
| sigh, and says, go yes; that's so, taat's sol"
My friends, the religion of Jesus Chrish
| Is something 60 talk about with glad
heart. IL is brighter than the waters; 10 is
more cheerful than the sunshine. Do not
go around groaning about your religion.
when yon ought to be singing it or talking
| IL in cheerful tones Of voice. How often ID
is that we find men whose lives are utterly
inconsistent, who attempt to talk religion,
| and always make failure of itl NY friends
we must live religion, or we can not talk it.
II man Is cranky and cross and unconge-
nial, and hard In his dealings, and then be-
| gins TO talk about Christ and. heaven.
everybody is repelled by it. Yet have
heard such men say, In whining tones,
| I'VE are miserable sinnersn "The Lord
| bless you" THE Lord have mercy on
you;" their conversation interlarded with
suoh expressions, which mean nothing but
canting; and canting is the worst form of
hypocrisy. IL we have really felt the
religion Of Christ in our hearts, let us talk
It, and talk 1t with an Illuminated counte-
nance. remembering that when two Chris
tian people talk God gives especial attention
and writes down'what they say. Malachi.
iii, 16-"Then they that feared the Lord
| oPoAc OkbOh Ouo W duOtu0E, huU Ll0 LOrQ
hearkened and heard 1t, and book of re-.
membrance was written"
Again remark: We must bring the re-
ligion OF Christ into our employments.
10" you say, that is very well IL a man
handle large sums Of money, or IL he have
an extensive traffic; but in my thread-and-
needle store, in nv trimming establishments.
in the humble work In life that am called
to, the sphere is too small for the action of
such grand heavenly principles" Who told
you SOL Do you not know that God watches
the faded leaf on the brooks surface as GER
tainly as he does the path Of a blazing suns
| And the moss that creeps up the side of the
rock makes as much impression upon
Gods mind as the waving tops of Oregon
pine and Lebanon cedar; and the alder.
cracking under the cows hoof, sounds
as loud in Gods ear as the snap of a
worlds confagration. When you have
| anything to do in life, however humble it
may seem TO be, God is always there to help
| you to do it. II your work is that Of a
fisherman, then God will help you, as he
helped Simon when he dragged Gennesaret.
II your work is drawing water, then he will
help you, as when he talked at the WELL
| curb to the Samaritan woman. II you are
engaged in the custom-house, he will lead
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