The southern argus., 1892-01-28
TRUE RELIGION.
Dr, Talmage on Christianity IN
Ordinary Affairs.
Necessity Of Religion i'm Business Dealings
-The True and False Way Of Carrying
n into Daily Work-BIessings In
Every Day Life.


III anplication Of religion to the affairs
i daily life Rev. q. Dewitt Talmage
.oolx his text from |. Corinthians x 81:
"Whether, therefore, We eat or drink,
u whatsoever We do, do all to the glory
e Cod" DR.. Talmage said:
When the apostle, in this text, sets
torth the idea that so common an action
j the taking of food and drink is to be
aorducted to the glory of God, he pro-
La;ms the Importance of religion in the
ordinarv affairs of our life. La all ages
i the world there has been tendency
u set apart certain days, places and oc-
casions for worship, and to think, those
were the chief realms in which
religion was to act. Now, holy
davs and holy places have their
Importance. They give opportunity
for especial performance Of Christian
duty, and for regaling Of the religious
appetite; but they cannot take the
place Of continuous exercise OF fafth
and prayer In other words, man
cannot be so much Of Christian On
Sunday that he can afford TO pc
worldling all the rest Of the week. II
a steamer put out for Southampton,
and 60 one day in that direction and
the other six days in other directions,
how long before the steamer will get
to Southampton? 1t will never get
there. And though a man may seem
to be voyaging heavenward during the
Sabbath day, if, during the following
six days Of the week, he is going to-
ward 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 Sab
bath banquet that you can afford relig-
ious abstinence the other six days.
Heroism and princely behavior on
great occasions are no apology for lack
Of right demeanOr in circumstances in
significant and inconspicuous. The gem
uine Christian life is not spasmodic;
does not 60 by fits and starts. 1t tolls
on through heat and cold up steep
mountains and along dangerous decliv-
ities, its eye on the everlasting hills
crowned with the castles of the blessed.
propose, this morning, to plead for
religion for to-day.
In the first place. we want to bring
the religion of Christ into our conver-
sation. When dam breaks, and two
or three villages are overwhelmed, or
an earthquake in South America swal-
lows whole city, then people begin
to talk about the uncertainty OF life,
and they imagine that they are engaged
lin 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 talk
ing religion. If there is anything glad
about it, anything beautiful about it,
anything important about it, we ought
to be continuously discussing it.
have noticed that men, just in proper
ton as their Christian experience is
shallow, talk about funerals, ~anC
graveyards, and tombstones, and death
beds. The real, genuine Christian man
talks chiefly about this life, and the
great eternity beyond, and not 50 much
about the insignificant pass between
these two residences
AS on a summer day, the forests are
full Of life, chatter and chirrup and
Garcia mighty chorus Of bird
harmony, every tree branch al
.orchestra-if hawk appear in the sky
every voice stops and the forests are
still; just 50 I have seen a lively re-
ligious circle silenced on the appearance
Of anything like religious conversation
My friends, the religion of Jesus Chris
As something to talk about with glac
heart 1t is brighter than the waters
e f,,1 -
shine. Do not go around groan
ing about your religion wher
you ought to be singing
or talking it in cheerful tones Of voice
How often is it that we find men who's
lives are utterly inconsistent, who at
tempt to talk religion, and always MAKE
failure Of it! My friends, we mus
live religion, or we cannot talk it. III
man is cranky, and cross, and uncon
renial. and hard in his dealings, an
then begins to talk about Christ an
Heaven, everybody is repelled By il
Yet | have heard such men say i
whining tones, 1--WE are miserable sin
ners;" Lord bless you" THE Lor
have mercy on you;" their conversatio
interlarded with such expressions, whic
mean nothing but canting; and cantinI
is the worst form Of hypocrisy.
Again / remark, we must bring In
religion Of Christ into our employments
''C," you say, that is very well It
man handles large sums Of money or
he has an extensive traffic, but in 10.
thread and needle store, ia my trim
ming establishment. in the humbl
work in life that am called to tn
sphere is too small for the action 9
such grand heavenly principles WI
told You SO? Do you know that 20
watches the faded leaf on the brook
surface as certainly as he does the pat
Of a blazing sun? And the moss ths
creeps up the side Of the rock make
as much impression upon Gods min
as the waving tops OF Orego
pine and Lebanon cellar; and th
alder, cracking under the COW
hoof sounds as loud in COD
ear as the snap Of worlds confagr;
ton. When you have anything 70 q
in life, however humble it may seem
be, God is always there to help you
do it. If your work is that Of Q fishe
man, then God will help you as =
helped Simon when he dragged Gei
nesarat IF vour work is drawin