Milford chronicle., 1892-01-29
AT THE TABES$FAACLE'
DR.. TALMAeE breaches sAAsS%-'N
oloN IN BUSINESS AND socis Isl

oIoN IN BUSINESS AND sOcieasl
whatsoever You Do. Let 1t BE %
Glory Of God-rhere Is No Work ToS
Small or Too Great for the Spirit o.
Christianity.
BRooKLYN, Jan. 24.-Dr Talmage's ser
mon this morning Was on the topic on
which he is never tired Of insisting, and
which, more than any other, constitutes
his message to this generation-the appll-
cation of religion to the affairs OF daily
life. His text was taken from Corinthians
<, 81, ''Whether, Therefore, ye eat or drink.
or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory OF
God"
When the apostle in his text sets forth
| the idea that so common an action as tine
/ taking Of food and drink is to be conducted
to the glory Of God, he proclaims the im-
portance Of religion in the ordinary affairs
of our life. In all ages Of the world there
has been a tendency to set apart certain
/ davs. places and occasions fer worship
| and To think those were the chief realms
/ in which religion was to act. Now, holy
4 davs and holy places have their impor-
/ tance. They give opportunity for especial
performance of Christian duty, and for
reQaling of the religious appetite, but they
cannot take the place Of continuous exer
else of faith and prayer. In other words,
a man cannot be so much Of Christian on
Sunday that he can afford to be a world
ling all the rest Of the week. II a steamer
nuts out for Southampton and goes one day
( in that direction and the other six days in
other directions, how long before the
steamer will get to Southampton 1t viii
never get there.
And though a man may seem to be voy
aging heavenward during the holy Sab
bath day, If during the following 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 har-
bor of heaven. You cannot eat 50 much at
the Sabbath banquet that you can afford
religious abstinence the other six days
Heroism and pripcely behavior on great oc-
casions are no apology for lack of right de
meanor in circumstances Insignificant and
inconspicuous. The genuine Christian life
is not spasmodic; does not go by fits and
starts. It tolls on through heat and cold up
steep mountains and along dangerous de
eliVities, its eye on the everlasting hills
crowned with the castles Of the blessed.
propose this morning to plead for re-
hgion for today.
THE SPIRIT OF RELIGION IN SOCIETY.
In the first place, we want to bring the
religion of Christ into our conversation
| When a dam breaks, and two or three vii
IaQes are overwhelmed, or an earthquake
| In South America swallows whole city
| then people began to talk about the TN
| certainty of life, and they imagine that
they are engaged 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. If there is anything
Glad about it, anything beautiful about It,
ANYTHING important about it, we ought to
be continuously discussing it. have no
ticed that men, just in proportion as their
Christian experience is shallow, talk about
funerals and graveyards and tOmbstOnes
and deathbeds The real, genuine Chris
tian man talks chiefly about this life ana
the great eternity beyond, and not so much
about the insignificant pass between these
two residences. And yet how few circles
| 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 and everything
il Immediately silenced. As on summer
day. when the forests are full of life, chat
| ter and chirrup and Garcia mighty chorus
of bird harmony. every tree branch an or
chestra-if a hawk appear in the sky every
voice stops and the forests are still; just so
/ have seen a lively religious circle silenced
on the appearance Of anything like rell-
J Rious conversation. No one had anything
to say, save, perhaps, some OLD patriarch IN
the corner of the room, who really thinks
that something ought to be said under the
circumstances, so he puts one foot over the
other and heaves a long sigh, and says
"Oh, yes; that's so, that's sor'
/ MY friends, the religion Of Jesus Christ
is something to talk about with glad
heart. It is brighter than the waters; it
is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do
not 20 arOuntl grOaning about your re-
! Iigion when you ought to be singing it or
+ talking it in cheerful tones Of voice How
! often It is that we find men whose lives
: are utterly inconsistent, who attempt to
talk religion, and always mako failure
! of it, NY friends, we must live religion,
! or we cannot talk it, If man Is cranky
! and cross and uncongenial and hard IN
/ his dealings, and then begins to talk about
/ Christ and heaven, everybody is repelled
/ by it. - ,,,,i,
ing tones, 1--WE are miserable sinners,
[ .sThe Lord bless YOU" THE Lord have
mercy ON you," their conversation inter
laried with such expressions, which mean
nothing but eanting and canting IS the
worst form of hypocrisy. II we have
really felt the religion Of Christ In our
/ hearts. let us talk it, and talk it with
/ illuminated cOuntenance, remembering
that when two Christian people talk Cod
| Gives esDeciAl attention and writes down
| what they say. Malachi iii, 10, Then
! thev that feared the Lord spake often one
20 another; and the Lord hardened and
heard It, and book Of remembrance was
written"
THE SMALLEST ACT MAY BE DONE AS FOX
GOD.
A0aip l remark, we must bring the re-
HQiOn Of Christ into our employments
IOh." you say, "that is very well II man
handle large sums Of money, or If he have
an extensive traffic. but in my thread and
needle store, in my trimming establish
uont 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 so7 Do you not know tnat
God watches the faded leaf on the brook S
mrfaee as certainly as he does the path OF
4 blazing sum- And the moss that creeps
nm the side Of the rock makes as much i'm
pression upon Gods mind as the waving tops
Of Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar; ana
the q der, cracking under the cows hoot'
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, Coz Il
always there to help you to do It. II your
work is that Of a fisherman, then God "iil
helm YOU, as he helped Simon when he
dragged Genneaaret. If your work is draw
ing water, then he will help you, az when
he talked at the well curb to the Samaritan
woman. II you are engaged In the custom
house, he will lead you, as he led Matthes'
sitting at the receipt of customs. A reli-
gion that is not good in one place is not
worth anything in another place. The man
who has only days wages in his pocket
aa certainly needs the guidance OF religion
as he who rattles the keys Of bank and
could abscOnd with a hundred Thousand