The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-02-04
.WHATEVE Err YOU DO.
Do It to the Glory Of God, Says Dr..
Ialmage in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle.
The Church and the Sabbath are
Only the Armory Where We
Are to Get the Weapons.

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which he is never tired OF insisting,
and which, more than any other, con
stitutes his message to this generation
the application OF religion to the af-
fairs Of daily life. Els text was taken
from |. Corinthians 10, XXI, "Wheth-
er, therefore, We eat or drink, or what
soever We do, do all to the glory of
God"
When the apostle, in this text, sets
forth the idea that so common an c.
ton as the taking OF food and drink
is to be conducted to the glory of
God. he proclaims the Importance Of
the affairs OF our life. In all ages OF
the world there has been g. 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 the especial performance OF Chris
tian duty, and for RECALLING OF the re-
ligious appetite; but they cannot take
the place of continuous exercise of
faith and prayer. In other words, a
man cannot be so much OF a Christian
on Sunday that he can afford to be O.
worldling all the rest Of the week. If
a steamer put out for Southampton,
and 90 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 holy Sabbath day, if, dur
ing the following six days of the week,
he is going toward the world, 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
religious abstinence the other six
days. Heroism and princely be-
havior on great occasions are no
apology for lack of right demeanor in
circumstances insignificant and neon
spicious. The genuine 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 declivities, it's eye on
the everlasting hills crowned with the
castles Of the blessed. H..
propose this morning to plead for
a religion for today. ..
In the first place, we want to bring
the religion Of Christ into conversa-
ton. When dam breaks, and two
or three villages are overwhelmed, or
an earthquake in South America
swallows q whole city, then people
talk about the uncertainty Of life, and
they imagine that they are engaged in
positively religious conversation. No.
You may talk about these things,
and have no grace at all in your
heart. We ought every day
TO BE TALKING RELIGION.
If there is anything glad about it,
anything beautiful about it, any
thing important about it, we ought
to. be continuously discussing it. l
have noticed that men, just in pro-
portion as their Christian experience
is shallow, talk about funerals, and
graveyards, and tombstones, and
death-beds. The real, genuine Chris
tian man talks chiefly about this life,
and the great eternity beyond, and
not SO much about the insignificant
pass between these two residence
es. .-En
My friends, the religion OF Jesus
Christ is something to talk about
with q glad heart. It is brighter
than the waters; it is more cheerful
than the sunshine. Do notsgo around
grooming about your religion when
you ought to be singing it or talk
ing it in cheerful tones of voice.
Again I remark: We must bring the
religion OF Christ into our employ
ments. "Oh,"' you say, chat is very
we'll If a man handle large sums of
money, or if he's have an extensive
traffic; but in my thread and needle
store, in my trimming establishment,
in the humble life that I am called to,
the sphere is too small for the action
of such grand heavenly principles"
Who told you so? Do you not know
that God watches the faded leaf on
the brooks surface as certainly as he
does the path of the blazing sun. 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 world s conhagra-
ton. When you have anything to do
in life, however humble it may seem
to be,
GOD is ALWAYS THERE
to help you it. If your work is
that OF q fisherman, then God will
help you, as he helped Simon when he
dragged Gennesaret. lfyour work. is
in drawing water, then he will help
you as, when he talked at the we'll
curb to the Samaritan woman. If
you are engaged in the custom house,
he will lead you. as he led Matthew
sitting at the receipt Of customs. A
religion that is not good in one place
is not worth anything in another
place. The man who has only a days
wages in his pocket as certainly needs
the guidance OF religion, as he who
rattles the keys OF a bank, and could
abscond with hundred thousand
dollars.
/ think that the church Of God and
the Sabbath are only IN armory
where we are To 'Oat wpa mons When