The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-04
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
His Subject Was: "a Religion OF
To-day"
ri, Va Drink or Fat or Labor In Night or
pay, DO It To tho Full Glory otGod.

do do IL to the 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 pro-
claims the importance of religion in the
ordinary affairs of our life In all ages
of the world there has been tendency
To set apart certain days, places and oc-
casions for worship. and to think those
were the chief realms in which religion
was 10 act
Now, holy days and holy places have
their Importance. They give opportunity
for cspcci"l performance Of Christian
duty. and for RECALLING of the religious
Appetite; but they can not take the place
of continuous exercise OF faith and
prayer. In other words, man can not
be so much of Christian on Sunday
that he can afford to be a wording
all the rest Of the week IL a steamer
nut out for Southampton, and go one
dav i'm that direction and the other six
DAYS in other directions, how long be-
fore the steamer will get to Sonthamp-
ton? It will never get there. And
Heavenward during the holy Sabbath
day, if during the following six
DAYS of the week he is going to-
ward the world, and toward
Tia flesh. and toward the devil he
will never ride up into the peaceful
harbors of Heaven. You can not eat so
much at the Sabbath banquet that you
can afford religious abstinence the
other six days. IIcroism and princcly
behavior on great occasions are no
apology for lack Of right demeanor in
circumstances insignificant and incon-
sp.cuous. The genuine Christian lie
is not spasmOdic; does not go by nus
and starts 1t tolls on through heat
and cold up steep mountains and along
dangerous dcclivities, its eye on the
everlasting hills crowned with the
castles of the blessed.
] propose this morning to plead Tor
religion for to-day.
In the first place we want to bring
The religion of Christ into our converse
tion. When n dam breaks and two or
three villages are overwhelmed or an
earthquake in South America swallows
whole city, then people begin to talk
sbout the uncertainty OF life, and they
imapine that they are engaged in posi-
tivelv religious conversation. No. You
NAV talk about these things and have
no grace of God at all in your heart
We ought every day to be talking re-
liyiou. If there is anything glad about
IT. anything beautiful about it, any
thing important about it, we ought to
he continuously discussing it. nave
noticed that men. just in proportion as
their Christian experience is shall
. low, talk about funerals, and grave
wards and tombstones, and death BEDS
The real, genuine Christian man talks
chiefly about this life and the grea'
eternity beyond. and not so much
about the insignificant pass between
those two residences. And yet how
few circles there are where the religion
of Jesus Christ is welcome. TO into
circle. even Of Christian people, where
they are full Of JOY and hi'ar'ty' an'
talk about Christ or Heaven ah'
every thing is Immediately slienced
And on n summer day, when the for
eSts are full of life. chatter, ana chlr
run. and Garcia mighty chorus
bird harmony, every tree branch an OF
chestra-if a hawk appear in the SIX
every voice stops. and the forests ar
still lust so have seen livery II
lrious circle silenced on the appear
ancc of ANYTHING like religious CONVEX
so,ion. No one had anything To sa
save. perhaps, some old patriarch IN "
corner of the room, who really thln'
that something ought to be said nnu'
the circumstances, so nc puts one ~,
over the other. and hcaves long sig
and saws: "Oh, yes; that's So 'na'
SOL -
NV friends, the religion OF Jes
Christ is something to talk about WI
n cheerful heart 1t is brighter IN,
the waters; it is more cheerful than
sunshine. DO not go around groan'
about your religion, when you ousn'
be singing it or talking 1t IN cneer
tones of voice. How often is 1t that
find men whose lives are utterly incC
sistent, who attempt TO talk re,s',
and always make failure Oh IT,
friends we must live religion OF
can not talk il! II a man Is cran'
and cross. and uncongenial, ana nd
in his dealings, and then begins 70 y
about Christ and Heaven, everypou,
repealed by it. Yet ! have ,he'
snch men say in wh'h
tones: I'VE are miserable sinner
"The Lord bless YOU" 1.-THE IL
have mercy on YOU" their c converse.
interlarded with such ehpres''
which mean nothing but cantng
canting is the worst form OF hypoer.
II we have really felt the religion
Christ in our hearts let us talk IT, ana