The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-02-11
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
RELIGION IN BUSINESS AND So
Getty.
Whatsoever You Do, Let 1t Ba to the
Glory of God-There Is No Work Too
Small ar Too Great for the spirit OF
Christianity.
Tabernacle Talks,

DR.. Talmage's text was taken from I.
Corinthians <, 81: whether. therefore,
yeeat 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 the
taking of food and drink is to be con-
Quoted to the glory of God. he proclaims
the importance of religion in the ordina-
ry affairs of our life. 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 places have
their Importance. They give opportu-
nifty for 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, man cam
not be so much of Christian on Sunday
that he can afford to be wording all
the rest of the week. If steamer puts
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
will never get there.
And though man may seem to be
vOyaging heavenward during the holy
Saba tn 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 harbor of Heaven. You can
not eat SO much at the Sabbath banquet
that you can afford religion abstinence the
other six DAYS. Heroism and princely
behavior on great occasions are no apollo
Sn,. Ioo 81 ~tnLx 40, 10, o;rn
stances insignificant and inconspicuous.
The genuine Christian life is not spas
modic; does not 60 by fits and starts. 1t
tolls on through heat and cold up steep
mountains and along dangerous declivi-
ties, its eye on the everlasting hills
crowned with the castles of the blessed.
propose this morning to plead for a
religion 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
villages are overwhelmed, or an earth
quake in South Africa swallows a whole
city, then people begin to talk about the
uncertainty of life, and they imagine
that they are engaged in positively re-
ligious 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. l have noticed that men,
just in proportion as their Christian eX-
perience is shallow, talk about funerals
and graveyardS and tombStOneS and
deathbedS. The real, genuine Christian
man talks chiefly about this life and 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 circle even of Christian peO-
pie, where they are full of joy and hi
ari1y, and talk about Christ or Heaven
and everything is immeC lately silenced.
AS on a summer day, when the forests
are full of life, chatter and chirrup and
Garcia mighty chorus of bird harmony,
every tree branch an Orchestra-if
hawk appear in the sky every voice stops
and the forests are still; just so 1 have
seen lively religious circle silenced on
the appearance of anything like religious
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 long
sigh, and says, 'Oh, yes; that's so,
that's sO!''
My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ
is something to talk about with a glad
heart. 1t is brighter than the waters; it
is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do
not go around grooming about your re-
vl~N H. "a
talking it in cheerful tones Ofvoice. How
often it Is that We find men whose lives
are utterly inconsistent, who attempt to
talk religion, and always make failure
Of it! My friends, we must live religion.
or We cannot talk it, If man is cranky
ana cross and nncongenial and hard in
his dealings, and then begins to talk
about Christ and Heaven, everybody is
repealed by it.
Yet l have heard such men say, in
whining tones, I'VE are miserable sin
ners," THE Lord bless you" 1.-The Lord
have mercy on you.' their conversation
interiarded with such expressions. which
mean nothing but canting, and canting
is the worst form Of hypocrisy. If we
have really felt the religion Of Christ in
our hearts, let us talk it, and talk it
with illuminated countenance, remem-
bering that when two Christian people
talk God gives especial attention and
writes down what they say. Malachi
iii. l6, Then they that feared the Lord
spake often one to another: and the Lord
hardened and heard it. and book of re-
memberancc was written"
Again remark. We must bring the re-
ligion of Christ into our emplOyments.
'Oh," you say, that is very we'll if
man handle large sums of money. or if he
have an extensive traffic, but in my
thread and needle store, in my trimming
establishment, 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 so?
Do you know that God watches the
faded leaf on the brooks surface as GER
tainly rs He does the path of blazing
sun? Aud the moss that creeps up the
side of the rock makes as much impress