Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-25
EVERYDAY RELIGION.
4 S.yS CHRISTIANITY SHOULD ENTER INTO
EVERY ACT AND DEED.
Dr.. Talmage Does Not Believe in Setting Apart a
Day for Worship and Forgetting the Creator
During the Other Six Of The Week.

the TOPIC on Wulcn ne Is never llIeu VI
insisting, and which, more than any
other, constitutes his message 70 this
yeneration-the application Of religion
10 the affairs Of daily life. His text
was taken from I Corinthians 10; 81:
whether, therefore, ye eat or drink,
or whatsoever ye do, do all 70 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
20 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 especial per-
Torrance Of Christian duty, aud for re-
CALLING the religious appetite; but
they cannot take the place OF eontlnu-
Gus exercise Of faith and prayer. In
other words, man cannot be so much
OF a Christian on Sunday that he can
afford TO be a wording all the rest OF
the week. III a steamer put out Tor
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? 10 will never
get there. And though man may seem
10 be vOyaging heavenwaTd during the
holy Sabbath-day, II during the fOllOwi
ing 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 har6or Of heaven.
YOU CANNOT EAT
So much at the Sabbath banquet that
you can afford religious abstinence the
other six days. Heroism and princely
behavior on great occasions are no apol-
ogy for lack Of right demeanor in cir
cumStanceS Insignificant and inconSpic-
uOus. The genuine Christian life Is
SpasmOdic; does not go by fits and starts.
IL tolls on through heat and cold, up
steep mountains aud along dangerous
declivities, its eye on the everlasting
hills crowned with the castles Of the
blessed.
1 propose, this morning, to plead for
religion for to-day.
In the first place, we want to bring
the religion OF Christ into our converse
tiOn. When a dam breaks, and two or
three villages are overwhelmed, or an
earthquake in South America swallows
a whole city, then people began TO talk
about the uncertainty of life, and they
imagine that they are engaged in posi-
lively religious conversation. No. You
may talk about these things, and have
no grace OF God az all In your heart.
We ought every day 20 be talking re-
ligiOn. II there is anything glad about
10, anything important about IL, we
ought to be continuously discussing it.
! have noticed that men; just in pro-
portion as their Christian ex-
perience is shallow, talk about funerals,
and graye-yards, and tOmbstOnes, and
6sath-cedS. 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 a cir
Gle, even Of Christian people, where
they are Full of JOY and hilarity, and
talk abou, Christ or heaven, and every
thing is Immediately silenced. As on
a sumner day, when the forests are full
Of life, chatter, and chirrup, and carol
"a mighty chorus OF bird-har-
mOny, every tree-branCh an orches-
tra-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 re-
ligiOuS conversation. No one had any
thing TO say, save, perhaps, some old
patriarch in the corner Of the room, who
really thinks that something ought TO
be sad, under the circumstances, so he
puts one foot over the other, aud heaves
a long sigh, and says, "Oh, yes; that's
so, that's SOL"
Ny friends, the religion OF Jesus
Christ Is something TO talk about with a
glad heart. 1t is brighter than the
waters; 10 is more cheerful than the
sunshine. Do not 90 around grOaning
about your religion when you ought TO
be singing II or talking IL in cheerful
tones OF voice. How often 10 is that We
find men whose lives are utterly incOn-
sistent, who attempt to talk religion
aud always make a failure Of IL. My
friends, we must live religion or we
cannot talk it. IL a man is cranky and
cross and unCOngenial and hard in his
healings, and then begins 70 talk
about Christ and heaven, every
body is repealed by it. Yet l have
heard such men say, in whining tones,
1--WE are miserable sinners" THE Lord
bless YOU" The Lord have mercy on
yCu;" their conversation interlarded
with such expressions, which mean moth
ing but canting; and cantlng is the
worst form of hypocrisy. II we have
really felt the religion Of Christ in our
hearts, let US talk IL, and talk it with
an Illuminated cOuntenance, remem oer-
ing that when two Christian people talk,
God gives especial attention, and writes
down what they say. Malachi 3:l6:
'gThen they that feared the Lord spake
often one 70 another; and the Lord
hearkened and heard Il, and book of
remembrance was written"
AGAIN REMARK:
We must bring the religion OF Christ In
TO our emplOymeBtS, "Oh, you say,
.that is very we'll II man handle large
sums Of money, or II he have an exten-
slye traffic; but in my thread and-needle
store, In my trimming establishment,
in the humble work in life that l am
called TO, the sphere is too small for the
action OF such grand heavenly princi-
ples." Who told you so? Do you not
know that God watches the faded leaf
,n the brooks surface as certainly as be
Toes the path OF 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
nine and Lebanon cedar; and the alder,