Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-01-28
RELIGION FOR TO-DAY.
bR. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT 1T
SHOULD BE.
A Sermon From the Text whether,
Therefore, We Eat or Drink, or whatso-
ever We DO, DO All to the Glory of
CODA Message for the Day.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. "a, 1902. DR.
Talmages sermon this morning was or
the topic on which he is never tired OF
insisting, and which, more than any
other, constitutes his message to this
gcneration-the application of religion
to the affairs of daily life. His text
was taken from !. Corinthians 1921
whether, therefore, We eat or drink,
or whatsoever we do, do all to the glory
| of God"
When the apostle, in this text, sets
forth the idea that so common an ac,
ton as the taking of food and drink is
to be conducted to the glory of God, he
prOclaims the Importance of religion in
the ordinary 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 l,ligion was to act. Now, holy
days and holy places have their impor-
tancc. They give opportunity for
especial performance of Christian duty,
and for RECALLING of the religious
appetite: but they cannot take
the place of continuous ex,
crcisc of faith and prayer.
purpose, this morning, to plead for
a religion for to-day.
In the first place we want to bring
the religion of Christ into our CONVEX
sation. When dam breaks and two
.h,l
an earthquake in South America swal-
lows a whole city, then people begin
to talk about the uncertainty of life,
and they imagine they are en-,
gagged in positively religious
conversation. No. You may talk
about these things and have nc
grace of God at all in your heart. We
ought every day to be talking religion.
If there is anything glad about it, any,
thing beautiful about it, anything i'm,
portant about it, we ought to be con.
tinuously discussing it. have noticed
Christian experience is shallow, talk
about funerals, and gravc-yards, and
tOmbstoucS, and death beds. The real
genuine Christian man talks chiefly
about this life, and the great eternity
beyond, and not 50 much about the in
licences.
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 sun
shine. DO not go around grooming
about your religion, when You ought
to be singing it or talking it in cheer,
full tones of voice. How often it is that
we find men whose lives are utterly in,
/ consistent who attempt to talk re-
| ligion, and always make Il failure
of it. My friends, we must live
religion, or we cannot talk it, If mar
is cranky. and cross, and uncongcnial
| and hard in his dealings, aud then be
! gins To talk about Christ and heaven
everybody is repealed by it, Yet have
! heard such men say, in whininr tones
| 1--WE are miserable Sinners The Lore
bless YOU 1.-The Lord have mercy or
| you their conversation iuterlardcC
with such expressions, which NEAR
nothing but cantng; and cant
ing is the worst form Of Hypocrisy.
Again remark: we must bring the
religion of Christ into our employ
ments. "Oh, you say, that is very
we'll if man handles large sums O.
money, or if he have an extensiv,
traffic, but in my thrcad-and-needl,
store, in my trimming establish
ment, in the humble work in lif,
that am called to, the sphere is toe
small for the action of such granC
heavenly principles. Who told yor
50? 10 you not know that God watches
the faded leaf on the brook surface Il,
certainly rs he does the blazing sun
And the moss that crceps up the side o
the rock makes as much impression
upon Gods mind as the waving tops o
Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar; ant
the alder cracking under tn,
cows hoof, sounds as loud il
Gods ear as the snap of
worlds conhagration. When YOU hav,
anything to do in life, however humbl,
it may seem to be, God is ALWAYS thcrr
to helpyou to do it. If your work il
that of a fisherman, then God will
help you, as he helped Simon wher
he dragged Gcnnesarct. If your worl
is drawing water, then he will hell
you, as when he talked at the well
curb to the Samaritan woman
If you are engaged i'm the Gus
tom-house, he will lead you as he lee
Matthew sitting at the receipt of Gus
toms. a religion that is not good il
one place is not worth anything il
another place. The man who has onl
a days wages in hIs pocket as certainl
needs the guidance of religion, as h
who rattles the keys of bank, an,
could abscOnd with $780, 900 hard dol
lars
There are those prominent in tn
churches who seem to be, on public oc
casions, very devout, who do not pu
the principles of Christ's religion int
practice. They are the most inexol
able of creditors. They are the mos
grasping of dealers. They are know
as sharpers on the street. They feec
every sheep they can catch.
country merchant comes in I
buy spring or fall goods an
he gets into the store of one of thes
professed Christian mon who have rea
ly no grace in their hearts, and he
completely swindled. Heis so overcou
that he cannot get ont of town duriu
the week. lie stays in town over SUI
day, goes into some church to q
Christian consolation, when, what
his amazement to find that the vel
man who hands him the poe
box in the church is the one wi
relieved him of his money! But new
mind; the deacon has his black coat
now. lie looks solemn, and goes hor
talking about the blessed sermon"
the wheat in the churches should be p
into a hopper, the first turn of the era
would make the chaff fly, / tell yc
some of these men are great sticklers
: gospel preaching. They say, 'You sta
there in bands and surplice and gov
and preach-preach like an angel, a
we will stand out here and attend
business. Don't mix things. Do