Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-02-04
AT THE TABERNACLE.
Or. TALMAos BREACHES ON REu-
olcN IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY,"

whatsoever You DO. Let IL he to tho
Glory Of God-Tbere Is No Work Too
Small or Too Great for the Spirit Of
Christianity.
BRooKLYS. Jan. -24.-Dr. Talmage's ser
mon this morning was on the topic on
which he is never tired OF insisting, and
which, more than any other, constitutes
his message to this generation-the appli-
cation OF religion TO the affairs Of daily
life. His text was taken from Corinthians
X, 81, Whether, therefore, We eat or drink,
orwhatsoever 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 conducted
TO the glory OF God, he proclaims the inn
portance 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 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 impor-
tance. They give opportunity for especial
performance of Christian duty, and for
regaling Of the religious appetite, but they
cannot take the place of continuous exer-
else OF faith and prayer. In other words,
man cannot be so much of Christian on
Sunday that he can afford to be world
ling 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 voy-
aging heavenward during the holy Sab
bath day, IL 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 har-
Dor 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 oc-
casions are no apology for lack of right de-
meanor in circumstances insignificant and
inconspicuous. The genuine Christian life
is not spasmodic; does not go by fits and
starts. 1t tolls on through heat and cold up
steep mountains and along dangerous de-
clivities, its eye on the everlasting hills
crowned with the castles of the blessed
propose this morning to plead for re-
igion for today.
lin mi Vt lsELlOlON IN oOClEEls
In the first place, we want to bring the
religion of Christ into our conversation.
When dam breaks, and two or three vii
lagos are overwhelmed, or an earthquake
in South America swallows whole city,
then people began to talk about the un-
certainty Of life, and they imagine that
they are engaged in positively religious
conversation. No. You may talk about
81. Lo.x "a Nj -
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. have no
ticed that men, just in proportion as their
Christian experience is shallow, talk about
funerals and graveyards and tombstones
and deathbeds. 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 residences. And yet how few circles
there are where the religion Of Jesus
Christ is welcome. s.0
Go into circle even of Christian people,
where they are full of JOY and hilarity, and
talk about Christ or heaven and everything
Is Immediately silenced. AS on summer
day, when the forests are full of life chat
ter and chirrup and Garcia mighty chorus
of bird harmony, every tree branch an or
chestra---if hawk appear in the sky every
voice stops and the forests are still; just so
have seen lively religious circle silenced
on the appearance Of anything like reli-
gious 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 80, that's sol"
My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ
Is something to talk about with glad
heart. 1t is brighter than the waters; it
is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do
not go around groaning about your re-
ligion when you ought to be singing it or
talking it in cheerful tones of voice. How
often it is that we find men whose lives
are utterly inconsistent, who attempt to
talk religion, and always make failure
of it'll My friends, we must live religion,
or we cannot talk it. If man is cranky
and cross and uncongenial and hard in
his dealings, and then begins to talk about
Christ and heaven, everybody is repelled
BY it.
Yet have heard such men say, in whin-
ing tones, eve are miserable Sinners"
''The Lord bless you," "The Lord have
mercy on you," their conversation inter
larded with such expressions, which mean
nothing but canting, and canting is the
worst form of hypocrisy. If we have
.eaily lelt tne rehgion OF Chrlst IN our
nearts, es US taik IL, ana taik IL with
tiuInlnateo couhtenance, remembering
saae wnen .wo Cnrlstian people talk God
glves especial 'attentlon ana writes down
wnas sney say. Maiacnl III, 10 Ihen
sney Snao feared tne LORD spake often one
20 anotner; ana the LORD narkened and
neaIu H. ana DooK Oh remembrance was
wrleeen.