Connecticut western news., 1892-01-28
OUR DAILY RELIGION.
DR. TALMAGE DELIVERS AN EXTREME ..- " PRACTICAL SERMON. #

In the Week will Never Get There-No
 Earthly Work Is Too Smalr-to Have
 the Christian Spirit Put Into It.
 BROOKLYN, Jan. 24.-Dr. Talmage's sermon this morning was on the toplc on which he Is never tired of insist ing. and which, more than any other, constitutes his message to this gen eration-the application of religion to the affairs of daily life. His text was taken from 1 Corinthians X, 3l, Whether, therefore, ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God"
 When the apostle, in this text, sets forth the idea that so common ansac ton as the taking of food and drink is to be conducted to the glory of God, he proclafms the importance of religion in the ordinary affairs of our ife In all ages of the world there has been tendency to set apart cer- tain 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 performance of Christian duty, and for regaling of the religious appetite; but they cannot take the place of continuous exercise of faith and prayer.
 In other words, man cannot be so much of Christian on Sunday that he can afford to be worldling all the rest of the week. If steamer put out for Southampton, and go one day in that direction and the other six days in other directions, how long be- fore the steamer will get to South ampton2 It will never get there. And though man may seem to be yoyaging heavenward during the holy Sabbath day, if, during the fol lowing 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 cannot eat so much at the Sabbath banquet that you can afford religious abstinence the other six days. Heroism and princely be- havior on great occasions are nc apology for lack of right demeanor in circumstances insignificant and in. conspicuous. The genuine Christian life is not spasmodic; does not go by fits and starts. It tolls on through heat and cold, up steep mountains and along dangerous decliyities, it's eye on the everlasting hills crowned with the castles of the blessed.
 Ipropose this morning to plead for a religion for today.
 CHRIST IN OUR DAILY CONVERSATION.
 In the first place we want to bring the religion of Christ into our con versation. When a dam breaks and two or three villages are over whelmed, or an earthquake in South America swallows a whole city, then people begin to talk about the un- certainty of life, and they imagine that they are engaged in positively religious 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 any thing glad about it, anything beaut full about it, anything important about it, we ought to be continuous ly discussing it.
 l have noticed that men, just in proportion as their Christian expe- rience 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. Go into a circle, even of Christian people, where they are full of joy and hilarity, and talk of Christ and heaven, and everything is immediately silenced.
 As on a summer day. when the for ests are full of life, chatter and chir- rup and carol-a mighty chorus of bird harmony, every tree branch an orchestra-if a hawk appear in the sky every voice stops. And the for ests are still; just so have seen a lively religious circle silenced on the appearance of anything like religious conversation. No one had anything to say, save perhaps some old patri- arch 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 a 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. It is brighteTsthan the waters; 1t Is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do not go around grooming about your religion when you ought U be singing it or talking it in cheerful tones of voice. How often it k that we find men whose lives are utterly inconsistent, who at tempt to talk religion, and always make failure of it! 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 whining tones, We are miserable sinners, "''The Lord bless you" The Lord have mercy on you" their con versation interlarded with such ex, presSiDns. which mean nothing but canti1g. and canting is the worst
 form of hypocrisy. If we bave really 1 felt the religion of Christ in ou hearts let Us talk it and talk 1t witt an Illuminated countenance, remem
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