Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-04
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE breaches ON RELl-
GlOh IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY,"

whatsoever fou DO. Let IL lie To the
Glory of God-There Is No Work Too
Small or Too Great for the spirit of
Christianity.
BRooELYN, Jan 24.-Dr Talmage's ser
mon this morning was OH 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. ye eat or drink.
or whatsoever We do do all To the glory Of
God y
When the apostle IN his text sets forth
the idea THAI 50 common an action as the
taking Of food and drink is to he conducted
70 the glory of God. he proclaims the inn
portanee Of religion in the ordinary affairs
Of our life. In all ages of the world there
has been Il 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-
lance They give opportunity for especial
performance Of Christian duty. and for
RECALLING 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 a world
ling all the rest of the week II 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 IL will
never get there.
And though a man may seem to be voy
aging heavenward during the holy Sab
bath day, il during the following six days
Of the week be is going toward the world,
and toward the flesh, aud toward the devil,
he will never ride up into the peaceful har-
Dor of heaven. Yon 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-
casous are no apology for lack of right de-
meanor in circumstances insignificant and
incnnspicuous The genuine Christian life
Is not spasmodic; does not 20 by fits and
starts 1t tolls on through heat apd cold up
steep mountains aud along dangerous de
cIivties, It's eye Oh the everlasting bills
crowned with the castles OF the blessed.
propose this morning to plead for "A re
ligion for today.
TIKI SPIRIT or RELIGION IN SOCIETY.
In the first place, we want to bring the
religion of Christ into orr conversation
When dam breaks, and two or three vii
lagos are overwhelmed, or an earthquake
in South America swallows a whole city
then people began 10 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 nj
all in your heart. We ought every day to
he talking religion, II there j. anything
glad about it. anything beautiful about It.
anything important about il. we ought 70
be continuously discussing it ! have no
ticed that men, just in proportion as their
Christian experience is shallow, talk about
funerals and graveyaris and tombstoues
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.
TO into a 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
of bird harmony, every tree branch an or
chestrl--if hawk appear in the sky every
voice stops and the forests are still. inst 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. 80 he puts one foot over the
other and heaves 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 glad
heart 1t is brighter than the waters; it
is more cheerful than the sunshine DO
not go around grooming about your re
ligiou 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 a failure
of i'll Ny friends, we must live religion.
or we cannot talk IT, If n man is cranky
and cross and uncongenial and hard in
his dealings. and then begins to talk about
Christ and heaven. everybody is repealed
by it,
Yet have heard such men say. in whin-
ing tones, I'VE 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
really felt the religion of Christ in our
hearts. let us talk it. and talk it with
illuminated countenance, remembering
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 a book of remembrance was
written"
THE SMALLEST ACT MAY BE DONE AS FOR
GOD.
Again / remark, we must bring the re-
ligion of Christ into our employments-
oh" You say that is very well if a man
handle large sums of money. or If he have
AN extensive traffic. but in my thread and
needle store, in my trimming establish
,,,a,,t in tho hmm hlp work in life that | am