The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-02-04
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE BREACHES ON RELIGION
IN BUSINESS AND SOCIETY.

Whatsoever You DO, Let 1t DO TO Tho
Glory OF God-Thcre LIS No Work Too
Small or Too Great for tho Spirit of
Christianity.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 24.-Dr. Talmage's
sermon this raorning was on the topic
on which he is never tired OF insisting,
and which, more than any other, con-
stitutes his message to tins generation
the application OF religion to the at
fairs of dialy life. His text was taken
therefore, we cat or drink, Or whatso-
ever ye do, do all to the glory OF God"
When the apostle in his text sets
forth the idea that 50 common an action
as the taking Of food and drink is to pe
conducted to tho glory Of God he pro-
claims the import 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 oc-
casions for worship, and to think those
were the chief realms ia which religion
was to act. Now, holy days aud hoiy
places have their Importance. They
give opportunity for especial perform
ance OF Christian duty, and for rcgaiiug
OF the religious appetite, but they cam
not take the place Of continuous eXnr-
else OF faith and prayer. In other words,
man cannot be SO much Of Christian
On Sunday that lie can afford to be q
Worldllng all the rest OF the week fla
steamer puts out ior Southampton and
goes one day in that direction and the
other six days IN other directions, how
long before the steamer will get to SOut-
hampton? II will never get there.
And though man may seem to be
voyaging heayenward during the holy
Sabbath day, If durirg 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 barber Of heaven. You cannot
eat so much at the Sabbath banquet hat
you can afford religious abstinence the
other six days. Ieroisnl and princely
behavior on great occasions arc no apol.
rsy for lack Of right deneanor in cir
cumstances insignificant and inconspicu-
pus. The genuine Christian life Is not
spasmodlc; does notgo by tits aud starts.
1t tolls on thrcus h heat and cold up steep
mountains and along dnpgerous dc ,livi-
ties, Its eve on tle everlasting hills
crowned with the caslies Of the blessed.
LII CtlC iuSl pitltS, We WulG W Drl1n
the religion of Christ into our Conversa-
tisa. When darn breaks, and two or
three villages ara overwhelmed, or an
earthquake in South America sw allows
whole city, then people begin to talk
about the uncertainty of lite, and they
imagine that They are engaged In posi-
lively religion conversation. No. You
may ta!l; about these things and have 10
.;,.:.oo ,;.a3o CT God at ali il your heart. We
ought every day 10 be talking religion.
If there is any thing glad about it, any
!, thing beautiful about it, anything inn
= portant about It, We ought to he cOntln-
uously discussing it. have noticed that
men, just in proportion as their Chris
tian experience is shallow, talk about
funerals and gravcyards and tombstones
and deathbeds. The real, genuine Chris
tian man talks chiefly about this life aud
the great etcruity beyond. and not so
much about the insignificant pass be-
tween these two residences. And yet
how few circles there are where the re-
liglon Of Jesus Cl list is welcome.
Go into circle even of Christian pco.
pie, where they are full Of JOY and hilar-
1ty, and talk aAou.. Christ or heaven and
everything is imin cdiately silenced. AS
on summer day, when the forests arc
full of life, chatter and chirruy and carol
u mighty chorus OF bird harmony,
every tree branch all orche stra--f a
hawk appear i'll the sky every voice stops
and the forests are still; just so l have
seen lively religious circle silenccd on
the appearance OF anything like religious
conversation. No one had anything 10
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 tho other and heaves q long
slgh, and says, "Oh, yes; that's 50,
that's sop
My friends, the religion of Jesus
Christ is someLhlug tx talk about with a
glad heart. IL is brighter than the wa
ters; it is more cheerful than the sun
shine. DO not 20 around Sroaning about
your religion when you ought to be sing.
ing 1t or talking il In cheerful tones Of
voice. How often is it that we find men
whose lives arc utterly inconsistaut, who
attempt to talk religion, and always
make a failure of it! My friends, we
muat live religion, or we cannot talk it.
Ii man ls cranky and cross and uucon-
genial and hard i'll his dealings, and then
begins to talk about Christ and heaven,
everybody is lepeled BY it.
Yet l have heard such men saw in
whining tones, I'VE are miserable sin
ners," "The Lord bless you" The
Lord have mercy on you," their CONVEX
sation interlarded with such expressions.
which mean nothing but canting, and
cantlng is the worst form of hypocrisy.
Ii we bave really felt the religion Of
Christ in our hearts, let us talk it, and
talk it with Illuminated countenance, re-
memberipg that when two Christian
people talk God gives especial attention
and writes down what they say. NAL
achi lii, 16, "Then they that feared the
Lord spake often one to another; and
the Lord harkened and heard it, and a
book Of remembrance was written"
Again / remark, we must bring the
religion Of ChristiDto our employmonts
"Oh," you say, 'lhat is very well If Il
man handle large sums of money, Or if
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