Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-07

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Small Blessings.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 3.-Rev. T. De Witt
falmage IN selecting a topic for today chose
one of practical value to all classes--viz,
Week day Religion" The text is from
Proverbs iii, G. in all thy ways acknowl-
edge him.
There has been a tendency in all lands
and ages to set apart certain days, places
and occasions for especial religious service
and to think that they formed the realm in
which religion was chiefly to act. Now,
while holy days and holy places have their
Use, they can never be a substitute for con-
tinuous exercise OF faith and prayer.
In other words, man cannot be so good a
Christian on Sabbath that he can afford to
be a werldling ali the week. IF a steamer
start for Southampton and sail one day in
that direction and the other six days sail
in other directions, how long before the
steamer will get to Southampton? Just as
soon as man well get to heaven who sails
on the Sabbath day toward that which is
good and the other six days of the week
sails toward the world the flesh and the
devil You cannot eat so much at the Sab
bath banquet that you can afford religious
abstinence all the rest of the week
Genuine religion is not spasmodc does
not 90 by fits and starts, is no. an attack
of chills and fevcr-now cold until your
teeth chatter. new hoo unit. your bones
ache. Genuine religion marches on stead
lily, up steep hills and along dangerous de
clivities, its eye ever on the everlasting
hills crowned with the castles of the blessed.
propose so far as God may help me, to
show you how we may bring our religion
into ordinary life and practice it in COM
mon things-yesterday, today tomorrow.
RELIGION IN COMMON THINGS.
And, i'll the first place, ] remark, we
ought to bring religion into our ordinary
conversation. A dam breaks and two or
three villages are submerged "A South
American earthquake swallows a city, and
people begin to talk about the uncertainty
of human life, and in that conversation
think they are engaging in religious sew
ice, when there may be no religion at all l
have noticed that in proportion as Christian
experience is shallow men talk about funer-
ais and deathbeds and hearses and tomb
stones and epitaphs
If n man have the religion of the gospel
in its full power in his soul, he will talk
chiefly about this world and the eternal
world and very little comparatively about
the insignificant pass between this and
that Yet how seldom it is that the reli-
Igion Of Christ is q welcome theme? IL
man full of the gospel of Christ goes into
religious circle and begins to talk about
sacred things, all the conversation is hu9hed
and things become exceeding awkward
AS on a summer day, the forests full Of
song and chirp and carol, mighty chorus of
bird harmonies. every branch an orchestra
If IA hawk appears in the sky, all the voices
ARE hushed. So ! have sometimes seen a
social circle that profossed to be Christian
silcnced by the appearance of the great
theme of God and religion.
Now, my friends, if we have the religion
of Christ in our soul, we will talk about it
In an eXhilcrant mood. 1t is more refresh
ing han the waters it is brighter than the
sunshine, it gives IL man JOY here and pre-.
parcs him fer everlasting happiness before
the throne of God. And yet if the theme
of religion lie introduced into a circle ev-
erything is silenced-silenced unless per-
haps an aged Christian man in the corner
of the room, feeling that something ought
to be said, puts one foot over the other and
signs heavily and says, "Oh, yes: that's sop
My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ
Is not something TO he eroaned about, but
to talk about and sing about,
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