Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-04

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Lord God Almighty?
My brother, you cannot be called {,
do anything SO insignificant but Coz
Will help you in it. If you are fisher
man, Christ will stand by you as he die
by Simon when he dragged Gennesaret
Are you drawer of water? He will
be with you as at the well curb wher
talking with the Samaritan woman
Are you custom house officer? Christ
Will call you as he did Matthew at the
receipt of custom. The man who has
only days wages in his pocket as Ger.
tainly needs religion as he who rattles
the keys of bank and could abscond
with a hundred thousand hard dollars.
And yet there are men who profess the
religion of Jesus Christ who do not bring
the religion of the gospel into their ordi-
nary occupations and employments.
There are in the churches of this day
men who seem very devout on the Sab
bath who arg far from that during the
week. A country merchant arrives in
this city, and he goes into the store to
buy goods of man who processes reli-
g1on, but has no grace in his heart. The
country merchant is swindled. He is too
exhausted to go home that week; he tar
ries in town. On Sabbath he goes to
some church for consolation. and what
is his amazement to find that the man
who carries around the poor box is the
very one who swindled him. But never
mind. The deacon has his black coat on
now and hooks solemn and goes home
talking about that blessed sermon! Chris
tians on Sunday. Workings during the
week.
GOD SEES SMALL SINS.
That man does not realize that God
knows every dishonest dollar he has in
his pocket, that God is looking right
through the iron wall of his money safe,
and that the day of Judgment is coming,
and that ''as the partridge sitteth on
eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteth riches and not by right shall
leave them in the midst of his days, and
at his end shall be fool" But how
many there are who do not bring the
religion of Christ into their everyday
occupation. They think religion is for
Sundays.
Suppose you We're to go out to fight
for your country in some great contest,
would you go to do the battling at Troy
or at Springfield No, you would go
there to get your swords and muskets
Then you would go out in the face of the
enemy and contend for your country.
Now, take the Sabbath day and the
church to be only the armory where we
are to get equipped for the great battle
of life, and that battlefield is Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. Antioch" and "St.
Martins" and "Old Hundred" are not
worth much if we do not sing all the
week. A sermon is of little account il
We cannot carry it behind the counter
md behind the plow. The Sabbath day
s of no value if it last only "a hours.
''Oh," says some one, IF / had great
sphere, Iwould do that. If Icould have
lived in the time of Martin Luther, if ]
could have been Paul's travelling COM
oanion, if had some great and resound-
ng work to do, then l should put into
application all that you say" l must
ldmit that the romance and knight er
'antry have gone out Of life. There is
,ut very little of it left in the world.
rhe temples of Rouen have been changed |
nto smithies. The classic mansion at
Ashland has been cut up into walking
ticks. The muses. have retreated be-
ore the emigrant's ak and the trappere |
,un, and a Vermonter might go over the
Allegheny and the Rocky mountains and
zee neither an Dread nor a Sylph.
The groves where the gods used to
Iwell have been cut up for frewood, and
he man who is looking for great spheres
nd great scenes for action will not find
hem. And yet there are Alps to scale,
nd there are Tablespoons to swim, and
hey are in common life. 1t is absurd
or you to say that you would serve God
{ you had great sphere. Ifyou do not
erve him on small scale, you would
ot ON a large scale. If you cannot
tand the bite of midge, how could you
ndure the breath of basilisk?
A TARIFF ON ANNoYANCEs.
Our national government does not
hing it belittling TO put a tax on pins
nd tax on buckles and tax on shoes.
he individual taxes do not amount to
luch, but in the aggregate to millions
nd millions of dollars. And l would
ave you, oh, Christian man, put high
lriff on every annoyance and vexation
nat comes through your soul. This
light not amount TO much in single
ases, but in the aggregate it would be a
reat revenue of spiritual strength and
abstraction.
A bee can suck honey even out Of a
ettle, and if you have the grace OF God
! your heart you can get sweetness out
{ that which would otherwise irritate
nd annoy. A returned missionary told !
Ie that a company of adventurers row.
lg up the Ganges were stung TO death
' flies that infest that region at certain
asons. / have seen the earth strewn
ith the carcasses of men slain by insect
lnoyances. The only way 10 get pre-
lred for the great troubles Of life is TO
,nauer these small troubles.
a soldier should say, This is
llya skirmish, and there are only
W enemies-I won't load my gun; wait
It'll get into some great general en-