Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-07
The Tabernacle Pulpit.

The Tabernacle Pulpit.
Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage in select
Ing topic for last Sunday chose ona
of practical value to all classes-v;z
"Week day Religion" The text 10
from Proverbs iii, 6, Sin all thy wavs
acknowledge Him."
There has been q tendency in all
lands and ages to set apart certain DAYS.
places and occasions for especial re-.
ligious service, and to think that thew
formed the realm in which religion
was chiefly to act. Now, while holv
days and holy places have their use.
they can never be substitute for con-
tinuous exercise of faith and prayer,
In other words, man cannot be 40
good q Christian on Sabbath that he
can afford to be wording ali the
week. Ifa steamer start for South
ampton and sail one day in that direc-
ton and the other six days sail in other
directions, how long before the steamer
will get to Southampton? just as soon
a. . man will 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 Sabbath banquet that you can
afford religious abstinence all the rest
of the week.
Genuine religion is not spasmodic,
does not 60 by fits and starts, is not an
attack Of chills and fever-now cold
until your teeth chatter. now hot until
your bones ache. Genuine religion
marches on steadily, up steep hills and
along dangerous declivities, its eve
aver on the everlasting hills crowned
with the castles of the blessed.
propose, SO far as God may helpme,
to show you how we may bring our re-
!igion into ordinary life and practice it
IN common things-yesterday to-day,
tomorrow.
religion In Common Things.
And, in the first place, remark, we
ought to bring religion into our ordi-
nary conversation. A dam breaks and
two or three villages are submerged: q
South American earthquake swallows
city, and people began to talk about
the uncertainty of human life, and in
that conversation think they are en-
gaging in religious service, when there
may be no religion at all. I have no.
ticed that in proportion as Christian
experience is shallow men talk about
funerals and deathbeds and hearses
and tombstones and epitaphs.
If a 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 COM
paratively about the insignificant pass
between this and that, Yet how sell
dom it is that the religion of Christ is
welcome theme? If man full of the
gospel of Christ goes into a religious
circle and begins to talk about sacred
things, all the conversation is hushed
and things become exceeding awkward.
AS on summer day, the forests full of
song and chirpand caro-, mighty chorus
Of bird harmonies. every branch an Or
chestra, II hawk appears in the sky,
all the voices are hushed. So I have
sometimes seen social circle that pro-
fessed to be Christian silenced by the
appearance of the great theme Of God
and religion.
Now, my friends, if we have the re-
ligiOn Of Christ in our soul, we will
talk about it in an exhilerant mood. 1t
Is more refreshing than the waters, it
is brighter than the sunshine, it gives
man joy here and prepares him for
of God. And yet, if the theme of re-
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everything is silenced-silenced unless
perhaps an aged Christian man in the
corner of the room, feeling that some-
thing ought to be said, puts one foot
over the other and sighs heavily and
says, 'Oh, yes; that's sop
My friends, the religion of Jesus
Christ is not something to be groaned
about, but something to talk about and
sing about, your face irradiated. The
trouble is that men protesting the faith
of the gospel are often so inconsistent
that they are afraid their conversation
will not harmonic with their life. We
cannot talk the gospel unless we live
the gospel. You will often find man
whose entire life is full of inconsistent
cies filling his conversation with such
expressions as 1--WE are miserable sim
ners, "the Lord help us, "the Lord
bless you," interlarding their CONVEX
sation with such phrases, which are
mere canting, and canting is the worst
kind of hypocrisy.
II man have the grace of God in
his heart dominant, he can talk re-
igion, and it will seem natural, and
men instead of being repulsed by it
will be attracted by it. Do you not
know that when two Christian people
talk as they ought about the things of
Christ and Heaven, God gives special
attention, and He writes it all down.
Malachi iii, 16, "Then they that feared
the Lord talked one to the other, and
the Lord hearkened and heard, and a
book OF remembrance was written"
But, remark again, we ought to
bring the religion of Jesus Christ into
our ordinary employments. "Oh," you
say, "thats very good theory for
man who manages large business,
who has great traffic, who holds great
estate. It is grand thing for bankers
and for shippers, but in my thread and
needle store, in my trimming estab;
lishment, in my insignificant work of
life, you cannot apply those grand Cos
pei principles" Who told you that?
Do you not know that faded leaf on
brooks surface attracts God 3 attention
as certainly as the path OF a blazing
sun, and that the moss that creeps up
the side of the rock attracts God S atten-
ton as certainly as the waving tops OF
Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar, and
that the cracking of an alder under a
cows hoof sounds as loudly in Gods