Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-09-15
REV. DIR. TALMAGh.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sum-
day Sermon.
Subject: "week-Day Religion"

There he's been tendency in all lands and
ages to set apart certain days, places ana &C.
casions for especial religious service, ana 10
think that they formedthe realm in which re-
liplon was chiefly to act. Now. while holy
DAYS and holy places have their use. they car
never be substitute for continuous exercise
of faith and prayer.
In other words, a man cannot be 50 gooi
Christian on Sabbath that he can afford to be
a ,yorldling all the week. If a steamer start
for SOUTHAMPTON and sail one day in that dl-
rection and the other six days sail IN otner
directions. how long before the steamer Will
oct TO Southampton? Just as soon as the
man will get to heaven who sails on the SAD
bath day towardthat which is good, and the
other six days of the week sails toward the
world. the flesh and the devil. You cannot
ear so much at the Sabbath banquet that you
can afford religious abstinence all the rest OF
the week. 5.ou
Genuine religion is not spasmod1c, does
NOT 90 by fits and starts, is not an attack OF
chills and fever-now cold until your teeth
chatter. now hot until your bones acne.
Genuine religion marches on steadily up
steep hills and along dangerous declivitieS,
jts eve ever on the everlasting hills crowned
with the castles of the blessed.
Ipropose. so far as God may help me, 10
show YOU how we may bring our religion In
things -yesterday, to-day, tomorrow.
And. in the first place, remark, we ought
70 bring religion into our ordinary CONVERSE
tion. A dam breaks, and two or three VII
lagos are submerged, South American
earthquake swallows city, and people De-
gin to talk about the uncertainty OF human
life. and in that corversatlon tnink tney are
engaging in religious service when tnere
NAV be no religion at all. L nave no1lceo
NhrictiaO 1YnnriPn06 IS
shallow men talk about funerals and death
beds and hearses and tombstones and cpl
taphs.
Ifaman have the religion Of the gospel in
,ts full mower in his soul, he will talk chiefly
about this world and the eternal world ana
very little comparatively about the lnsignll-
can't pass between this and that. Yet now
seldom II is that the religion OF Christ Is a
welcome themel II man full OF the gospel
of Christ goes into a religious circle ana be-
gins to talk about sacred things, all the con-
yersation is hushed, and things become ex-
ceedingly awkward. AS on a summer oay'
the forest full Of song and cnlrp ana calon,
mighty chorus OF bird harmonies, every
branch an orchestra if a hawk appears IN
fhe syy. all the voices are hushed, so have
sometimes seen a social circle that professed
IN he Christian silencsd by the appearance OF
the great theme OF God and religion.
NOW. nv friends, If we have the religion OF
Christ in our soul, we will talk about 1t IN
an exhilarant mood. 1t is more refreshing
than the waters it is brighter than the sun
shine, it gives man joy here ana prepares
him for everlasting happiness before the
throne of God. And vet, if the theme OF
religion be introduced into circle, every
thing is silenced-silenced unless perhaps an
aoed Christian man in the corner OF the
room. feeling that something ought TO Dc
said. nuts one foot over the other ana signs
heavily and says, ooh, yes that's 80
NV friends, the religion Of Jesus Christ L.
not something to be groaned ABOUT, Du'
something to talk about and sing aoout, your
face irradiated. The trouble is that men pro-
Tossing the faith OF the gospel are often ~
inconsistent that they are afraid their con
versation will not harmonic with their HE.
we cannot talk the gospel unless we i've tne
gosnel. You will often find a man whose en-
fire life is full Of Inconsistencies filling III
conversation with such expressions as, we
are miserable sinners, "The Lord help US,
ssThe Lord bless you" interarding tneii
conversation with such phrases, Wnicn ar
mere canting, and cantng is the worst kim
Of hypocrisy. c,.uh,ohaor
dominant he can talk religion, and it vii
seem natural, and men. instead OF peln9 re
nulsed by il. will be attracted by 1t. DO yo
not know that when two Christian peopi
talk rs they ought about the things OIL Cnrls
and heaven God gives special attention, an
He writes it all down. Malachi ILL.,, 1t
s'Then they that feared the Lord talked on
TO the other, and the Lord hearkened an
heard, and book OF remembrance was VIII
ten."
R,,t remark again, we ought to bring tn
religion OF Jesus Christ into our ordinar
a
GOOD theory for man who manages lare
business. who has great traffic, who holds
great estate-it is grand thing Tor DanSel
md for shippers-but in my thread and ne,
die store. in 10Y trimming establishments
nv insignificant work Of life. you came
epply those grand gosple principles. WI
told YOU tbat2 Do you not know taa'
faded leaf on a brooks surface attracts God
attention as certainly as the pain OF pia
ing sun. and that the moss that creeps up VI
side of the rock attracts Goa atVen'ion
eertainl, rs the waving tops OF oregon Pr
and Lei. ION cedar, and that the cracXlll
81 an ald,r under a cows hooi sounds
loudly in Gods ear as the snap OF world
confederation. and that the most 1nsiSnl
cant thing in your life is OF enough lmpo
tance TO attract the attention OF the Lol
God Almighty?
Mvbrother. you cannot be called to do an
thing SO insignificant but God will help y(
IN II IF Won are q fisherman, Christ W
stand nv YOU as He did by Simon when
dragged Gennesaret. Are you drawer
water2 He will be with you as at the W.
curb when talking with the oana.N ~
woman. Are you custom mouse once
Christ will call you as He did Matthew al [
receipt of custom. The man VINO mas onS
davis wages in mis- pocket as certainly nee
religion as he who rattles the keys Of bal
ana could abscond with hundred thousal
hard dollars. Aud yet there are men W
profess the religion OF Jesus Christ VINO
not hiring the religion OF the gospel IN
their ordinary occupations and empic
ments.
There are In the churches OF this day m
who seem very devout on the saooatn W
aro far from that during the week. cou
try merchant arrives in this city, anu y
into the store to buy gools OF lla9
processes religion, but has no grace IN
heart The country merchant Is swndlt
He is TOO exhausted to go home that wee
he tarries in town. On Sabbath he goes
some church for consolation and what Is
amazement to find that the man who carr
around the poor box is the very on9 W
swindled him. But never mind. Inc oeac
has his black coat on now and looks s0lel
md goes home talking about that pless
sermon Christians on Sunday. Woriuil
during the week.
evsry dishonest dollar he has in his pocS
that God is looking right through the Il
wall of his money safe, and that the DAY
Judgment is coming, and that las the
fridge stitch on eggs and hatche.h them
so ne that getteth riches am not by ri
sail leave them in the midst OF his days, 1
Mt his end shall be fool" But how mi