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

WIN nun0reo Thousand hard dollars.
ana yet there are men who profess the
religion of Jesus Christ who do not
bring the religion of the gospel into
tnelr ordinary occupations and EMPLOY
nents.
There are in the churches of this
gay men who seem very devout on the
Sabbath who are far from that during
the week. A country merchant ar
rlves In this city, and he goes into q
store to buy goods of a man who pro-
iesses religion, but has no grace in his
neart. The country merchant is swim
oied. He is too exhausted to go home
that week; he tarries in town. On
SABBATH he goes to some church for
consolation, and what is his amazement
TO md that the man who carries around
the poor box is the very man who swim
aled MIN: But never mind-the deacon
mas MS black coat on now and looks
solemn and goes home talking about
That blessed sermon! Christians on
Sunday. Worldlings during the week.
Ihat man does net realize that God
knows every dishonest dollar he has
IN his pocket, tnat God is looking right
through the iron wall of his money
sale, and that the day of Judgment is
coming, and that s'as the partridge sit
teth on eggs and hatcheth them not,
SO ne 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 re-
llgion is for Sundays.
suppose you were 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 60 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
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. "An,
tioch" and "St. Martins" and "Old
Hundred" are not worth much if we do
not sing all the week. A sermon is of
little account if we cannot carry it be-
hind the counter and behind the pillow.
The Sabbath day is of no value if it last
only twenty-fOur hours.
"Oh," says some one, 'if I had q
great sphere I would do that; if could
have lived in the time of Martin Luther,
If could have been Paul's travelling
companion, if had some great and re-
sounding work to do-then should put
into application all that you say" I
must admit that the romance and
knight errantry have gone out of life.
There is but very little OF it left in the
world. The temples of Rouen have
been changed into smithies; the classic
mansion at Ashland has been cut up
into walking sticks; the muses. have re-
treated before the emigrant's ak and
the trapper's gun, and Vermonter
might go over the Allegheny and the
Rocky Mountains and see neither an
Dread nor Sylph.
The groves where the gods used to
dwell have been cut up for firewood,
and the man who is looking for great
spheres and great scenes for action will
not find them. And yet there are Alps
to scale, and there are Tablespoons to
swim, and they are in common life. It
is absurd for you to say that you would
serve God If you had great sphere.
Ii you do not serve Him on small
scale you would not on a large scale.
If you cannot stand the bite of a
nudge, how could you endure the
DFodCu OF b DaSlllSk:
My friends, you need to take the re-
ligion of the Lord Jesus Christ into the
ordinary trials of your life. You have
your misfortunes; you have your
anxicties; you have your vexations.
"Oh," you say, ''they don't shape my
character. Since 1 lost my child, since
l have lost my property, have been q
very different man from what I was"
My brother, it is the little annoyances
of your life that are souring your dispo-
sition, clipping your moral character
and making you less and less of man.
You go into an artists studio. You
see him making piece of sculpture.
You say WIZ; Mhy don't you strike
chisel he goes click, click, click, and
you can hardly see from stroke to
stroke that there is any impression
made upon the stone, and yet the work
strike harder?" "Oh," he replies,
'that would shatter the statue. I
must make it in this way, stroke by
stroke" And he continues on by week
and month until after awhile every
man that enters the studiois fascinated.
Well, find God dealing with some
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shaping him for eternity. I say. so
Lord, why not with one tremendous
blow of calamity shape that man for
the next world?" God says: That's
not the way deal with this man. It
is stroke after stroke, annoyance after
annoyance, irritation after irritation,
and after awhile he will be done and
a glad spectacle for angels and men,"
Not by one great stroke, but by 10000
little strokes of misfortune, are men
fitted for Heaven. You know that
large fortunes can soon be scattered by
being paid out in small sums of money,
and the largest estate of Christian
character is sometimes entirely lost by
these small depletions.
We must bring the religion of Jesus
Christ to help us in these little annoy
ances. Do not say that anything is too
insignificant to affect your character.
Rats may sink ship. One lucifer
match may destroy temple. A queen
got her death by smelling of a poisoned
rose. The scratch of sixpenny nail
may give you the lockjaw. Columbus,
by asking for piece of bread and a
drink of water at Franciscan convent,