Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-13


the Gospel into their ordinary occupa-
lions and employments There are in
the churches of this day men who
seem very devout on the Sabbath who
are far from that during the week
/ a country merchant arrives in this
city, and he goes into the store 20 buy
goods of man who processes religion,
but has no grace in his heart The
country merchant is swindled- He is
too exhausted TO go home that wcelo;
he tarries in town. On Sabbath he
! goes 10 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 Inind-the deacon has his
/ black coat on now, and looks solemn,
and goes home talking about that
+ blessed sermonl Christians on Sunday.
Worldlings during the week.
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 sit
teth on eggs and hatcheth them not;
so he that getteth riches, and not by
]
his days. and at his end shall be a
| fool" But how many there are who
do not bring the religion of Christ into
their everyday occupationl They think
religion 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
] e., Il.
kets- 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 the battlefield
is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday Antioch. 8"
and st Martins" and ''Old hundred"
are not much II we do not sing all the
week. a sermon is of little account il
we can not carry il behind the counter
and behind the pillow. The Sabbath is
of no value if it lasts only twenty-four
hours
"OhV' says some one. "If I had a
great sphere / would do that; IL could
have lived in the time of Martin Luth-
er, II could have been Paul's travelling
.
sounding work to do-then should put
into application all that you say"
must admit that the romance and
There is but very little of it left in the
world.
The temples of Rouen have been
changed into smithies; the classic man
sion at Ashland has been cut up into
l al
treated before the emigrant's AK and
tho trapper's gun, and n Vermonter
might go over the Allegheny and the
Rocky mountains and see neither an
Dread or 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. 1t is absurd
for you to say that you would serve
God II you had great sphere. If you
do not serve Him on q small scale, you
would not on a large scale. If you can
not stand the bite of a nudge. how
could yen endure the breath of a bas-
ilisi<2
Our national government does not
think il belittling to put tax on pins,
and tax on buckles, and tax on
shoes. The individual taxes do not
amount 10 much, but in the aggregate
to millions and millions of dollars And
/ would have you, o Christian man. put
high tariff on every annoyance and
vexation that comes through your soul.
This might not amount TO much in sin
gle cases, but in the aggregate it would
be great revenue of spiritual strength
and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey
out of a nettle; and il you have the
grace of God in your heart you can get
sweetness out of that which would 9TH
erwise irritate and annoy. A returned
missionary told me that company OF
adventures rowing up the Ganges were
stung 10 death by flies that infest that
region at certain seasons. have seen
the earth strewn with the carcasses of
men slain by insect annoyances The
only way TO get prepared for the great
troubles OF life is 10 conquer the small
troubles
Suppose = soldier should say, This
IS only skirmish, and there are only
few enemies-I won't load nv gun:
wait until ] can got into some great
general engagement" That man Is a
coward, and would be a coward in any
sphere II man does not serve his
country In a slSirmfsh, he win not in a
Waterloo; and il you are not faithful
going out against the single-handed
misfortunes Of this life, you would not
DO faithful when great disasters, with
their laundering artillery, came rolling
down over the soul
This brings me 20 another point
We ought 20 bring the religion Of Jesus
Christ into all our trials II we have n
bereavement II We lose our fortune. II
some great trouble blast like the temp
est then we 90 10 God for comfort: but
yesterday In the little anDoyances Of
your store, or Office, or shop. or factory.
or banking house, did you 60 20 God
for comfort7 You did not
My friends, you need 10 take the re-.
lgion Of the Lord Jesus Christ into The
most ordinary trials Of your life. You
have your misfortunes. you have your
anxieties, you have your vexations
'Oh! you say, they DONE shaf,. my
character. Since J lost my child. since
have lost my property have been a
very different man from what was %
Ny brother. 90 is che little auuoyances