Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-04
wTME TO Do GOOD.
THERE ARE TOO MANY SUNDAY CHRISTIANS
WHO ARE WEEK DAY
WOFldlings-Suniay IS the Great Arsenal Where
Gods Soldiers Should Go to Arm lhsm-
selves For The Battles Of the 0tnsr
SIX Days Of the Week.


all classes, viz: Week Day Religion. "
The text is from Proverbs 3; g, 'In all
thy ways acknowledge him."
There has been q tendency In all
lands and ages 10 set apart certain days,
places, ana occasions FOR special reiS-
ious service, and 10 think that they
formed the realm in which religion was
chiefly 10 act Now, while holy days
and holy places have their use, they
can never be substitute for continuous
exercise of faith and prayer. In other
words, man cannot be so good Chris
tian en- Sabbath that he can afford 10
be a wording ell the week. II asteam-
er start for southampton, and sail one
day in that direction, aud the other six
DAYS sail In other directions, how long
before the steamer will get TO South
ampton? just as SOOu as a man will get
to heaven VINO fails 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 ban
Duet that you can afford religious aO-
stinence all the rest Of the week.
- GENUINE RELIGION
Is not spasmOdic. does not 90 by fits and
starts. is not an attack Of chills and few
er-now cold until your teeth chatter,
now hot until your bones ache. Genu-
Inc religion marches on steadily, up
steep Mills, and long dangerous declevi-
ties, its eye ever on the everlasting hills
crowned with the castles Of the blessed.
1 propose, so far as God may help me,
to show yogyhow we may bring our re-
ligion INTO ordinary life, and practice It
10 common tblngs-yeSterday, to-day,
tomorrow.
Aud In the first place, Iremark: We
ought to bring religion into our ordi-
nary conversation. A dam breaks and
two or three villages are submerged, a
South American earthquake swallows
City, and people begin 20 talk about the
uncertainty OF human life, aud in that
conversation think they are engaging
in religious service, when there may be
10 religion st all l have noticed that
in proportion as Christian experience Is
shallow, men talk about funerals and
= deathbeds, and .hearses, and tomb
stones, aud eDitaphs. II a man have the
religion OF the Gospel in It's full power
in his SOUL he will talk chiefly about
This world aud the eternal world, and
very little comparatively about the in
significant pass between this and that.
Yet how seldom IS IL that the religion Of
Christ Is welcome theme. If man
full OF the Gospel Of Christ goes into q
religious circle, and begins TO talk
about sacred things, all the converse
tion is hushed, and things
BECOME EXCEEDINGLY AWKWARD.
As on a summer day, the forests full OK
song and chirp and carol, mighty chorus
of bird harmOnies, every branch an or
chesra-if a hawk appears in the sky,
all the voices are hushed, so l have
sometimes S. - a social circle that pro-
tossed 70 be -istian, silenced by the
N theme OF God
friends, il we
Christ In our soul,
10 IN an eXhilarant
refreshing than the
zhter than the sunshine,
joy here, and prepares
asting happiness before
OF God. And yet, IL the
religion be introduced into .
verifying Is silenced-Silenced
perhaps, an aged Christian man
corner Of the room, feeling that
hing ought TO be said, puts one
over the other, and signs heavily,
says, "Oh, yes; that's So" My
sndsl the religion OF Jesus Christ is
something 70 be grOaned about, but
netting TO talk about and sing about,
our face irradlated. The trouble is
rat men protesting the faith OF the
Gospel are often so inconsistent that
they are afraid their conversation will
not harmonic with their liz y We can
--99s-A
TALK THE GOSPEL
unless we rive the Gospel. You will
often find a msa whose entire life is
full OF Inconsistencies filing his con-
versation with such expressions as,
eve are miserable Sinners" "the
Lord help US" 1.-The Lord bless you"
interlarding their conversation with
such phrases, which are mere canting,
and cantlng is the worst kind of hypoc-
risy. II a man have the grace OF God
In his heart dominant, he can talk
religion and II will seem natural, and
men, instead OF being repulSed by II,
will be attracted by it. Do you not
know that when two Christian people
talk as they ought 70 about the things
OF Christ and heaven, God gives special
attention, and be writes IL all down.
Malachi 3: Is: 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 l remark again: We ought to
bring the religion OF Jesus Christ into
our ordinary .emplOyments. "Oh." you
T,ay, - ats very good theory for
MAJ Who manages q large business, who
has great trafic, who holds great es-
tate; IL is a graHd thing for bankers
and for shippers, but in my thread and
needle store, in my trimming establish
ment, in my Insignificant work OF life,
you cannot apply those grand Gospel
principles" Who told you that? Do
YOU not. know that faded leaf on a
brooks surface attracts Gods attention
as certainly as the path OF a blazing
sun, aud that the moss that creeps up
, the side OF the rock attracts Gods at
tention as certainly as the waving tops
OF DRAGON pine and Lebanon cedar, an d
that the cracking OF an alder under
cows hOof sounds as loudly 10 GODS
ear as the snap OF a worlds cOndagra-
tion. and that the most Insignificant
thing In your life is OF enough import
apce 10 attract the attention Of the
LORD GOD ALMIGHTY?