Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-09-13
THERE is NO HEAVEN
For a Good Christian on Sunday and
a Wording for Week Days.
rou Can't Get on Your Knees on Sunday
Alone and stand on your Head the Hal
ance OF the Week Continual Wor-
ship l. the Only Right Thing.

Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage, in selecting
atopic for Sunday. chose one of practical
value 10 all classes. viz: Weekday Re-
ligion-" The text is from Proberbs
iii, g: "In all thy ways acknowledge
Him.
There has been n tendency In all
lands and ages TO set apart certain days,
places and occasions for especial relig-
ious services, and TO think that they
formed the realm in which religion was
chiefly TO act Now, while holy days
and holy places have their use, they
can never be a substitute for continu-
GUS exercise of faith and prayer. In
other words, a man can not be so good
q Christian on che Sa bbath that he can
afford 70 be n wording all the week
II a steamer start for Southamp-
ton, and sail one day in that
direction and the other six days
in other directions, how long be-
fore the steamer will get TO Southamp-
ton? Just as soon as a man viii get to
Heaven who sails on the Sabbath day
toward that which is good and the 9TH
er six days of the week sails toward
the world, the flesh and the devil. You
can not 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 go 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 eye ever
on the everlasting hills crowned with
the castles of the blessed
l propose, so far as God may help me,
TO show you how we may bring our re-
| ligion into ordinary life, and practice IL
in common things-yesterday, to-day.
! tomorrow
And in the first place, Iremarlo: We
ought 20 bring religion into our or
binary conversation. dam breaks
and two or three villages are sub
merged, n South American earthquake
swallows a city, and people begin to
talk about the uncertainty of human
life, and in that conversation think
they are engaging in religious service,
when there may be no religion at all.
i have noticed that in proportion a.
Christian experience is shallow, men
talk about funerals and death-beds and
hearses and tombstones and epitaphs
If a man has 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 compare
lively about the insignificant pass be-
tween this and that. Yet how seldom
1t is that the religion of Christ is "a
welcome theme? II man full of the
Gospel of Christ goes into religious
circle and begins to talk about sacred
Naf III
| and things become exceedingly awlS-
| ward.
As on a summer day, the forests full
/ of song and chirp and carol, mighty
chorus of bird harmonies, every branch
an orchestra-if hawk appears in the
sky, all the voices are hushed, so l
have sometimes seen n social circle that
| professed to be Christian silenced by
the appearance of the great theme of
God and religion. Now, my friends, il
we have the religion OF Christ in our
soul, we will talk about it in an ex-
hiliarant mood. II is more refreshing
than the waters, it is brighter than the
sunshine, it gives man joy here, and
prepares him for everlasting happiness
before the throne of God And vet, If
the theme of religion be introduced
into circle, everything is sIenced-
silenced unless, perhaps, an aged Chris
tian man in the corner OF the room,
feeling that something ought TO be
said, puts one foot over the other and
sighs heavily and says ooh, yes; that's
So"
My friends! the religion Of Jesus
Christ is not something to be groaned
about, but something TO talk and sing
about, your face irradiated. The
trouble Is that men protesting the faith
of the Gospel are often so inconsistent
that they arc afraid their conversation
will not harnonizc with their life. We
can not talk the Gospel unless we live
the Gospel You will often find n man
whose entire life is full of inconsistent
c!es filling his conversation with such
| expressions as, I'VE arc miserable sim
ners," 'the Lord help us" "the Lord
bless you interlarding their conversa-
ton with such phrases, which are mere
canting, and canting is the worst kind
/ OF hypocrisy. II a man have the grace
Of God in his heart dominant. he can
talk religion and it viii seem natural,
and men, instead OF being re pulsed by
It, viii be attracted by IL
Do you know that when two Chris
tan people talk as they ought about
the things Of Christ and Heaven. God
| gives special attention. and he writes II
al down. Malachi fiji. Is: Then
they that feared the Lord talked one
70 the other and the Lord heark ened
and heard, and book Of remembrance
was written"
But l remark again: We ought 10
bring the religion of Jesus Christ into
our ordinary employmcnts "Ohr you
say that's a very good theory for a
man who manages a large business.
who has great traffic. who
holds great estate. it Is a
. grand thing for bankers and for shin
pers, but in my thread and needle
store. In my trimming establishment.
in my Insignificant work OF life. YOU
can not apply those grand gospel
[ principles Who told YOU that7 do
7 You not know that a faded leaf on a
brooks surface attracts Gods atten-
ton as certainly as tho path of
a blazing sun. and that the moss that
creeps up the side Of the rock attracts
I Gods attention as certainly ne the
waving tops OF Oregon pine and
/ Lebanon cedar, and that the cracking
fuf an alder under "a cows hoofs sounds
as loudly In Gods ear as the snap Of a