The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-31
ALNHGE's SERMON.
.Eaith without works is dead. ames,

II
The Roman Catholic church has
been charged with putting too much
stress upon good works and not
enough upon faith. charge Protest
antism with putting not enough stress
upon good works as connected with
salvation Good works will never save
D man, but if a man have not good.
works he has no real faith and no
genuine religion There are those who
depend upon the fact that they are all
right inside, while their conduct is
wrong outside Their religion, for the
most part, is made up of talk--yigor-
fsous talk, fluent talk, boastful talk,
perpetual talk They will entertain
you by the hour in telling you how
good. they are. They come up to such
la higher life that they have no pa
thence with ordinary Christians in the
plain discharge Of their duty. AS near
as can tell this ocean craft is mostly
sail and very little tonnage. Foretop-
mast staysail, foretopmast studding
sail, mafntopsail, mizzertopsai l--every-
thing from flying jib to nizzen spank
<er, but making no useful voyage. Now
the world has got tired of this, and
it wants a religion that will work into
all the circumst ances of life. We do
not want new religion, but the old
religion applied in all possible direc-
lions.
i Yonder is a river with steep and
rocky banks, and it roars like a young
Niagara as it rolls on over. its rough
| bed 1t does nothing but talk about
itself all the way from its source in
the mountain to THE place where it
empties into the sea. The banks are
so steep that the cattle cannot come
down to drink. It does not run one
fertilizing, rill into the adjoining field.
Tt has not one grlstmlll or factory on
| either side. It sulks in wet weather
with chilling fogs. No one cares when
that river is born among the rocks, and
| no one cares when it dies into the sea-
But yonder is another river, and 1t
| moses its banks with the warm tides,
and it rocks with floral lullaby the wa
ter lilies asleep on it's bosom. 1t in
yites herds of cattle and fiocks Of
sheep and coveys Of birds to come
| there and drink. Tt has three grist-
| mills on one side and six cotton fac
tories on the other. 1t is the wealth
of 200 miles Of luxuriant farms. The
l.
born in the mountains, and the ocean
shipping will press in from the sea to
hail it as it comes down from the At
Ilantic coast. The one river is a man
| who lives for himself The other river
is a man who lives for others.
Do YOU know how the site of the an
cient City Of Jerusalem was chosen?
There were two brothers who had adj
| Joining farms. The one brother had a
large family, the other had no family.
| The brother with the large family said,
l.'sssThere is my brother with no family;
he must he lonely, and [ will try to
Z cheer him UP, ard will take some of
the sheayes from my field in the night
| time and set them over on his farm,
land say nothing about It. The other
fbrother said, Ny brother has a large
family, and it is very difficult for him
| to support them, and will help him
along, and I will take some of the
| sheaves from my farm in the night
time and set them over on his farm
and say nothing about it" So the
work of tlansference went on night
after night and night after night, but
every morning things seemed to be
just as they We're, for, though sheaves
had been subtracted from each farm,
sheaYes had also been added, and the
! brothers were perplexed and could not
understand. But one night the broth
ers happened to meet while making
1 this generous transference, and the
I spot where they met was so sacred,
that it was chcSensas the site of the
City of Jerusalem. If that tradition
| should prove unfounded, it will never
theless stand as a beautiful allegory,
setting forth the idea that wherever a
| kindly and generous and loving act is
| performed, that is the spot fit for
some temple. of conrmemoration.
| have often spoken to you about
faith, but this morning speak to YOU
about works. for faith without works
/ is dead think you will agree with
me in the statement that the great
want of this world is more practical
religion. We want practical religion
| to go into all merchandise. It will
supervise the labelling of goods. 1t
I will not allow a: man to say that a
thing was made in one factory when it
was made in another. It will not al
| low the merchant to say that watch
was manufactured in Geneva, sSWitzer-
land, when it was manufactured in
Massachusetts. 1t will not allow the
merchant to say that wine came from
Madeira when it came from California
Practical religion will walk along by
the store shelves and tear off all the
tags that make misrepresentation. It
will not allow the merchant to say that
is pure coffee when dand elton root and
chicory and other ingredients so into
it. It will not allow him to say that
ltis pure sugar when there are in it sand
and ground glass
When practical religion gets its full
swing in the world it will go down the
street, and it will come to that shoe
store and rip off the fictitious soles Of
many a fne-looking pair of shoes, and
show that it is paSteboard sandWiched.
between the sound leather And this
practical religion will so, right into a
grocery store and it will pull out the
plug of the adulterated syrups, and it
will dump into the ash barrel in front.
Of the store the cassia bark that is sold
for cinnamon, and the brickdust that
is sold for cayenne pepper; and it will
shake out the Prussian blue from the
tea leaves. and it will sift from the
-four the plaster of paris and bonedust.
and soapstone, and it viii By chemical
analysis separate the one quart of wa