Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-24
RELIGION OF WORKS.
DR.. TALMAeE DESCRIBES IT IN HIS
SUNDAY SERMON.

.litIes and spares nothing Of that mako
believe religion which is all talk and no
practice. The text chosen was James ii,
20, "Faith without works is dead"
The Roman Catholic church has been
,harged with putting too much stress up
on good works and not enough upon faith.
[ charge Professionalism with putting not
enough stress upon good works as connect
ID with salvation. Good works will never
save man, but II q 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 oil right inside, |
while their conduct is wrong outside. |
Their religion for the most part is made |
up Of talk-vigorous 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 |
a higher life that they have no patience
with ordinary Christians in the plain dis
charge of their duty. As near as i can tell,
this ocean craft is mostly sail and very lit
tie tonnage Foretopmast Etaysail, foretop-
mast studding sail, main topsail. mizzen
topsail- everything from flying iib to miz-
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age. Now, the world has got tired of this,
and 1t wants a religion that will work into
all the circumstances Of life. We do not
want new religion, but the old religion
applied In all possible directions.
Religion That Is All Talk.
Yonder = river with steep and rocky
banks, a. roars like q young Niagara
as it, yer its rough bed. 1t does
pothi talk about itself all the way
from lus .S.4rce In the mountain to the
place where 1t empties into the sea. The
banks are 30 steep that tho cattle cannot
come down to drink. 1t does not run one
fertilizing rill into the adjoining field. 1t
has not one gristmill or factory on either
side. 1t sulks in wet weather with chill
ing fogs. No one cares when that river Is
born among the rocksv and no one cares
when 1t dies into the sea. But yonder Is
another river, and it moses its banks with
the warm tides, and 1t rocks with floral
lullaby the water lilies asleep on Its bos-
ON. 1t invites herds Of cattle and flocks OF
sheep and coveys Of birds to come there
and drink. 1t has three gristmills on one
| side and six cotton factories on the other.
| 1t is the wealth of 200 miles Of luxuriant
farms. The birds of heaven chanted when
| 1t was born in the mountains, and the
ocean shipping will press in from the sea
| to hail it as It comes down from the At
lantic coast The one river is man who
lives for himself. The other river Is man
who lives for Others
Do you know how the site Of the ancient
city of Jerusalem was chosenP There were
| bn had odinfntfao fartnS
The one brother had large family; the
other had no family. The brother with
large family said: "There is my brother
with no family. He must be lonely, and
will try to cheer him up, and will TAXI
some of the sheaves from my field in thu
nighttime and set them over on his farm
and say nothing about it," The othel
brother said, ''My brother has large fam
lily, and 1t Is very difficult for him to sup
port them, and will help him along, ant
will take some of the sheaves from m.
farm in the nighttime and set them owe
on his farm and say nothing about it
So the work of transference went on nigh
after night and night after night, but ey
cry morning things seemed to be just a
they were, for, though sheaves had bee
subtracted from each farm, sheaves ha
also been added, and the brothers wer
perplexed and could not understand. Blu
one night the brothers happened to NEE
while making this generous transference
and the spot where they met was SO sacre
, that it was chosen as the site of the city G
Jerusalem. If that tradition should prov
unfounded, 1t will nevertheless stand as
beautiful allegory setting forth the ide
that wherever a kindly and generous an
loving act is performed that is the spot {
! for some temple of commemoration.
Faith without Works.
have often spoken to you about faitl
= but this morning I speak to you abor
works, for "faith without works is dead.
think you will agree with me in tt
statement that the great want of tn
world is more practical religion. We wal
practical religion to go into all merchal
disc 1t will supervise the labelling I
I goods It will not allow man to say tn;
thing was made In one factory when
was made In another. 1t will not allow Il
merchant to say, "That watch was maj
i ufactured in Geneva" when it was maj
ufactured in Massachusetts. 1t will n
allow the merchant to say that wine can
l from Madeira when it came from Califo
mia. Practical religion will walk along
the store shelves and tear off all the tai
that make Misrepresentation. 1t will n
allow the merchant to say, "That ispu
coffee, when dandelion root and chico
and other ingredients go into it. twill n
allow him to say, "That is pure sugar
when there are in 1t tsand and ground glas
= When practical religion gets its fl
p swing in the world, it will go down t
2 street. and 1t will come to that shoe sto
= and rip off the fictitious soles of many
Z fine looking pair Of shoes and show that
is pasteboard sandwiched between t
= sound leather. And this practical religi
Z will go right into a grocery store, and
will pull out tho plug of all the adultel
ted sirups, and it will dump into the q
Z barrel in front of the store the cassia ba
J that is sold for cinnamon, and the brio
= dust that is sold for cayenne pepper, a
4 It will shake out the prussian blue fri
) the tea leaves, and 1t will sift from
q flour plaster Of paris and bone dust a
soapstone, and 1t will by chemical ana
= sis separate the one quart of water FRI
4 the few honest drops of cows milk, a
1t will throw out the live animalcu
q from the brown sugar.
E The Age of Adulteration.
a There has been SO much adulteration
articles Of food that 1t is an amazement
& me that there Is healthy man or won
4 in America. Heaven only knows WI
they put into the spices, and into the 81
{ ars, and into the butter, and into the apo
4 ecary drug But chemical analysis and
= microscope have made wonderful revt
Z tions. The board of health In Massacl
: setts analysed great amount of whatS
q called pure coffee and found in 1t not I
4 particle of coffee. In England there
law that forblds the putting of alum
g bread. The public authorities examil
u 81 packages of bread and found them
= guilty. The honest physician, writing
= prescription, does not know but that
Il may bring death instead of health TO
Is patient, because there may be one Of