The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-12-25

T.DEwITT TALMAGE upon the fact that
they are all right inside, while their
conduct is wrong outside Their. re-
| ligion, for the most part, is made up OF
talk-vigorous talk, fluent talk, boast
full talk, perpetual talk. They will en-
terrain you by the hour in telling you
how good they are. They come up to
such higher life that they have no
patience 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.
Foretopmast staysail, foretopmast
studding sail. maintopsail, mizzentop-
sail-everyth from flying jib to miz-
zen spanlxer, but making no useful
voyage Now, the world has got tired
of this. and it wants a religion that
will work into all the circumstances of
life. We do not want a new religion,
but the old religion applied in all pos
sible directions.
Do YOU know how the site of the an
cient CITY of Jerusalem was chosen?
There were two brothers who had ad-
joining farms The one brother had
large family, the other had no family.
The brOth her with large family said:
There is my brother with no family;
he must he lonely and | will try 10
cheer him up. and ! will take some of
the sheaves from nv field in the night
time and set them over on his farm,
and saw nothin about it." the other
brother said: My brother has large
family, and it is very difficult for him
to support them. and | will help him
along, and | will take some of the
sheaves from nv farm in the night
time and set them over on his farm,
and say nothing about it" So the work
Of transference went on night after
night, and night after night; but every
morning things seemed to be just as
they were, for, though sheaves had
been subtracted from each farm,
sheaves had also been added, and the
brothers were perpieXed and could not
understand. But one night the broth
srs happened to meet while making
this generous transference, and the
spot where they met was so sacred that
it was chosen as the site of the City of
Jerusalem. If that tradition should
prove unfounded, it will nevertheless
stand as a beautiful allegory, setting
forth the idea that wherever kindly
and generous and loving act is per-
formed, that is the spot fit for some
temple of commemoration.
/ have often spoken to you about
faith, but this morning l speak to you
about works, for faith without works
is dead / think you wills 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. 1t will SUI
pervise the labelling of goods. 1t will
not allow man to say that thing
was made in one factory when it was
made in another 1t will not allow the
merchant to say that watch was manu-
featured in Geneva, Switzerland, 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 re-
lIigion will walk along by the store
shelves and tear off all the tags that
make Misrepresentation. 1t will not
allow the merchant to say that is pure
coffee when dandelion root and chicory
and other ingredients go into it. 1t
will not allow him to say that is 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 souls of
many fine-looking pair of shoes, and
show that it is pasteboard sandwiched
between the sound leather. And this
practical religion will go right into
grocery store and it will pull out the
plug of the adulterated syrups, and it
will dump into the ash barrel in front
IF 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 plaster of Paris and bonedust and
soapstone, and it will by chemical anal
ysis separate the one quart of water
from the few honest drops of cows
milk, and it will throw out the live
animalcules from the brown sugar.
There has been SO much adulteration
If articles of food that it is an amaze
ment to me that there is a healthy man
| Or woman in America. Heaven only
knows what they put into the spices,
md into the sugars, and into the but
ter, and into the apothecary drug.
But chemical analysis and the micro
scope have made wonderful revela-
tons The board of health in Massa-
,husetts analysed great amount of
what was called pure coffee, and found
IN it not one particle of coffee. In
England there is law that forbids
the putting of alum in bread. The
public authorities examined 81 pack
ages of bread; and found them all
guilty. The honest physician, writ
ling prescription, does not know but