The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-02-06
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
Ths Eminent Divine's Sermon De-
livered In Washington.
Subject: ga Practical RelIsion.'

The Roman Catholic Churcn. mas poon
charged with putting too much stress upon
charge Professionalism with putting NOT
enough stress upon good works rs connected
with salvation. Good works Will never Save
q man, but if man have not good works ne
has no real faith and no genuine rehSioh
There are those who depend upon the TACT
thai thew are all right inside while their con-
duct is wrong outside. Their religion for
the most part is made up OF talk-yigorou5
talk, fluent talk, boastfGl talk, perpetual
talk They will entertain you by the nour
in telling you how good they are. ihey
come M to such higher life thatthey have
no patience with ordinary Christians in the
plain discharge OF their duty. As near as
can tell this ocean craft is mostly sail ana
very little tonnage. Foretopmast staysaii,
foretopmast studding sail, main topsaii. niz-
zen iopsail everything from living 40 10
mizzen spanker, but making no useful voy-
age. Now, the world has got tined OF TINS,
| and II wants a.reigion that will work into
| ali the circumstances lie. We DO not want
anew religion. but the old religion applet
in all possible directions.
Wonder is a river with steep ana rocky
/ banks, and it roars like young Niagara as /
/ it rolls OH over its rough bed. 1t does noih-
/ igg bat talk about itself all the way from lis !
source in the mountain to the place Where IL |
empties into the sea. The banks are so Steep |
that the cattle cannot come down to drink. |
| Ii GOES QOI run Cuc s"S
adjoining nela. Ii has not one gristmiii or
factory on either side. 1t suiks Ia wei
weather with chilling fo2s. NO one cares
when that river Is born among the ROCKS ana
no one cares when it dies into the sea. But
yonder is another river. aad IT moses its
banks with the warm tides. and 1t rocks with
floral lullaby the water lilies asleep on its
bosom. 1t invites herds OF cattle and fiocks
| OF sheep and coveys OF birds to come there
and drink. 1t has three gristmilis on one
| side and six colt on factories on the other. 1t
is the wealth OF 200 miles OF Iuxuriant farms
Tho birds OF heaven chanted when it was
/ born in the mountains, and tho ocean ship
ping will press in from the sea to hail IL as 1t
| comes down from the Atlantic Coast. Inc
one river is Il man who lives for himself.
The other river is q man who Lives for
others.
DO Won know how the site OF the ancient
CITY of Jerusalem was chosen? There were
, two brothers who had adjoiuinS farms. The
| one BIZ other had large family, the other
hal no family. The brother with q large
family said: 'srhere is my brother with no
o family He must be lonely, and will try
T to cheer him up, and will take some of the
: sheaves from my field in the night time and
= set them over on his firm and say nothing
. about it." The other brother said: "My
Z brother has large family and 1t Is very
difficult for him to support them, and VIII
= helm him along and / will take some OF
the sheaves from my farm in the night time
AMI set them over On his farm and say moth
ing about it," So the work of transferenco
went on night after night and night after
night. but every morning things seemed TO
be Just as they We're, for, though sheayes
hal been substracted from each farm,
). sheayes had also been added, and the broth.
\ ers were perplexed and could not under
~ stand. But one night the brothers hup'
pened to meet while making this generou;
transference, and the spot where they me-
) was so sacred that it was chosen rs the sits
4 | OF the city of Jerusa' EN-. Ii that tradition
q should prove unfounded, ii will nevsrthe
less stand us q beautiful ailegory, setting
forth the idea that wherever q kindly an'
generous and loving act is performed that
the spot lit for some temple Of eommem
-. Grafton.
have often spoken to you about faith
!. but this morning Ispsak to you about works
for .sfaith without works is dead" l thin
. Won will agree with me in The statement tia
In / the greal want In this world is mora practi
he cal religion. We want practical religion 1
go into all merchandise. 1t will supervis
the labelling of goods. 1t will not allow
m. man 10 saw that thing was made in on
Zee factory when II was made in another ]
g., | will not allow the merchant to say that waite
80 was manufactured in Geneva when II Wa
Try manufactured in Massachusetts. 1t will NJ
flu! allow the merchant to say that wine can
oxv from Madeira when it came from Cailiornl
Practical religion will walk along by IL
CTS store shelves and tear Off all the tags thu
ay, make Misrepresentation. 1t will not ailo
act the merchant TO say tnat IS pure colee Wnt
dandelion root and chicory and other ingre
d tents go into it, 1t will not allow him TO 81
ew that is pure sugar when there are in 1t sar
len and ground glass.
oes When practical religion gets IFS full sTiT
in the wcr.d, 1t will go down the street an
IFS, it will come 10 that shoe store and rip on q
csc fictitious soes of many fine looking pair
I - A x.,ks &. cfnhr ri N
hu. shoss and show that II Is pasteooara san =
~, wiched between the sound leather. And th
'ue practical religion will go right into gr
Gerry store and il will pull out the plugs OF I
- the adulterated sirups, and 1t will dump in
\ tie ash barrel In from. of the store the cas-
}. bark that is sold for cinnamon aud the brio
dust that is sold for cayenne pepper. ana
will shake out the prussian blue from the
VIZ leaves, and it will sift rom the flour past
of paris and bone dust and soapstone and
will by chemical analysis separate the
Quart of water from the few honest drops
cows milk, and IT will throw out the Ii
animalcules from the brown sugar.
70 There las been so much a!ul:eraiion
articles OF food that it is an amazement
leir me that there is n healthy man or woman
,,t America. Heaven only knows what tn
nav put into the spices and into the sugars a.
ere into the butter AMI into the apoihocary Dirt
But chemical analysis and the microsco
have made wonderful revelations. The boa
OF nbisIu III MitSSftcDuSoitS NZeu Sft
amount of what was called pure coffee O
found 1t not one particle OF coffee. In En-
\ land there is Il Law that forbids the putt
IN OF alum in bread. The public authorit
~ examined fifty-oEe packages OF bread a
~ found them all guilty. The honest ply
. clan, writing n prescription, does not KIN
- but that il may bring death instead OF hen
to hi. patient, because there may be one
the drugs weakened by a che per art c
uch and another drug may be In full force, a
so the prescription may have just the Cpl
II d site effect intended. OIL of NORWOOD W
With ranted pure from Boston was found to hs
SOS fory-one per cent. of rosin and alcohol n
-. chlorororm. Scammony is one OF the n
sefS valuable medical drugs. 1t is very IA
very precious. 1t is the sap OF the gum o
DIN. tree or a bush in Syria. The root of the t
-. is exposed. an incision Is made into the ro
4on' and then shells are placed at this incisor
own catch the sap or the gum as ii exuaes. l
ues. very precious. this scammony. But
mpt has - - taSsn 70 alenno and The nsrcb
there mixes II with cheaper material; Il
mid. 1t comes on to the wholesale druggist in l.
-, don or New York, and he mixes it witt
cheaper material: tren it comes 10 the re
ana druggist, ami he mixes it with a chea
vice material. and by the time the poor sick n
tha,. gets II into his bottle il is ashes an oh
and sand, and some Of what has been ca
pure scammory after analysis has b
the | found to he no scammony at MI.
nave Now. practical religion will yet rectify
I IF xx-ilI 10, kypoert ical I