The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-22
THE GLORY OF GOD.
Each One Should Work Faithfully
in His Appointed Place.
DR.. TaIinage croclaims the impor-
lance of Religion in the Ordi-
nary Affairs of Life-God's
Common Blessings.

nary Affairs of Lffe-G0c'
Common Blessings.
copyright, 1902, by Louis Klopsch, N. ~
Washington,
In this discourse DR.. Talmage adj
vises us to do our best in the spheres
where we are placed and not to wait
to serve God in resounding position;
text, 1 Corinthians, 1881: whether,
therefore, We eat OF drink or whatso-
ever We do, do all to the glory OF
God"
When the apostle in this text sets
forth the idea that SO common an ac-
ton as the taking of food and drink
is to be conducted to the glory OF
God, he proclaims the Importance OF
religion in the ordinary affairs OF u
life. In all ages of the world there
has been a tendency to set apart GER
tain days, places and occasions for
worship, and to think those were the
chief realms in which religion was to
act. Now, holy days and holy places
have their Importance. They give OPP
portunity for special performance OF
Christian duty and for RECALLING the
religious appetite, but they cannot
take the place of continuous exercise
of faith and prayer. In other words
a man cannot be SO much of a Chris
tian on Sunday that he can afford to
be a wording all the rest of the
week. If a steamer put out for
Southampton and goes one day in
| that Isro,sr n-J A. -kL-- - l-.-c
in other directions, how long before
the steamer will get to Southampton?
1t will never get there. And though
a man may to be voyaging
Heavenward during the holy Sabbath
day, If during the following six days
of the week he is going toward the
world and toward the flesh and to-
ward the devil how long will it take
him to reach the peaceful harbor of
Heaven? You cannot eat so much at
the Sabbath banquet that you can at
fod religious abstinence the other
six days. Heroism and princely be-
havior on great occasions are no
apology for lack of right demeanor
in circumstances insignificant and in
conspicuous. The genuine Christian
life is not spasmodic; does not go by
fits and starts. 1t tolls on through
heat and cold, up steep mountains
and along dangerous declivities, its
eye on the everlasting hills crowned
with the castles of the blessed. l
propose to plead for an everyday re-
ligion.
In thn Erc< r1,on xx,o xr,a-% - h~f--
the religion of Christ into our con-
versation. When a dam breaks and
two or thrse villages are over
whelmed or an earthquake in South
America swallows a whole city, then
people begin to talk about the uncer-
tainty of life, and they imagine that
they are engaged in positively reli-
gious conversation. No. You may
talk about these things and have no
grace Of God at all in your heart. We
ought every day to be talking reli-
gion. If there is anything glad about
it, anything beautiful about it, any
thing important about it, we ought
to be? continuously discussing. 1
have noticed that men just in proper
ton as their Christian experience is
shallow, talk about funerals and
~graveyards and tombstones and
~deathbeds. The real, genuine Chris
tian mar talks chiefly about this life
and the great eternity beyond and
not so much about the insignificant
pass between these two residences.
And yet how few circles there are
where the religion of Jesus Christ is
welcome. Go into a circle even of
Christian people, where they are full
of joy and hilarity, and talk about
Christ or Heaven and everything is
Immediately silenced. As on a sum-
mer day e h forests are full of
life, chatter, chirrup and Garcia
mighty chorus of bird harmony.
every tree branch an orchestra-if n
hawk appears in the sky, every voice
stops and forests are still. Just so
j have seen a lively religious circle ST.
fenced on the appearance of anything
like religious conversation. No one
had anything to say save perhaps
some old patriarch in the corner of
the room, who really thinks that
something ought to be said undo
the circumstances; so he puts one
foot over the other and heaves n lopo
sigh and says: "Oh, yes; that's so,
that's sol"
Ny friends, the religion of Jesus
Christ is something to talk about with
a glad heart. 1t is brighter than the
waters; it is more cheerful than the
sunshine. Do not go around groanino
about your religion when you ought to
be singing it or talking it in cheerful
tones of voice. How often il is tba,
we find men whose lives are utterlv
inconsistent who attempt to talk reli.
gion and always make a failure of ~
My friends, we must live religion. n,
we cannot talk it.. If a man is crank
and cross and uncongenial and hard in
his dealings and then begins to tall
about Christ and heaven, everybody Is
repealed by it. Yet l have heard suct
men say in whining tones: 1--WE are
miserable sinners" "The Lord HES,
you" 1.-The Lord have mercy on YOU
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