Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-03-06

fuI For Gods Common BIessi.ss-
Reveruo OF Spiritual Strength.
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X X. lahimase ADVISES US TO 40 oaf pest IN
thc spheres wHere we 4re plsceo ahu no.
walt 70 serve God IN re .esonnaang ..ug position;
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shin and ~ tb;nk those ware the ch;ef
ra,t,,s in wS;oh raI;,;"ln - 70 40. NJ
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no,tance Tber e;,,e nnnortnn;tv for .,a.
.;al nerfnr,n,nc, 81 Chr;st;.n d,tv ana for
rsn,I;nr esr nf tSo ,cSr;o,. .nnet;,e h,t I ther
osnno4 tokA tbn nisno &C cpnt;nnou. eYsr.
c;an of f.;+b ,nJ nrav.r In othsr uords
man cnnnot he 60 ,ruch of q Chr;.t;an an
sunday that he can w afford to be a world.
Ing ali the rest of the week If q steamer
nut out for Southampton and 90 one dav
other direction. how lone before the ,te.m-
er will ret to Southamptons It will never
ret there And though a mau NAV scem
1o he yovarinu beavenward during the holy
Sabbath dnv If during tbr followinr s;S
days of the week he is going toward the
world md toward the Hesh and toward the
devil how long will Il take him to reach
the peaceful harbor Of heaven. You can.
not eat so much at the Sabbath BANQUET
that YOU can afford religious abstinence
the other .ix davs Ueroism and nrincelv
behavior on great occasions are no anolooy
for lock of RIGHT demeanor in oircumstances
ipsiVni6cant and inconspicuous. The qen.
NOT 90 bv Ats and starts IT tolls ON
through heat and cold. IN steep mount
aims and along dangerous declivities. its
eve on the eyerlnstino hills crowned with
the castles of Che blessed. I propose to
plead for an everyday religion.
T, tbe first nlace We want to bring th.
religion Of Christ into orr conversation.
When n dam breaks and two or three vii
lares are overwhelmed or an earthouake
in South America swallows a whole citv.
then neonle begin To talk about the rneer-
tsintv of life. and thew imagine that thev
are engaged IN pos,tive,v reIiqious conyer.
sation. No. You NAV talk about these
fh;nrs and have M orace of Cod Al ali in
your heart. We ought every day to be
talking religion. If there is anything glad
about it. anything beautiful about it, any
thing important about it, we ought to be
| continuously discussing.
[ have noticed that men just in proper
| ton as their Christian experience is shall
| low talk about funerals and graveyards and
tombstones and deathbeds. The real, gen.
uine Christian man talks chiefly about this
| life and the great eternity beyond and not
so much about the insignificant pass be-
tween these two residences.
And yet how few circles there are where
| the religion of Jesus Christ is welcome.
| Go into circle even of Christian people,
where they are full of JOY and hilarity, and
| ". Il y
| is immediately sllenced. As on summer
| day when the forests are full of life, chat
ter, chirrup and Garcia mighty chorus of
| bird harmony. every tree branch an orches-
| tra-if a hawk appear in the sky, every
voice stops and the forests are still.
Just so | have seen lively religious cir
| rle sienced on the appearance of anything
| like religious conversation. No one had
anything to say save perhaps some old pa
triarch in the corner of the room, who
| really thinks that something ought to he
said under the circumstances; so he puts
one foot over the other and heaves long
sigh and says, "Oh, yes; that's so, that S
so!'
! Nv friends. the religion of Jesus Christ
is something to talk about with a glad
heart. It is brighter than the sunshine.
| Do not 90 around crosning about your re-
| licion when Won ought to be singing it or
! talking It in cheerful tones of voice. How
| often it is that we find men whose lives
are utterly inconsistent who attempt to
talk religion and ALWAYS make a failure OF
| Il! Nv friends. we must live religion or
| we cannot talk Il IF man is cranky and
cross and uncongenial and hard in his deal
| inps and then begins to talk about Christ
, and heaven. everybody is repelled by it.
! Vet 7 have heard such men saw in whining
| tones 1--WE are miserable sinners" s'The
! Lord bless YOU" .'The Lord have mercv on
YOU" their conversation interlarded with
such expressions which mean nothing but
canting, and canting is the worst form of
hvpocrisv. If we have really felt the re-
| Ggion of Christ in orr hearts let us talk
| # and taljt IL with an illuminated counte.
nance rememherina that when two Chris
| tian people talk God gives special atten-
tion and writes down what thew say: Ma
| lachi iii ls Then they that feared the
Lord smoke often one to- another. and the
Lord hearkened and heard It. and a book
IS ro,,ar,hr,n ,ros rr;tten y