The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-02-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
NECESSITY or BRINGING RELIGION
INTO The EVERY DAY WORLD.



Copyright. 1902. Louis Klopsch. n. "
Washington. Feb. 16.-ln this dis
course Dr. Talmage advises US To do
our best in the spheres where we arc
placed and not wait Co serve God In
resounding position; text. Cor!nthi-
ans \, 81. Whether. therefore. ye cat
or drink. or Whatsoever ye do. do all 10
the glory OF Cod"
When the apostle In this text Gets
forth the idea that so common an ac-
ton as the taking OF food and drink Is
20 be conducted Co the glory OF God. nc
proclcims the Importance OF religion
In the ordinary afairs OF our life. In
all ages OF the world there has been a
tendency tn set apart certain days.
places and occasions FOR worship. and
10 think those were the chief realms
In which religion was TO act. Now.
holy days and holy places have their
Importance. They give opportunity for
special performance OF Christian duty
and for RECALLING OF the religious appe-
tite, but they cannot take the place OF
continuous exercise OF faith and pray
er. In other words. n man cannot be
so much OF Christian on Sunday that
he can afford 20 be wording all the
rest or the week. You cannot eat SO
much at the Sabbath banquet that you
can afford religious abstinence the 9th
er six days. The genuine Christian life
Is not spasmodic: does not go by Ats
and starts. IL tolls on through heat
and cold. up steep mountains and alons
dangerous decliyities. It's eye on the
everlasting hills crowned with the cas-
ties OF the blessed. | propose 20 plead
for an everyday religion.
In the first place We want 10 bring
the religion OF Christ into our CONVEX
sation. When q dam breaks and two
or three villages are overwhelmed or
an earthquake In South America swal-
lows whole city. then people begin
TO talk about the uncertainty OF life
and they imagine that they are engag.
ed In positively religious 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 religion. The real. genuine
Christian man 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 ~ Jesus Christ IL welcome
Go into circle even OF Christian peo-
pie. where they are full OF Joy and hi
larity. and talk about Christ or heaven
and everything Is Immediately sllenced.
As on a summer day when the forests
are full OF life. chatter. chirrup and
Garcia mighty chorus OF bird har-
mony. every tree branch an orchestra
n hawk appear In the sky every voice
stops and the forests arc still. Just 80
have seen q lively religious circle
Filenccd on the appearance OF anything
like religious conversation.
Ny friends. the religion OF Jesus
Christ is something 20 talk about with
glad heart. II Is brighter than the
waters; IL Ia more cheerful than tho
sunshine. DO not go around grooming
about your religion when You ought %
be singing q or talking Il IN cheerful
tones OF voice How often it Is that
we find men whose lives are utterly
inconsistent who attempt 60 talk relig
ion and always make n failure OF a..
My friends. We must live religion or We
cannot talk II. II We have really felt
the religion OF Christ Ia our hearts. let
US talk OF 81. and talk II with an illgml-
mated courtonance. remembering that
when two Christian people talk God
gives special attention. and writes
down what they say: Malachi iii.. 10.
Then they that feared the Lord spake
! often one to another. and the Lord
hearkened and heard Il. and a book OF
I remembrance was written"
Again. I remark. We must bring the
| religion OF Christ into our employ
monts oh" you say. that Is very
well u man handle large sums OF
money or N he have an extensive traf-
! flc. but in the humble work In life that
/ ! am called To the sphere Is too small
/ for the action OF such grand, heavenly
/ principles" Who told you so? Do you
not know that God watches the faded
leaf on the brooks surface as certainly
as he does the path OF "A blazing sun
And the moss that creeps up the side
OF the rock makes as much impression
upon Gods mind as the waving tops
OF Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar.
end the alder. cracking under the
cows hoof. sounds as loud in Gods ear
as the snap OF a worlds connagration.
When you have anything 90 do In life.
however humble II may seem 90 he
God is always there 20 help you 20 do
a. religion that IL not good In one
place is not worth anything i'm an
other place. The man who has only a
days wages I'm his pocket as certainly
needs the guidance OF religion as he
who rattles the keys OF a bank and
could abscond with a hundred thou
sand dollars.
There are those prominent In the
churches who seem to be on public &C.
oasicns very devout who do not put
the principles OF Christ's religion into
practice. They are the most inexor-
able OF creditors. They are the most
grasping OF dealers. They are known
az sharpers on the street. They fleece