Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-02-20

the Rest of the Week.
| Copyright. 1902. Louis Klopsch. NJ ~
Washington, Feb. 16.-ln this dis
course DR.. Talmage advises us to do
our best in the spheres where We are
| placed and not wait to serve God in
resounding position; text. l Corinthi-
ans K. 81, Whether. therefore, We eat
or drink. or whatsoever 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 our life. In
all ages OF the world there has been a
tendency to set apart certain 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 opportunity for
special performance Of Christian duty
and for regaliSg of the religious appe-
lite, but they cannot take the place OF
continuous exercise Of faith and pray
er. In other words. man cannot be
SO much of Christian on Sunday that
he can afford to be q wording all the
| rest OF 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 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 cas-
ties OF the blessed. propose to plead
for an everyday religion.
In the first place we want to bring
the religion of Christ into our CONVEX
sation. When a 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 Of Jesus Christ is 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 silenced
| 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
IL a hawk appear In the sky every voice
stops and the forests are still. Just so
have seen lively religious circle
silenced on the appearance of anything
like religious conversation.
My friends. the religion OF Jesus
Christ is something to talk about with
q glad heart. 1t Is brighter than the
| waters: 1t Is more cheerful than the
sunshine. Do not go around groaning
about your religion when you ought to
be singing 1t or talking it in cheerful
tones Of voice. How often 1t is that
We find men whose lives are utterly
inconsistent who attempt to talk relig-
ion and always make failure of It,
My friends. we must live religion or We
cannot talk it. II We have really felt
| the religion of Christ in our hearts, let
us talk of 1t, and talk it with an illumi-
mated courtenance. remembering that
| fhAr, NxxrA h.fa AnlA fa1 L. nx,I
gives special attention, and writes
down what they say: Malachi ill.,. 16.
| Then they that feared the Lord spake
often one to another. and the Lord
hearkened and heard 1t, and a book OF
(, remembrance was written"
Again, l remark, we must bring the
religion of Christ into our employ
ments. "Oh," you say. that is very
well II a man handle large sums of
3D.! money or II he have an extensive traf-
fic, but in the humble work in life that
am called 10 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.
| and the alder, cracking under the
cows hoof, sounds as loud In Gods ear
as the snap of worlds conflagration
When you have anything to do in life.
| however humble 1t may seem to be,
God Is always there to help you TO do
1t. religion that is not good in one
| place is not worth anything in an
other place. The man who has only a
days wages in his pocket as certainly
needs the guidance OF religion as he
| who rattles the keys of bank and
could abscond with a hundred thou
| sand dollars.
| There are those prominent In the
churches who seem to be on public &C.
casions 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
as sharpers on the street. They fleece
every sheep they can catch. A country
merchant comes in to buy spring or
fall goods. and he gets into the store
OF one OF these professed Christian
men who have really no grace in their
hearts, and he is completely. swindled.
He is so overcome that he cannot get
out OF town during the week. He stays
in town over Sunday. goes into some
church to get Christian consolation,
when what is his amazement to find
that the very man who hands him the
poor box In the church is the one who
relieved him of his money! But never