Milford chronicle., 1902-02-21

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. | Corinthi-
ans X. 81, whether, therefore. ye 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 Cod 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 RECALLING of the religious appe-
tite, but they cannot take the place Of
continuous exercise of faith and pray
er. In other words, man cannot be
so much of a Christian on Sunday that
he can afford to be a wording all the
rest of the week. If u steamer put out
for Southampton and go one day in
that direction and the other six days in
other directions, how long before the
steamer will get to Southampton? 1t
nil MI fhnrrfrla a
man may seem to be vOyaging heaven
ward 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 toward 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 afford religious
abstinence the other six days. Hero
ism and princely behavior on great &C.
casions are no apology for lack Of right
demeanor in circumstances insigniti-
cant and incOnspicuous. The genuine
Christian life is not spasmodic; does
not go by fits and starts. 1t tolls on
through heat and cold. up steep noun
tains and along dangerous declivities.
its eye on the everlasting hills crowned
with the castles of the blessed. pro-
pose 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 Il 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. If there is any
thing glad about it. anything beautiful
about it. anything important about it
we ought to be continuously discuss
ing. | have noticed that men just
in proportion as their Christian eXpe
| rience is shallow talk about funerals
and graveyards and tOmbstOnes and
deathbeds. The real. genuine Chris
tan man talks chiefly about this life
and the great eternity beyond and MOI
so much about the insignificant pass
between these two residences. AnC
yet how few circles there are where
the religion of Jesus Christ is welcome
Go into a circle even of Christian PEG
pie. where they are full Of joy and hi
larity, and talk about Christ or HEAVIER
and everything is Immediately silenced
As on a summer day when the forest
are full of life, chatter. chirrup ant
Garcia mighty chorus of bird harmO
ny. every tree branch an orchestra
a hawk appear in the sky, every vOic
stops and the forests are still. Just S
have seen lively religious circl
silenced on the appearance of anythin
like religious conversation. No one ha
anything to say save perhaps some oil
patriarch in the corner of the room, VIII
really thinks that something ought t
he said under the circumstances; so h
puts one foot over the other and heave
a long sigh and says, ooh, yes; that
so. that's so!'
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