Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-01
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
NECESSITY OF BRINGING RELIGION
INTO THE EVERY DAY WORLD.
~Whatsosver Ye Do, Do 1t to the Glory
of CODA Man Cannot he . Chris
tian Sunday and WorIdIing All
the Rest OF the Week.

Copyright 1902, Louis Klopsch, N. 70
Washington, Feb. 16.-In 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 x, 81, Whether, therefore. ye eat
or drink. or whatsoever ye do, do all to
the glory of God"
When the apostle in this text sets
forth the idea that so common an ac-
lion as the taking of food and drink is
20 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
tendency to set apart certain days,
places and occasions for worship, and
20 think those were the chief realms
IN which religion was to act Now,
noly days and holy places have their
Importance They give opportunity for
special performance of Christian duty
and for regaling of the religious appe-
lite, but they cannot take the place of
continuous exercise of faith and pray
er. In other words, a man cannot be
SO much of Christian on Sunday that
he can afford to be a worldling 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 a circle even of Christian peo-
pie. where they are full of joy and hi
iarity, and talk about Christ or heaven
and everything is Immediately silenced
AS On a SulIlAicI deis WHICH lliC III Go &c
are full of life, chatter, chirrup and
Garcia mighty chorus of bird har-
mony, every tree branch an orchestra
If hawk appear in the sky every voice
stops and the forests are still. Just sc
/ have seen lively religious circle
silenced on the appearance of anything
like religious conversation
NV friends the religion of Jesu:
Christ is something to talk about witt
a glad heart. 1t is brighter than the
waters; it is more cheerful than the
sunshine Do not go around groanins
about your religion when you ought te
be singing it or talking it in cheerful
tones of voice How often it is tina
we find men whose lives are utterl.
inconsistent who attempt to talk relig
ion and always make failure of it
My friends, we must live religion or w
cannot talk it. If we have really fei
the religion of Christ in our hearts, lie
us talk of it, and talk it with an illumi
: mated courtenance, remembering tina
when two Christian people talk Co.
gives special attention. and write
down what they say; Malachi Ill. 1t
Then they that feared the Lord spak
often one to another, and the Lor'
hearkened and heard it. and a book o
remembrance was written"
There are those prominent In Tn
churches who seem to be on public oc
casions very devout who do not pu
the principles of Christ's religion int
practice. They are the most inexor
able of creditors. They are the mos
srasping of dealers. They are known
as sharpers on the street They ieec
every sheep they can catch A countr.
merchant comes in to buy spring o
fall goous and he gets into the stor
of one of these professed Christian
men who have really no grace in thei
hearts. and he is completely swindled
He is so overcome that he cannot ge
out of town during the week. He stay
in town over Sunday. goes into som
church to get Christian consolation
when what is his amazement to fin
that the very man who hands him tn
poor box in the church is the one VIII
relieved him of his money, But neye
mind; the deacon has his black Goa
on now He looks solemn and goe
home talking about ..the blessed ser
mon's If the wheat in the churche
should be put into a hopper. the frs
turn of the crank would make tn
chaff fly, / tell you. Some of thes
men are great sticklers for gospe
preaching They say You stan
there in bands in surplice and gov
and preach-preach like an ange1-an
we will stand out here and attend I
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