The age-herald., 1902-02-23
Dr. Talrmage's Sermon.

,s somethinR to talk about with glad heart. It is brighter than the waters; It is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do not go around grooming about your re liaion when you ought to be singing IL or talking it in cheerful tones or Voice' How often it is that we find men Whose lives are utterly inconsistent who at- tempt to talk religion and always make a failure of 1t My friends, we must hVe religion or we cannot talk 1t. IT man
 Is cranky and cross and uncongenial
 and hard in his dealings and then De- gins to talk about Christ and heaven everybody is repelled by it. Yet l have
 heard such men say in whining tones.
 We are miserable sinners The Lord bless you" The Lord have %lercy on you" their conversation interlarded with such expressions. which mean nothing but canting, and canting Is the worst form of hypocrisy. If we have really 1eit the religion of Christ in our hearts, let us talk 1t, and talk it with an iliumln- ated countenance. remembering that when two Christian people talk God gives special attention and writes down what they say; Malachi iii, 16, "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to am other, and the Lord hearkened and heard it. and book of remembrance was writ ten.'
 Again, l remark, we must bring the religion of Christ into our employments. Oh" you say, that is very well if a man handle large sums of money or if he have an extensive traffic, but in the hum be work in life that l 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, and the alder, cracking under the cows hoof, sounds as loud in Gods ear as the snap of a 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. If your work Is that of a fisherman. then God will help you, he helped Simon when he dragged Gennesaret. If your work is drawing water then he will help you as when he talked at the well curb to the Samaritan woman. If you are en- gagged in the custom house, he will lead you as he led Matthew sitting at the receipt of customs. A religion that is not good in one place is not worth anything in another place. The man who has only a day s wages Tn HIS pOCheI dS CeFldlllly
 needs the guidance of religion as he who rattles the keys of bank and could ab- scond with a hundred thousand dollars.
 Putting Religion Into Practice.
 There are those prominent in the churches who seem to be on public oc- casions very devout who do not put the principles of Christs religion into prac- tice. They are the most memorable 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 can not get out of town during the week. He stays in town oyer 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 mind; the
 deacon has his black coat on now He
 looks solemn and goes home. talking about "the blessed sermon" If the wheat | in the churches should be put into a hop | per. the first turn of the crank would | make the chaff fly l tell you. Some of these men are great sticklers for gospel preaching. They say: You stand there | in bands and surplice and gown and preacfH-preach like an angel-and we will stand out here and attend to busi-
 ness. Don't mix things. Don't get busi-