The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-20
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Rev. DR.. TaImage Says Be Grateful for
Gods Common Blessings.
Put Your Religion Iuto Practice Revenue
Of Spiritual Strength.

WASHINGTON, y. C.--1p this discourse
DIR. Talmage advises us to do our best in
the spheres where VIC are placed and not
wait TO serve God in resounding position;
text, Corinthians X, 81, whether, there.
fore, 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 action as the
taking OF food and drink is to be conduct.
cd to the glory Of God, he procaims the
importance of religion in the ordinary af
fairs of our life In all ages of the world
there has been tendency to set apart Ger
tain days, places and occasions for wor.
ship, and to think those were the chief
realms in which religion was to act. Now
holy days and holy places have their i'm
portance. They give opportunity for spe
cial performance of Christian duty and for
regaling of the religious appetite, but they
cannot take the place of continuous exer.
else Of faith and prayer. In other words
n man cannot be SO much of a Christian on
Sunday that he can afford to be a world
ling all the rest OF the week. If steamer
put out for Southampton and go one day
in that direction and the other six days in
other directions, how long before the steam.
er will get to Southampton? 1t will never
get there. And, though man may seem
to be voyaging heavenward during the holy
Sabbath day, if during the following six
world and toward the flesh and toward the
devil how long will it take him to reach
the peaceful harbor of heaven. You can
not eat so much at the Sabbath banquet
that you can afford religious abstinence
the other six days. Heroism and princely
behavior on great occasions are no apology
for lack OF right demeanor in circumstances
insignificant and inconspicuous. The gem
une Christian life is not spasmodc; does
0n hu tc nd tni1 IN
through heat and cold, up steep mount.
aims and along dangerous declivities, its
eye on the everlasting hills crowned with
the castles of the blessed. / propose tc
plead for an everyday religion.
In the first place we want to bring the
religion of Christ into our conversation,
When a dam breaks and two or three vii
lagos are overwhelmed or an earthquake
in South America swallows a whole city,
then people begin to talk about the uncer'
tainty of life, and they imagine that they
are engaged in positively religious conver-
sation. 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 anything glad
about it, anything beautiful about it, any
thing important about it, we ought to be
continuously discussing.
/ have noticed that men just in proper
tion as their Christian experience is shall
low talk about funerals and graveyards and
tombstones and deathbeds. The real, gen.
uine Christian man talks chiefly about this
life and the great eternity beyond and not
so much about the insignificant pass be-
tween these two residences.
And yet how few circles there are where
the religion of Jesus Christ is welcome.
Go into circle even of Christian people,
where they are full OF joy and hilarity, and
talk about Christ or heaven and everything
is Immediately sileneed. As on summer
day when the forests are full of life, chat
ter, chirrup and Garcia mighty chorus OF
bird harmony, every tree branch an orches-
tra-if hawk appear in the sky, every
voice stops and the forests are still.
Just so ] have seen lively religious cir.
Gle silenced on the appearance Of anything
like religious conversation. No one had
anything to say save perhaps some old pa
triarch in the corner of the room, who
really thinks that something ought to be
said under the circumstances; so he puts
one foot over the other and heaves long
sigh and says, "Oh, yes; that's so, that's
sol"
My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ
is something to talk about with a gad
heart. 1t is brighter than the sunshine
Do not go around groaning about your re
ligion when you ought to be singing 1t oi
talking it in cheerful tones of voice. How
often it is that we find men whose live,
are utterly inconsistent who attempt tC
talk religion and always make failure o.
it! My friends, we must live religion ol
we cannot talk it, If a man is cranky ane
cross and uncongenal and hard in his deal
ings and then begins 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" ''Thc
Lord bless you," "The Lord have mercy OF
you" their conversation interlarded witt
such expressions which mean nothing but
canting, and canting is the worst form o.
hypocrisy. If we have really felt the re
ligion of Christ in our hearts, let us talk
it, and talk it with an illuminated counte
nance, remembering that when two Chris
tian people talk God gives special atten
tion and writes down what they say: Ma
lachi iii, 10. "Then they that feared the
Lord spoke often one to another, and the
Lord hearkened and heard it: and bool
of remembrance was written"
Again. | remark, we must bring the reli
gion OF Christ into our employments. oh
you say, that is very well if man handle
large sums of money or If he have an eX
tensive traffic, but in the humble work in
life that | am called to the sphere is toe
small for the action OF such grand, heaven
ly principles Who told you so? DO yor
not know that God watches the faded leal
Oh lnt DIOOR HuIldcc Nb CSlldlnly us liz
does the path of a blazing sun? And the
moss that creeps up the side of the rock
makes as much impression upon God.
mind as the waving tops OF Oregon pint
and Lebanon cedar, and the alder, crack
ling under the cows hoof. sounds as loud
in Gods ear as the snap of a worlds con
hagraton. When you have anything to do
in life, however humble it may seem to be
God is always there to help you to do it.
| II your work is that of fisherman, ther
God will help you. as He helped Simon
when He dragged Gennesaret. II your
work IS drawing water then He will hell
you, as when He talked at the well curb
| TO the Samaritan woman. II you are en-
gagged in the custom house, He win lead
| you as He led Matthew sitting at the re
| oeipt Of customs.
| A religion that is not good in one place
is not worth anything in another place
The man who has only days wages in hi;
| pocket as certainly needs the guidance oI
religion as he who rattlcs the keys of ,
! bank and could abseond with hundred
, thousand dollars
There are those prominent in tn,
churches who seem to be on public oeea
sions very deyout who do not put the
principles of Christ's religion into practice
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