Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-08

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course Dr. Talmage advises us to do
bur best In the spheres where we are
placed and not wait to serve God in
'esounding position; text, | Corinthi-
Ins X, 81, Whether, therefore. ye eat
r drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to
he glory of God"
When the apostle in this text sets
orth the idea that SO common an ac-
ion as the taking of food and drink is
be conducted to the glory of God, Ae
roclalms the Importance of religion
the ordinary affairs of our life. In
III ages OF the world there has been a
endency to set apart certain days,
'laces and occasions for worship, and
think those were the chief realms
n which religion was to act. Now,
loly days and holy places have their
Importance. They give opportunity for
pecial performance of Christian duty
md for regaling of the religious appe-
lite, but they cannot take the place of
continuous exercise of faith and pray
n. In other words. a man cannot be
% much of a Christian on Sunday that
he can afford to be a worldling all tie
est of the week. You cannot eat so
much at the Sabbath banquet that you
AN afford religious abstinence the 9TH
" six days. The genuine Christian life
s not spasmodic; does not go by fits
ind starts. 1t tolls on through heat
md cold, up steep mountains and along
dangerous declivities, its eye on the
everlasting hills crowned with the cas-
les of the blessed. | propose to plead
or an everyday religion.
In the first place we want to bring
he religion of Christ into our conver-
iation. When a dam breaks and two
Ir three villages are overwhelmed or
IN earthquake in South America swal-
ows a whole city, then people begin
10 talk about the uncertainty of life,
and they imagine that they are engag-
I'd in positively religious conversation.
No. You may talk about these things
md have no grace of God at all In
Four 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
pot so much about the insignificant
pass between these two residences. An(
ret 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
larity, and talk about Christ or HEAVIER
and everything is Immediately silenced
AS on summer day when the forests
are full of life, chatter, chirrup ant
carol-a mighty chorus of bird har
mony, every tree branch an orchestra
IL a hawk appear in the sky every voic
stops and the forests are still. Just 81
have seen lively religious circl
Eilenced on the appearance of anything
like religious conversation.
My friends, the religion of Jesu
Christ Is something to talk about wit
glad heart 1t is brighter than tn
waters; 1t Is more cheerful than tn
sunshine. Do not go around groanin
about your religion when you ought t
be singing it or talking 1t in cheerfu
tones of voice. How often 1t is tha
we find men whose lives are utterl
inconsistent who attempt to talk relis
ion and always make a failure of |
NY friends, we must live religion or "
cannot talk 1t. II we have really fe
the religion of Christ in our hearts, Il
us talk OF 1t, and talk 1t with an illum
mated courtenance, remembering ths
when two Christian people talk Go
gives special attention. and write
down what they say; Malachi ill.,, L
Then they that feared the Lord spah
often one to another. and the Lor
hearkened and heard 1t, and book I
remembrance was written"
There are those prominent in th
churches who seem to be on public OF
casions very devout who do not pl
the principles of Christ's religion int
practice. They are the most inexo
able OF creditors. They are the mo-
: grasping OF dealers. They are know
az sharpers on the street. They feet
every sheep they can catch. A countI
merchant comes In to buy spring {
fall goods, and he gets into the stol
of one Of these professed Christla
men who have really no grace in the
hearts, and he is completely swindle
He is so overcome that he cannot &
out of town during the week. He sta!
in town over Sunday, soes into son
church to get Christian eonso'etio
when what 10 his amazement to III
that the very man who hands him t
moor box in the church Is the one W
reI,eved him of his money! But nev
mind. the deacon has his black &C
on now. He looks solemn and &c
home talking about "the blessed s.
mon" II the wheat in the church
should be. put into a hopper, the n