St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-03-29
THE GLORY OF GOD.
acn One Should Work Faithfully
In His Appointed Place.

Each One Should Work Faithfully
In His Appointed Place.
Talnage Proclaims the Impor.
sace Of Religion I'm the Ordi-
Nay A6airs Of Life-God's
Common Blessings.
cS1yrisht. 1902. by Louis Klopsch, N. ~
Washington,
This discourse DR.. Talmage ad-
Us to do our best in the spheres
49,. We are placed and not to wait
.. God in resounding position;
Corinthians, 1921: whether,
s1efefore, ye eat or drink or whatso-
r ye do, do all to the glory of
men the apostle in this text sets
Urn the idea that so common an ac-
.a as the taking of food and drink
be conducted to the glory of
~ ne proclaims the Importance of
gaon in the ordinary affairs of our
Ie. In all ages of the world there
as Deen a tendency to set apart GER
sain days, places and occasions for
olsnap, and to think those were the
e1 realms in which religion was to
ace. Now, holy days and holy places
nave their Importance. They give OPP
Poftanity for special performance of
.ni1stlan duty and for RECALLING the
4els1ous appetite, but they cannot
.sAe the place of continuous exercise
VI 1alth and prayer. In other words
an cannot be SO much of a Chris
.'an on Sunday that he can afford to
oe worldling all the rest of the
week. 1t steamer put out for
noutnampton and goes one day in
.nat direction and the other six days
= other directions, how long before
tne steamer win get to Southampton?
~ ~1A never get there. And though
nan may seem to be voyaging
eayenward during the holy Sabbath
usy. = during the following six days
u tne week he is going toward the
world and toward the flesh and to-
yard the devil how long will it take
= n1m 20 reach the peaceful harbor of
Heaven? You cannot eat so much at
tne sabbath banquet that you can af-
1od religious abstinence the other
slx days. Heroism and princely be-
!, navlor on great occasions are no
apology for lack Of right demeanor
~ circumstances insignificant and in
conspicuous. The genuine Christian
life is not spasmodic; does not 90 by
hts and starts. It tolls on through
heat and cold, up steep mountains
and along dangerous declivities, it's
eye on the everlasting hills crowned
with the castles of the blessed. l
propose to plead for an everyday re-
ligion.
In the first place we want to bring
the religion of Christ into our con-
versation. When q dam breaks and
two or three villages are over
whelmed or an earthquake in South
America swallows whole city, then
people begin to talk about the uncer-
tainty Of life, and they imagine that
they are engaged in positively reli-
gious 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 reli-
gion. Il there is anything glad about
#. anything beautiful about it, any
thing important about it, we ought
TO be? continuously discussing. l i
have noticed that men just in proper
ton as their Christian experience is
shallow, talk about funerals and
and tombstones and
deathbeds. The real, genuine Chris
tian man talks chiefly about this life
and the great eternity beyond and
not so much about the insignificant |
p0ss 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 people, where they are full
d JOY and hilarity, and talk about
Christ or Heaven and everything is
silenced. As on a sum-
mer day when the forests are full of
life, chatter, chirrup and Garcia
mighty chorus of bird harmony.
svery tree branch an orchestra-if a
hawk appears in the sky, every voice
stops and forests are still. Just so
have seen lively religious circle ST.
enced on the appearance Of anything
ike religious conversation. No one
had anything to say save perhaps
Iome old patriarch in the corner Of
he room, who really thinks that
ought to be said under
he circumstances; SO he puts one
DOT over the other and heaves a long
Ugh and says: "Oh, yes; that's 20.
hats sol"
Ny friends, the religion of Jesus
,hrist is something to talk about with
glad heart. It is brighter than the
vaters; it is more cheerful than the
Do not go around grooming
bout your religion when you ought to
E singing it or talking it in cheerful .
ones OF voice. How often it is that ,
re find men whose lives are utterly
who attempt to talk reli-
ion and always make failure of it! .,
" friends, we must live religion, or !
4 cannot talk it. If man is cranky :
nd cross and uncongenial and hard in s
is dealings and then begins to talk a
bout Christ and heaven, everybody is E
.pelled by it. Yet I have heard such c
len say in whining tones: 1--WE are /
liserable sinners" "The Lord bless :
on" 'tThe Lord have mercy on you," i
hefr conversation interlarded with s
uch expressions, which mean nothing +
at canting, and canting is the worst e
,rm Of hypocrisy. If we have really c
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