The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-14
DR.TAL1AdE's sERnON
The Eminent Dlvlns's Sunday
Discourse.


Revenue Of Spiritual strength.
WASHINGTON, d. Gin this discourse
DR. Talmage advises ne 10 do our beet IN
the spheres where we are placed ana not
wait 10 serve God in resounding position;
text, 1 Corinthians K, 81, Whether, there
fore, ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do,
do al TO the glory Of Cod
When the apostle Ia this text sets forth
the idea that so common an action a. the
taking OF food and drink is 10 be conduct
ed to the glory Of God, he proclaims the
importance Of religion in the ordinary at
fairs Of our life. In all eyes Of the world
there has been a tendency 10 set apart GER
tain days, places and occasions Tor wor.
ship, and to think those were the chief
realms in which religion was 20 act. Now,
holy days and holy places have their Inn
portance They give opportunity for spe-
cial performance OF Christian duty and for
RECALLING Of the religious appetite, but they
cannot take the place Of continuous exer-
else OF faith and prayer. In other words,
a man cannot be 80 much Of q Christian on
Sunday that he can afford 20 be a world
ling all the rest of the week III 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
days Of the week he is going toward the
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 prlncely
behavior on great occasions are no apology
for lack of right demeanor in circumstances
insignificant and inconspicuous. The gen.
uine Christian life Is not spasmodic; does
not 90 by fits and starts. 1t tolls on
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 to
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 shree 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 CONVEX
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 bt
continuously discussing.
I have noticed that men just in proper
ton as their Christian experience Is shal
low talk about funerals aud graveyards anC
tombstones and deathbeds. The real, gen
uine Christian man talkG chiefly about thi
life and the great eternity beyond and no
so much about the insignificant pass be
tween these two residences.
And vet how few circles there are wAer
the religion of Jesus Christ is welcome
Go into circle even of Christian people
where they are full of JOY and hilarity, an
talk about Christ or heaven and everythln
is Immediately silenced. As on a summe
day when the forests are 1dH OF life, chat
ter chirrup and Garcia mighty chorus G
bird harmony, every tree branch an orche'
tra-if a hawk appea. in the sky, ever
voice stops and the forests are ;till.
Just so have seen a lively religious eli
Gle silenced on the appearance OF anythin
like religious conversation. No one ha
. anything to say save perhaps some old pa
. triarch in the corner OF the room, VIII
! really thinks that something ought to
said under the circumstances; so he put
/ one foot over the other and heaves Ion
/. sigh and says, ooh, yes; that's SO, that
. so"
: NY friends, the religion Of Jesus Chris
Is something to talk about with .gla
t heart. 1t is brighter than the sunshln
/. Do not go around grooming about your
C ligon when you ought to be singing 1t
talking it in cheerful tones OF voice, no
often it is that we find men whose llv'
J. are utterly inconsistent who attempt
;. talk religion and always make failure
|, It'll My friends we must live religion
we cannot talk it. If man IS cranky ar
e cross and uncongenial and hard in his dea
# ines and then begins to talk about Chrl
=, and heaven, everybody is repealed by
=" Yet have heard such men say in whInll
9 tones, owe are miserablo sinners" III
y Lord bless you," "The Lord have mercy
q YOU" their conversation interlarded WI
% such expressions which mean nothing b
= canting, and eanting IS the worst form I
e hypocrisy If we have really telt the
Q. hgion of Christ in our hearts, let US ia
=, it, and talk it with an illuminated coun'
, nance, remembering that when two Chr
-e tan people talk God gives special attic
S. ton and writes down what they say: NJ
"a lachi iii. l6, "Then they that feared t
Lord spoke often one to another, and t
"a Lord hearkened and heard it. and BIO
g of remembrance was written"
Again, remark, we must bring the re
i. Cion of Christ into our employments. Oh
you say, chat is very well if man hanC
le large sums of money or if he have an
III tensive traffic, but in the humble work
,e life that I am called to the sphere is
- small for the action OF such grand, heavr
" " principles" Who tod you so? Do y
n no. know that God watches the faded !
rs on the brooks surface as certainly as
p does the path of blazing sun? And
g moss that crecps up the SIDE of the re
Nc makes as much impression upon 20
re mind as the waving tops of Oregon p
nv and Lebanon cedar, and the alder, era
Nv ling under the cows hoof, sounds as 10
~ in Gods ear as the snap of worlds c.
n. aagraton. When you have anything to
re in life, howevcr humble it may seem to
20 Coz is always there to help you to do it
:, If your wor'- is that of fisherman, Il
ca God vii help you, as He helped Sin
It's ,vhai, He ara00ed Genuesaret liz VI