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When wandering thro’ life’s checker'd way,
With feet more weary, day by day,
I passed thro’ sweet Arcadian bow’rs
In which were lovely flow’rets fair,
That shed their perfume in the air,
As swiftly sped the golden hours;
But one was fairer than the rest,
And fondly too was she caressed—
A queen among the op’ning flow’rs.
’Twas on a chilling winter day,
That I again did pass that way,
And paused within that self-same bow' r
That lovely little flower gem
Was drooping on the parent stem,
And sadder grew each passing hour;
For what had been so fresh and fair
And was so fondly cherished there
Was soon tc be a wither’d flow’r.
Again l chanced to pass that way—
’Twas near at the close of day,
When vesper hymns are sung at ev'n -
But ’mid those leaves of living green, .
No vestige of that flow’r was seen:
Where chilling winds had oft beendriv’n;
The essence of its petals fair.
Had risen on tho morning air,
Into Elysian fields of Heaven. S. S. A.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeW'ITT TALMAGE
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
containing 26 Sermons is issued every
three months. Price 30 cents, §1 per an
num].
SHAMS IN RELIGION.
“Faith without works is dead.”—James,
iff, 20.
The Roman Catholic Church has
been charged with putting too much
stress upon good works and not enough
upon faith. I charge Protestantism
with putting not enough stress upon
good works as connected with salva
tion. Good works will never save a
man, but if a man have not good
works he lias no real faith and no gen
uine religion. There are those who de
pend upon the fact that they are all right
inside while their eonductis wrongout
side. Their religion, for the most part,
is made up of talk—vigorous talk, flu
ent talk, boasttul talk, perpetual talk.
They will entertain you by the hour in
telling yon how good they are. They
come up to such a higher life that they
have no patience with ordinary Chris
tians in the plain discharge of their du
ty. As near as I can tell this ocean
craft is mostly sail and very little ton
nage. Foretopmast staysail, foretop
mast studding sail, maintopsail, miz
zentopsail—everything from Hying jib
to mizzen spanker, but making no use
ful voyage. Now, tho world has got
tired of this, and it wants a religion
that will work into all the circumstan
ces of life. Wo don’t want anew relig
ion, but the old religion applied in all
possible directions. Yonder is a river
with steep and rocky banks, it roars
like a young Niagara as it rolls all over
its rough bod. It does nothing but talk
about itself all the way from its source
in the mountain to the place where it
empties into the sea. The banks are
so steep, the cattle cannot come down
to drink. It does not run one fertiliz
ing rill into the adjoining field. It has
not one grist mill or factory on eitliei
side. It sulks in wet weather with
chilling fogs. No one cares when that
river is born among the rocks, and no
one cares when it dies into the sea.
But yonder is another river, and it mos
ses its hanks with the warm tides, and
it rocks with floral lullaby the water
lillies asleep on its bosom. It invites
herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and
coveys of birds to come there and drink.
It has three grist mills on one side and
six cotton factories on the other. It is
the wealth of two hundred miles a lnxu
riant farms. The birds of heaven
chanted when it was born in the moun
tains, and the ocean shipping will press
in from the sea to hail it as it comes
down to the Atlantic coast. The one
river is a man who lives for himself.
The other river is a man who livet for
others. Do vou know how the site of
the ancient city of Jerusalem was chos
en? There were two brothers who had
adjoining farms. The one brother had
a large family, tho other had no fami
ly. . The brother with a large family
said: '‘There is my brother with no
family; he must be lonely, and I will
try to cheer him up, and I will take
some of the sheaves from my fiald in
the night time and set them over on his
farm, and say nothing about it.” The
other brother said: “My brother has a
largelfamily and it is very difficult for
him to support them, and I will help
him along, and I will take some of the
sheaves from my farm in the night time
and set them over on his farm, and say
nothing about it.” So the work of
transference went on night after night,
and night after night; but every morn
ing things seemed to he just as they
were, for though sheaves had been sub
tracted from each farm, sheaves had
also been added, and the brothers were
perplexed and could not understand.
But one night the brothers happened to
meet while making this generous trans
ference, and the spot where they met
was so sacred that it was cliisen as
the site of the city of Jerusalem. If
that tradition should prove unfounded,
it will nevertheless stand as a beauti-
ful allegory, setting forth the idea that
wherever a kindly and generous and
loving act is performed, that is the spot
lit for some temple of commemoration.
I have olten spoken to you about
faith, but this morn ; ng I speak to you
about works, for “faith without works
is dead.” I think you will agree with
me in the statement that the great
want of this world is more practical re
ligion. We want practical religion to
go into all merchandise. It will super
vise the labeling of goods. It will not
allow a man to say that a thing was
made in ono ( factory when it was made in
another. It will not allow the merchant
to say that that watch was manufac
tured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it
was manufactured in Massachusetts.
It will not allow the merchant to say
that wine came from Madeira when it
came from California. Practical re
ligion will walk along by the store
shelves and tear off ail the tags that
make misrepresentation. It will not
allow the merchant to say that is pure
coffee when dandelion root and chicory
and other ingredients go into it. It
will not allow him to say that is pure
sugar when there are in it sand and
ground glass. When practical relig
ion gets its full swing in tho world it
will go down the street, and it will
come to that shoe store and rip oft’ the
fictitious soles of many a fine-looking
pair of shoes, and show that it is paste
board sandwitched between the sound
leather, and this practical religion will
go right into a grocery store, and it
will pull out the plugs of all the adul
terated syrups, and it will dump into
the ash barrel in front of the store the
cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon
and the brick dust that is sold for ca
yenne paper, and it will shake out the
Prussian blue from the tea leaves, and
it will sift from the flour plaster of
Paris and bone dust and soapstone, and
it will by chemical analysis separate the
one quart of Ridgewood water from the
few honest drops of cow’s milk, and it
will throw out the live animalcula?
from the brown sugar. There has been
so much adulteration of articles of food
that it is an amazement to me that
there is a healthy man or woman in
America. Heaven only knows what
they put into the spices, and into the
sugars, and into the butter, and into
the apothecary drugs. But chemical
analysis and the microscope have
made wonderful revelations. The
Board of Health in Massachusetts ana
lyzed a great amount of what was call
ed pure coffee and found in it not one
particle of coffee. In England there is
a law that forbids the putting of alum
in bread. The public authorities ex
amined fifty-one packages of bread and
found them all guilty. The honest
physician, writing a prescription, does
not know that it may bring death in
stead of health to his patient, because
there may be one of the drugs weaken
ed by a cheaper article, and another
drug may be in full force, and so the
prescription may have just the opposite
effect intended. Oil of wormwood war
ranted pure from Boston was found to
have 41 per cent, of resin and alcohol
and chloroform. Scammony is one
of the most valuable medical
drugs. It is very rare, very precious.
It is the sap or the gum of a tree or a
bush in Syria. The root of the tree
is exposed, an incision is made into the
root, and then shells are placed at this
incision to catch the sap or the gum as
it exudes. It is very precious, this
scammony. But tho peasant mixes it
with a cheaper material; then it is taken
to Aleppo, and the merchant there
mixes it with a cheaper material; then
it comes to the retail druggist, and he
mixes it with a cheaper material, and
by the time the poor, sick man gets it
into his bottle it is ashes and chalk and
sand, and some of what has been cal
led pure scammony after analysis
has been found to be no scammony at
all. Now, religion will yet
rectify all this. It will go to those
hypocritical professors of religion who
got a “corner” in corn and wheat in
Chicago an 1 New York, sending pri
ces up and up until they were beyond
the reach of the poor, keeping these
breadstuff’s in their own hands or con
rolling them until, the prices going up
and up and up, they were after a while
ready to sell, and they sold out, mak
ing themselves millionaros in one or
two years; trying to fix the matter up
with the Lord by building a church or
a university or a hospital, deluding
themseives with the idea that the Lord
would be so pleased with the gift He
would forget the swindle. Now, as
such a man may not. have any liturgy
in which to say his prayers, I will
compose for him one which he practi
cally is makiug:
“OLord, we, by getting acorner in
breadstuff's, swindled the people of the
United States out of ten million dol
lars, and made suffering all up and
down the land, and we would like to
compromise this matter with Thee.
Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but
then it was smart. Now, here we com
promise it. Take one per cent, of the
profits, and with that one percent, you
can build an asylum for these poor,
miserable ragmuffins of the street, and
1 will take a yacht and go to Europe,
forever and ever. Amen.”
Ah! my friends, it a man hath got
ten his estate wrongfully he can build a
line of hospitals and universities from
here to Alaska, and he cannot atone for
it. After awhile this man who has
been getting a “corner” in wheat dies,
and then Satan gets a “corner” in him.
He goes into a great long Black Friday.
There is a “break” in the market. Ac
cording to Wall street parlance, he wi
ped others out, and now he is himself
wiped out. No collaterals on which to
make a spiritual loan. Eternal defal
cation,
But this practical religion will not
only rectify all merchandise; it will also
rectify all mechanism and all toil. A
time will come when a man will work
as faithfully by the job as he does by
the day. You say when a thing is
slightly done, “Oh, that was done by
the job.” You can tell by the swift
ness or slowness with which a hack
man drives whether he is hired by the
hour or by the excursion. If he is hired
by the hour he drives very slowly so
as to make as many hours as possible.
If he is hired by the excursion he whips
up the horses so as to get around and
get another customer. All styless of
work have to be inspected. Ships in
spected, hawsers inspected, machinery
inspected. Boss to watch the journey
man. Capitalist coming down unex
pectedly to watch the boss. Conduc
tor of city car sounding the punch bell
to prove his honesty as a passenger
hands to him a clipped nickel. All
things must be watched and inspected.
Imperfections in the wood covered with
putty. Garments warranted to last
until you put them on third time.
Shoddy in all kinds of clothing.
Chromos. Pinchbeck. Diamonds for
a dollar and a half. Bookbindery that
holds on until you near the third chap
ter. Spavined horses by skillful dose
of jockeys for several days made to
look spry. Wagon tires poorly put
on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering
that cracks without any provocation
and falls oft'. Plumbing that needs to
be plumbed. Imperfect car-wheel that
halts the whole train with a hot box.
So little practical religion in the mech
anism of the world. I tell you my
friends, the law of man will never rec
tify those things. It will be the all
pervading influence of the practical re
ligion of Jesus Christ that will make
the change for the better.
Yes, this practical religion will also
go into agriculture, which is proverb
ially honest but needs to be rectified,
and it will keep the farmer from send
ing to the New York market veal that
is too young to kill, and when the far
mer farms on shares it will keep the
man who does the work from making
his half three-fourths, and it will keep
the farmer from building his post and
rail fence on his neighbor’s premises,
and it will make him shelter his cat
tle in the winter storm, and it will keep
the old elder from working on Sunday
afternoon in the new ground where
nobody sees him. And this practical
religion will hover over the house, and
over the barn, and over the field, and
over the orchard.
Yes, this practical religion of which
I speak will come into the learned pro
fessions. The lawyer will feel his re
sponsibility in defending innocence and
arraigning evil and expounding the
law, and it will keep him from charg
ing for briefs he never wrote, and for
pleas he never made, and for percent
age he never earned, and from robbing
widow and orphan because they are de
fenceless. Yes, this practical religion
will come into the physicians life, and
he will feel his responsibility as the
conservator of the public health, a pro
fession honored by the fact that Christ
himself was a physician. And it will
make him honest, and when he does
not understand a case he will say so,
not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis
with ponderous technicalities, or send
the patient to a reckless drug store be
cause the apothecary happens to pay a
percentage on the prescription sent.
And this practical religion will come
to the school teacher, making her feel
her responsibility in preparing our
youth for usefulness and for happiness
and for honor, and will keep her from
giving a sly box to a dull head, chas
tising him for what he cannot help,
and sending discouragement all through
the after years of a lifetime. This prac
tical religion will also come to the
newspaper men, and it will help them
in the gathering of the news, and it
will help them in setting forth the best
interests of society, and it will keep
them from putting the sins of the world
in larger type than its virtues, and its
mistakes than its achievements, and it
will keep them from misrepresenting
interviews with public men, and from
starting suspicions that, never can be
allayed, and will make them staunch
friends of the oppressed instead of the
oppressor. Yes, this religion, this
practical religion, will come and put
its hand on what is called good society,
elevated society, successful society, so
that people will have their expenditures
within their income, and they will ex
change the hypocritical “not at home”
for the honest explanation “too tired”
or “too busy to see yon,” and will keep
innocent reception from becoming in
toxicated conviviality, and it will by
frank manners and Christian sentiment
drive out that creature with sharp.toed
shoe and tightly-bandaged limb, and
elbows drawn back, and idiotic talk,
and infinitesimal cane, and sickening
swagger, born in America but a poor
copy of a foppish Englishman, the mix
vomica of modern society, commonly
called the “Dude!” Yes, there is great
opportunity for missionary work in
what are called the successful classes
of society. It is no rare thing now to
see a fashionable woman intoxicated in
the street, or the railcar, or the restau
rant. The number of fine ladies who
drink too much is increasing. Per
haps you may find her at the reception
in most exalted company, but she has
made too many visits to the wine-room,
and now her eye is glassy, and after
a while her cheek is unnaturally flush
ed, and then she falls into fits of excru
ciating laughter about nothing, and
then she offers sickening flattering, tell
ing some homely man how well he
looks, and then she is helped into the
carriage, and by the time the carriage
gets to her home it takes the husband
and the coachman to get her np.the
stairs. The report is, she was taken
suddenly ill at a german. Ah! no.
She took too much champagne,and mix
ed liquors, and got drunk. That was
all.
\ es, this practical religion will have
to come in and fix up the marriage re
lation in America. There are members
of churches who have too many wives
and too many husbands. Society needs
to be expurgated and washed and fumi
gated and Christianized. We have
missionary societies to reform the Five
Points in New York, and Bedford
street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch,
London, and the Brooklyn docks; but
there is need of an organization to re
form much that is going on in Beacon
street and Madison Square and Ritten
house Square and West End and
Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill.
We want this practical religion not
only to take hold of what are called
the lower classes, but to take hold of
what are call the higher clases. The
trouble is that people have an idea they
can do all their religion Sunday with
hymn book and prayer book and lit
urgy, and some of them sit in church
rolling up their eyes as though they
were ready for translation, when their
Sabbath is bounded on all sides by an
inconsistent life, and while you are ex
pecting to come out from under their
arras the wings of an angel, there come
out from their forehead the horns of a
beast. There lias got to be anew de
parture in religion. I do not say anew
religion. Oh, no; but the old religion
brought to new appliances. In our
time we have had the daguerreotype
and the ambrotype and the photograph;
but it is the same old sun, and these
arts are only new appliance to the old
sunlight. So this glorious Gospel is
just what we want to photograph the
imago of God on one sonl, and dag
uerreotype it on another soul. Not a
new Gospel, but the old Gospel put to
new work. In our time we have had
the telegraphic invention and the tele
phonic invention and the electric light
invention; but they are all the children
of old electricity, an element that the
philosophers have understood a long
while and know much .about. So this
electrc Gospel needs to flash its light
on the eyes and ears and souls of men,
and become a telephonic medium to
make the deaf hear; a telegraphic
medium to give invitations and warn
ing to all nations; an electric light to
illuminate the eastern and western
hemispheres. Not anew Gospel, but
the old Gospel doing anew work.
Now you say, “That is a very beauti
ful theory, but is it possible to take
one’s religion into all the avocations
and business of life?” Yes, and I will
give you some specimens. Medical
doctors who took their religion into
every day life: Dr. John Abercrombie,
of Aberdeen, the greatest Scottish
physician of his day, his, book on Dis
eases of the Brain and Spinal Cord no
more wonderful than his book on The
Philosophy of the Moral Feelings; and
often kneeling at the bedside of his
patients to commend them to God in
prayer. Dr. John Brown, of Edin
burgh, immortal as an author, dying
recently under the benediction of the
sick of Edinburgh; myself remembering
him as he sat in his study in Edin
burgh talking to me about Christ and
his hope of heaven. And a score of
Christian family physicians in Brook
ly just as good as they were. Lawyers
who carried their religion into their
profession: Lord Cairn, the Queen’s
adviser for many years, the highest
legal authority in Great Britain—Lord
Cairn every summer in his vacation
preached as an evangelist among
the poor of his country. And John
McLean, Judge of the Supreme Court
of the United States and President of
the American Sunday School Union,
feeling more satisfaction in the latter
office than in the former. And scores
of Christian lawyers as eminent in the
Church of God as they are eminent at
the bar. Merchants who took their
religion into every day life: Arthur
Tappan, derided in his day because he
established that system by which we
come to find out the commercial stand
ing that entire system, derided for it
then—himself, as I knew him well, in
moral character Al. Monday morn
ings inviting to a room in the top of
his storehouse the clerks of his estab
lishment, asking them about their
worldly interests and their spiritnal in
terests, then giving out a hymn, lead
ing in prayer, giving them a few words
of good advice, asking them what
church they attended on the Sabbath,
what the text was, whether they had
any especial troubles of their own.
Arthur Tappan. I never heard his
eulogy pronounced. I pronounce it
now. And other merchants just as
good. William E. Dodge in the iron
business; Moses H. Grinnell, in the
shipping business; Peter Cooper in the
glue business. Scores of men just as
good as they were. Farmers who take
their religion into their occupation.
Why, this minute their horses and
wagons stand around all the meeting
houses in America. They began this
day by a prayer to God, and when they
get home at noon, after they pat their
horses np, they will offer a prayer to
God at the table, seeking a bless
ing, and this summer there will be in
their fields not one dishonest head of rye
not one dishonest ear of corn, not one
dishonest apple. Worshipping God
to-day up among the Berkshire Hills,or
down among the lagoons of Florida, or
away ont amid the mines of Colorado,
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or along the banks of the Passaic and
the Raritan, where I knew them better,
because I went to school with them.
Mechanics who took their religion into
their occupations: James Brindley,
the famous millwright; Nathaniel Bow
ditch the famous shipchaudler; Elihn
Burritt, the famous black-smith, and
hundreds and thousand of strong arms
which have made the hammer and the
saw and the adge and the drill and the
axe sound in the grand march of onr na
tional industries. Give your heart to
God and then fill your life with good
works. Consecrate to Him your store,
your shop, yonr banking honse, your
factory and your home. They say no
one will hear it. God will hear it.
That is enough. Yon hardly know of
anyone else than Wellingtonasconnec
ted with the victory at Waterloo; but
he did not do the hard fighting. The
hard fighting was done by the Somer
set Cavalry and the Kempt’s Infantry
and the Ryland regiments and the
Scotch Grays and the Life Guards.
Who cares if only the day was won?
In the latter part of the last century a
girl in England became a kitchen maid
in a farmhouse. She had many styles
of work and much hard work. Time
rolled on, and she married the son of a
weaver of Halifax. They were indus
trious. They saved money enough af
ter awhile to build them a home. On
the morning of the day when they were
to enter that home the yonng wife arose
at 4 o’clock, entered the front dooryard,
knelt down, consecrated the place to
God, and there made this solemn vow:
“Oh Lord, if Thou will bless me in
this place, the poor shall have a share
of it.” Time rolled on and a fortune
rolled in. Children grew up around
them and they all became affluent; one,
a member of Parliament, in a public
place declared that his success came
from that prayer of his mother in the
dooryard. All of them were affluent.
Four thousand hands in their factories.
They built dwelling houses for laborers
at cheap rents, and where they were
invalid and could not pay they had the
houses for nothing. One of these sons
came to this country, admired our parks
went back, bought land, opened a great
public park, and made it a present to
the city of Halifax, England. They
endowed an orphanage, they endowed
to almshouses. All England has
heard of the generosity and the good
works of the Crossleys. Moral: Con
secrate to God your small means and
yonr humble surroundings, and you
will have larger means and grander
surroundings. “Godliness is profita
ble unto all things, having promise of
the life that now is and of that which
is to come.” Have faith in God by all
means, but remember that faith without
works is dead.
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my poor George—l know hops are
good.”
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