PRACTICE, NOT THEORY.
DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES' HIS SE
RIES OF EVANGELICAL SERMONS.
Cathalia DiMtrina of "Good Work.
, To Mmj. Vrotestants Lay . To' Little
StreM on Work Religion Should Go
Into the Rverydar Llfc. '- - -
Brooklyn, Feb. 2. Great audiences
again assembled at the service by Dr. Tal
mage in the Brooklyn Academy of Music
this morning,' and also at The Christian
Herald service in the New York Academy
of Music in the evening. The remarkable
interest in the latter continues 'Without'
evidence of abatement. At the service in
New York last Sunday evening there were
many emotional episodes among the vast
audience, and to-night these were repeated,
Irandreds pledging themselves anew to
; Christian lives henceforth. ' Dr. Talmage
took for his text at the Brooklyn Academy:
""Kaith without works is dead" (Jas. ii, 20).
The Roman Catholic church has been
charged with putting too much stress upon
Kod works and not enough npon faith. I
-charge Protestantism with patting not
enough stress upon good works as con
nected with salvation. Good works will
never save a man, but if a man have not
Kood works he. has no real faith and no
genuine religion. There are those who de
pend upon the fact that they are all right
inside, while their conduct is wrong out-'
side. Their religion for the most part is
made op of talk vigorous talk, fluent talk,
boastful talk, perpetual talk. They will
entertain you by the hour in telling you
how good they are. They come np to such
' -a higher life that we have no patience with
ordinary Christians in the plain discharge
of their dnty. As near as I can . tell, this
ocean craft is mostly sail and very little
tonnage. Fore topmast staysail, fore top
mast studding sail, main topsail, mizzen
topsail everything from flying jib to miz
sen spanker; bat makinno useful voyage.
Now the world has got tired of this, and it
-wants a religion that .will work into all
the circumstances of life. We do not want
a new religion, but the old religion ap
plied in all possible directions.
;' THE BRAWLING, USELESS ST REAM. "-
Yonder is a river with steep and rocky
banks, and it. roars like a young Niagara
an it rolls on over its rough bed. It does
not hing but talk about itself all the way
Irom . its source in the mountain to the
place where it empties into the sea. The
banks are so steep the cattle cannot come
down tp drink. It does not run one fertilizing-rill
into the adjoining field. It has
not one grist mill or factory on either side.
I 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 mosses its banks with the
warm tides, and it rocks with floral lulla
by the water lilies asleep on its bosom. It
4nvites 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 of lux
uriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted
when it was born in the mountains, and
the ocean shipping will press in from the
sea to hail it as it comes down to the Atlan
tic coast. The one river is a man who lives
Sor himself, the ether river is a man who
Jives for others. . -
Do you know bow the site of the ancient
. city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were
wo brothers who had adjoining farms.
The one brother bad a lae family, the
other had no family. 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 field in the night time
and set them over on his farm and sav
nothing about it." The other brother said,
"My brother has a large family, and it is
very difficult for him to support them, and
1 will help him along, and I will take some
f the sheaves from my own 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 morning
things seemed to be just as they were, for
though sheaves had been subtracted from
each farm, sheaves had also been' added,
and the brothers were perplexed and could
mot understand. Bat one night the broth
ers happened to meet while making this
generous transference, and. the spot where
; they met was so sacred that it was chosen
' as the site of the city of Jerusalem. If that
tradition should prove unfounded it will
nevertheless stand as a beautiful allegory,
setting forth 'the idea that wherever a
kindly and generous and loving act is per
lormed that is the spot fit for some temple
-at commemoration.
'', FRIGHTFUL FRAUDS IK FOOD. .
I have of ten spoken to you about faith,.,
"but now 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 religion. We want practical re
ligion to go into all merchandise. It will
aupervise the labeling of goods. It will not
allow a man to say a thing was made in
one factory when it was madia in another.
Jt will not allow the merchant to say that
-watch was manufactured in Geneva,
Switzerland, when it was manufactured in
Massachusetts. "It will not allow the
merchant to say that wine came from Ma
deira when it came from California. Prac
tical religion will walk along by the store
shelves and tear off all the tags that make
misrepresentation. It will not allow the
merchant to say that is pure coffee when
dandelion root and chicory and other in
gredients go into it. ' It will not allow him
to Bay that is pure sugar when there are in
it sand and ground glass.
When practical religion gets its fall
swing' in the world it will go down the
streets, and it will come to that shoe store
aad rip off the fictitious soles of many a
ne looking pair of shoes, and show that it
is pasteboard sandwiched between the
sound leather. And this practical religion
-will go right into a grocery store, and it
-will pull out the plug of all the adulterated
'sirups, and it will dump into the ash
"barrel in front of the store the cassia
sark that is sold for cinnamon and the
.brick dost that is sold for cayenne pepper,
and it will shake oat the Prussian blues
xrom 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 Ridge
"wood water from the few honest drops of
cow's milk, and it will throw out the live
animalcules 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 pat into .the spices, and into the
sugars, and into the batter, and into the
apothecary drugs. Bat chemical analysis
-.and the microscope have made wonderful
sevelations. The board of health in Masea
ohnsfitta analyzed a great amount of what
i called pure coffee and found in it not
ue particle of coffee. In England there is
a law that forbids the butting of . alum in
i bread. The public 'authorities examined
oiy-one.r. packages or nreaa ana louna
them' all guilty. "The honest physician,
writing a prescription, does not know but
that it may bring death instead of health
to his patient, because there may be one of
the drugs weakened- by a cheaper article,
and another drug may be in fa 11 force, and
so the- prescription- may have just the op
posite effect intended. Oil of wormwood,
waranted 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, au 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
the peasant mixes it with cheaper mate
rial; then it is taken to Aleppo, and the
, merchant there' mixes it with n cheaper
material; then it comes on to the whole
sale druggist in London or New York, and
he 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
Dottle it is ashes and chalk and sand, and
some of what has been called pure scam
mony after analysis has been fonnd to be
no scammony at all.
- TUB SPECUULTtKO HTPOCBITK. .'
Now, practical religion will yet rectify
all this. It will go to those hypocritical pro
fessors of religion who got a "corner' in
corn and wheat in Chicago and New York,
sending prices up and np until they were
beyond the reach of the poor, keeping these
breadstuffs in their own hands, or control
ling them until, the prices going up and up
and. up, they were after awhile ready to
sell, and they solid out, making themselves
millionaires 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 themselves 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 practically is making: "O
Lord, we, by getting a 'corner' in bread
stuffs, swindled the people of the United
States oat of ten million dollars, and made
Buffering 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
compromise it. Take one per cent, of the
profits, and with that one per cent, you
can build an asylum for these poor miser
able ragamuffins of the street, and I will
take a yacht and go to Europe, for ever and
ever, anient" ,
Ah, my friends, if a man hath gotten his
estate wrongfully, and he build a line of
hospitals and universities from here to
Alaska, he cannot, atone for it. After
a while thU man who has . been getting a
"corner"- iu wheat dies, and then Satan
gets a "corner'-' on him. He goes into u
great, long Black Friday. There is a
"break" in the market. According to
Wall street parlance, he wiped others out,'
and now he is himself wiped out. No col
laterals on which to make a spiritual loan.
Eternal defalcation!
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 slightingly done, "Oh, that
was done by the job!" You can tell by the
swiftness or slowness with which a hack
man drives whether he is hired by the hour
or by the excursion. If he is hired by tbe
excursion he whips up the horses, so as to
get around and get another customer.- All
styles of work have to be inspected. Ships
inspected, horses inspected, machinery in-,
spected. Boss to watch the journeyman.
Capitalist coining down unexpectedly to
watch the boss. Conductor of a city car
sounding the punch bell to prove his hon
esty as a passenger hands to him a clipped
nickel. All things must be watched and in
spected. Imperfections in the wood covered
with putty. Garments warranted to last
until you put them on the third time.
Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos.
Pinchbeck. Diamonds for a dollar and a
naif. Bookbindery. that holds on until
you read the third chapter. Spavined,
horses by skillful dose of jockeys for sev
eral days made to look spry. Wagon tires
poorly put on. '. Horses poorly shod. Plas
tering that cracks without any provoca
tion and falls off. Plumbing that needs
to be plumbed. Imperfect' ear wheel that
halts the whole train with a hot box. So
little practical religion in the mechanism
of the world. I tell you, my friends, the
law of man will never rectify these things.
It will be the all pervading influence of tbe
practical religion of Jesus Christ that will
make the change for the better.
' THERE IB NOSE PERFECT - , ""';
'. Yes, this practical - religion will also 'go
into agriculture, which is proverbially hou
est, but needs to be rectified, and it will
keep the farmer from sending to the New
York market veal that is too young to kill,
and when the farmer 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 an .1
rail fence on his neighbor's premises, and
it will make him shelter his cattle 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 1
speak will come into the learned profes
sions. Tbe lawyer will feel his responsi
bility in defending innocence, and arraign
ing eviL and expounding the law, and it
will keep him from charging for briefs he
never wrote, and for pleas he never made,
and for percentages he never earned, and
from robbing widow and orphan because
tbey are . defenseless. Yea, this practical
religion will come into tbe physician's life,
and he will feel his responsibility as the
conservator of the public hglth, a profes
sion honored by the fact that Christ him
self was a physician. And it will make
him honest, and when he does not under
stand a case he will say so, not trying to
cover up lack of diagnosis with ponderous
technicalities, or send tbe patient to a
reckless drug store because the apothecary
happens to pay a percentage on the pre
scriptions sent.
And this practical religion will come to
tbe school teacher, making her feel her re
sponsibility in preparing our youth for
useful oeastn d for happiness,and for honor,
and will keep her from giving a sly box to
a doll head, chastising him for what he
cannot help, and sending discouragement
all through the after years of a lifetime.
This practical 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 inter
ests 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.
. : HIGH AND LOW AUKS GUILTT. .
Yes, this religion, this practical religion,
will come and put its hand on what is
called good society, elevated society, suc
cessful society, so that people will have
their expenditures within their income,
and they will exchange the hypocritical
"not at home" for tbe honest explanation
"too tired" or "too bnsy to see you," and
will keep innocent reception from becom
ing intoxicating conviviality.
. Yes, there is a great opportunity for mis
sionary work in what are called the suc
cessful classes of society. It is np rare
thing now to see a fashionable woman in
toxicated in the street, or tbe rail ear, or
the restaurant. The number of fine ladies
who drink too niach is increasing. . Per
haps you may find ber 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
check is unnaturally flushed, and then she
falls into fits of excruciating laughter about
nothing, and then she' offers sickening
flatteries, telling some homely .man how
well he looks, and then she is helped into
the carriage, and by the time tbe carriaiie
gets to ber 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! uo. . She. took too much
champagne, and. mixed liquors, and got
drunk. That was all. ;
Yes, this practical religion will have to
come in and fix up the marriage relation
in America. Tbereare members of churches
who have too many wives and too. many
husbands. ' Society needs to be expurgated
and washed and fumigated and Christian
ized. We have missionary societies to re
form Elm street, in New York, Bedford
street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch. IiOn
don, and the Brooklyn docks; but there is
need of an organization to reform much
that is going on in Beacon street and Madi
son square and Ritten house square and
Yest End ami Brooklyn Heightsand Brook
lyn Hill.- We want this practical religion
not only to take bold of what are called
the lower classes, but to take hold of what
are called the higher classes. The trouble
is that iieople have an idea they can do all
their religion on Sunday with hymn book
and prayer book and liturgy, and some of
theni sit in church rolling up their eyes as
though tbey were ready for translation,
when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides
by an inconsistent life, and while you are
expecting to come out from under their
arms the wingH of an angel, there come out
from their forehead the horns of a beast.
thkre'iidst be a nkw departure.
There has got to be a new departure ic
religion. I do not say a new religion. Oh.
no; but the old religion brought to new
appliances. . In our time we have had tbe
daguerreotype, and the ambrotype, and the
photograph, but it is the same old sun,
and these arts are only new appliances of
tbe old sunlight. So this glorious gospel
is just what we want to photograph the
image of God on one soul, and daguerreo
type it on another soul. Not a new gospel,
but tbe old gospel put to new work. In
our time we hare had the telegraphic
invention, and tbe telephonic invention,
and. the electric light invention, but they
are all the children of old electricity,
an element that the philosophers have
a long while known much about. So
this electric gospel needs to flash its light
on the eyes and ears and souls of men, and
become a telephonic medium to make tbe
deaf hear, a telegraphic medium to dart
invitation and warning to all nations; an
electric light to illumine tbe eastern and
western hemispheres. Not a new gospel,
but the old gospel doing a new work.
Now you say, "That is a verjbeantiful
theory, but is it possible to take one's re
ligion into .ill the avocations and business
of lifer" Yes, .ud I will give you a few
specimens, Medical doctors who took their
religion into everyday life: Dr. John
Abercrombie, of Aberdeen, tbe greatest
Scottish physician of bis day, his book on
"Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord"
no more wonderful than his book on "The
Philosophy of the Moral FeeliBgs," and
often kneeling at the bedside of his pa
tients to commend them to God in prayer.
Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh, immortal
as an author, dying under tbe benediction
of the sick of Edinburgh, myself remem
bering 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 Brooklyn just as good
as they were.
Lawyers who carried their religion into
their profession: Tbe late Lord Cairns, the
queen's adviser for many years, the highest
legal authority in Great Britain Lord
Cairns, every summer in his vacation,
preaching as an evangelist among the poor
of his country. 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 omce than in the former. And
scores of Christian lawyers as eminent in
the church of God as tbey are eminent at
tbe bar.
GOXFEAlG BUSINESS MKN.
Merchants who took their religion into
everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in
his day because he established that system
by which we come to find out the com
mercial standing of business men, starting
that entire system, derided for it then,
himself, as I knew him well, in moral char
acter A I. Monday mornings inviting to a
room in the top of his storehouse the clerks
of his establishment, asking them about
their worldly interests and their spiritual
interests, then giving out a hymn, leading
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 pro
nounce it now. And other merchants just
as good. William E. Dodge in the ' iron
business; Moses H. Grinnell in the ship
ping 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 tbe
meeting houses in America. They began
this day by a prayer to God, and when they
get home at noon, after they have put
their horses up, will offer prayer to God at
the table, seeking a blessing, and this sum
mer there will be in their fields not one
dishonest head of rye, not one dishonest
ear of corn, not one dishonest apple. Wor
shiping God today away up among the
Berkshire hills, or away down amid tbe
lagoons of Florida, or away out amid the
mines of Colorado, 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 Bowditch,
the famous ship chandler; Elihu Bur-riot,
the famous blacksmith, and hundreds and
thousands of strong arms which have
made the hammer, and the saw, and tbe
adze, and the drill, and tbe ax sound in
the grand march of our national indus
tries. Give your heart to God and then fill your
life with good works. Consecrate to him
your store, your shop, your banking bouse,
your factory and your home. They say no
one will bear it. God will ' hear it. - That
is enough, .You hardly know of anyone
else than. Wellington as connected with
the victory at Waterloo; but hb did not do
the hard lighting. The hard fighting Was
done by tho Somerset cavalry, and the Ry
land regiments, and Kempt's infantry, and
the Scots Grays and the Life Guards. Who
cares, if only the day was won! y .- . y
" - . . : -A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE. '-
In the latter part of the last century a
girl in England became a kitchen maid in a
farm house. She had many styles of work,
and much hard work. Time rolled on, and
she married the son of a weaver of Hali
fax. They were industrious; tbey saved
money enough after a while to build them
a home. Ou the morning of the day when
they were to enter that home the young
wife arose at. 4 o'clock, entered the front
door yard, knelt down, consecrated the
place to God, and there made this solemn
vow: "O Lord, if tbou wilt bless me in
this place, the poor shall have a share of
it." Time rolled ou and a fortune rolled
in. . Children grew up around them, and
tbey 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 door yard. All of them
were affluent. Four thousand hands in
their factories. Tbey built dwelling bouses
for laborers at cheap rents, and when they
were invalid and could not pay they had
the houses for nothing. i-
One of these sons came to this country,
admired our parks, went back, bought
land, opened a great public park, and mads
it a present; to the city of Halifax, Eng
land. Tbey endowed an orphanage, they
endowed two almshouses. All England
has beard of tbe generosity and the good
works of. the. Croasleys. Moral Conse
crate to God your small means and your
humble surroundings, and you will have
larger means and grander surroundings.
"Godliness is profitable 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."
Being Initiated Into a Secret Society.
Here is the reminiscence of a gray haired
old man, a graduate of Harvard, and a
man who has some reputation in the world
of letters:
. "On the night of my initiation into a
society I cannot name it in this connec
tion, for that would be a breach of loyalty
I went to tho mystic hall with a heavy
heart and shaky legs. This particular band
of brothers had a special reputation for
ferocity, and I knew well enough that it
wna more than idle talk too, but I was
pledged, and 'forward' was the word. I final
ly found myself mounting a pair of stairs in
utter darkness. This was something of a
feat, for at intervals a board would turn
up under my feet, and one leg would de
scend into some unknown abyss, to' the
great disadvantage of my best trousers and
shins.
"At the very top I carefully pushed open
a door and sprang into a sort of water
trap, from which about three gallons .of
the fluid, descending in a big baptism,
soaked me completely. Having passed
the water ordeal, I entered, and was vio
lently seized by several shadowy forms,
who appeared as sort of luminous, grin
ning skulls, which effect is produced by pull
ing a shirt sleeve over the face and rubbing
it with phosphorus. Just try a shirt sleeve
mask and see' if it isn't a horrible sight,
even in daytime. Well, I was soon rid of
my clothing and stretched out on a plank,
on which were placed various kinds of
burrs and thistles anything but a downy
bed.
"Then t here came a low. tomblike voice.
"Fetch tbe red hot iron. Diabolua.' Soon I
could see through, the darkness the gleam
of fiery metal; nearer and nearer it earae.
Tbe- terrible voice whispered, 'Brand hhn
in the neck.' A horrible bolt of paiu
flashed down my spinal column, accom
panied by the sonnd and actual smell of
burning flesh. With a yell that no stoic
could have repressed I leaped from the
plank, and stood in the full glare of many
lighted lamps, with the society members
dancing around me in hilarious glee. The
branding Well, tbey used a piece of ice,
which gives much the same sensation as a
hot iron, while a fine beefsteak was actual
ly branded, furnishing my sensations of
sound and smell." New York Star.
A Monster Anoriean Pyramid.
A gigantic pyramid, the most interesting
relic to the antiquarian now on the Amer
ican continent, lies a few miles to the west
of Pueblo, Old Mexico. The spot is easy
of access, and has been visited by every
traveler of note, either American born or
foreign, who has interested hiragplf in the
least in hoary antiquities. It rises sud
denly from the plain and is built of huge
adobes, or large unburned bricks. Al
though mutilated and . overgrown with
trees, the massive base and four stories of
the gigantic structure are yet l"it en
tire. Humboldt describes it as a work of
such magnitude and vastness as, next to
the pyramids of Egypt, has never before
been seen in the world. Its height is 172
feet, and the sides of its base L355 feet,
being 875 feet lower than the great pyra
mid of Cheops, and 627 feet longer.
The brick material is interspersed with
layers of stone and mortar, and tbe four
stories are connected with each other by
broad terraces. These are ascended from
bench to bench by regular and- oblique
flights of steps which lead to a little chapel
at tbe top, which has been, dedicated to the
Virgin of Remedios. In straightening out
the road which leads from the City of
Mexico to Pueblo it became necessary to
traverse a portion of tbe base of this an
cient monument. . In cutting down a sec
tion of the base an interior chamber built
of stone and roofed with beams of cypress
was laid bare. In. it were found skeletons,
idols of clay, stone and bronze, and a num
ber of pottery vessels, cnxioasly varnished
and painted. St. Louis Republic.
righting- Against Pataonona Candy.
A fact which has been irnrrwrntrri npon
recently is that there is an almost entire
absence of poisoning cases from adulterated
candy, which were so numerous in former
years. This evil at one time became so se
rious that an association was formed for
the distinct purpose of securing the passage
of special statutes in various states making
the adulteration of confectionery with any
substance injurious to health punishable
by a heavy fine; and for several years lib
eral rewards have been offered by -this asso
ciation, as well as by its indrndnal mem
bers, for evidence agaiimt any offender
sufficient to obtain a convictaou under the
laws, the association assuming the cost
and responsibinty of tbe prosecution.
In New York and Brooklyn Sere are a
large number of firms, including all the
large manufacturers of confectionery, who
are pledged to the prosecution of all offend
ers against the special statutes passed by
the legislature on this subject, and by ap
plication to a member of the association
any suspected confectionery can at ones be
analyzed free of charge. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
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