Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 28 January 1892 — Page 7

RELIGION FOR TO-DAY-

Whatever You Do Let It Be for ||f •. the Glory of G-od.

Hie Application of Eeligion to tlie Affairs h' of LlTe—Dr. Tolmage's Sunday '"X? Sermon.

Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn lost Sunday. Text I Cor. x, 31. He said:

propose this morning to plead for

a religion for to-day. in the nrst place we want to bring lie religion o± Christ into ourconversfetion. When a dura breaks and two or,three villages are overwhelmed, or 'an earthquake ill South America swallows a whole city, th® people begin to talk about the uncertainty of life, and the}* imagine that they are engaged in positively religious conversation. No. You may talk about these things aud have no grace of God in your lieart. We ought every day to be tailing religion. If there is anything gNjd about it, any thing beautiful about it, anything important about it, w* ought to be continuously discussinW it. I have noticed that men, .just.iiYproportion as their Christian experience is shallow, talk about funerals, an\l .grave-yards, and death-beds. The real, geuuine ChrisVian talks about this life and the great eternity beyond, and not so much of the insignificant pass between the two residences. And yet how few circles there are where the religion of Jesus Christ is welcome. Go into a circle oven of Christian people, where tiiey are full of joy and hilarity, aud talk about Christ or heaven, and everything is immediate s.leii'jed. As on a summer day, when the forests are full of life, chatter and chirrup. and carol—a mighty chorus of bird harmony, every tree branch an orchestra—if a hawk appears the sky every voice stops and the forests are still. Just so I have seen a lively religious circle silenced on the appearance of anything like religious conversation. No one had anything to say save, perhaps, some old patriarch in the corner of the. room, who really thinks that something ought to be said under the circumstances, so he puts one foot over the other and heaves a long sigh and says, "Oh. yes: that's so. that's so!"

My friend's, the religion of Jesus Christ is something to talk about with a cheerful heart. It is brighter than the waters it is more cheerful than the sunshine. Do not go around groaning about your religion, when you ought to be singing it or talking it in cheerful tones of voice. How /often is it that we lind men whose lives are utterly inconsistent, who attempt to talk religion and always ake a failure of it! My friends, must live religion, or we can not lk H. a man is cranky, and c/fos^and,ufi-congenial, and hard in his dealings, and then begins to talk about Qhyist and heaven, everybody is repelled by it. Yet I have heard such men say in whining tones:

to find

that the

'.We

are miserable sinners "The Lord bless you "The Lord have mercy on you:" their conversation interlarded with such expressions, which uiean nifthing but canting, and canting is the worst form of hypocrisy. If we have realty felt the religion of Christ in our hearts let talk it. Ttnd talk it with an illuminated countenance, remembering that vhen two Christian people talk God lives especial attention and writes down what they say.

Again I remark, we must bring the religion of Christ into our eraploy men ts "Oh," you s-uy, "that is. very well if a man handle large sums of money, or if he have, an extensive traffic but in my thread and needle

store, in my trimming estahlishment, in the humble work in life that I am 1 (jailed to, the sphere is too small for the action of such grand heavenly ^.principles." Who told you so? Do you not kn that, Grod watches the faded leaf on the I rooks surface a I certainly as He does the path of the blazing" sun? And the moss I that creeps up the side 5 of tho lock makes as much' impression upo:: God's mind as the waving tops of Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar and the alder, crackling I under tlie cow's hoof, sounds as loud in God's ear as the snap of a world's s: conflagration. When yon have any thing to do in life, however humble it may seem to be, God is always there to help you do it. if your work is that of a fisherman, then God will help you, as he helped Simon when '.he dragged Gennesaret. If your work is drawing water, the He will

help you as when He talked at the well-curb to the Samaritan woman. If you arc engaged in the customhouse He will lead you, as he led Matthew sitting at the receipt of customs. A religion that is not good In one place is not worth anything in another place. The mau who has .nly a day's wages in his pocket as certainly "needs the guidance of reii'gion as hs who rattles the keys of a bank and could abscond with one hundred thousand hard dollars.

There arc those prominent in the churches who seem to be on public occasions very devout, who do not put the principle's of Christs religiou into practice. They are the most inexorable of creditors. They are the most grasping of dealers. They are known as sharpers on the street. They fleece every sheep they can catch. A country merchant comes in to buy spring or fall goods, and he gets into the store of one of these professed Christian men who eally nave no graco iu their hearts, and he is completely swindled. He is so overcome that he cannot get out of tovrn during the week.

Sun

day b« goes into some church to get 'Christian consolation, and ia amazed

very

hands him the poor box in the church is the one who relieved him of his money 1 Aut never mind the deacon has his black coat on now. He looks solemn, and goes home talking about "the blessed sermon." If the wheat in the churches should be put into the hopper, the first turn of the crank would make the chaff fly, I tell you. Some of these men are great sticklers for gospel preaching. They say: "You stand there in bands and sui'plice and gown, and preach—preach like an angel, and we will stand out here and attend to business. Don't mix things. Don't get business and religion in the same bucket. Ycu attend to your matters and we will attend to ours. They do not know that God sees every cheat that they have practiced in the last six years that He can

Our National Government does not think it belittling to put a tax on pins, and a tax on buckles and a tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and miMions of dollars. And I would have you, O Christian man, put a high tariff on every anno3ranee and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amout to much, in single cases, but in the aggregate it would be a great reveuue of spirit ual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck hone}* even out of a nettle, and if you have the grace of (iod iu your heart you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise irritate and anno /. A returned missionary told me that a eompauy of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at certain seasons. I have seen the earth strewed with the carcasses of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get rnepared for the great troubles of li'e is to conquer these small troubles.

Again, we must bring the religion of Christ into our commonest blessings. When the autumn conies, and the harvests are in, and the. Governors make proclamation, we ass emble in churches and we are very thankful. but every day ouj^ht to be a thanksgiving day, We do not recognize the common mercies of life. We have to see a blind man led by his dog before we begin to bethink ourselves of what a ^reat thing it is to have eyesight. We have to see some one afflicted with St. Vitus' d-anee before we are ready to thank God for the control of our physical energies. We have to see some wounded man hobbling on his crutch or with his empty coat-sleeve pinned up before we learn to think what a grand thing God did for us when he gave us healthy use of our limbs. We are so stupid that nothing but the misfortunes of others can rouse us up to our blessings. As the ox graves in the pasture up to its eyes in clover, yet never thinking who makes the clover, and as the bird picks up the worm from the furrow not knowing that it is God who makes everything, from the a?iimaleuhe in the sod to the seraph on the throne, so we go on eating, drinking and enjoyiny, but never thanking, or seldom thanking, or, ii thauking at all, with only half a heart.

I compared our indifference to ths brute but perhaps I wronged the brute. I do not know but that, among its other instincts, it may have an instinct, by which it recognizes the Divine hand which feyds it. I do not know but that God is. through it. holding communication with what we term "irrational creation." The cow that stands r.ndcr the window by the water course, chewing her cud, looks very thankful and who can tell how much a bird lnoaus by its song? The aroma of the (lower smells like incense, and the mist rising from the river looks like the smoke of a morning sacrifice. Oh, that we were as responsive! Yet who thanks-God for the water that gushes up id the wetland tbutioanas

j* ""Vs ,•£ fT" "^.

man

who

the cascade,

look through

the iron wall of their fire-proof safe that He has counted every dishonest dollar they have in their pocket, and that a day of judgment will come. These inconsistent Christian men will sit on the Sabbath night in the house of God. singing at the close of the services, "Rock of Ages Cleft for Me," and then, when the benediction is pronounced, shut the pew-door, and say, as they go out, "Good-bye, religion. I'll be back next Sundu}*."

There are many Christians who say: "WTe are willing to serve God, but we do not want to do it iu these spheres about which we are talking and it seems so insipid and monotonous. If we had some great occasion, if we had lived in the time of Luther, if we had been Paul's traveling com panion, if we could serve God on a great scale, we would do it but we can't in this every day life." I admit that a great deal of the romance and knight-errantry of life have disappeared before the advance of this practical age. The ancient temples of Rouen have been changed into store-houses aud smithies. The residences of poets and princes have been turned into brokers' Shops. The classic mansion of Ashland has been cut up to walking sticks. The groves where the poets said the gods dwelt have been carted out for firewood.

Again, we need not bring the religion of Christ into our commonest trials. For severe losses, for bereavement, for trouble that shocks like an earthquake and tnat blasts like a storm, we prescribe religious consolation: but. business man, for the small annoyances of last week, how much of the grace of God did you apply? "Oh!" you say. "these trials are too small for such application." My brother, they are shaping 3'our character, they are souring your temper, they are wearing out your patience, and they arc making you less and le--s of a mau.

and that laughs over

the rocks, and

that

patters

showers, and that claps

the sea? Who thanks

But suppose God should withdraw these common blessings! Your body would become aa inquisition of torture, the cloud would refuse rain, every green thing would crumble up, and the earth would crack open under your feet. The air would cease its healthful circulation,pestilence would swoop, and every house would become a place of skulls. Streams would first swim with vermin, and then dry up and thirst and hunger and anguish and despair would lift their scepters. Oh, compare such a life as that with the life you live this morning with your families about you. Is it not time that, with every word of our lips and with every action of our lives, we begin to acknowledge these every-day mercies? "Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ve do, do all to the glory of God."

HOW WE (iO TO WAR.

Congress Must Pass a Declaratory Act and Then it Rests With the President.

Washington spocial to Indianapolis-Journal. War has never been but once declared by tiie United States. That once was on June 18, 1812, when a bill entitled "An act declaring war between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and the United States of America and their Territories" became law by the signature of President James Madison.

It is the general impression that the United States declared war with Mexico, but, that is a mistake. The act of Congress of May 12, 1846, iu which the original steps were taken in a legislative way in relation to the war with Mexico, and the message of President Polk which led to the first act on that subject, recited the fact that war was then existing that it had beeu begun bv Mexico, and the authority requested and given was to repel or repress the invasion on the part of Mexico. Congress gave President Polk, as the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, the authority to raise troops arid marine forces, and proceed to repel the at tack which was existing. Here is the only war declaration that ever emanated from the Congress or President of .the United States, and it stands upon the federal. statutes of to-day, the same as a law granting a private pension or giving a soldijibounty and back pay. "Be it enacted," etc., "That war be and the same is hereby declared to exi«t between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and the United States of America and their Territories and that .the President of the United States is hereby authorized to use the whale land naval, .force of the United States to carry the same into effect, and to issue to private armed vessels of the Unit-x! States commissions or lette.s of marque aud general reprisa1, iu such form as he may think rop -r, and under the seal of the Unite.1 States, against the vessels, goods aid etiects of the government of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the subjects thereof."

Congress passed, in nine sections of ordinary length, another bill, at the same time tlie above was adopted declaring war against Great Britain, and this gave iu detail some directions a--* to how the war should in general terms be conducted. The war of 1812 was mostly conducted on water, by naval forces, and hence the directions of Congress related principally to the movement of friendly and unfriendly ship.?,, the capture of foes on water and ennstment of men for land and sea, their armament and provisioning.

President Madison sent in his original message to Congr ss on the British war on June 1, 1812 an I although thedeclaratian ef war became law eighteen days later, it appears to have not been the unanimous wish of Congress by any means. The bill originated in the House, and was passed June 18, with a concurrence of Senate amendments by a vote of 79 to 4f. It was passed by the Sen at,c on that day by a vote of ]'»to 13. Commercial interests of the At aniic slope were opposed to war, which meant blockading of ports, and this fact accounts for the small majority of the war party. The message of President Madison to Congress was transmitted in confidence, and its consideration by the House in executive session. When the House passed the original bill it requested the Senate to consider it in confidence, which it did.

Beggar (standing in front cf an exhibition of paintings, to stranger about to enter with a lighted cigar) —"I say. mister, there's uo smoking allowed inside yonder, but if you'll give me two-pense I don't mind keeping your cigar a-burning till you come out again."—Darfarbier.

Gweutlolin —"Have you the ring? Herold—Ye?, but I'm afraid it in too large for your dainty flayer."

Gwendolin—^'Nevar f«ar. That's what Billy Knowle* and Horace FaBset saiu.Jcweleri' Circular.

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God for the

air, the fountain of life, the bridge of sunbeams, the path of sound, the great fan on a hot summer's day? Who thanks God for this wonderful physical organization—this sweep of the vision—this chime of harmony struck into the ear—this soft tread of a myriad delights over the nervous tissue—this rolling of the crimson tide through artery and vein—this drumming of the heart on our march to immortality? We take all these things as a matter of coarse.

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GREENFIELD, IND.

Dealers

Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Notions, Cigars, Tobaccoes, etc.,

Are in

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Charlottesville,

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A Dog that 1'rlnts a Paper.

Printing'-presses ai*o usually run in v]lis couulry by steam power, by water xnver. electric motors, and by main

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wheel,is about two feet in width, is connected with the drive wheel of the press by

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weary

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dogs

shepherd, and the

5very day

I'ost

Mountains is

rattlesnakes.attacks

the lioeky

found iu and near ttie

Okilinokea Swamp, which covers

larjre area in Charlton, Ware and Clinch counties, Georgia, and Baker county, Florida. It include^ numerous

'akes,

the haunt

and

forests

of wild fowl,

there

should equip themselves with heavy leather thigh b.»ots as protection against tho of moccasins

.nd

From the abundance

game found in Okiiinokee, these, it would appear,the

are the most effective

form of game warden.

point so

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regard)}

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Respectfully yours,

J. M. I N A N

FORTVILLE

THOMAS & JONES, Willow Branch, Ind

press

for

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YOU KNOW

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of timber the abode

of large and smullgame in great profusion. he sportsmen WHO

jro

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SIDING and SHINGLES

PRICES Before Yon BUY

ies, Surreys.

Here we are for 1891 with the largest line of Buggies and Surries ever brought to Greenfield I have them of

ILL STYLES AND PRICES.

full line of Single and Double Harness, Lap Robes and Whips. I am also selling the Buchanan Wagon. When in town stop and see my stock, can do you good and save you money in anything in my line. Ware-rooms one and one-half squares north of Court Honse on State street or call at my store at No. 9 Main street.

WHITE & SON

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