Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1860-12-19

Religion for the Times.

We adopt the Sentiment of a contempt.
rary, IN commencing the following article to
the careful consideration Of all our readers.
and If any q them find the hints applicable
70 their individual case, let them 'put it on"
It is from a writer in the Congrceationalist.
and he describcs o religion which the times
require, in sensible pointed language:
I'VE want a religion that goes into the
family, and keeps the husband from being
spiteful when the dinner is late, and keeps
the dinner from being late-kecps the wife
from fretting when the husband tracks the
noEly washed floor with his muddy boots,
and makes the husband mindful Of the scra.
per and the door.mat-keeps the mother pa
tient when the baby is cross, and keeps the
baby pleasant-amnses the children as we'll
IS i~nstructs them wins as well rs governs
projects the honey. moon into the harvest
moon, and makes the happy hours like the
eastern fig tree, bearing in It's bosom at once
the beauty Of the tender blossom and the
glory Of the ripened fruit. We want a re-
ligion that bears heavily, not only the 'ex-
cccding sinfulness Of sin, but on the exceed
ing Ta%scality of Wing and stealing- a religion
that banishes small measures from the count
ers, small baskets from the stalls, pebbles
from the cotton bags, clay from paper, sand
from sugar, chicory from coffee, otter from
batter, beet juice from vinegar, alum from
bread, strychnine from wine, water from milk
cans, and buttons from the contribution box.
The religion that is to save the world will not
put all the big strawberries at the top, and all
The bad ones AZ tie bottom. IL will not offer
moro baskets Of foreign wines than the vine
yards ever produced bottles, and more bar
rels OF flour than all the wheat fields Of New
York gro y, and her mills grind. 1t will no
make one-half of n pair Of shoes ofgood leath
or, and the other ofpoor leather, so that th;
FIRST shall rebound to the makers credit, anC
the second to his cash. Is will not put Gou
wins stamp on Jenkins kid gloves, nor max
Paris bonnetS in back rooms of 3 Boston mil
liners shop. nor let a piece Of velvet tina
processes to measure twelve yards. come {
an untilnely end in the tenth, or a spool G
sewing silk that youches for twenty yards, b
nipped in the bud ut fourteen and a half nor tn
cotton tltead spool break to the yard-sticl
flty Of the two hundred yards of Of promis
chs. was given to the eye, nor yard wild
cloth measures less than thirty-six inche
from selvedge TO selvedge, nor all wool de
LANES, and all linen handkerchie(s be anna
gamated with clandestine cotton, nor coaI
made of old wooleu rags pressed together, b
sold to the unsuspecting public for leg,
broadcloth. 1t does not put bricks at fl
dollars per thousand, into chimneys it co
tracted to build of seven dollars material
nor smuggle white pine into floors hat ha'
paid for hard pine, nor leave yawning crac
in closets, where boards ought to join, n
daub the ceilings that ought to be smooth
plastered, nor make window blinds wi
Stats that cannot land the wind, and pal
that cannot stand the sun, and fastenings tn
may be looked at, but are on no account to
touched.