Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-29
THE RIGHT SORT OF RELIGION.

Owe want a religion thar goes into the family,
aud keeps the husband frvni being spiterul when
the dinner is late, and keeps The dinner from being
late-keeps the wife from f%retting when the hus-
band tracks the newly-washed floor with his muddy
boots, and makes the husband mindful of the scra,
per aud the door-mat--keeps the mother patient
when the baby is cross, and keeps the baby pleas.
int-amuscs the children as well as instructs them
wins ns well as gorerns-prgjects the honey.
moon Into the harvest moon, bearing in its bos-
som al once tho beauty Of the tender blossom and
the Story Of The ripened fruit. We want relig-
ion that bears heavily, not only on the exceeding
siufulness Of sin" but on the exceeding ,ity Of
lying and s~tcaling-a religion that banishes small
measures from the counters, small baskets from
the stale, pebbles from the cotton bags, clay from
paper, sand from sugar, chicory from coffee, otter
from butter, beet juice from vinegar, alum from
bread, strychnine from wine, water from milkcans,
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 at the bottom. It will not offer more
baskets Of foreign wines than the vineyards ever
produced bottles, and more barrels Of Geneset
-four than all The wheat fields Of New York grow,
and all her mills grind. 1t will not make oue,half
Of a pair ol shoes of good leather, and the other
of poor leather, so that the first shall rebound to
the makers credit, and the second to his cash. 1t
will not put Couvin's stamp on Jenkins's kid
gloves, nor make Paris bonnets in the back room
Of q Boston milliner's shop, nor let d piece Of vel
vet that Processes to measure twelve yards, come
10 40 untimely end IN the tenth, or a spool Of sew.
- .stL H.. ~. e. - - l. .---l
in the bud at fourteen and q half, nor the cotton
thread spool break to the y~ardstick fifty Of the TWO
hundred yards Of promise that was given to the
eye, nor yard wide cloth measure less than thirty
six inches from selvedge to s~elvedge, nor all wool
dolaines and all linen handkerchief be amalgama-
ted with clandestine cotton, nor coats made OF old
rags pressed togethor,to be sold to the unsuspecting
public for legal broadcloth. 1t does not put bricks
at five dollars per thousand, into c~himneys it con-
tracied to build Of seven dollar materials, nor
smugglo white pine into floors that have paid for
bard pine, nor leave yawning cracks in closets,
where boards ought to join, nor daub the ceilings
that ought to be smoothly plastered, nor make
wiudow.blind s with Stats that cannot stand the
wind, and paint that cannot stand the sun, and
(astenings that may be locked att but are on no
account to be touched.
1.-The religion that is to s%anctify the world, pays
its debts. 1t does not consider that forty cents
returned for ore hundred cents given, is according
to Gospel, though it may be according to law, 1t
looks on a man who has failed in trade, and who
continues to live in luxury, as a thief. 1t looks
upon a man who promises to pay fifty dollars on
demand with interest, and who negleCts to pay it
on demand. with or without interest as a liar.U-
CongregattonaliSt.