The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-12-08
THE RIGHT SORT OF REL1eIoN.


A writer in the CongregationGiiR. who
evidently believes, with the apostle James,
that faith without works is dead. thus de-
seribes the kind of religion which the times
require:
We want religion that goes into the fam
lily, and keeps the husband from being
spiteful when the dinner Is late. and keeps
the dinner from being late-keeps the wife
from fretting when the husband tracks the
newly washed floor with his muddy boots.
and makes the husband mindful of the scra-
per and he door-mat-keeps the mother pa
tient when the baby is cross. and keeps the
baby pleasant-amuses the children as well
as insLructs theln-wins as well as governs
projects the honeymoon into the harvest
moon, and makes the happy hours like the
eastern fg-tree, bearing in It's bosom at
once the beauty of the tender blossom and
the glory ofthe ripened fruit. We want a
religion that bears heavily, not only on the
exceeding sinfulness of sin," but on the
exceeding rascslity Of lying and stealing
religion that banishes small measures from
the counters, small baskets from the stalls,
pebbles from the cotton bags, clay from pa
per, sand from sugar. chicory from coffee,
otter from butter, beet juice from vinegar,
alum from bread, strychnine from wine. wa
ter from milk-cans, and buttons from the
contribution box.
The religion that is to save the world will
not put ali the big strawberries at the top
and all the bad ones at the bottom. 1t will
not offer more baskets of foreign wines than
| the vineyards ever produced bottles, anC
more barrels of tennessee -four than all the
| wheat fields of New York grow, and all hel
mills grind. It will not make one-half of 8
pair of shoes of good leather, and the othel
of poor leather, SO that the first shall re
dound TO the makers credit, and the SECOND
to his cash. 1t will not put Gouvin's stamp
on Jenkins's kid gloves, nor make Pari:
bonnets in the back room of Boston mil
| liners shop, nor let piece of velvet tina
Processes to measure twelve yards, come t
an untimely end in the tenth, or spool o
sewing silk that vouches for twenty yards
be nipped in the bud at fourteen and half
nor the cotton thread spool break to the yard
stick fifty to the two hundred yards of prom
| Use that was given to the eye, nor yard wild
cloth measure less than thirty-six inches
frsm selvedge to selvedge, nor all wool de
lains and all-linen handkerchiefs be All, alga
mated with clandestine cotton, nor coat
made of old wooden rags pressed together
be sold to the nnsuspecting public for laga
broadcloth. Il does not put bricks at fv'
dollars per thousand, into chimneys it con
tracted to build of seven dollar materials
nor smuggle white pine into floors that hav'
paid for hard pine. nor leave yawning crack
in closets where boards ought to join, no
daub ceilings that ought to be smoothly
plastered, nor make window blinds will
Stats that can not stand the wind, and pain
| that can not stand the sun. and fastening.
that may be looked at, but are On no account
TO be touched.
The religion that is to aanctify the world
pays its debts. 1t does not consider tha
forty cents returned for one hundred cents
given. is according To Gospel. though it may
be according TO law. 1t locks upon a MAJ
| who has failed in trade. and who continue
10 live in luxury. a. a thief. Il looks upo'
a man who promises to pay fifty dollars OF
demand, with interest, and who negiects &c
pay it on demand, with or without interest
as y liar.