The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-02-21
X eIigiom for the Time.


We adopt the sentiment Of cotemporary, in
commenting the following article 10 the careful
consideration of all our readers, and If any OF
them find the hints applicable u their individual
case. let them . put II on. Ii i from a writer
in the COugregafOHahSf. and he describes a reli-
giJn which the times require, in sensible pointed
language
I'VE want a religion that goes into the fami-
". and keeps the husband from being spiteful
when the dinner is late. and keeps the dinner from
being lare-keeVs the wife from fretting when the
husband tracks the n~ewly-washed floor with his
muddy boots, makes the husband mindful Of the
scraper and the dO~UI-mat--keeps the mother pa
tient when the baby Is cross, and keeps the baby
pleasant-amuses the children as well a. ~instructs
Nv q well a. governs-projects the hon
ev-InOOn into the harvest-mOOn, and makes the
happy hours like the eastern fg tree. bearing in
It's bosom at once the glory Of the ripened fruit.
We want u religion that bears heavily, nOs only
on the :. exceeding sinfulness Of sin. but on the
exceeding rascality OF lying aud stealing reli-
gion that banishes small measures from the coun-
tiers, small baskets from the stalls. pebbles from
the cotton hays, clay from paper. sand from SUI
gar. chicOry from coffee. otter from the butter,
beet juice from vinegar. alum from bread, strych-
nine from wine, water from milk cans, and but
tons from the contribution box.
The religion that Is 10 save the world will not
put all the big strawberries at the top, and all
the bad ones at the bottom. Ii will not offer
more baskets of foreign wines than the vineyards
ever produced bottles, and more barrels of -four
than all the wheat fields Of New York grow, and
her mills grind. 1t will not make one-half of a
pair Of 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 Gouyin's stamp on Jenkins kid
gloves, nor make Paris bOnnets in the back rooms
Of a Boston millinert shop, nor let Il piece of
velvet that Processes TO measure twelve yards.
come to an untimcly end 10 the tenth, or a spool
of sewing silk that vOuches for twenty yards, be
r d in the bud at fourteen and a half, nor the
thread spool break to the yard-stick fifty
OF he two hundred yards Of promise that was
given 10 the eye. nor yard wide cloth measure
less than t~hirty-six inches from selvedge 10 sell
wedge, nor all wool delains, and all linen hand
kerchieis DC anDlCamated with clandestine cot
ton, nor coats made Of old wooden rags pressed
together, be sold to the unsuspecting public for le-
gal bruadcloth. II does not put bricks at five
dollars per thousand into chimneys it contracted
10 build Ofscvcn dollar materials. nor smuggle
white pine into floors that have paid for hard
pine. nor leave yawning cracks in closets. where
boards ought to Join. nor daub the ceilings that
ought to he smoothly r~lastcred, nor make win
with Stats that cannot stand the wind,
and paint that cannot stand the sun, and fasten-
ings that may be looked at, but are on no account
to he touched.
The religion which is to %sanctify the world.
pays its debts. IL does not consider that forty
cents returned for one hundred cents given. is
according to law. 1t looks upon u man who has
failed in trade, and who continues To live in lux
ury, a. a thief. IL looks upon a man who prom
To pay fifty dollars on demand. with interest,
and who neglects to pay it on demand, with or
interest, as n liar"