Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-14
THE DAILY PRESS.
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We want 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--keeps the wife
from fretting when the husband tracks the
newly washed floor with his muddy boots,
and makes the husband mindful Of the
soraper and foor-mat keeps the mother pa
tient when the baby is cross and keeps the
baby pleasant amuses the children as well
rs instTucts them; wins as well as governs;
projects the honeymoon into the harvest
moon, and makes the happy hours like the
eastern fg-tree, bearing in its bosom at
once the beauty of the tender blossom and
the glory of the ripening fruit. We want a
religion that bears heavily, not on the tex
Ceeding sinfulness Of sin" but on the cx-
ceeding rascality Of lieing and stealing; o
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,
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 at the bottom. It will not offer more
baskets of foreign wines than the vineyards
ever produced bottles, and more barrels Of
Genesee -four than all the wheat-felds of
New York grows, and all her mills grind
Il will not make one half 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 Jouvin's stamp on Jen-
kins s kid gloves, nor make Paris bOnnets in
Al. L d -.
nor let piece of velvet that processes to
measure twelve yards come to ON untimely
end in the tenth, or q spool of sewing silk
that vouches for twenty yards be nipped in
the bud at fourteen and half, nor the cot
ton-thread spool break to the yard stick
fifty of the two hundred yards of promise
that was given to the eye, nor yard-wde
cloth measure less than thirty-six inches
from selvedge to selvedge, nor all wool de-
LANES and all linen handkerchiefs be ANAL
gamized with clandestine cotton, nor coats
made Of wooden rags pressed together be
sold to the unsuspecting public for legal
broadcloth.
1t does not put bricks at five dollars a
thousand into cbimneys it contracted to
build of seven dollar materials, nor smng-
gle white pine floors that have paid for hard
pine, nor leave yawning cracks in closets
where boards ugbt to join, nor daub ceilings
that ought to be smoothly plastered, nor
make window-blinds of Stats that can not
stand the wind, nor paint that can not
stand the sun, and fastenings that may be
looked at but are on no account to be
touched. The religion that is to sanctify
the world pays its debts. 1t does not con-
slider that forty cents returned for one hun
dred cents given is according to the gospel,
though it may be according to law. 1t looks
upon q man who has failed in trade, and
who continues to live in luxury, as a thief
1t looks upon man who promises to pay
fifty dollars on demand with interest and
who neglects to pay it on demand with OF
without interest, as a liar Congregation