Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1861-11-28

THE RIGHT SoRT OF RELIGros.-We
want religion that goes into the fami-
ay, and keeps the husband from being
,spiteful wi hen the dinner table is 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 scraper and
door mat; keeps the mother patient
when the baby is cross, and, keeps the
baby pleasant; amuses The children as
well as instructs them; wins as well as
governs; projects the honeymoon into
the harvest.moon and makes the happy
hours like the eastern fig tree, bearing
in its bosom at once the beauty of the
tender blossom and the glory Of the
ripening ruit. We want religion
that bears heavily. not on the "exceed-
ing sinfulness Of sin" |" but on the ex-
ceeding rascality of lying and stealing;
Ia religion that banishes small measures
from the counter, small baskets from
the, stalls, pebbles from the cotton bags,
clay from paper, sand from sugar, chico
ryfrom coffee, otter from butter. beef
Juice from vinegar. alum from bread,
.etrychnine from wine. water from milk
cans, and buttons from the contribution
box. The religion that is to save the
world viii not put all the big straw
berries at the top and all the bad ones
at the bottom. 1t will not offer more
baskets of foreign wine than the vine
sysrds ever produced bottles, and more
barrels of GenRessee, -four than all the
wheat fields Of New York grow and all
her mills gri6dap 1t will not make one
half pair Of shoesaof goodsleather 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
upht JouRin's stamps on-Jenkin's kid
gloves, nor mark Paris bonnets in the
back room Of Boston milliner's shop,
nor let piece, of velvet that professes
to measure twelve yards come to an
untimely end in The tenth, nor a spool
.6feewing silk lhatyouehes for twenty
yards be nipped in the bud at fourteen
and half, nor the cotton-thresd spool
break to the, yard stick fifty Of the two
hundred yards of0 promise that was
given to the eye, nor yard wide cloth
measure less than thirty-six inches from
selyedge to selvedge, por all-wool de-
lains and ah-linen hsndkerchiefs to- bs
.amalgsmized with clandestfne cotton,
suor coats made Of woolen rags pressed
together to be sold to- the unsDspecting
public. ofor legal broad-cloth. ut does
mot put brick at FIVE dollars Thousand
into the chimneys it contracted to build
aof seven dollar materials, nor smuggle
white pine floors that Rave paid for hard
pine, nor leave 'yaBnings cracks, in
closets where boards ought to Join, nor
daub ceilings that ought TO be smooth
" plastered, nor make window blinds
of Stats that cannot stand a6s wind,
and paint that cannot stand The sun, and
sfastsnings that may, be looked at, but
care on no account TO be touched. The
srehgion thasfs 70 sanctify the world
pays its debts., 1t, does not consider
thai forty aerts returned for one hun
-dzsd-esats given is according to the
gospel. thobghe itmay be according to
,laF,s-U looks upon a, man who has
failed in, Trade. and who continues to
.Svs inluxurys as thief 1t looks upon
-tsnsn who pomisssadpay City dollars
in demand, with interest. and 1sho ne
.siestS 10 psyzis' On demand with Tor
Sithsut interest, as 8 liar. Consregd-
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