The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-03-20

We adopt the sentiment Of a Contemporary,
CO amending the following article to the careful
consideration of all our readers, aud If any OF
them find the hints applicable to their individual
case, lie, them "pu: it on" 1t is from writer
IN the Congregationalis', and be describes re-
lgon which the times require in sensible, point
ed language:
I'VE want a religion that goes into the family
and keeps the husband from being spiteiul When
dinner is late, and keeps the dinner from being
late-keeps the wife from fretting when The hus
band tracks the newly washed floor with muddy
boots, and makes the husband mindful OF the
scraper and the doo:-mat-keeps the mother pa
tent when the baby is cross, and keeps The baby
piea.ant-amuses the children as well as nstructs
them-wins as well as governs - projects the
honey moon 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 ripened fruit. We
want a religion that bears heavily, not only on
the exceeding sinfulness of sin," but on the
exceeding rascaty of lying and stealing-a relig-
ion that banishes small measures from the coun-
tiers, small baskets from the stalls, pebbles from
the cotton bags clay from pepper, sand from SUI
gar, chicory from coffee, otter from butter, beer
juice from sugar, alum from bread, strychnine
from wine. water from milk cans, aud buttons in
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. 1t will not offer
more baskets of foreign wines than the vine yards
ever produced bottles, and more barrels of -four
than all the wheat Fl, Ids in 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 Gouvin's stamp on jenkins kid
gloves, nor make Paris bonnets in the back rooms
of a Boston milliner's shop, nor let piece of
velvet that Processes to measure twelve yards
come to an untimely end in the tenth, or a spool
OF sewingsi,k that vouches for twenty yards, be
nipped in tue bud at fourteen and halt, nor the
cotton thread spool break to the yard-stock fifty
of the two hundred yards of the promise that
was given to the eye, nor yard wide cloth meas
ure less than thirty.six inches from selvedge TO
selsedge, nor all wool deanes aud all linen hand
kerchiefs be amalgamated with ciandestine cot
ton, nor coats made of old WOODEN rags pressed
together be sold to the unsuspecting public for
legal broadcloth. 1t does not put bricks at five
dollars per thousand into chimneys it contracted
to build of seven dollar materials, nor smuggle
white pine floors that have paid for hard pine,
Tor leave yawnDg cracks in closets where boards
ought to join, nor daub the ceilings that ought
to be smoothly plastered, nor make the window
blinds with Stats that cannot stand the wind, and
paint that cannot stand the sun, and iastenings
that may be looked at, but no account to
be touched.
"The religion which is to sanctiiy the world
paws its debts 1: does not consider that forty
cents returned for one hundred cents given, is
according to law. 1t looks upon a man who has
failed in trade, and who continues To live in lux
ury, as thief. II looks at a man who promises
to paw fifty dollars on demand. with interest, and
who negIects to pay it on demand, with or with
out interest, as q liar.