Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-09-03

THE RIGHT SoRT OF RELIGIoE.-We want a
religion that goes into the family, and keeps
the husband from being spiteful when the din
ner is late, and keeps the dinner from being
ate-keeps the wife from frettng when the
husband tracks the newly washed floor with
his muddy boots, and makes the husband mind
iul OF the seraper and tloor mat keeps the
mother patient when the baby is cross, and
keeps the baby pleasant; amases the children
ms well MS instructs them wins as well as
| governs projects the honeymoon into the har-
Vestmoon, and makes the happy hours like the
eastern fig tree, bearing in its bosom at once
the beauty Of the tender blossomand the glory
of the ripening fruit. We want a religion that
bears heavily, not on the "exceeding sinfullness
of SIM" but on the exceeding rascality of lieing
and stealing; religion that banshes small
measures from the counters small baskets
from the stalls, pebbles from the cotton bags,
clay from paper, sand from sugar, chicory from
coffee, otter from butter, beet juice from vine
gar, 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
on 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 and
more barrels Of Genesee -four than all the wheat
fields of New York grows, and all her mills
grind. 1t will not make one-half pair of
SINUS VI EOUu lehtHtr anu tne OlHer 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 jenkins
kid gloves, nor make Paris bonnets in the back
room of Boston milliner's shop, nor let q
piece of velvet that processes to measure twelve
yards come to an untimely end in the tenth, or
n spool of sewing silk that vouches for twenty
yards be nipped in the bud at fourteen and Il
half, nor the cotton thread spool break to the
yard stick fifty of the two hundred yards of
promise that was given to the eye, nor yard
wide cloth measure less than thirty-siA inches
from selvedge to selyedge, nor all wool deaines
and all linen handkerchiefs be amalgamized
with clandestine cotton, nor coats made of
woolen rags pressed together be sold to the
public for legal broadcloth. 1t
does not put bricks at five dollars thousand
into chimneys it contracted to build of seven
dollar materials, nor smuggle white pine floors
that have paid for hard pine, nor leave yawn-
ing cracks in closets where boards ought to
join, nor daub ceilings that ought to be smoothly
plastered nor make window blinds of Stats that
cannot stand the wind, and paint that cannot
stand the sun, and fastenings that may be look
ed at but are on no account to be touched
The religion that is TO sanctify the world pays
debts. 1t does not consider that forty cents
returned for ole hundred cents given is accor-
ding to the gospel, though it may be accor-
ding to law. II looks upon n man who has
failed in trade, and who continues to live in
luxury, n thief. II looks upon a man who
promises to pay fifty dollars on demand with
interest and who neglects to pay it on demand
with or without interest, as a liar-Congrega-
ionalist.